Well if the difference between a prequel and a stand alone movie "expanding the universe" in your book has nothing to do with the plot and how it ties into the Original Trilogy, and only on whether they put an episode number on it, it's a pretty useless classification system.
Rogue One had much, much more direct relevance to the Original Trilogy than Episode 1 did.
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Well if the difference between a prequel and a stand alone movie "expanding the universe" in your book has nothing to do with the plot and how it ties into the Original Trilogy, and only on whether they put an episode number on it, it's a pretty useless classification system.
Rogue One had much, much more direct relevance to the Original Trilogy than Episode 1 did.
Okay. Now go yell into your pillow about how right you are.
That's basically wanting more Star Wars that has none of the stuff that makes Star Wars interesting. I don't think it even makes much economical sense.
Outside the jedis, Force, rebels and Empire, the Star Wars universe is pretty generic fantasy scifi stuff with no real theme to it. Most of it isn't that good, which is a big reason why they've dumped almost all of it from the canon.
I'm sure there's a few good stories in the gazillion books and comics, but I'd much rather see some little harder scifi filmed. Or film some other fun universe. With the popularity of Peter Dinklage showing unusually short people can be stars, maybe they could do a few Vorkosigan films. (Dinklage himself would make a great older Miles Vorkosigan.)
Can't you say the same about every si-fi or fantasy.
In Star Trek outside of Star fleet the Federation is pretty generic stuff. In fact I'm betting its more boring because people really don't have to do anything.
In the Alien Universe outside of the alien appearances on un-inhabited, unexplored planets that we have no reason to go to, its a story about inter galactic freighting.
For 364 out of 365 days in the Marval universe people don't even see or hear the avengers.
For the most part, your right alot of the legends EU stuff is just bad, that's more on the writers then anything else. But the old republic stories and even the clone war prequel stuff was really good. Where they got into trouble was the After Return of the Jedi Stuff.
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Booo! Enough fricken prequels already . Branch out and give us something new and exciting in the Star Wars universe a la the KotOR games.
I don't mind the idea of the standalone stuff, however with Obi, most of his story was told in the really good Clone Wars cartoons.
The premise of the Obi-Wan movie has to be that the threat has to come to Tatooine because logically there should be no way that Obi leaves Luke at anytime.
I think a KOTOR Story line could be incredibly cool, people really do like the whole Sith versus Jedi stuff, but the KOTOR stuff has been swept out of Canon by Disney to the point that even the MMO game isn't considered Canon.
I would still like to see a standalone movie based around people who work in the Empire that don't know their on the wrong side of the conflict.
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I don't mind the idea of the standalone stuff, however with Obi, most of his story was told in the really good Clone Wars cartoons.
The premise of the Obi-Wan movie has to be that the threat has to come to Tatooine because logically there should be no way that Obi leaves Luke at anytime.
I think a KOTOR Story line could be incredibly cool, people really do like the whole Sith versus Jedi stuff, but the KOTOR stuff has been swept out of Canon by Disney to the point that even the MMO game isn't considered Canon.
I would still like to see a standalone movie based around people who work in the Empire that don't know their on the wrong side of the conflict.
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Can't you say the same about every si-fi or fantasy.
Mostly yes, but.
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For 364 out of 365 days in the Marval universe people don't even see or hear the avengers.
In the Marvel universe there's also all the other super-powered or otherwise super people that are interesting too. Heroes with extraordinary abilities in a complicated world, that's essentially Marvel Universe for you. There's so much stuff created with that idea in the comics that we now have several film franchises and multiple TV series without anything Avengers related, most of it relatively successful. Plus of course all that Avengers stuff.
What's Marvel universe without powerful heroes? It's just Earth. Why even call it Marvel at that point?
The conflict around Republic / Empire plus Force is the core of the Star Wars universe. If you leave those parts out, it's like doing Marvel without the superheroes, unrecognizable and pointless.
In the Alien Universe outside of the alien appearances on un-inhabited, unexplored planets that we have no reason to go to, its a story about inter galactic freighting.
recently watched TFA for the second time, and enjoyed it much more this time over when i saw it in the theatre. Expectations lower - Han's jokes seemed funnier and Rey was a better character than i remember. looking forward to episode VIII
However still i think Rogue One was a better movie overall in the star wars saga. The single biggest knock on TFA for me is that Kylo Ren is the son of Solo and Leia. Ren himself as a character is good - but his background? I still can't fathom how writers couldn't come up with something better than that for a reboot of the villain.
you mean trade stock? Open an investing account within your bank, ensure it's capable of trading in USD, purchase DIS on the NYSE.
