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Not Sparks. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The fight in the very beginning makes zero sense. There is an embargo? But why? Who is fighting who? If you are going to have a pivotal point of the story at least have a clear reason why. Sure they are bullies and they are fighting to move the story, but they kept coming back to it. Make it makes sense.

And rolling in flowers and being a "senator" isn't a real love story. That's a manufactured love story. Real life stories are when people are attracted to each other and deny it, and then can only admit it when you are about to be in Carbonite.

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is now a well known podcast called “Blank Check with Griffin and David”, but when it first started back in 2015 it was “Griffin and David Present”. Back then, its original premise was for two epic level film nerds to do a deep (and humorous) dive into the episodes 1-3 and try to answer the question “what is this about?” (Spoiler alert: they are as confused as you are).

The show, like all podcasts, can be divisive. Some people (myself included) love Griffin’s spastic enthusiasm for pop culture, and David’s rooted but optimistic view of cinema, and they both have a deep well of knowledge on all things cinema. Those early episodes are gold, and really made me understand things about where Lucas’s head was at with many choices he made in eps 1-3. They are still terrible movies, but it’s really eye opening to see how Lucas, on his own, makes nothing but terrible choices, and is singularly obsessed with merchandising and taxes.

I should go back and re-listen to them. I hope I’m remembering them accurately, because I remember loving that run of episodes.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It was entertaining in a world building sort of way. But as far as coherent story with in depth characters, it falls short.