If you write a lot of metas about Star Wars, my advice is that you start a YouTube channel and start making Video essays. I’m slowly realizing that the Star Wars fandom on Tumblr is basically imploding on itself every other day.
I’m not leaving tumblr, and I’ll still be active here, but my channel is gonna start doubling down on the tribute videos and start putting the metas I did here, in video essays.
This is good advice and I’ve been planning to do this for a while, especially because SW Youtube is a mess and could use a lot more content on Finn and other characters of color. (Urban Acolyte can’t do it all on his own!) Video essays seem to be the future anyway because evidently you young’uns don’t read anymore. I’ll announce my channel after I’ve populated it a bit.
And there was never another Rogue One callsign ever – and when the Rogue Group flew the Rogue leader was always back and to the right of true lead position, because it was understood. It was believed. It was known.
Rogue One would always fly with their group, because the Force was with them.
FYI this is called ‘missing man formation’ and is done in honor and remembrance of a fallen pilot I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING
“Rian Johnson wasn’t hired to do Episode IX because he’s too busy! JJ was available and doing nothing!”
JJ Abrams is probably one of the most sought after directors in the business right now and talk whatever crap you want about him, his name right now is attached to some of the critical acclaimed things that it would take longer to list than it would be to list the almost laughable resume Rian Johnson has.
Disney and Lucasfilm had to do freaking backflips and jump threw fire hoops just to get JJ Abrams from Paramount. Disney and Lucasfilm had to pay to hire JJ Abrams, just so they could pay him again, just so he legally could work on IX.
Put that into perspective. Disney and Lucasfilm would have rather spent millions to get JJ Abrams back, then give Johnson Episode IX and watch him completely destroy the franchise beyond repair that even Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 would blush at how bad he fucked up a franchise.
JJ Abrams was hired to come back to direct IX because Rian Johnson was poison and everyone knows it. IMO, Johnson’s trilogy officially died the same day Bob Iger apologized for letting Lucasfilm be ran so ass backwards and then killed off any spinoff movies till only Qui-Gon Jin knows when.
If anyone is expecting to get more of TLJ is IX, I hate to break it to you, Disney and Lucasfilm want IX to be nothing like that hot piece of trash. They can’t publicly bash it or disown it due to that would make them look bad, but be assure that they Rian Johnson screwed up. If they didn’t think that, Johnson would be the one directing IX, not JJ. If anyone, including Johnson says otherwise, they don’t understand filmmaker, in denial, or a damn liar.
Seriously, if they wanted a repeat or direct continuation of TLJ why wouldn’t they just use RJ who would’ve been way easier and cheaper to get?
It would be disturbingly cheaper. Just comparing JJ’s IMDb page to Johnson’s is laughable. The only other big films Johnson has done besides TLJ, was The Brothers Bloom (2008) and Looper (2012). Both of which are now forgotten. Meanwhile if you blink, JJ Abrams has already sneaked into your home and uploaded a copy of his new Cloverfiled movie that is just a 2 and half teaser for IX.
The lengths some people go to in order to worship RJ makes me laugh. Honestly he is the worst. He caused a bitter split in the Star Wars fandom and screwed up a 40 year old franchise. Give me JJ over RJ any day.
Do you have links for the Bob Iger apology and the official cancellation of RJ’s trilogy? I would love to read them if you do!
@skywalkerrains Here is the interview The Hollywood Reporter did with Iger a couple months ago where he basically admitted that he made a mistake in pumping out so much so soon:
As far as I’m aware (someone correct me if I’m wrong), RJ’s trilogy hasn’t been officially cancelled or anything, but many people think it is because in recent interviews with higher ups, such as this one, they haven’t mentioned the trilogy when talking about future projects and I haven’t heard any news about the trilogy in months. I personally don’t think it will happen, but that there won’t be any official announcement since that might look bad. I think they would just bank on most people forgetting that it was ever a thing.
@awesomeswimmer21 Thank you so much! I hope like crazy RJ’s trilogy gets offically cancelled.
That would be a glorious day indeed : D
IMO I doubt it’ll happen. Johnson’s trilogy will just get locked in “development” for years until its’ eventually canceled due to schedule conflicts. If Johnson was actually going to be making a new trilogy, do you think he would have started working on his busted ass new film “Knives Out” or been working with Lucasfilm to start production on his new set? The fact that Lucasfilm hasn’t mentioned a word about this says something loud.
The last news including facts about this trilogy was RJ saying it was so hard to write bc it didn’t include the Skywalkers. We all know he couldn’t write shit even WITH the Skywalkers. I would bet that there isn’t even a half solid outline for this trilogy out there…
Who knew that handing a multimillion dollar movie to a director with zero blockbuster experience and very little cred in even indie productions wouldn’t turn out well? The outcome was impossible to predict! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I really find the wall behind Vic here interesting. Lets see what I can make out.
A picture of someone dressed as Vader in a pink fur coat. (Where can I get a copy, it’s hilarious.)
A print out of part of the opening scroll for TFA.
A paraphrased quote by Sufi mystic Rumi, which is about how rigid adherence to religious doctrine is as bad as no belief at all.
A picture of a young woman looking like a wild west gunslinger.
Several of what I suppose tumblr would call mood boards. One that look FO inspired and one with a desert mountain and a jungle on it among other things.
Someone, possible a young woman you can only see the very bottom of the person’s face, with a bouquet of flowers.
Someone sitting cross legged in a white, futuristic looking room.
A picture of several hot air balloons.
A bird of some sort in flight.
A multitude of animal masks.
Furthermore:
A protection amulet against the evil eye?
Wonder if that is JJ’s or Vic’s? Don’t know Vic well enough to say, but I could definitely see JJ having one. Or more. But on the other hand, this is Vic’s office. Unless it’s an open, shared office. Idk
A book by Gordon Parks, a Black movie director, titled “A Poet and his Camera.” It’s on the table
If you can make out anything more than that please add.
Addition;
So the person in the Vader mask and pink fur coat is Vic.
Can I just declare my undying love for her already?
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