Soundwave said:
Syfo-Dias was actually Sydo-Dias or something in the original conception of Attack of the Clones, Lucas realized it was too stupid though because that obviously meant Sidious and it was too on the nose. The Clone Wars TV show then made it into an actual seperate character, but the story arc never went anywhere under Lucas he just wanted Obi-Wan to be a detective for 40 minutes of a movie. I'm looking at movies through "where's the drama? Is the conflict interesting? Is the story surprising?" you know basic *storytelling* stuff not fanboy indulgement. That's not real storytelling. On that end I thought TLJ was alright. The mistake the script makes is it spends too much time on superfluous characters instead of staying with Luke-Rey-Kylo, any scene with one of those three characters I found very interesting, the other stuff kinda feels like it's there because it Star Wars and you have to have B/C-plot with other characters just cuz Star Wars. Snoke's backstory should've been in The Force Awakens. Even if there's a line there where they go "Oh Snoke was a dark side user who lived in the Outer Rim and consolidated power after the Emperor died" (which probably is the basic jist of his story) I guess .... so? I mean suddenly is the movie 5x better with that in it? I'm glad they didn't do that Darth Plagueis stupidity. We didn't know where the heck Palpatine came from or who he was in the OT, he just suddenly showed up. |
But TLJ isn't just one movie. It's movie 8 of a continued story. It isn't an isolated story. So, i dont think it makes sense to jugde all those aspects in a suspension of disbelief bubble on the individual film. That has nothing to do with being fanboy, but just from watching the movies. This story isn't just one movie.