RAR wrote:The puppets they were showing off the other day filled me with horror !!
I like them alright. They remind me of something the jim henson design house would make for like, dark crystal. Obviously they won't have the classic star wars feel, as these aren't being made with the budget of a ham sandwich. Or being kitbashed. Or being made from unpaintable plastic; like most if not all of the stormtroopers.
RAR wrote:I'm disliking the casting more and more as I see more of them.
Eh, I can't agree or disagree really, it depends on the actual acting. Though the new sith dudes looks like a bitch.
RAR wrote:Some of the art design is good some looks a bit to fan fiction like due to being based so much on abandoned 1970's designs - which would only make sense for Rogue 1 not for Force Awakens.
Again, I can't agree or disagree, it depends on how the writers use these concepts. But it is interesting to see how these abandoned ideas will or won't work with 40 years of retrospect.
RAR wrote:Speaking of which I anticipate that Rogue 1 will have some good bit but as a story make little sense as yet another un-needed stealing of the Death Star plans story.
Yes like the other movies revolving around the concept like.................... and. I honestly hope we get some bothan spies as the main protagonists.
RAR wrote:Perhaps I just feel a little put out as I have the horrible feeling that Disney is going to finish off what little Star Wars fandom I had left in me after the retention of the prequels and the murdering of the entire Expanded Universe.
I really doubt disney will try and kill the star wars fan base seeing as their smart and insidious. I feel like they'll treat it like the marvel movies. The mouse will stay out of the creative process and focus on the marketing and the merchandise. As for the expanded universe, there were allot of great stories and concepts that i loved. But there were also a lot of inconsistencies and continuity errors between the works. I doubt that all of the expanded universe is off the table, we already have female storm troopers in the movie, and that was a concept introduced in the expanded univeres. I just doubt we'll see the Thrawn Trilogy, or the darksabre arc. Both of which would be totally metal, but I digress.
RAR wrote:I suspect I feel like that about Star Wars and yet not like that about Star Trek as Star Trek or even Terminator Geneysis as they didn't so much destroy their predecessors as branch from them.
Force Awakens feels to me at times like I am standing in horror watching a mad man run riot in a puppy farm with a fire axe.
Wow, those movies you listed were waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more insulting to the previous movies and fanbases. If anything force awakens is majorly fanwanky.