StarWarsOracle

Star Wars fan beginning my Content journey

[Bridget @Bridgetrso]

Draco never wanted to be Harry’s friend.

The books never once suggest it. From the first moment on the train he looked at Harry and saw a rival, a symbol, something to beat.

Everything that followed (the bullying, the attempts to get him expelled, the years of contempt) came from that.

By the end he was tired, scared, and done with Voldemort, but he never turned into someone who secretly wished they’d been friends all along.

The story is colder than that. Draco’s arc is about surviving the choices he made, not rewriting them into a softer version where he just wanted Harry’s friendship the whole time.

[StarWarsOracle @StarWarsOracle]

@Samthrilzz You must remember there’s a huge difference in understanding of the characters by those who have not read the books and have only watched the movies…

Completely agree with your response Harry is a naturally gifted wizard

[StarWarsOracle @StarWarsOracle]

@MentorSkywalker Yes

[𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐧 @oluwaseun7g]

My absolute favorite theory is that Dumbledore is literally Death from The Tale of the Three Brothers, and the math behind it aligns so perfectly it’s practically text canon.

Voldemort is the first brother who died for pure power, Snape is the second brother who died for a lost love he could never recover, and Harry is the third brother who greeted Death as an old friend.

Dumbledore is the only character who physically held all three Deathly Hallows at various points in history, and he is the exact person waiting to greet Harry at King's Cross station after he gets hit by the killing curse.

[StarWarsOG @TheStarWarsOG]

He has a point! If the opening credits are the best part- it isn't a good sign.

Now look at Revenge of the Sith, opening up with Battle over Coruscant. It epically takes you into the battle.
Now imagine if there were opening credits through it.
George stood against Hollywood to create an experience.

[StarWarsOracle @StarWarsOracle]

@BrianBu99892348 @imperialgunnar I don’t think it was an accident at all. I think they wanted to move away from George’s characters and decided to have a process of destruction in the transition.

It also doesn’t help that the new characters aren’t written well and there’s nothing to get behind

[StarWarsOracle @StarWarsOracle]

@BrianBu99892348 I think nearly all of us are with you on this. Hardest part to comprehend is that vast expanse of EU material to pull from and opportunities to explore and this is what was done.

Also, since this rather than listen to the feedback they’ve doubled down on the films and choices.

[Robot Head 🤖 @iamrobothead]

People didn’t so much turn on it. Rey’s miraculous use of the Force and ability to defeat a trained dark-side user were questions the first film could get away with if the next film explained them. It didn’t. That retroactively turned unanswered questions into problems.

[Malik 🎴 @AvatarKyber]

No.

We’re not doing this.

Not for this movie.

The Rise of Skywalker is an affront to the film medium. The antithesis to the very concept of creativity. The fact it was even released to an audience was an omen of the contempt studios have toward audiences we see now.

[Ashton Gaupp @IAmR4ptor]

We are NOT doing the revisionist history stuff here.

The show was terrible because of the writing. No ifs ands or buts about it. It doesn’t matter that the colors are pretty if the story being told is awful and breaks the pre-established lore to a point it’s laughable.

[StarWarsOracle @StarWarsOracle]

Yep, the sequels will never be considered in the same vein as the prequels or the Originals…

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

For those asking if the Star Wars sequels will ever be appreciated in the future like the prequels eventually did…

The answer is a definitive NO.

While the prequels often suffered from wooden dialogue and over reliance on green screen, the structure of the story is timeless.

It is essentially a Greco-Roman classic set in space— an epic in the vein of Homer and a tragedy cut from the mold of Seneca.

The sequels are not mythic in any way.

The are self-aware, reflexive commentaries about the Star Wars franchise itself as its object, a film-to-film argument about how the IP should be processed through the lens of the ideology and concerns of 2015–2019.

I have never met someone who was kid or a young teen when the sequels came out that feels any sense of nostalgia for those films.

I’d be far more likely to wager that it gets officially “retconned” somehow by Lucasfilm than it becomes a nostalgic cult classic.

[MasteroftheTDS @MasteroftheTDS]

No, you guys keep asking this, and it’s been over seven years now.

If you want to argue the movies were entertaining and made money, fine.

But they split the fanbase, and that division continued until what remained was a much smaller, increasingly apathetic audience.

The sequels were not embraced the way the originals or even the prequels were. That isn’t just subjective opinion. The audience trends and declining box office across the trilogy reflect it.

They’re not going to magically become beloved because enough time passes.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

When Thor, Tony and Steve teamed up, it was three old friends with a lot of history, going into battle for the last time. It meant something. This is a bunch of random female characters who have mostly never interacted with or even met each other until this moment. It's cringe because it's unearned, inauthentic and forced into the movie simply to provide a cheap girlpower moment.

[Luke Skywalker @MentorSkywalker]

Remember #LukeSkywalker since Disney obviously hasn’t. Luke’s theme is the Star Wars theme and he has been so badly neglected. For 40s years , Luke, Leia and Han held a legacy that Disney have destroyed and reduced them to the point of irrelevancy. This is why I do what I do. To honour the legacy and vision. I be the Luke Skywalker that should have been. I remain George’s character and his place in his universe. #StarWars

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

“Seize the day, placing as little trust as possible in the future.”

- Horace, Odes I.11

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Be more dangerous than the forces that hope to destroy you.

Make reality your bitch today.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Haruki Murakami hits hard:

“Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

[StarWarsOracle @StarWarsOracle]

@DejaRu22 OPPORTUNITY