All that is fine, but movies shouldn't be reliant on outside media to tell its story. They could have covered all that backstory in 7 or 8 with a just scene or two.

AliasMan02 said:

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I'm more convinced than ever that Twitter has made the world a markedly worse place.

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Twitter still has a really, really small reach

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/

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lol, Lucas **** on his own legendary stories before anyone else considered doing so.

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Did it before it was cool

Read the comments. I'm sure by the time these movies come out people will have forgotten a lot of the anger. But they have destroyed their goodwill.

If they are lucky, Martin will release Winds of Winter by then and fans can redirect their anger toward him

Render said:

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All that is fine, but movies shouldn't be reliant on outside media to tell its story. They could have covered all that backstory in 7 or 8 with a just scene or two.

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They aren't relying on outside media. But for people that want to know more than what's on the screen, they have more media. Or you could just Google your questions and have them answered in miliseconds.

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Don't worry. The REEEE will be quite operational around here once Episode IX arrives.

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Your fellow Ags, up there on the sanctuary Texags, are walking into a trap lol

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Awesome, definitely checking this out.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6nhQUF8rDmBaRjbZp9zgzv?si=dR5P1BUgSdyjbFKOyniqPA

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Just finished episode 5, and I can't say enough good things about this podcast. The amount of thought and detail put into this is pretty astounding.

My favorite episode so far is 5, by far. That disastrous first screening where DePalma just reamed into George for hours on end really drove home what a flop this movie could have been.

Everything was pointing to disaster until... John Williams. The man literally saved the movie.

Gave me chills when that first recording session started and everyone heard the music for the first time. I love that George was so excited that he immediately called Spielberg, and held the phone up for 30 minutes to let him listen to the music. (Long distance call that cost $600!)

Great stuff. Everyone that is into this kind of thing needs to check it out.

Thanks for posting it, TC.

cliffnotes for the only person that hasn't watched one episode of Game of Thrones?

Flashdiaz said:

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cliffnotes for the only person that hasn't watched one episode of Game of Thrones?

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they crashed and burned in the final season without source material to write from.

A coworker turned me on to the Mr Plinkett reviews last week. Have gone through his reviews of the prequels and now I can never look at those films the same again. I know some of the material in his reviews is satire but he makes a lot of good points.

Those reviews, combined with the videos about how Star Wars was saved in the editing room have fully confirmed my opinion that George Lucas is not the guy deserving of the pedestal that so many Star Wars fans put him on. He did some world building that created some great stories, but that's about it. The best thing to happen to Star Wars was to get him away from the camera. ESB and ROTJ are proof.

I personally find it funny that the same folks that tear down TLJ are the ones that gush about the prequels and rank some of them higher than TLJ or TFA (some even go as far as ranking above ROTJ).

I get it, I really do. Star Wars has been a huge piece of my life. The OT formed my childhood and when the prequels came out when I was just out of college in my first job, I let that Star Wars nostalgia form my opinion and I loved those films far more than I should have. I recognized their flaws, but overall I still liked them. After Plinkett, I'm not even sure if I can watch them again now. I'm sure I still will as preparation for ROTS, but they won't be nostalgic to me anymore.

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Flashdiaz said:

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cliffnotes for the only person that hasn't watched one episode of Game of Thrones?

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they crashed and burned in the final season without source material to write from.

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yikes. I hope Kathleen Kennedy and the story group is a bit more involved with this trilogy to map out a structure before any filming takes place.

Flashdiaz said:

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Furlock Bones said:

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Flashdiaz said:

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cliffnotes for the only person that hasn't watched one episode of Game of Thrones?

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they crashed and burned in the final season without source material to write from.

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yikes. I hope Kathleen Kennedy and the story group is a bit more involved with this trilogy to map out a structure before any filming takes place.

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the remaining hope that people have is that the original seasons were among the best television ever and the end fell apart because they decided to cut it down ostensibly to get moving on to Star Wars.

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Flashdiaz said:

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Furlock Bones said:

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Flashdiaz said:

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cliffnotes for the only person that hasn't watched one episode of Game of Thrones?

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they crashed and burned in the final season without source material to write from.

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yikes. I hope Kathleen Kennedy and the story group is a bit more involved with this trilogy to map out a structure before any filming takes place.

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the remaining hope that people have is that the original seasons were among the best television ever and the end fell apart because they decided to cut it down ostensibly to get moving on to Star Wars.

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It was really funny hearing my coworkers last week in their Monday morning GOT water cooler talk blaming Star Wars

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It was really funny hearing my coworkers last week in their Monday morning GOT water cooler talk blaming Star Wars

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it's the only thing that makes sense as to why the final 2 season totaled 13 episodes when even every other season was 10 episodes long. HBO said they gave D&D the rope to go as long as it needed for the story to get told.

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Ag Since 83 said:

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It was really funny hearing my coworkers last week in their Monday morning GOT water cooler talk blaming Star Wars

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it's the only thing that makes sense as to why the final 2 season totaled 13 episodes when even every other season was 10 episodes long. HBO said they gave D&D the rope to go as long as it needed for the story to get told.

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The episodes for the last two seasons were crazy expensive. That's why there are fewer of them.

AliasMan02 said:

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The episodes for the last two seasons were crazy expensive. That's why there are fewer of them.

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this will be my last post on the topic because i don't want to turn this into a GoT thread, but HBO had the budget.

Flashdiaz said:

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cliffnotes for the only person that hasn't watched one episode of Game of Thrones?

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Fans are overreacting like they do on most everything else these days.

People (understandably) didn't like this last season and now feel that the show's creators are suddenly incompetent.

FTACO97 said:

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A coworker turned me on to the Mr Plinkett reviews last week. Have gone through his reviews of the prequels and now I can never look at those films the same again. I know some of the material in his reviews is satire but he makes a lot of good points.

Those reviews, combined with the videos about how Star Wars was saved in the editing room have fully confirmed my opinion that George Lucas is not the guy deserving of the pedestal that so many Star Wars fans put him on. He did some world building that created some great stories, but that's about it. The best thing to happen to Star Wars was to get him away from the camera. ESB and ROTJ are proof.

I personally find it funny that the same folks that tear down TLJ are the ones that gush about the prequels and rank some of them higher than TLJ or TFA (some even go as far as ranking above ROTJ).

I get it, I really do. Star Wars has been a huge piece of my life. The OT formed my childhood and when the prequels came out when I was just out of college in my first job, I let that Star Wars nostalgia form my opinion and I loved those films far more than I should have. I recognized their flaws, but overall I still liked them. After Plinkett, I'm not even sure if I can watch them again now. I'm sure I still will as preparation for ROTS, but they won't be nostalgic to me anymore.

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You've taken your first step into a larger world.

WIth the exception of Kylo Ren's trailer reactions on Auralnuts, I have never watched a single video where some other person "explains" something pop culture to me. Why do people watch these? I mostly care about just my own opinion, not some self-proclaimed Internet expert.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Awesome, definitely checking this out.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6nhQUF8rDmBaRjbZp9zgzv?si=dR5P1BUgSdyjbFKOyniqPA

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I've really been enjoying this. I loved the music, specifically the first time Williams plays the Star Wars theme for Lucas and the phone call from London so Steven could hear the score. Looking forward to the final episode.