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Have you ever camped out or queued up for the launch of a game, console, or other media? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It was so much worse than that. People had been waiting 16 years to see a proper cinematic continuation of Star Wars. There were some pulp novels, a couple of very weak kids cartoons, a pretty decent tabletop RPG with source materials, a few video games, and that was about it. For a franchise that was still iconic and incredibly popular despite lying fallow like that.

We got a more distilled version of George’s vision, and hoo-boy it just simply wasn’t very good. I still saw that movie six fuckin’ times (the last three at the dollar theater), but while there was plenty to digest and feed my nerdery, the story and acting just never got better.

Surely they were just getting warmed up though, and episode two would be better…

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not as much of a SW nerd as my friend, but according to him SW fans are eating good with the massive expansion of the Clone Wars in the past decade.

    So the prequel trilogy is really mediocre to be very nice. But seems to me the shows after the Disney acquisition made gold out of that turd.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Far before the Disney acquisition, the Clone Wars tv series was actually really impressive and fleshed out the world SO MUCH. "Rebels" did the same for the original trilogy, but that might have been post-Disney.

    The animators used filmmaking prowess with things like animating camera shots as if they were on a real film set, which lent a so-far unseen level of professionalism and production quality for a CG television series.

    I felt so stupid avoiding it when it first got big, because I thought it was a kiddie "franchise show." It blew me away and still inspires me as a 3D artist. The visual style definitely grew on me as well. :)

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