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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 9047765" data-attributes="member: 8863">Unfortunately, this is probably just unfounded rumors playing to wishful thinking born from hatred of the Rat of Burbank.  A shame too given my utter contempt of both Disney and streaming.Star Trek and Star Wars come from different influences in science fiction.  Star Trek was inspired by Forbidden Planet, thus tends towards philosophical drama, while Star Wars was inspired by Flash Gordon and 30's serials and is much more a space opera fairy tale.  The two best Star Trek films are the best because they aren't primarily action films, but character studies about their respective captains.  Wrath of Khan starts off with the Kobiyashi Maru sequence and a little later moves to Kirk celebrating his 50th birthday, and a good part of the film is about Kirk reflecting on his life and how he deals with no-win situations.  First Contact looks at how Picard was affected by the Borg, and explicitly draws comparisons to Moby Dick as Picard gets more obsessed with stopping them, though this film does run a somewhat lighter B plot with Zephram Cochrane which helps to give all the cast members something to do, something the TOS films can be weak at.  Both films have action sequences, but they're also tempered by drama and suspense.  Trek films do poorly when trying to do more standard action movies because that's not really what Trek is about.It's a little easier for Star Wars because they can do the action blockbuster, in fact the original films helped codify the blockbuster.  But they're not limited to that, Empire is often thought of as the best and while it has its action sequences, there's a lot of suspense throughout the film.  And Yoda's teachings on the Force add some philosophical depth to the film, but it pretty much all goes over Luke's head.  Star Wars has the capability to be more than just mindless space opera action, but the important thing is to remember that it' the sort of setting that tends to be somewhat black and white and is occasionally cornball and obvious.  That I think was the major weakness of The Last Jedi, in that it dipped into a lot of moral ambiguity and constantly subverted expectations.  That might be in vogue for creators but it's not a great fit for Star Wars, and even outside of Star Wars it's not necessarily what an audience really wants.If by drastically changing it, you mean turning it to crap, I wholeheartedly agree.  To be fair, their classic fairy tale adaptations do have reasons for changing things up.  But the most part, I can't stand what Disney does, and there's only one mental image related to the corporation, and I use that term with all its negative connotations, that fills my cold heart with and warm and fuzzy feelings:[ATTACH=full]287996[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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