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He did, but it's fairly well known (thought not promoted to high heaven) that he was the one brought in to basically redo the entire movie. I know he did a ton of rewrites and supposedly he directed the reshoots, which were as much as half the movie. That's why the trailers were basically all deleted scenes. They must have made some deal with Edwards where he could still sit front and center during promotional interviews and events, but it was basically Gilroy who saved the film. Now they're using his name to promote Cassian the show and Gareth Edwards is in witness protection.

Isn't it kinda weird when Tony Gilroy is being pushed so hard as showrunner and writer for this series when his involvement in saving Rogue One was a little on the DL at the time? Like they tried keeping it a bit of a secret before, but assume you know this fact anyway as a way of getting butts in seats for this show.

On the bright side, the music sounded like it might have actually been live instruments for the first time ever.

You ever play Guacamelee? That's my favorite indie Metroidvania.

That's what I'm thinking. It seemed like Iwata fought the board a lot when they just wanted to push safer projects, and with him gone there's nobody to push back and propose crazy things. I mean, we're on the third Splatoon game in 7 years and people thought the 2nd one didn't have anything new enough to justify being a sequel. Was ANYTHING new shown in this direct? It all seemed like "Don't worry! So-and-so mode is back!"

Nintendo in general feels safe and boring for awhile now. I think you can argue that Mario Odyssey was originally made for Wii U before they had the opportunity to make it for Switch. In fact, I think I heard that it was completely done for a long time before being released. We know Breath of the Wild was for Wii U. After those two games, Switch has really been a more of the same machine. Either that, or making a game based on people whining on the internet for things. Situations like reviving Metroid Dread, having the latest Mario Party be basically just a remix of the N64 games, having a halfassed story mode in Mario Tennis and Mario Golf. Just feels like a direct response to noise online. Compare that to the Gamecube years or Wii and Wii U years where the approach was basically "Okay, we got this idea. I know it sounds wacky, but bear with us and give it a chance."

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Or he just doesn't bother to keep track of which magical creature from a movie 20 years ago is which.

You didn't like Harrison Ford and his cartoon dog?

We already had that with Ghostbusters 2016, The Last Jedi, and others.

As a current huge Star Wars hater and acting over the top about how messed up and totally broken the story and canon is, I think the focus on canon at all is a huge mistake. Back in MY DAY ()we had movies, and then tons of other bullshit. The bullshit had the room to be bullshit. It was a legend from a long time ago. If it didn't quite line up with the movies, that's okay. We can just pass it off as a not exactly right interpretation of events. Different levels of canon, you could say. Nowadays, in the obsession with pretending every piece of media matters as much as every other, canon is a mess because the creators and storytellers aren't good at keeping track of it in the first place, but also there's that passive consideration of canon so nothing interesting ever really happens in the stories. Maybe media needs to set a hierarchy so there's room for creativity or shooting for the stars, with room for falling flat. I know that since a lot of this fiction is people's replacement for religion they need it to all line up and be gospel, but it makes it hard for people who want to see fun and interesting stuff.

I just assumed they were back because But I thought the same thing about it being a nice way to wrap things up. I know I put a whole thing in spoiler tags but are we talking about details of the episode openly? It's hard to talk about how much I liked it without those details.

That's a fair point. It was great music for highway driving, but I did want a little more of the love theme. I figure that is what The Good Guy was there for. It was where it was to break up two tracks of the mine action music and two tracks of Kessel Run over the top music.

I always thought it was a great program, the only momentum killer was "The Good Guy". Like most Star Wars scores 2018 and earlier, the full score is always better. I know others might disagree, but I almost always listen to the most expanded Star Wars Williams, Powell, even Giacchino scores possible. It's ironic how in an era of much more flexibility in music releases, what with digital, there are fewer and fewer scores that justify a full release as opposed to a curated hour long OST presentation.

I felt like the music, as well as the film, was the perfect evolution of Star Wars. It felt modern but still had a ton of Star Wars spirit in it. Way more than any of the other Disney productions. Both sadly got cut off at the knees, so the shows, movies, and music went in a way different direction instead.

There was a period of months not long after the movie came out where I listened to the OST album in full more than once per week. It was the perfect length for the drive between myself and my now wife. I NEVER got tired of listening to it. It is so expertly crafted I still feel like I'm not done listening to it.

Do you still have to show a medical pass to go to see the NYP? I'd love to go.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-game-paused-amid-studio-shakeup-1.1797328 So it looks like the terrible sounding KOTOR remake is dead in the water. The most interesting note was that this lines up with a rumor posted on Reddit months ago: So I guess they wanted to fart this one out this year. Very on brand for how Star Wars is treated these days. It's like how they shipped a broken KOTOR2 port on Switch. I guess they know a certain number of people will buy it regardless, sight unseen. https://kotaku.com/kotor-2-gamebreaking-bug-aspyr-crash-onderon-1849136189

If it wasn't preceded by the Williams scores, it would be seen as a film music classic.

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That was disappointing...

lol because they had no choice

Animal Crackers was still better than 90% of things out there. I can probably agree with the term exhausting though. This was great from beginning to end. Easily Powell levels. That had to be the inspiration.

One is a prequel to a show everyone hated in the end and wasn't hungry for more at all, and will almost definitely be terrible. The other is a prequel to a classic made by people who have no respect for the source material whatsoever, and will almost definitely be terrible. I'll be enthusiastically skipping both.

Listened to it yesterday. Always Bet on Bear™.