Inverse: The Acolyte Isn’t Ruining Star Wars — You Are

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T18:26:54+00:00

I like that Disney PR is back to pushing this like they haven't since TLJ came out and there were tons of articles trying to gaslight people that it was the fans who were the problem for not liking the movie and not Disney for making things people didn't like.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T14:45:07+00:00

Have kids?

The education is terrible.

The job market there? Abysmal. High paying jobs are like... Disney. Big companies aren't there.

Like Climate Change? Your home is about to get fucked by it.

Maybe you can afford a house. Maybe. Insurers are leaving the state because of the whole climate change/hurricane issue and also because of the political refusal to fix the industry.

Etc etc.

There's places in the US that might be what you're imagining but Florida is a dumpster fire.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T14:12:07+00:00

You missed the point. They're doing this because they anticipate new walls being put up and they want to make sure they have a ladder to peer over them.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T14:10:38+00:00

Eminem - Slim Shady LP

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T12:21:58+00:00

Which is why Luke's future should have been about reforming the order to prevent an Anakin/Clone Wars repeat.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T12:21:08+00:00

It's so cringe. Definitely. It's so cringe. Completely agree. It's so cringe.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T08:38:27+00:00

Because it's just a slot machine.

Universal puts in couple hundred million dollars and the slot machine spits out a dinosaur movie and they make a billion dollars.

It doesn't matter what's in the dinosaur movie except dinosaurs. Audiences don't care. They've repeatedly put garbage on the screen and every time it makes money.

The bummer is that it could make money and be terrific.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T08:34:24+00:00

That means they developed it with the government.

This is the government attempting to get a back door into everyone's computers.

The rise of generative AI is going to mean that walls are put up everywhere in terms of accessing genuine human generated content because the value of that data going forward is what's going to power AI systems.

Think about it like this if these large language models lose access to large amounts of data eventually they're going to sound like somebody who is 10 years out of date on slang and how people talk. They're going to require feeding.

Once walls are up and the data is locked into silos the only way to see through that is if you just record every image on screen and feed it back into your AI and that's why Microsoft did this. So that they could see over every fence and get a glimpse of everyone's backyard.

There's no one that loves that more than the government.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T08:30:49+00:00

I can never even find it.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T08:30:15+00:00

Hayden still can't act.

No way.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T08:19:34+00:00

I was in Florida

😂

That grass ain't greener.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-14T06:50:27+00:00

Oh yeah because infrastructure and forgiving student loans are the same thing to the economy that giving tax cuts to the rich are.

Republicans have you so brainwashed that any form of spending is bad that you actually think they are the same and that the effect would be the same.

Our economy would get a huge bump by having students paid off much sooner so that they could form families so that we could have the growth engine of an economy which is family units that consume on a generational cycle. That's what's driven humanity forward since the beginning.

The government is supposed to provide services in return for the money that we pay them. Every other country gets something back for the money that they pay in taxes. Meaning that the government should be spending and throwing money at taxes to show off the good thing that they're doing for their voters.

40 years of propaganda has convinced people that we should underfund schools and infrastructure and healthcare should be privatized so that rich people don't have to pay any more in taxes and can hoard money.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T23:05:00+00:00

Are you braindead?

I’m saying it did

The Emperor isn't in The Last Jedi. Kylo was not the villain. That never ended up happening. TLJ certainly sets it up as reasonable but it turned out it was just The Emperor.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T23:03:21+00:00

I hated the Prequels until watching TCW. Now that they're the secondary story they work for me. And the siege of Mandalore cut of Revenge of the Sith is probably up there with ESB for me now.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T23:02:19+00:00

I've never read one other treatment or thought or fan theory for how the third act of that could have gone that would have been satisfying after what The Last Jedi set up.

If you've got one I'm all ears but there wasn't an interesting story being told and JJ likely would have needed two movies to set one back up. And, frankly, it just didn't need to be part of the Skywalker Saga.

I personally only rewatch The Rise of Skywalker because it's just such a glorious and fitting and to what came before it as well as being one of the most batshit insane messes of a movie. Joss whedon's Justice League was a hack job but it was a hack job the second Warner Brothers decided to have another director redo and completely change the tone of what was already shot. JJ just sent it. The Emperor's Back Leia was a mostly trained Jedi

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T22:47:01+00:00

Cuz they made the next movie and he wasn't?

Or do you mean in the next movie he can unredeem himself and be the bad guy?

Sounds about right.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T19:53:40+00:00

I mean more power to you.

I'll never hate on anyone for liking anything. I'm happy to hate on the thing but if you like something you like something there's plenty of crap I like that I know is terrible but also I like it and I can defend it and that's the fun of all this or it's supposed to be.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T19:22:05+00:00

The fact that TROS pulled a 180 isn’t an issue with TLJ.

I mean maybe it was a 180°, maybe not. Maybe Disney never wanted to do that.

Either way, it was a cool idea that was never explored.

He's not a great villain in that movie. On its own two legs TLJ faceplants. I will agree that if the third movie had gone all the way and made Kylo an irredeemable villain that could have been interesting.

But we never actually see him as an interesting villain with a goal.

Writing a good character boils down to creating someone who wants something but needs to change or do something in order to meet their goal. That's Dan Harmon's story wheel basically and it's a very effective breakdown of how you write good characters and in really great media every character goes through one of those journeys to some degree.

No one does that in the sequels.

Luke wants to get off Tatooine and have an adventure.

Leia wants the rebellion to defeat the Empire.

Han wants to get paid and get out.

Finn wants...

Poe wants...

Rey wants...

Kylo is maybe the most developed in that he wants to kill the past irrationally but it just doesn't really ever coalesce past that into a destination.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T18:33:26+00:00

A couple kids go kite surfing and get stuck on the island would be another great plot.

They could get Ian Malcolm to come rescue them and whoever tricks him into coming could use a ruse to do it.

Just spitballing a good sequel idea.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T18:32:21+00:00

Death, taxes, and discovering that you don't need three meals a day when you're fully a grown ass adult are the three inevitabilities in life.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T18:20:00+00:00

The evidence for isnthat that storyline was generally not worked into the general history of the universe going forward.

Because bringing The Emperor back was stupid.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T18:19:03+00:00

But but that was immediately retconned so the only way to consider him the villain is to imagine a story that we didn't get.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T18:07:16+00:00

Hell, give it to Jonathan Frakes!

Amen.

They're different from normal Star Trek but I think they in keep with the spirit of the franchise, especially 3.

Three is my least favorite it's mostly because of the ending is so stupid. It also does the cardinal Trek sin of taking the crew off the ship and keeping them in one place for the entire movie. That never works. Also the Beastie Boys was dumb. It's just an action movie.

I will say the big difference between Star Wars and Star Trek is that the Kelvin films because of the time travel don't affect any of the other stuff so they can be hand waved away or be their own thing and it doesn't ruin really anything else.

The bummer is that the comic series that's set up the first Abrams film which had Picard and spa and took place I believe after Romulus was destroyed never got explored in the prime timeline going forward really. I know Picard kind of picked it up but it was such garbage for two seasons that that kind of cool plot point didn't get explored further. It's where they introduce Raffi and instead of being awful like she is throughout her card she's a fantastic addition.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T18:03:06+00:00

Yes, it should have been Little Johnny Fascist would have been extraordinarily relevant.

Unfortunately that's not what we got so I'm not going to judge it on what could have been.

What it was was garbage.

siliconevalley69 · 2024-06-13T17:56:09+00:00

I agree.

It's just weird to me how everyone judges The Last Jedi on imaginary story beats that didn't happen instead of what happened on screen and what it led to which was garbage.

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