you ever think about how in the first of the new start wars trilogy movies the bad guys explode the most populous planet in all of civilization and it gets treated with less narrative weight than "a character who's already old as balls gets stabbed"
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like. yes, one of the three original protagonists of the entire expansive story dying does deserve narrative weight, but they exploded a planet so population dense that its surface is buried under endless city. do you think that maybe deserved like. a little more on-screen angst.
the original movie wasn't like, the greatest about this either, but at least they put leia's entire family on alderaan so that someone had a reason to be angsty about it onscreen. even if they didn't give that angst much screentime.
wait i just googled something and realized that the planet they blew up wasn't even coruscant. they handwaved "actually the new republic has a rotating capital" so they could blow up a *different* ecumenopolis and still use coruscant in the endless churn of affiliated tv shows and comics. l m f a o
YEAH LMAO the fact no one knows that it was actually Hosnian Prime [planet whose name i had to look up bc I didn’t remember] and they only came up with it for the movie
and it shows two characters about to die who we’ve never seen before, who of course now have fleshed out wookieepedia pages
suppose it brings the disappointing narrative choices full circle, given that the prequels cowardly invented a new planet (Naboo) for Amidala to be from, so that the planet we see during the prequels isn't Alderaan, which remains a place with less than 60 seconds of screentime across the films
if you let me rewrite the mainline star wars films they would make you want to tear your own heart out. leia would steal vader's helmet off his corpse in ep 6, spit on it, toss it into the air, and dramatically explode it with a blaster while the music cued back to the alderaan destruction scene
Star Wars only makes sense to me as a series that operates on comic book logic. Flash Gordon, pulpy detective novels, dam busters… the new movies fail because they treat Star Wars as a genre unto itself.
I was actually incensed by starkiller base when I saw the movie in theaters. The first two acts set up a lot of interesting questions and the whole reveal of a yet bigger Death Star was such a huge letdown
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and it shows two characters about to die who we’ve never seen before, who of course now have fleshed out wookieepedia pages