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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

How have the sequels aged for you guys? I'm still personally disappointed by them

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still bad because the directors were somehow never capable of having a conversation about which way the story should go.

I will never understand that.

JJ Abrams admits there should have been a plan for the ‘Star Wars’ sequel trilogy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It still baffles me that there was no plan.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better storytelling than the prequels, but there was no story to tell.

The prequels at least had a story, but it was told poorly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Something Lucas did well in my eyes was world building. To me that's the most redeeming part of the prequels, the universe felt vast yet connected. The sequels felt small in comparison and a little too familiar. The only place I wanted to see more of was Kijimi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Something Lucas did well in my eyes was world building.

I sort of agree. World building was good as long as it stuck to establishing interesting characters and planets, but George had the tendency to cram the screen with CGI creatures which served no purpose other than to dazzle and distract the viewer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

After all this time, it almost seems worse, Disney has proven they can make good Star Wars content so the sequels feel even more flat in comparison after an Andor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have a different take.

The prequels were ass, then they gave us 7 seasons of some of the best Star Wars content there is to fill in the gaps and make the story cohesive. Now I love the prequels.

With how bad the sequels are I can only assume the cartoon we get to fill in the gaps will be a fucking banger.

Please.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's ignoring a lot of context and nuance. The prequels we're bad because of the dialogue, Anakin's character development and CGI, but the story was always spectacular because it was created by one person with a clear vision. The "story" in the sequels is incoherent and an absolute mess because it's a story told by a bunch of people who didn't know where they were going when they started (or even while they were making them). Clone wars had better dialogue and fixed Anakin's character development while also telling stories created by the same person who was in charge of the movies the show is proving context for.

If Disney tried making an animated show to flesh out the sequel's, who would even be making it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

He was for children.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Well, I'm disappointed with almost every Star Wars thing... just more with the sequels.

At the same time I like most of them.