Star Wars: Starfighter

[pukunui]

Also, the name is terrible.

Oh yes so:

3) The name is terrible so this is gonna be bad.


I mean, “Starfighter” is better than “Attack of the Clones” but whatever.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Oh yes so:

3) The name is terrible so this is gonna be bad.


I mean, “Starfighter” is better than “Attack of the Clones” but whatever.

Attack of the Clones has the virtues of not being almost identical to the title of another movie, and tells you something about the movie. I agree with the article, the title sounds like a placeholder for something that hasn’t been written yet. Like “Rise of Skywalker” was.

 

[Dioltach]

I mean, “Starfighter” is better than “Attack of the Clones” but whatever.

I always thought the "Clone Wars" thing in the prequels was a huge miss. I'm pretty sure the mention in Ep. 4 was just a throw-away line: "You served my father during the Clone Wars." Sounds cool and mysterious, and in a few words implies a vast history.

But here's the thing. The clones fought on the side of the Republic/pre-Empire. From the name, you'd expect the clones to be the enemies. It just feels off for the winners to refer to the war by their own troops, rather than the droids fighting for the enemy. Particularly that apparently the wars led to such distrust towards droids that they're regularly banned from cantinas.

And "Attack of the Clones"? When they attack, they're on the side of the heroes!

 

[MarkB]

Oh yes so:

3) The name is terrible so this is gonna be bad.


I mean, “Starfighter” is better than “Attack of the Clones” but whatever.

Better than just using the name of a relatively obscure character too. At least it gives you an idea of what you're going to get.

 

[Deset Gled]

But here's the thing. The clones fought on the side of the Republic/pre-Empire. From the name, you'd expect the clones to be the enemies. It just feels off for the winners to refer to the war by their own troops, rather than the droids fighting for the enemy. Particularly that apparently the wars led to such distrust towards droids that they're regularly banned from cantinas.

Not to mention that it's "wars", plural. So there should be more than one. The prequels only gave us one clone war.

Ah well. Watcha gonna do.