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If the point is that they’re supposed to act like pricks and not drop that act— why were so many fans excited to have them on the pod?

Cos when I read comments on the announcement loads of people (presumably wrestling fans) were excited about them being guests on the pod. I hadn’t heard of them but assumed they must be likeable characters.

But if you’re a wrestling fan, and you know they play these thin as a cigarette paper bad guy “heel” characters— why would you be excited to hear them interviewed on the pod, surely you’d know that won’t be a good interview? Or were fans who were aware of them thinking they wouldn’t be in-character?

For those that don’t know, in Legends the Hands were elite covert operatives who carried out missions on behalf of the Emperor, with the most famous being Mara Jade.

People might say The Inquisitorius fulfil a similar function— but they’re explicitly under Vader’s control, are former Jedi, and have no status outside of their missions— with Vader treating them like attack dogs.

I think there’s a lot of storytelling potential in having this separate organisation that work under The Emperor and thus have higher status, are more skilled than an Inquisitor and who don’t have to wear uniforms and can’t be disposed of as easily as The Inquisitors— particularly if they start to work against each other. Imagine a story where Vader sends out his Inquisitors to collect some kind of dark side artefact while at the same time The Emperor sends one of his Hands, and the two organisations have to fight each other.

Plus it gives us new characters to explore, which to me is always a plus.

I’m just curious about this as many fans I’m sure would reflexively respond “Only if it’s GOOD and WELL-WRITTEN!”.

But what I mean is, beyond that obvious requirement that the Star Wars projects we do get be good— do you as a fan in your heart of hearts actually want it to continue as a property? Would you be happier if they drew a line under it and said “no more Star Wars, it’s complete.”

Given we already have some what-if scenarios in the game, might be fun to have some what-if characters— just a few examples off the top of my head:

Gokhan (Goku and Gohan Fusion)
Tiencha (Tien and Yamaha Fusion)
Gokule (Goku and Hercule Fusion)
Cellin (Cell absorbs Krillin)
Majin Buu Frieza Absorbed
Majin Buu Cell Absorbed
Perfect Cell Max
Adult Gotenks
Saiyan Warrior Kakarot (alternate timeline Goku)

I did for years after he left the pod, but ever since the abuse stuff came out I’ve avoided relistening to the early eps, which is a shame as there’s some good episodes with him in.

And if so, genuinely what’s that about?

I was reading an article on Twitter about Amy Adam’s expressing how excited she was to be in a Star Wars movie cos she’s a fan, and there were many comments from fans below doubting she’s a real fan explicitly because she’s a woman, and otherwise just being hostile and shitty about her for no reason when she was just expressing excitement and positivity about the series.

It just made me wonder what the deal is— where is this kind of ‘nerd misogyny’ coming from?

Where would have been a good place to stop? When should the series have quit while it was ahead? By the same token— what would have been the worst place to stop and never make another?

If you’re wondering, the longest movie currently is The Rise of Skywalker at 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Would you watch a three hour (or even longer) epic?

I was recently rewatching The Extended Editions (as you do) and it occurred to me how deftly they managed to separate interesting or enjoyable scenes from absolutely essential scenes in the theatrical edit.

It would have been so easy to accidentally truncate plot and thematic elements like the tranquility of The Shire, Aragorn and Arwen’s romance, or Theoden’s grief and feelings of inadequacy by cutting down slower scenes — but instead those theatrical cuts are like diamonds, absolutely flawless in their structure.

Obviously a big part of Star Wars right back to the original movie was that it appealed to all-ages, but I think something that’s equally true is that that was not necessarily intended in the making of the films, and they’ve always been broadly made to appeal to younger audiences.

At a certain point, these movies were and are no longer made with someone of your age in mind.

That may not be why the movies no longer appeal to you, if they no longer appeal to you— but the fact that they no longer appeal to you is of less importance to the people making them.

I don’t want to put a hard age on this, and I’m not telling any fans they don’t matter.

But there comes a point where a franchise can be happy with your continued support without designing every creative choice around it. They’re not really banking on you buying your own ticket anymore; they’re banking on you paying for the ten kids at a birthday party who’ve already been sold the next Star Wars film through Happy Meal toys.

In almost any context (game, live action series, animated series, movie) that’s something I’d like to see portrayed in canon.

That its Palpatine's own flesh and blood who not only puts him down, but brings back the Jedi he hates so much. It's like The Force is trolling him

But I don’t actually primarily mean violence— instead I’d like to see fights where over time the athletic difficulty of fighting someone sets in, where you feel the weight of the strikes and the actors start to look exhausted, where the fight over time goes from balletic and skilled to eventually two desperate people hacking away at each other without grace or skill.

There’s a great movie that came out the same year as Star Wars called The Duellists (recommend if you haven’t seen it) and the fights in that are so great because they feel so real. I’d like to see Star Wars have a little more of that.

Just sometning I’ve been wondering lately, since I’m sure lightsaber technology has in some way developed since the day of Tarre Viszla.