Red Five, standing by.

Let's go Team Good Feeling.

TPM - first watch opening day 1999 was so pumped for this after 16 years of thinking about it, 9/10 then 8/10 now
AotC - first watch opening day 2002 8/10 then 7/10 now
RotS - first watch opening day 2005 9/10 then and now

Solo - first watch opening day 2018 was still miffed about TLJ so probably didn't give this one a fair shake at first, 7/10 then but now 8/10
R1 - first watch opening day 2016 10/10 then and now

ANH - first watch 1977 (I was 10) 10/10 then and now
ESB - first watch 1980 10/10 then, 11/10 now
ROTJ - first watch opening night 1983 - when I walked out of the theater, I remember thinking that was disappointing, but the second time I saw it the subsequent weekend (opened on a Wednesday), I'd say I had it at 9/10, now 8/10

TFA - first watch opening day 2015 8/10 then 7/10 now
TLJ - first watch opening day 2017 7/10 then, 6/10 now
TRoS - first watch opening day 2019 8/10 then 7/10 now

I'm one of the few here that will state that I like the prequels. I liked them when they came out, and I continue to like them now. They are not in the same strata with SW, TESB, and R1. But I do rewatch them fairly regularly. (I've been looking at a lot of still shots from ROTS recently as I am putting together a Republic Star Destroyer, and rigging it with fiber optic lighting which is a pain in the ass).

The sequels were largely a disappointment. There was a lot of promise with the first movie despite how it was literally a remake of SW. TLJ killed the sequel trilogy for me, and while there were parts of TROS that I really liked (and I was unexpectedly emotional watching that one on opening night with it being the end of a long era in my life that began in the summer of '77), there was nothing they could have done to rescue that trilogy at that point.

I absolutely loved Rogue One. There is not one single thing about that movie that disappointed me or caused me a WTF moment. For me, they hit every hanging curve, connected on every crucial 4th down conversion, and shattered the backboard with the Darth Vader to Princess Leia ending.

Solo's release was just a case of unfortunate timing. I saw it and was initially about as lukewarm as I'd ever been to a Star Wars movie (I was pumped for TLJ and came out thinking WTF did I just watch). TLJ really killed Solo for me, initially. But when I re-watched it once TLJ had been largely forgotten, I found that I really liked Solo. We all know about the guy who portrayed young Lando, but damn the kid that was young Solo was equally impressive. Just an all-around good movie that got lost in the fog of TLJ.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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https://instagr.am/p/CSvPsFknbQg

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This sent me down a little bit of a Hamill rabbit hole, and I came across this. It's probably been posted before but still pretty cool, especially Scott's reaction at the end.

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Adam Scott's reaction is the reaction that every single person here would have in the same situation, except Spilner, who would have wanted it to be Hayden.

Fat Bib Fortuna said:

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double aught said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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https://instagr.am/p/CSvPsFknbQg

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This sent me down a little bit of a Hamill rabbit hole, and I came across this. It's probably been posted before but still pretty cool, especially Scott's reaction at the end.

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Adam Scott's reaction is the reaction that every single person here would have in the same situation, except Spilner, who would have wanted it to be Hayden.

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Natalie*

Fett's ship has been a Firespray class ship since around the late 1990s, called that in the Tales of the Bounty Hunters short story and the first Visual Dictionary in 1998. The words are spoken aloud in the Jango Fett PS2 game as well.

I'm not sure which is dumber - Disney changing the name or people being upset that the word Slave was used to name a ship. Are they going to redo The Phantom Menace to say that Anakin and his mom were interns at Watto's Junkyard?

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The sun doin murder to meesa skin!

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Well hello there

jokershady said:

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I'm introducing my dad to The Mandalorian and have been trying to get him to watch it..we're on episode 3 of season 1 now

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so now my dad has watched all of season 1 and finished it Thursday.

Today he's already gone through the first 5 episodes of season 2 and is about to start number 6 right now..y'all have no idea how much I've talked to him about this show trying to get him to watch it cause I knew he'd love the hell out of it and here we are.

Clone wars and rebels will be next.

Love this.

Fat Bib Fortuna said:

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Fett's ship has been a Firespray class ship since around the late 1990s, called that in the Tales of the Bounty Hunters short story and the first Visual Dictionary in 1998. The words are spoken aloud in the Jango Fett PS2 game as well.

I'm not sure which is dumber - Disney changing the name or people being upset that the word Slave was used to name a ship. Are they going to redo The Phantom Menace to say that Anakin and his mom were interns at Watto's Junkyard?

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They can call it whatever the **** they want, it will always be Slave 1

1. He's a bounty hunter and supposed to be "scary" so the Slave name makes sense

2. Retconning the name is very 1984 -

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At the start of the book, Oceania is at war with Eurasia. They have always been at war with Eurasia. That's the political consensus, and all historic documents agree. However, Winston Smith (the protagonist) remembers a time five years ago when Oceania was instead at war with Eastasia. Winston Smith struggles with philosophical idea of "truth". Which is more true, what everyone knows and what's in the newspapers, or the memories within his head?

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3. The FireSpray is a class / style of ship - This is like renaming the "Millennium Falcon" to "YT1300"

4. Slavery is bad; removing slavery from the social consciousness invites vast unintended consequences. I think it's better to have these words in the lexicon and be reminded why they are bad outcomes...