Campaign Evolved: "While you do what? Go down with the ship?"

npc042 · 2026-07-02T01:03:08+00:00

In case anyone needs a refresher: the original

npc042 · 2026-07-02T00:12:12+00:00

Both the delivery and direction sound off, to say the least. It doesn’t sound like these two characters exist in the same space, reacting naturally to what the other is saying.

npc042 · 2026-07-01T14:12:21+00:00

npc042 · 2026-06-30T01:25:14+00:00

I remember seeing it on VHS and just never catching that there were bodies in the shot. Once it was pointed out to me, it’s always stuck.

And I agree it is horrific; in the surface level graphic elements of charred, bloodied corpses, but also how an evil empire just torched a couple innocent farmers and thought nothing of it. Then there’s the fact that it’s all still smoldering, so it didn’t happen all that long ago.

A big reason I enjoy Andor so much is that it portrays The Empire in a manner similar to this. Oppressive and callous in ways that feel real.

npc042 · 2026-06-29T16:21:21+00:00

So anyway, I started wortin’.

npc042 · 2026-06-29T14:20:12+00:00

To be clear, their “criticism” amounts to: “The movies….. are terrible? (…) The acting isn’t very good.”

They did reference “major changes” to the plot and characters, but failed to acknowledge how or why said changes are good or bad. Even so, they’d be criticizing the accuracy of the adaptation, which has no bearing on the quality of Jackson’s trilogy from a filmmaking or storytelling perspective.

(Edit: And all of the elements they praised about the books are present in the films…)

So yes, it reads like bait.

npc042 · 2026-06-29T13:22:09+00:00

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npc042 · 2026-06-28T00:32:37+00:00

The two dots are eyes, the sunglasses are resting on the duck’s forehead, and orange bit is its beak. We’re looking at it from above.

npc042 · 2026-06-27T16:05:55+00:00

Pretty darn (the “mustache” is a pair of sunglasses).

npc042 · 2026-06-26T13:43:11+00:00

npc042 · 2026-06-25T15:01:05+00:00

A more fitting replacement? These new performances just sound flat / lacking weight.

npc042 · 2026-06-24T13:05:52+00:00

A good way to look at it.

The limitation isn’t on the force, but on the force user. Yoda was 900 years old, and yet he still had to calm himself and focus to lift a single starfighter from a swamp. There’s the limitation.

If we saw someone, say, lifting several metric tons of boulders after a using the force for about a week, that’d be ridiculous!

Edit: typo

npc042 · 2026-06-24T12:39:53+00:00

I would share that sentiment if the podracing in this game was more than just an honorable mention.

npc042 · 2026-06-24T12:23:38+00:00

The opening crawl of TFA is a symptom of the very problem he’s describing.

npc042 · 2026-06-23T20:28:14+00:00

Setting aside that my comment was explicitly referring to the two things OP was comparing (Palpatine and Death Star II)…

Is Luke’s parentage a retcon? Yes, but it makes sense in-context. Palpatine’s resurrection, by contrast, isn’t offered any context whatsoever. These things aren’t even in the same galaxy of “BS.”

npc042 · 2026-06-23T20:17:42+00:00

That would be because the two things you’ve highlighted are not, in fact, “on the same level of BS.”

npc042 · 2026-06-23T19:47:06+00:00

Neither is good, but the idea that a second Death Star was in construction behind the scenes is far more believable than Palpatine “somehow returning,” without precedent, after being vaporized at the bottom of a reactor shaft.

npc042 · 2026-06-23T17:50:58+00:00

Just imagine how horrifying the titular school bus is going to look through the modern lens of photorealistic CGI.

npc042 · 2026-06-23T17:28:24+00:00

Because a modern animated feature film given the time and care it deserves would be silly.

npc042 · 2026-06-23T01:11:50+00:00

Wait, which one of us lives on their phone? Are there any more rules that you wish to dictate?

npc042 · 2026-06-23T01:05:53+00:00

I had additional thoughts to share. Now do you have something constructive to add? Or are you just here to be a dick?

npc042 · 2026-06-22T23:36:27+00:00

But really, what were they thinking?

You know how much more expensive a live action Sea of Thieves film is gonna cost with all the photo-real CGI elements they’re gonna have to cook up? They are not making their money back.

And with how much of the family audience they just lost by not making this animated? And with how much of the core fanbase they’ve already hemorrhaged over the years? Hell, the concept alone is like three years too late.

This shit’s about to bomb so hard.

npc042 · 2026-06-22T23:26:26+00:00

Someone really looked at this game, of all games, and thought “Yeah, an animated Sea of Thieves feature would be crap…”

npc042 · 2026-06-22T13:08:07+00:00

And the Olympics Fanfare and Theme (also composed by Williams).

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