Star Wars: Rogue One

[Strat]

I feel like this would be a good movie to explore the daily struggle of the moisture farmer.

I hope we get a Luke origin story, prior to his days being recruited to take down the empire

[McParadigm]

The family struggle/sage element isn't important to me. But I do like seeing the familiar ships and uniforms of the time the stories are set in. And of course having things like light sabers and The Force are important to help bridge time frames and bridge gaps. So I like that stuff too. The good v evil thing is also fairly important though I could see it being less black and white in future installments.

Yeah, less of the "WHO IS RELATED TO WHO" stuff. At this point it's Star Wars' version of clickbait. I'd like to see a few movies where the Force and light sabers aren't mentioned, as well. The mysticism of the former, and the excitement factor of the other, both amount to dick when they seem to be just everywhere all the time.

[BurtReynolds]

you could get multiple movies out of bounty hunters or smugglers or other things without ever mentioning jedi or lightsabers and it would be great. Star Wars is a big world. It never occurred to me that people think Star Wars meant Jedi/lightsabers/Skywalkers until recently, which is crazy to me.

[Strat]

you could get multiple movies out of bounty hunters or smugglers or other things without ever mentioning jedi or lightsabers and it would be great. Star Wars is a big world. It never occurred to me that people think Star Wars meant Jedi/lightsabers/Skywalkers until recently, which is crazy to me.

It doesnt make star wars, im just saying that is the aspect of star wars i love most.

[LoathedVermin72]

Let's all commit suicide Jonestown style

[BurtReynolds]

you could get multiple movies out of bounty hunters or smugglers or other things without ever mentioning jedi or lightsabers and it would be great. Star Wars is a big world. It never occurred to me that people think Star Wars meant Jedi/lightsabers/Skywalkers until recently, which is crazy to me.

It doesnt make star wars, im just saying that is the aspect of star wars i love most.

Thats probably my least favorite aspect of Star Wars, especially now that you can't take a piss without stumbling into a Skywalker.

[Strat]

you could get multiple movies out of bounty hunters or smugglers or other things without ever mentioning jedi or lightsabers and it would be great. Star Wars is a big world. It never occurred to me that people think Star Wars meant Jedi/lightsabers/Skywalkers until recently, which is crazy to me.

It doesnt make star wars, im just saying that is the aspect of star wars i love most.

Thats probably my least favorite aspect of Star Wars, especially now that you can't take a piss without stumbling into a Skywalker.

I actually am a huge fan of the way disney is handling this. They have their main trilogy and then using the anthology films to explore this other side of Star Wars. Im super excited about Rogue One and less excited about Han, but i think there is a lot of potential for exploring this larger universe.

And then ill get my sky walker force jedi mumbo jumbo in the main trilogies

[LoathedVermin72]

Burn the building you're in right now

[epilogue]

you could get multiple movies out of bounty hunters or smugglers or other things without ever mentioning jedi or lightsabers and it would be great. Star Wars is a big world.

Totally agree. I'd love that stuff.

[BurtReynolds]

Burn the building you're in right now

[Strat]

Rumor has it they are developing a story about Porkins Pilot training!

[LoathedVermin72]

[BurtReynolds]

Is that Burt Reynolds as a cat?

[LoathedVermin72]

[McParadigm]

you could get multiple movies out of bounty hunters or smugglers or other things without ever mentioning jedi or lightsabers and it would be great. Star Wars is a big world. It never occurred to me that people think Star Wars meant Jedi/lightsabers/Skywalkers until recently, which is crazy to me.

It doesnt make star wars, im just saying that is the aspect of star wars i love most.

It's the only Star Wars you've ever Star Warred tho

[Kaius]

Stab Wars

[Strat]

This is gonna be great

[E.H. Ruddock]

Geez, think about how great a Kaleesh warrior/General Grievous stand alone would be

[CopperTom]

Obi Wan with Ewan McGregor would get me really excited.

[stip]

but those references are also what makes it star wars. They need to be there to a point to ensure everything is part of the same larger universe. It's a big galaxy. If the Narnia movies took place in the star wars universe I don't think we'd be thrilled about calling it star wars

Yes and no. There should be a continuity to the stories, yes. They all take place in the same universe and shouldn't shy away from that reality. But you don't have to make arbitrary references or callbacks. And, as much as I love TFA, it does a lot of that. Maybe too much of it depending how forgiving and/or nostalgic and/or whimsical you want to be about the whole thing.

References don't make any of these movies Star Wars movies. Adherence to an agreed upon history and a reliance on setting the story in that shared galaxy is all that makes it Star Wars. You could very much have a Star Wars movie that doesn't have any light sabers in it, for example, and it would still be Star Wars.

The extreme of what you're saying is that A New Hope can't be a Star Wars movie because it doesn't reference other Star Wars movies.

Well it sets the standard. I don't necessarily mean direct references and explicit callbacks. But references to the force, Jedi, bounty hunters, certain types of vehicles, storm troopers. That needs to be there, i think