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She's the second first female director of a Star Wars movie. Patty Jenkins was supposed to be the first first female director of a Star Wars movie. So it will be interesting to see who is the next first female director of a Star Wars movie.

Ah, directed two episodes of Ms. Marvel and is most noted for being an activist.
 
Sounds about right.

I never got the impression from the OT that the force could be "used" by everybody. Rather, it seemed to me that while the Force is something that binds the galaxy together, flows through all living things, etc., that only certain individuals could "access" and harness that power. At least to a significant degree.

Part II is amazing. Just a real rollercoaster and I’m not sure I ever fully recovered from it emotionally 

I’m pretty sure they’re the same person 

And I would say you have not paid close enough attention. But before I sound like He Who Must Not Be Named, let's just say we disagree and move on.
 
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It was to be much more satirical in nature, before Zoetrope imploded and he had to make something else. I think it worked out for the best.

While I agree that Lucas is a revisionist, at best, when it comes to the history of Star Wars, I disagree with the assertion that he's not an artistic genius. I think to some extent at least, he is.
 
Star Wars was an incredible feat of imagination and vision. Yes, it had its own influences, as do all works of art. But the sheer creativity involved in creating that world, those characters and bringing them altogether in that story shouldn't be dismissed. Not only the vision to create it, but the talent and drive to put it on the screen.  That's an amazing artistic accomplishment, no matter his fabulism.
 
That said, yeah, he has flaws. He peaked too soon, became lazy and perhaps ran out of ideas. Star Wars arguably isn't even the best film, Empire is. But it was his creative vision that started the whole thing, and for that he deserves a tremendous amount of credit and respect.

NOW, JUST A DAMN MINUTE!!!!
 
Star Wars Is Better Than Everything;
Indiana Jones Is Better Than Everything;
Star Trek Is Better Than Everything;
even The fucking Muppets Is Better Than Everything.
They can't all be better than everything!
Which one is better???!!!!!
 
 

Fair enough. 
 
More to the point, though. I don't really care. Whatever his personal foibles, I consider him a first-rate artistic genius. Whatever mental gymnastics it took to get him there, the end results are, in my opinion, fantastic.
 
Disney has shown that it does not fully understand the peculiar and specific genre and stylistic choices made in the first six Star Wars films. They shoot them like modern TV, and make everything look like a backlot western. There is no Flash Gordon, no documentarian shooting styles, no artistic whimsy, no profound symbolism, and no visual wonder. They can't even make blasters sound like blasters.  Therefore, I am not particularly interested in any of this new stuff. But I would love to be pleasantly surprised.
 
And I would still trade every new film, TV show, and the entirety of the Legends and Canon EU for a new Lucas trilogy.

Yes, but if you read what he had planned, almost all of it got addressed in RotJ. The new trilogy he’s spoken of more recently seems much more existential and esoteric than any of his original plans.
 
Since about 1983 or so, he’s been pretty clear that there was no story after Jedi. I like the theory that he only wrote treatments for the sequels as a way of sweetening the deal with Disney. But I also think, as he got the ball rolling with them, he came up with some interesting ideas, and he was hoping (and expecting) Disney to use them.

The expectation of a trilogy is already there, and you bet your ass if Episode 7 did well then sequels would've been made

I mean, sure. We didn’t have a prequel trilogy until he sat down and wrote it. I’m sure he didn’t have much more than treatments written, since he was so adamant that there was no more story to tell after Jedi, but I would still prefer anything he came up with over what we got

I will check all this out, as I always do. But I see nothing that tells me these projects won’t be just as insular, self-referential, and lacking pulp flavor and bite as all the rest of the Disney canon. They have too much to lose to make it weird, and to little to really swing for the fences. What I would give for George’s sequel trilogy, JW or no.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but Jedi Rocks/Victory Celebration > Lapti Nek/Yub Nub

Yub-nub is a sin against humanity. Otherwise, sure. (Coming from a serial Lucas apologist who doesn’t mind the changes)

already seen it.

The thought that people came to hate on the show because they're biased against it is pitiful.
 
If anything, 100 million tuned in for the first time because they're biased FOR Tolkien.

The LOTR and Hobbit score don’t have any filler.

I wonder which one they’ll cancel first? 
 
The Mangold one is probably in most danger depending on the reception of Indy 5

Then in a few years Star Wars XXX.....
 
 
Oh wait....

Fixed.

JW: The Rise of Skywalker is my final Star Wars film.
 
Kathleen Kennedy: We'd like you to score Episode X.
 
JW: Sorry Kathleen, I've retired from scoring.
 
Kennedy: Daisy will be retur...
 
JW: Where do I sign!

Episode 0 I think is in risk of falling into the same pitfalls as stuff like The Rings of Power and Prometheus: the beginning of the Jedi Order is as much a creation myth as anything in those.
 
An episode X is just…pointless at this point.

Everything is proceeding as@Mattris has foreseen.