Tag: rogue one

rainbowagnes:

he comes home ever six months or so. the house feels empty, but it always has, ever since the day his father didn’t come home (a little light protesting, he says, leave the dinner warm) and there’s his sister Lupe, off running rifles, and his sister Niambh, still not much more than a teenager, with fingers clever enough to put those weapons together blindfolded.

and there’s a woman who’s seen more ghosts in her life than anyone should, who gets up in the morning and does her duty because there’s bloody well nothing else to do aside from get a move on with things, another mission another weapons run, though she’s older now, mainly just organises things, keeps tabs on the stock and guards it, if necessary, with a very quick hand

but every half year or so, her son come home, every time with a few more ghosts in his eyes and unspeakable things in his heart, every time a little more like his father, like Cezar was,

and every time she puts the kettle on and makes a cup of tea and holds him while he cries

and then one day, it’s a holo and not a son that’s sent home

Noooo who said you could do that

Since the release of solo things been quiet for while.

elaine-spades:

lj-writes:

I agree, though there’s been some buzz on my dash over it and some are feeling excited for SW again like they have not since TLJ. Granted Solo is not a saga movie, but I think people were a lot more excited about Rogue One? Maybe it’s general tiredness between TLJ being released only half a year prior and how divisive it was. I get the feeling we’re beginning to see diminishing returns here, hastened by TLJ.

You’re not wrong. Rogue One was talked about for a long time before it released. People were making video theories and they even made news because someone spread a rumor that it was “anti trump”, so it had some hype besides being Star Wars, and it was high up in the top grossing movies list for a month at least. And there were fan art and metas and one of my mutuals is still writing Rogue One fanfic so yeah it’s an understatement to say that TLJ has killed Star Wars excitement.

I had a countdown to when Rogue One premiered, I can’t even tell you what month Solo came out

I mean, I don’t think the rumor is entirely wrong? It couldn’t have been made with Drumpf in mind obviously, but I’ve read about people feeling comforted after the election devastated them. So many things about the Jedha battle smacked of the Iraq War, I actually wondered “Are they allowed to do that?” It wasn’t perfect but it was exactly the kind of thing the new SW needed to do–fresh, new, relevant stuff that continues in the SW tradition of real-world commentary using fantastic elements. Maybe Solo did some of that too, idek if its failure both in the box office and fan reactions is due to its own flaws as a movie or TLJ. Probably both.

reynobae:

melanoradrood:

Celebrate Rogue One ♡ Cassian Andor ♡ Day 1: Family and/or Friends   

     “K-2?” Cassian grimaced, looking from the manipulator controls to the comm. “What’s going on out there?”
     The comm growled with indecipherable static. Jyn saw something new flash across Cassian’s expression. He was afraid—not intellectually afraid, not afraid of failing the mission, but afraid for K-2.
     Afraid for his friend.

Turn on your location op I wanna fight talk.

I find it kinda hilarious that there are reviews trying to blame Solo not even making its budget back yet on Star-Wars oversaturation when the MCU’s had Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther and Infinity War all come out within 6 months, and all were huge hits.

jewishcomeradebot:

lj-writes:

lj-writes:

I mean it’s almost as if it’s possible to keep the audience engaged for multiple movies a year! To be sure Marvel has a huge and popular ensemble cast, something the MCU capitalized on, while SW doesn’t have much beyond the Skywalkers. This may explain why LF seems intent on expanding the universe beyond this family, which is in itself a welcome move and may be working if the popularity of Enfys Nest is any indication. Maybe SW will get to a point where it has enough material to support multiple releases the way Marvel does, but it took Marvel decades so we’ll see how it works out.

@dazedclarity I think one of LF’s problems is that it’s trying to
do something like Marvel did with the MCU, but in a drastically shorter
time frame. Maybe it’s because they have the same parent company, maybe
it’s simple economics because it has to earn the money Disney invested
in it.

