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I mean, Vader redeemed himself after:
A. Killing his mentor, Obi Wan.
B. Um, killing off all of the Jedi. Including the kids.
C. Killing, just, you know, a genocidal amount of people.
So ... it's good to have low standards, amirite?
YOu know, it's not that uncommon these days to do "fairy tale deconstructions" and show us that maybe just because your kiss woke up a princess that isn't the basis of a happy marriage or a stable government.Maybe that was the problem for some people? You know, like a mirror?
"Yeah, when you were a kid, you thought it was all light sabers and pew pew pew. You save the princess and everyone lives happily ever after, and maybe get a medal.
But then you grow up, and your kid is a whiny emo teen that you don't even recognize, and you and the princess are divorced, and you just want to be by yourself, knocking backa brewskisome blue milk while you understand the wreckage of your life."
JJ Abrams, probably.
I don't know if I have said this before. I feel it more and more, that extensive reading or knowledge of the old spin off books is some of the cause of discontent.
Both from people I know, and following topics on the forums. People who read most of that content seem to lean on the "#NotmySWs" side of things.
I think I read a couple of books, both more about Bobba Fett in the aftermath and I feel really good about this new branch of the saga. Sure, there are things I imagined I could have liked better. Alternate time lines for this story. Canto Bite that I thought was just... ugh. I mean, yes, it helps establish this big seedy underbelly of the Galaxy, that good and evil aren't always clear cut. I like those sort of worlds. It just seemed to ruin the pacing for me.
Every time i have this discussion, someone steps in with an old book story line. I see it a lot here too. While I am sure they are mining that material for ideas, it isn't THAT story they are telling.
I hope I don't sound like I am lumping everyone in together who has enjoyed the books. I am sure much of them are quite good. But they don't matter any longer.
Let go... let go of your feelings...
YOu know, it's not that uncommon these days to do "fairy tale deconstructions" and show us that maybe just because your kiss woke up a princess that isn't the basis of a happy marriage or a stable government.
But the "beauty" of it is ... It's just one possible continuation.
But with a franchise like Star Wars - there is only the official one. There will be no others. If they decide that there is no happily everafter for your heroes, then you can't choose to ignore it and instead wait for the other movie were things turn out pretty good for them and the problems only start to happen long after they are gone, and it's time for new heroes to rise to the occasion.
Maybe all this is an argument against long-term copyrights and trademarks.
If Star Wars a "real" fairy tale, Disney could make some amazing Sci-Fi movies for the big scree, while CW makes some young adult relationship drama based around the Force, the Empire and the Rebels, and the BBC makes a mini-series about the origin of Darth Vader, and HBO makes a Star Wars retelling in a 21st century alternate reality.
But as it is, you can only buy the one "official" "licensed" version, and if you don't like what they come up with, tough luck, that story is now forever part of it and is not going away.
Creators like George Lucas or Gene Roddenberry (and the other creative people involved in giving their franchise life) certainly deserve the money they earned for their creation, but maybe at some point their creation still should go into the public domain so that others can expand on it, just as like people did with Sherlock Holmes or Shakespeare Dramas and Comedies or Homer's Odyssey.
Making the Dark Side explicitly an equal opposite that is part of nature, instead of a corruption of it, would come pretty close.
I mean, I won't watch Rogue One because it posits that the Rebel Alliance used child assassins, and that is a direct 180 from the basic moral fabric of the story before that point. It changes who and what the Rebels are, and as a result changes the OT story.
Stories about Good winning against Evil have value. They shouldn't be changed into shades of grey garbage just because Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad made a lot of money.
In other words, if they make SW a story in which Good and Evil don't actually exist, where hope doesn't really mean anything, and where the heroes are just less bad than the villains, I'll probably be done with any future permutations of the franchise.
Luckily, that doesn't seem to be where they are actually going, it just seems to be something they're flirting with a bit. So, I'm good.
I mean, Vader redeemed himself after:
A. Killing his mentor, Obi Wan.
B. Um, killing off all of the Jedi. Including the kids.
C. Killing, just, you know, a genocidal amount of people.
So ... it's good to have low standards, amirite?