Not sure I am following the question though. All I know is that whenever there's an upcoming release of a large event, you should consider buying stock for that asset. I'd imagine this movie release will be good for Disney.
Another example, Adidas a few months before World Cup (or whoever is the prime athletic wear sponsor in any given tournament). I missed out on this. Another one I missed out on, Nintendo about 6 months before the Switch was released.
recently watched TFA for the second time, and enjoyed it much more this time over when i saw it in the theatre. Expectations lower - Han's jokes seemed funnier and Rey was a better character than i remember. looking forward to episode VIII
However still i think Rogue One was a better movie overall in the star wars saga. The single biggest knock on TFA for me is that Kylo Ren is the son of Solo and Leia. Ren himself as a character is good - but his background? I still can't fathom how writers couldn't come up with something better than that for a reboot of the villain.
Its kind of funny because if the villain is a reboot, it almost feels like a reboot from the Legends EU.
Leia and Han's oldest son is named Jacen Solo, he's the oldest of three Solo Children, a daughter named Jaina and a dead son named Anakin. they are cousins to Luke's son Ben.
In TFA Ben is seduced by a ancient force user that seemed to know Vader from his empire days.
The New Order that Ben is a leader of a group that see's The Republic as corrupt and that the Galaxy needs a firm hand to keep order which will ensure peace.
In Legacy of the Force Jacen is seduced by a former Force Strong Assassin of Vaders named Lumiya who is a disfigured part human cyborg who is strong in the force to the point of naming herself as a Dark Lady of the Sith. She convinces Jacen that only through the Dark Side of the Force can he become the new Emperor of the Galaxy and bring generations of peace, order and stability through a iron will.
In TFA Ben kills his father with a light saber through the guts. He does this as he feels he needs to sacrifice his father to cement himself to the Dark Side of the Force.
In Legacy of the Force, Jacen opens fire on the Falcon in an attempt to kill his father and mother who he see's as a necessary sacrifice to cement himself to the Dark Side of the Force and gain more power.
So the next thing that needs to happen.
In Legacy of the Force, Jacen arranges for the betrayal and murder of the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Alliance so he can step in as the ruler of the Alliance. Jacen also sacrifices Lumiya to become the Dark Lord of the Sith.
So if Ben/Kylo betrays and murders Snoke to become the new Supreme Leader we have identical paths.
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you mean trade stock? Open an investing account within your bank, ensure it's capable of trading in USD, purchase DIS on the NYSE.
Not sure I am following the question though. All I know is that whenever there's an upcoming release of a large event, you should consider buying stock for that asset. I'd imagine this movie release will be good for Disney.
Another example, Adidas a few months before World Cup (or whoever is the prime athletic wear sponsor in any given tournament). I missed out on this. Another one I missed out on, Nintendo about 6 months before the Switch was released.
Most of the value in Disney stock for Star Wars was already swallowed up at the Lucasfilm purchase. It seems logical that the influx of a billion dollars should cause a spike in a companies stock price, but those prices are built on expectations, not real value. The Force Awakens didn't cause a noticeable bump.
I mean, it's not likely to go down. With much more Star Wars and Marvel on the way. But there isn't likely to be single event spikes unless they purchase other large assets.
A television series about Rogue Squadron and/or Wraith Squadron (or something similar to Wraith - a band of misfits who the alliance puts together to do undercover work and are also good at flying space fighters) would be great. The book series was more about character interaction and development than the dog-fighting, so it would fit well with today's television landscape.
The books are an easy read and there are definitely some flaws, but I think the premise would be great.
The Rogue squadron books while not the best of the Legends EU were very good. I still put the fall of the Republic trilogy (labyrinth, ROTS, Dark Lord), The Plageuis and the Bane trilogy as pretty much the top of the list.
With Star Wars Rebels ending its run this year, there is a rumor that Filoni is working on developing another animated series that takes place between ROTJ and TFA.
I still think that TV wise, Clone Wars just stands way above Rebels.
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. Branch out and give us something new and exciting in the Star Wars universe a la the KotOR games.
