Star Wars *OT* (Off-Topic)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Sunday, July 12, 2015, 02:43 (3425 days ago) @ Avateur

I literally yawned watching that, but by the end I was grinning a bit.
It's all so much smoke and mirrors still.
They're clearly trying to deliver the message, "It'll be good this time! It'll be like old Star Wars! Remember old Star Wars, you loved that, come on, just see one movie." The people who have issues with one section or another of the Star Wars universe seem to focus on the writing, and we know next to nothing about the script, and we won't know anything substantial until release or close to it. They're trying to play on emotions and nostalgia and the non-writing complaints about the prequels, and they're doing a damn good job considering they can't use a lot of actual material and the previous apathy of a lot of the people they seem to be aiming at.
They do seem earnest, at least. It could be fake, but I don't feel like it's all fake. It could be them being happy about things that won't make the fanbase happy, which is pretty likely. Either way, for any kind of project you want the people working on it to be happy or at least satisfied, and it seems like they are.
If it sucks, it sucks, I don't really care about the franchise. I did when I was little but other things have eclipsed it many times over (Trek > Wars, fight me IRL). I'll go see it unless I can't clear my schedule, because I'm curious and people will be talking about it, and because my sister loves Star Wars and it's a good opportunity to spend time with her.