Jettisoning the EU and taking what
they liked piecemeal has its upsides, since God knows the EU could be a
wild wild place. (I would not have objected to Thrawn or KOTOR movies,
though.) Even at its peak I don’t think the EU was ever at Marvel levels
of popularity of relevance, and a few gems aside I doubt EU works would
have had the audience they did without the SW name.

But
yeah, EU or no EU,  building a following for a large number of
characters takes time and effort and LF seems intent on doing
it in a really short time, using costly and financially risky movies as the primary vehicles at that. Maybe they’ll manage it, who knows. If anyone can
do it LF can with the SW name.

However, that’s where another time problem with the LF movies comes in: the movies are not planned far enough in advance the way Marvel movies are, resulting in things like director fiascos and extensive reshoots. It’s looking like TFA was the last trouble-free movie LF had, and I’m beginning to think TFA was all JJ and not LF.

Another issue if you ask me is that LF and Disney is hellbent on ignoring the characters that actually create buzz and have the audience talking when it comes to making content for them.

TFA? 

Finn, Rey and Poe were the talking points after the movie came out and yet apart from the Poe comic we have nothing about them really. Ib4 someone goes “well Finn and Rey will have their pasts explored in the movies” because a) that’s beginning to look extremely unlikely and b) there’s nothing preventing LF from setting up a series of non-canon comics like the old Star Wars Infinities to capitalize on AU histories about all three of them. Yes, nada.

Rogue One? 

Chirrut was the biggest talking point along with Baze by extension, but all of the RO crew got a good deal of attention. The result? Meager.

We have one YA novel with Chirrut and Baze. One YA novel with Jyn and one comic with Cassian and Kaytoo. Nothing at all with Bodhi. They were sitting on a gold mine here and I would argue still are, but they have their heads up their arses.

Not even mentioning TLJ because it created no buzz about anyone and only a large amount of ridicule about Ben Yolo and his refrigerator chest.

Solo?

Jury is still out, but I doubt the result will be any different as LF seems to narrowmindedly be set on making more Solo movies instead of capitalizing on the two characters that are right now the only ones in the movie that are spoken off with praise across the board: Enfys and Lando.

If LF and Disney had any sort of sense, they’d grab that buzz and get content for the two of them going. Enfys has a significant and very sad backstory that could be explored even if they don’t want to dive into her future because that might spoil any future Solo movies they have planned.

Lando is one big mystery from before meeting Han, over what he does between ANH and ESB (that’s a three year gap) and what exactly he spends time doing from taking back Cloud City about a year after RotJ until the ST era.

So not only do they try to do too much too fast with no overall plan, they constantly go against what the audience are drawn to, instead fighting it all the way in trying to force an interest for the characters that LF wants us to be interested in instead of offering the content that the audience is actually interested in.

reyahsokas:

jj abrams: had the incredibly hard task of making the first sw live action movie since 2005, continuing the story over 30 years after ROTJ, and making an interesting and compelling movie that everyone would enjoy, even the notorious group of annoying prequel hating fans that still rail on the prequels after nearly 20 years. he succeeded beyond anyones expectations, and now tfa is considered to be one of the best star wars movies ever by many. didn’t make a documentary about himself and how brilliant he was

gareth edwards: had the very hard task of directing the very first sw anthology movie, who’s plot was based off ONE SENTENCE in the opening crawl of a new hope, had to deal with reshoots and other issues during production, yet managed to make a great star wars movie and a wonderful addition to the star wars universe. didn’t make a long documentary about how he’s such a genius and how it was so hard being so talented and amazing

rian johnson: made undoubtably the worst star wars movie to ever exist, and one of the worst movies of all time, completely shit on the entire sw franchise and the sw fandom, ruined and butchered practically every single character in the movie, disrespected established canon and threw continuity out the window, treated all the women and poc in the movie like fucking shit, and also supports and ships one of the most abusive and toxic pairings in the sw fandom. DID make a documentary about how amazing and talented he is, how it was such a daunting task to ruin the sw franchise and how genius he is for destroying the story and characters we love