Alan @ Telson
History buff
- I came across an 1887 account of Dublin by a veteran of the Paris Commune and wow he did not like the food:
- Poor guy. How on earth did he fetch up in Dublin?
- While Keir Starmer's warning that the UK risked 'becoming an island of strangers' without changes to immigration law has sparked controversy, Britons tend to agree with his sentiment and language Agree with sentiment: 53% Disagree with sentiment: 27% Language okay: 50% Language not okay: 30%
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- At least it's sunny atm.
- God we are so fucked
- Yeah.
- LOL fuck off with this whitewashing bullshit, we see you.
- *Brits extremely racist* shock.
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- I'm extremely sad.
- How depressing.
- pretty noticeable that very, very little other media has made any use of the Star Wars sequel timeline, because it's not only bad it's *uninteresting.*. Contrast with the prequels, where although the movies were awful the setting was interesting.
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View full threadI like many of the *ideas* in TLJ, but I think the execution fails. I explained why at one point in absurd depth, mostly so I could just link to it rather than retyping it over and over again: acoup.blog/2019/12/29/m...
- From an *ideas* perspective it's great, but sadly it's not that interesting to watch.
- because nobody was telling him 'no' or 'this dialogue sucks, George', which are the things that made ANH and ESB great, but the lack of which was already beginning to be visible in ROTJ.
- There's a great story about Harrison Ford growling, "George, You can type this shit. But how do you expect anyone to speak it?"
- I can see a version of the prequels where Disney doesn't get scared off by the internet dweebs from the interesting stuff Rian Johnson did in The Last Jedi. A universe where the force is open to any and not tied to religious orders pushes the story in an interesting direction.
- I'm really sad that all the developments TLJ set up weren't followed through at all in RoS. Disappointing.
- the difference between the prequels and the sequels to me is that I can imagine something that is recognizably the prequels, but good, and I cannot do that for the sequels
- Exactly. Lucas came up with a great idea for a story, but for some reason couldn't actually tell it.
