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[NO Spoilers] Star Wars: Episode 7 - NO PUSSY SHIT
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Abefroman
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It isn't due till 12/18/15. I think a really good time would be on the Super Bowl.
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Mahes
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Doesn't matter what the name is, people will be butt hurt and hate it. Truth is a Star Wars movie will always be surrounded in hate, which is unfortunate. Good or bad, there is goin to be an army of haters to rip apart every aspect of it.
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Not 100% true. People hate the prequels because they were green screen plot clusterfuck trash. It was the die hards that hate them because they saw it was lucas's attempt at a money grab. Now while money will always be the goal of every studio, at least its being made by fans of star wars and should be good.
Fuck... As it tapped this all out on my phone, I remembered they got rid of the EU so yeah, there will be people who hate it. I stand corrected.
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Of course people will hate it no matter matter what. That being said, as long as it is faithful to the spirit of the original trilogy it will have a large audience.
Also, getting rid of the EU was probably for the better. Yes, there were some gems in there, but it was also a lot of crap. There are no reasons why they would throw away characters like corran horn, kyle katarn, thrawn, etc. Also, anything even mentioned in the clone wars is cannon. So characters like Darth bane, exar kun, and i believe ulic quel-droma are all cannon as well. They basically just got rid of the crap like the yuzhon vong. Who could have been awesome but weren't.
Also, getting rid of the EU was probably for the better. Yes, there were some gems in there, but it was also a lot of crap. There are no reasons why they would throw away characters like corran horn, kyle katarn, thrawn, etc. Also, anything even mentioned in the clone wars is cannon. So characters like Darth bane, exar kun, and i believe ulic quel-droma are all cannon as well. They basically just got rid of the crap like the yuzhon vong. Who could have been awesome but weren't.
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We Daniel Wallace come and do a speech a few years ago- he wrote the jedi handbook, the book of the sith (Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side [Vault Edition]: Daniel Wallace: 9781612182612: Amazon.com: Books) the visual guide to vader etc. etc. He talked quite a bit about how the EU was (mis)handled - I gathered that essentially at the beginning it was very small licensees and "official" starwars world work so it all kind of just "was" then as it got larger and larger they appointed a keeper of the codex or vault - or whatever they called it to keep the cannon going. Certain projects and books would hold precedent over others- but usually it was first come, first serve- meaning if I wrote a book 5 years after ROTJ and say Ewoks killed every wookie in the galaxy, before any other book after that time frame mentioned wookies it would be okay... that's why there was such time jumps if someone wanted to do, whatever they want that was WTF they would just go ahead a buncha years, make someone a clone or hypersleep or whatever and then do whatever... But in the end, it was one guy trying to approve and canonize tons and tons of material.
He also explained that while he was writing the jedi handbook bioware was devving KOTOR etc. and every storyline bioware made was instantly cannon and given power over anything before it- so he kept having to revise his book etc.
so...really...the EU needed to have a reset button pressed...after this trilogy I am sure people will start over with a bunch of new EU2.0 stuff.
As long as George Lucas has very little input and absolutely no role in directing the movie has a chance of not sucking.
As far as the EU, the fact they are tossing it all is only a good thing. It has some neat ideas but outside of the Thrawn stories, the rest really didn't do much for me. I'm hoping they come up with some neat new Force powers and bad guys. The only two characters worth a fuck in the prequels were Quigon and Maul. Copy that idea to some degree in these new movies, but with real actors and stories and it'll be a huge improvement.
As far as the EU, the fact they are tossing it all is only a good thing. It has some neat ideas but outside of the Thrawn stories, the rest really didn't do much for me. I'm hoping they come up with some neat new Force powers and bad guys. The only two characters worth a fuck in the prequels were Quigon and Maul. Copy that idea to some degree in these new movies, but with real actors and stories and it'll be a huge improvement.
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it is JJ Abrahams, and that's not a post version- I am sure in post plenty of lenses flare will be added
