Why does Han shoot my Greedo first?
Come on devs! Make it so where a Greedo and han face off Greedo shoots first but only for han and it stuns but has a 50% chance to miss.
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@TheFoxReDux That's pretty fair. I don't pretend to suggest it's the best of the bunch. I was just making the observation that there were a lot more things that could have gone wrong. It would have been very easy to drop said ball (and kick it into touch). The fact he didn't is his greatest achievement.
Many ne'er sayers blast it for being so similar to IV but won't acknowledge that IV was rife with well-established tropes. Star Wars has always had running themes (father/son conflict, taoist concepts of equilibrium, light versus dark, childhood rites of passage etc). These themes were old hat when IV arrived 30 years ago and are the reason Star Wars was so accessible. To remove those tropes is to change the essence of what made Star Wars the phenomenon it is. But to use them is to retread old ground. There is no easy solution.
Ultimately, VII had to introduce Star Wars to a whole new generation. Films are big business and the Star Wars brand is as strong as any. If he'd opted to introduce it as an epic sci-fi political drama, it would not have had the mass market appeal. So he introduced it as an accessible, familiar hammy space opera. He laid a canvas for his successors to take it any direction they see fit without tying them down too much. I think he could have taken a few more chances but in effect, took one for the team by not bottlenecking it down any given path.
We've seen with the advent of several EU staples turning up in Rebels (Interdictor, Thrawn etc) that Disney are a little happier to draw on that wealth of detail now. For everything Abrams did, he didn't actual slam many doors closed... obviously, Solo notwithstanding.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of VII, it's hard to see how the future can't be bright. If he'd dropped that ball in any way then we'd have a sense of foreboding like we did after EpI.
Just a late night musing. Thanks for engaging with me on it. (",)
Many ne'er sayers blast it for being so similar to IV but won't acknowledge that IV was rife with well-established tropes. Star Wars has always had running themes (father/son conflict, taoist concepts of equilibrium, light versus dark, childhood rites of passage etc). These themes were old hat when IV arrived 30 years ago and are the reason Star Wars was so accessible. To remove those tropes is to change the essence of what made Star Wars the phenomenon it is. But to use them is to retread old ground. There is no easy solution.
Ultimately, VII had to introduce Star Wars to a whole new generation. Films are big business and the Star Wars brand is as strong as any. If he'd opted to introduce it as an epic sci-fi political drama, it would not have had the mass market appeal. So he introduced it as an accessible, familiar hammy space opera. He laid a canvas for his successors to take it any direction they see fit without tying them down too much. I think he could have taken a few more chances but in effect, took one for the team by not bottlenecking it down any given path.
We've seen with the advent of several EU staples turning up in Rebels (Interdictor, Thrawn etc) that Disney are a little happier to draw on that wealth of detail now. For everything Abrams did, he didn't actual slam many doors closed... obviously, Solo notwithstanding.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of VII, it's hard to see how the future can't be bright. If he'd dropped that ball in any way then we'd have a sense of foreboding like we did after EpI.
Just a late night musing. Thanks for engaging with me on it. (",)
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