November 2, 2015
I will watch the newest Star Wars film, but I will not watch any trailers for it, however hard or frequently ABC World News tries to trick me into receiving promotion for it immediately before Jeopardy by pretending ads for their parent company’s other properties count as World News. And if during the film I hear the words “viceroy,” “senate” or “files,” as in “only a jedi could have erased those files,” I shall plug my ears during dialog and imagine my own story.
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Indighost sez:
If you were to imagine your own Star Wars story, how would it go?
Frimpinheap sez:
In this situation, I would base it on the visual material being supplied, and so far I have had to take special action to avoid that!
One aspect of science fiction that bothers me is the tendency to treat “planet” as a stand-in for “country” or even “city” in some situations. We live on a planet with widely varied eco-systems and cultures, and it takes a very long time to get across. Why is it so hard to imagine another planet with diversity or density of any sort? That matter, at least, I would approach differently.
I have wanted to incorporate more adventure elements and less local interest business into my own story, but the way I started was a problem, as was the frustrating pace I produce them at, which has only become worse with the more tasks I absorb.
Purplespace sez:
But Endor is a forest planet! It’s all forests, even the poles, where you would expect ice, there is forest! Planets always just have one ecosystem! Don’t even pay attention to those ewok movies where they show Endor actually has deserts too! Endor isn’t even a planet! It’s a moon! So that makes it even less likely to have anything other than what the plot calls for it to have!
I have already had it spoiled that the new movie will have comic relief robots. They will even have a new comic relief robot. I didn’t even have to see a trailer, but instead just walk through the store and see all the characters.
I played a Star Wars prequel game. You have to get Jar Jar to go with you because the plot follows the movie and said Jar Jar goes with you. However, Jar Jar was in jail inside that underwater city for being too clumsy and bumping into an important piece of machinery that blew up and caused a lot of expensive things to be destroyed. You need to choose the dialogue options that amount to “You don’t really want him around, right? We’ll take him off your hands”
Frimpinheap sez:
I must admit to an absence of great knowledge of Star Wars products outside the films the first 20 or so video games. If they gave extra plausibility or value to the already established elements, I can imagine the official Lucas-conceived prequels contradicting them out of spite.
A video game does seem like a good medium to make Jar Jar Binks a more likable character, but demoting him further to an albatross that nobody wants seems like it does not accomplish the goal. But it is consistent with the film! No more contradictions! Everything is coordinated so that anything dumb about the movie will be consistently dumb in the obligatory video game version.
Thankfully, or not, merchandise can overstate a character’s prominence. The company wants to cultivate stupid fandom for every character, no matter how inconsequential. Such as real Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith.