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Force Awakened...
The Doctor will never miss a pretty face again. ;)
The fundamental reason why there is a backlash against new Star Wars.
Obvious Tie-in
Unhappy Mark or....
Do you both realise what heroes you are to young people in America?
The Mind of Kathleen Kennedy
Trolling Daisy Ridley
The Skywalker Memorandum
What has happened to my posts and replies?
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Don't anger Lucas... : - [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7tleH0Q9M[/url]
It's hard to say. If they assiduously tick every box on the list of "appeal factors" they could keep making them for a long time. If enough individual fans wake up to the "conveyor belt production" of films and resist the marketing then maybe we will see a slow down in the pace and energy behind the production of new SW films.
After the third film of the original trilogy a decision was made not to produce another film in the series. The story was deemed complete and I think George Lucas wanted to go on to other things. There was no impetus to produce prequels or sequels at that time it seems. Also, I think the audience in general had had enough of Star Wars but of course hardcore fans continued to be avidly interested. Will the pattern repeat itself today where after the third installment of the sequels the public signal a waining interest and the additional trilogies in the works will receive lesser interest and reduced box office takings? Unless the general public are invested in Rey, etc. and the studio's vision for more character arcs I don't see a sustained effort at putting out more material. If that's the case then I'm pretty sure that by 2023 we'll probably will see the end of the current Star Wars generation of films.
Yeah, the character of the First Doctor (as portrayed by Hartnell at least) is supposed to be forbidding, sceptical and a bit stuffy - he doesn't come across as being a sexist. If he was why on earth did he take Susan with him - someone both young and female if he thought women were fragile and somewhat beneath him?
I hate the lecturing monologue device too. Yeah, it's a bit hard to take how vulnerable the TARDIS appears to be these days, as if wasn't a superadvanced multidimensional vehicle but more like an airplane or a balloon. There were good moments in Capaldi's last hurrah but the story was pretty mundane I agree. I thought Whittaker's introduction was very good.
Taking into account the preceptions of the audience as you represent them it would be likely that Moffat is trying to score some points against criticisms of his politics, and deciding to underline what he believes in and what he thinks the audience should accept as the series is passed on to a female actor and the surrounding PR vehicle which encases her. We're supposed to as an audience interpret Whittaker's upcoming series through the lens of progressive values - this is what Moffat desires.
I guess the looming conclusion from all of this is that the studio can't think of or implement new ideas for the new movies, at least without risking the possibility they will fail at the box office because people reject non-homage new scripts. This is may be founded on the assumption that fans don't want stories that may depart from the image of the original trilogy. They don't know how to create new films that at the same time maintains the ethic and spirit of Star Wars.
I wonder how dependant Lucas was on deriving a "winning formula" to produce the prequel films if as you say he was using A New Hope as a skeleton framework to build on? Are there other signs of duplication/emulation or has he dropped hints/commentary to that effect?
Luckily the Tardis can shrink down to a very small size and so could be inserted on her person somewhere. ;)
But I'm sure a pocket would do for storing it. ;) :D
Yeah, indeed.
Berlin? Berlin? Forsooth, Nigel, why the heavens are we over Berlin?! ;)
That seems right. Thanks for the info.
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