what “fun” did the knights of ren offer? - ThreadSky

gene.meme • 59 days ago

what “fun” did the knights of ren offer?

All the people that complain about the new trilogy stuff don't realize it is just the same as the old, they are just old and grumpy and hate fun so much they don't recognize it

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jessecjc.bsky.social•59 days ago

i was waiting for that to happen but all it was is a bunch of dudes with junkyard weapons. was i supposed to read a book? i was more surprised palpatine came back, couldnt it have been snoke again? idk i think paul marketing and mr moneybags had too much input

mobute.bsky.social•59 days ago

grandmogul.bsky.social•59 days ago

Six tickets to Wicked, please

song87.bsky.social•59 days ago

They’re making a nu metal music video

hatok.bsky.social•59 days ago

all the fan theories on what they were gonna contribute to the movies some day, of course

pistolero8797.bsky.social•59 days ago

We need a 'Shadows of the Empire'-style multimedia blitz to even attempt to make them be cool.

hatok.bsky.social•59 days ago

they should just make them kylo ren's evil exes

mbhare.bsky.social•59 days ago

there is a canonical answer to who they are and, uh. it's a criminal gang of bad guys who use the force to do crimes. so. there you go.

pistolero8797.bsky.social•59 days ago

That sounds like something that would have been neat to see/hear about in the films. Oh well.

mbhare.bsky.social•59 days ago

posting this for no reason

https://matthewseiji.itch.io/twwds

mbhare.bsky.social•59 days ago

to be clear, I don't think this is a bad idea, it just seems to me like it was born out of needing to do clean-up after the sequels.

yuribo26.bsky.social•59 days ago

Making fun of them was pretty fun

snigglegros.bsky.social•59 days ago

that dude brought on comparing them to another group who "does nothing", but they at least have a varied set of cool designs! Not saying these knight fellows are "bad", but comparing them is kind of a bad idea.

takgoup.bsky.social•59 days ago

There's an old tokusatsu movie, Zeiram 2, where they establish an army of space pirates is hunting the main character. When they have her surrounded, the real villain kills them all in a complete joke scene.
The Knights of Ren could've been completely justified if they did anything similar

orbait.bsky.social•58 days ago

A fun fight scene?

kidcoheed.bsky.social•59 days ago

I think a lot of Defenders of the Sequel Trilogy think Many of us that dislike them ONLY hate them because of misogyny and not a lack of consistency, weak world building and storylines that go nowhere

gene.meme•59 days ago

it’s so exhausting right. stuck in 2015 blog discourse mode

jacenat.bsky.social•58 days ago

My online handle is LITERALLY from the Legacy EU and I was a terminal SW fan.

TroS is one of only 3 movies I have with the lowest rating on letterboxd. It is one of the worst movies I saw and the only SW movie I only have seen once (watched all others at least 4 times).

It is BAD.

thatjayguy324.bsky.social•58 days ago

Remember when Chewy died then PSYCHE! He’s back 2 minutes later.
Or how they introduced a new planet, that happened to be the most important Sith planet, capable of cloning Palpatine, w/ a million Death Stars & Star Destroyers, & only accessible via 2 MacGuffins?

TROS was a storytelling abomination

lefeverdan.bsky.social•59 days ago

Seriously, I don't want to have to read supplementary material to know who these characters are in the god damn movies. There are limits to the 'show don't tell' rule and this is it.

kzxcellent.live•59 days ago

I love these types of SW arguments where its always trying to dispel missed opportunities or bad writing in recent stuff with "well the films made almost 50 years ago were also incompetent I think"

gene.meme•59 days ago

my og thread is full of people making the same point over and over lol

hatok.bsky.social•59 days ago

there's this specific recurring thing where people try to pass off the old flaws as the same as the new ones as if just the fact that Star Wars was brand new doesn't completely change the expectations they have to meet

hatok.bsky.social•59 days ago

"they didn't explain where palpatine comes from so why would they explain where snoke comes from?" as if the sequel trilogy is not a follow up to an existing status quo

twitchytango.bsky.social•59 days ago

Honestly I saw the first two films several times but I never seen rise all the way through I checked out 10 minutes in

erev.bsky.social•59 days ago

God you reminded me of how much missed potential there was here

Emblematic of the whole sequel trilogy. Aesthetics and spectacle over any cohesion or commitment to tell an overarching story.

augmentgear.bsky.social•58 days ago

Kylo: You are now called the Knights of Ren
Knights of Ren: Man what the fuck does Ren even mean, we know that's your name but Knights of Ren sounds dumb as hell we're outta here.

lewdcreatures.bsky.social•59 days ago

I like "Dumb but fun" in my Star Wars. I encourage it. Star Wars was always a bit silly while also taking itself seriously. I enjoyed the Jack Black episode of Mando Season 3 (while disliking most of that season.)

