SpaceCowboy

Yeah RotJ was Lucas made Star Wars into a franchise devoted to toy sales. Bringing in other writers and directors to take over was the smart move, it's what he did for ESB and it resulted in a great movie. But because of his petty spat with the Director's Guild, he decided to get a non-union directo for RotJ but basically directed it himself.

Then he announced the Prequel Trilogy on the day he got a good toy deal with Hasbro.

I feel like George Lucas felt like he compromised with the studios too much on the first one, didn't think it would be a success. But it ended up being the most successful movie ever, and he didn't understand why. So he didn't really give a shit about it and just used it to make money, and didn't make any real effort on the movies after the first one.

I feel like with Boba Fett, the script was written about Cobb Vanth, the Marshal that had Boba Fett's armor in Mandalorian. The story would've made sense if it was a guy trying to protect a small town from criminals.

But a big city with only a handful of people running things? A guy trying to build a criminal empire with a "just say no to drugs" policy? That shit doesn't make any sense at all.

I never liked Rogue One because it was trying to be too serious while being full of plotholes. Why did Tarkin blow up his own base instead of the ship he knew had the Death Star plans on board? Oh right, because the writers wrote themselves into a corner and it's so it's an idiot plot.

So didn't have much interest in watching Andor, a prequel to a prequel that I thought was poorly written trash.

And yeah the Reylo's are the dumbest people imaginable. Kylo Ren tried to force his mind into Rey's mind (which is suggestive of things) and people fantasize about them being together. It's just people that have the attention span of a goldfish jumping on board dumb internet trends with considering how problematic they might be. Also the Twilight/50 Shades of Grey type bullshit going on there, but Star Wars movies are supposed to be viewable by children, it's not a place for those kinds of fantasies FFS.

What did Last Jedi actually do?

I always feel like I saw a different movie than everyone else, both the people that liked it and the people that disliked it. What I saw was the plotlines of both ESB and ROTJ thrown into a blender, with the entire point of those plotlines removed. There was absolutely nothing in that movie that was original. It was the most misogynistic movie in all of Star Wars, Rey doesn't actually do anything, so I don't know why the incels hate it. I felt like Disney gave in to those idiots and relegated Rey to a support role in that movie.

Sure they probably tried to cram in too much action adventure into RoS to compensate for the fact that TLJ had no meaningful action in it. Or do you think they backpedalled by making Rey the main character again? That was obviously the intent at the end of TFA, so it was TLJ that screwed that up by making women at best an afterthought and at worst an obstacle for the men to overcome. Most misogynistic portrayal of women in Star Wars, they had to do a big marketing campaign to convince everyone the women in the movie were strong before it was released. I guess it worked.

I really liked the movies JJ Abrams made and enjoyed Solo well enough.

To me the biggest problem is when they take themselves too seriously. Rogue One was trying to be Saving Private Ryan. Last Jedi was trying to be Citizen Kane. They seem like half-assed versions of better movies with the toys I played with as a kid in the mix so that prevents me from taking them seriously.

JJ Abrams made some fun movies that had some interesting things going on in the subtext. Which are the only ones besides the OT that did that.

The lore was terrible. Anakin Skywalker is the biggest Mary Sue of all time. Lucas thought it would be more emotional to show a child being taken away from his mother, so suddenly the Jedi go around the galaxy doing blood tests and taking children from their mothers. In the next one, he wanted a Romeo and Juliet plotline so suddenly the Jedi are celibate monks.

Because there was criticism after Episode I about Naboo being a monarchy, Lucas made it so Naboo elected 15 year old children to run their planet. That's some great world building!

Padme went from have a successful career of running a planet (at 15 years old) to being a Senator, but decides to become a tradwife because I guess she was impressed by Anakin's pro-fascist veiws and how he massacred a bunch of people?

The Jedi went from being knights the were guardians of peace and justice to a fucked up cult that abducts children to train them to fight in some holy war. Not too different from the First Order in the ST, because that kind of shit is what villains do.

The Prequels didn't explain shit about what was going on, there was a Trade Federation that was blockading trade, then there was separatist group that for some reason the Republic wouldn't just let separate. Better clone up some more slaves to send into the meatgrinder to destroy these separatists!

The Jedi and the Republic actually were evil when you think about implications of indoctrinating children to fight in holy wars and using clones that had no choice other than to be cannon fodder in whatever war they're told to fight in. But those are things you're just not supposed to think about because it's a children's movie... but with a school massacre.

The Prequels were accidentally pro-fascist movies. The Sequel Trilogy (at least the ones made by JJ Abrams) actually went into the emotional reasons why people are drawn to fascism (which is way more relevant to the audience than fictional politcal machinations) and has the main character reject it. The message that fascism is bad and should be opposed wasn't received all that well by people that grew up thinking indoctrinating children was something the good guys do. It bothered people that there was a message that ancestry doesn't determine who you are. It bothered people that there was a massive proliferation of super weapons in Star Wars paralleling the proliferation of nuclear weapons in our world.

The Sequel Trilogy brought up many things that are uncomfortable to think about and Prequel fans were upset by them. It was better when Star Wars was about cool clone troopers (slaves) being led into battle by the cool "sky guy" (who committed genocide) fighting the "bad guys" because they don't like the awesome religious cult that indoctrinates children to fight in wars! That's what Star Wars is supposed to be!

It was a Star Wars movie for wet blankets. No fun allowed in this action adventure movie!

But I just like the famous idiots ironically!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ss-59fi4nM

Your comment is exactly why electoral reform can't happen now. When all of the people pushing for changes in the elections really just want to make it so their party will win (or some other party will lose), it's obvious to everyone the push for electoral reform isn't being done in good faith, so it's not all that different from vote rigging.

It's possible that the CPC might split and if that were to happen, then there might be a broad support for electoral reform. Unless that happens, it's just a bunch of lefties trying to rig the system so the Conservatives can't win.

And trust me I'm no Conservative, I can just understand what electoral reform sounds like to anyone outside of the lefty bubble.

Also proportional representation is just straight up a bad system. It only looks good from the perspective of a spreadsheet, it's terrible when you consider power dynamics. But that shitty system is constantly sucking up all of the attention so people pushing for electoral reform are pushing for a system most people don't want. Stop trying to make proportional representation happen in Canada, it's not going to happen.

Look at the polling. When asked which party people preferred (ignoring leadership) the CPC had way more support than when leadership is considered.

Did you notice the CPC ads in the last week and a half didn't have PP in them? It's obvious to everyone (including CPC strategists) that PP drug down the CPC. If the CPC didn't even have a leader, they would've won. But PP led them to defeat.

But I'm not a Conservative, so if half of the CPC wants to remain faithful to PP, I'll get out my popcorn and enjoy the CPC civil war that'll happen if PP refuses to step aside.

Ranked choice doesn't make sense in a proportional representation system.

The left has to get their shit together before that can happen. Right now the left cares more about purity tests over being effective.

Really, Mark Carney is what a conservative used to be. These days people who identify as "conservative" are internet weirdos that stress over "wokeness" and whichever conspiracy theory is popular on the internet on that day.