The handlers' bullheaded refusal to ever admit that there had been enough bloody stories about the Skywalkers was *the* creative deathblow of the franchise, long before Disney ever came near it.
characters to pull its own weight.
How am I sitting here, so pleasantly surprised to find one - ONE Star Wars project (not made by fans) in the *2020s*, that *isn't* complete braindead schlock written by insufferable bumbling midwits?
Set aside the whole anime element and its
aesthetic. Purely in terms of the direction for storytelling, what this represents is what SW should have been leaning into long ago. And by "long ago", I mean starting no later than 2007.
No Skywalkers or Solos, no TIE Fighters or X-wings, no plucky clone troopers or bumbling battle droids, no going back to Tatooine for the billionth time.
Just the basics of the SW setting - hyperdrives, blasters, the Force, and so forth - & beyond that, it relies its own cast of
Three episodes into The Ninth Jedi and I'm ready to call it: this is way better than Filoni-Clone Wars, no contest. It's no masterpiece, but it's an earnest attempt to just tell a Star Wars story, w/out leaning on Prequel *or* OT nostalgia to compensate for deficient imagination.
@SWForce4EU@bestofstarwar He'd probably get pardoned on Luke's word. As for how much the Alliance leadership would trust him to continue helping their cause - who knows.
The TIE phantom is the best starfighter for the sheer fact that it's a two seater and so allows you to have a pilot girlfriend you get to hold hands with in the cockpit
@KimijimaKou@elonmusk It's not the Boer's fault this time. You were following me, but I lost that account.
...So it actually is the Boer's fault, just not in the way you thought.