Rise of Skywalker is not Dumb but fun, its just dumb and confusing and a waste.

orbait.bsky.social•58 days ago

Nah Rise is just fun

shedvolans.bsky.social•59 days ago

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh cool costumes?

I dunno man I got nothin. Dunno what this guy is on, like, yeah the old trilogy also had cool looking guys who did nothing but the knights somehow even felt less than nothing. At least Boba Fett died in a really funny way.

gene.meme•59 days ago

boba actually helped to capture han solo! that’s a huge deal!

jacenat.bsky.social•58 days ago

He outsmarted the scoundrel. Its helping the deconstruction of his sly image ultimateky leading to capture, rescue and redemption.

Its great. Han's arc would feel more forced without that.

shawnisstilltired.bsky.social•59 days ago

I like how we’re supposed to infer the Knights of Ren are badasses because their pants and dusters are a little dirty. Their shit looks barely used at all.

thxj3po.bsky.social•58 days ago

Fun, natural fun...

xuelder.neocities.org•59 days ago

They look cool on a cover of Empire Magazine. And in trailer shots. Which they appeared on multiple times.

twilighttimbus.bsky.social•59 days ago

My takeaway from all the sequel trilogy coping these types keep doing is that Revenge of the Sith stays winning.

mildconviction.com•59 days ago

Can't watch any of the sequel trilogy without dwelling on the constant wasted potential and painfully obvious lack of planning dangled in front of my face.

blazintr3.bsky.social•59 days ago

A dope spin off comic

tbaglag.bsky.social•59 days ago

Maybe they went to the races with Benicio Del Toro.. that was fun right?

kaneplaysgames.bsky.social•59 days ago

I dont know, having like 6 years of hype based off of cool concept art only for them to get absolutely dunked in their like one actual appearance was pretty funny.

Granted it's more "so bad it's funny" but that's about as close as I got to joy out of that movie.

woofer901.bsky.social•58 days ago

it must suck for these people to huff so much copium and the fact they ain't getting another good star wars movie for the next couple of years.

gearm.bsky.social•59 days ago

They're not SO different from Boba Fett, I guess? Cool armor guy shows up for just a moment to do diddly-squat and fuck off. Makes for an action figure to sell - and that worked so well for Fett that we've got "Mandalorians" as a concept from it.

("Rise" is Star Wars at its most dogshit, but still)

gene.meme•59 days ago

the difference is boba fett became cool afterward not promoed in vanity fair photo shoots, and also it’s not like he didn’t do anything he literally captured han solo

igorzamboti.bsky.social•59 days ago

Comparing these goons to Fett is fucking wild

vkal.bsky.social•59 days ago

To be fair, boba was just handed Han Solo by Vader. He didn’t really contribute to the capture itself.

gene.meme•59 days ago

yes he did he tracked them!

vkal.bsky.social•59 days ago

Shoot, you’re right. My bad.

gene.meme•59 days ago

it’s ok i just never forget when he snuck on that meteor and tracked them to cloud city. THATS WHY i always thought he was cool

gearm.bsky.social•59 days ago

Now that's totally true - Fett works for the same reason most Star Wars favorites do: fans decided they were neato after the fact. See: Ackbar, Salacious Crumb, etc

Knights were VERY tryhard - everything about the sequels was marketed that way. (Though I don't recall that as *much* with Last Jedi?)

xuelder.neocities.org•59 days ago

Probably the only character I have seen from the Sequels that got this treatment was Babu Frik. Love me some Babu Frik.

gearm.bsky.social•59 days ago

star wars and weird little guys - it almost always works

jacenat.bsky.social•58 days ago

Boba (and the other hunters) did serve a purpose in the workdbuilding. Boba even contributed to Han's arc.

The KoR did not do any of that. A cool design is only a PART of these characters. If it is all they have, of course they fall flat.

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