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VeggetaX posted...
Wrestling and Dragon Ball fandom are up there as well. These people love to shit on the product but they'll never stop watching or using it.
That what happens when a fandom is too big, it comes to a point where the all sorts of dissatisfaction just creates noise and it is near impossible to appease.

I felt this much on Dragon Ball where everybody wants something different from the series and the franchise just kinda tried to make them all happy at some point.
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AceMos posted...
i never said anything like that

you came in to the conversation insisting that alot of love it gets is only to spite the haters

as you cant wrap your head around the idea that people genuinely like the film

this entire conversation happened because another poster thought i had to be joking when i said i like the film

this is why star wars fans have the reputation they do

as everything has to be a argument in this fandom

Ace, let's look at my last post.

LightSnake posted...
Like there hasn't been a ton of "if you hate the Last Jedi you're just a stunted manchild who hates women" going on, too? Like come on, there's valid reasons to like it, but don't act like valid criticisms of it haven't been roundly dismissed because people lump those people in with chuds.

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RasterGraphic posted...
The character who abducted multiple women and had them chained up in his basement said something problematic?

JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...
Dont forget what he did to the TV when watching an old Olsen Twins movie.
Wait what? This was surprisingly glossed over in this topic. What is all this about?
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LightSnake posted...
Like there hasn't been a ton of "if you hate the Last Jedi you're just a stunted manchild who hates women" going on, too? Like come on, there's valid reasons to like it, but don't act like valid criticisms of it haven't been roundly dismissed because people lump those people in with chuds.
I still remember all those discussions trying to justify that Holdo Maneuver.
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LightSnake posted...
Like there hasn't been a ton of "if you hate the Last Jedi you're just a stunted manchild who hates women" going on, too? Like come on, there's valid reasons to like it, but don't act like valid criticisms of it haven't been roundly dismissed because people lump those people in with chuds.

The Ghostbusters 2016 tactic.
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012yArthur0 posted...
I still remember all those discussions trying to justify that Holdo Maneuver.

See, ngl. That's something where it's like "does it make sense? No. Does it look REALLY cool? Yes."

And sometimes that's okay! It was visually stunning and dramatically impactful!
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At this point there should be an official rule of the internet that states any discussion about Star Wars in general will eventually devolve into a TLJ argument.
Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read.
masterpug53 posted...
At this point there should be an official rule of the internet that states any discussion about Star Wars in general will eventually devolve into a TLJ argument.

People cannot help but attack the movie for no reason.
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LightSnake posted...
See, ngl. That's something where it's like "does it make sense? No. Does it look REALLY cool? Yes."

And sometimes that's okay! It was visually stunning and dramatically impactful!
That is basically the entire sequel trilogy. Visually stunning while it also making as much sense as an acid trip.

Still, I do remember they keep postponing that Rey movie to the point I just believe it is shadow canceled at this point, it seems like not even Disney has faith in the Sequel Trilogy.
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012yArthur0 posted...
That is basically the entire sequel trilogy. Visually stunning while it also making as much sense as an acid trip.

Still, I do remember they keep postponing that Rey movie to the point I just believe it is shadow canceled at this point, it seems like not even Disney has faith in the Sequel Trilogy.

Again, I think they just need to do a reboot at this point. Just multiverse it, decanonize the dequel trilogy, give better scripts for Boyega and Ridley.
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AceMos posted...
im 100% serious the last jedi is my 2nd favorite star wars movie
what do you like about it o:
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Evolician posted...
what do you like about it o:

i like the story and character arcs it sets up

i like how it defies what is expected of star wars

kylo rejects being redeemed

rey is just a nobody with no grand blood line

the idea of putting a individual up on a pedestal and expecting them to save the day is defied as it shows luke is just a man who is just as capable of messing up as any of us

the hot shot who ignores orders and expects to be rewarded is instead punished

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LightSnake posted...
Again, I think they just need to do a reboot at this point. Just multiverse it, decanonize the dequel trilogy, give better scripts for Boyega and Ridley.
I remain baffled by why Disney is so terrified of having multiple Star Wars continuities active at the same time, when they're also the company that owns Marvel which goes wild with the multiverse.
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Red_XIV posted...
I remain baffled by why Disney is so terrified of having multiple Star Wars continuities active at the same time, when they're also the company that owns Marvel which goes wild with the multiverse.

They alreayd put in Time Travel
Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in."- RIP, Leonard Cohen
sephiroth068 posted...
Wait what? This was surprisingly glossed over in this topic. What is all this about?

Gentle ribbing of the posters who were complaining about various comments Plinkett has made. He's already been well established as a shitty person.

Also pointing out that he is character and these are skits for those who haven't realized, because Poe's law is real.
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For what it's worth, I also like The Last Jedi - it, alongside the Mandalorian Season 1, seem to be the only Disney Wars properties trying to do something new. It's not perfect by any means, you could cut out everything with Finn and the plot doesn't change but I enjoyed it so much more than the other two films.

Force Awakens was a boring, if serviceable retread of A New Hope, Rise of Skywalker was atrocious, and things like Boba Fett, Obi-Wan, Rogue One and Solo prove to me that the franchise is circling the drain of nostalgia pandering. It can't escape it - everything has to relate back to the original trilogy in some way.

I gave up on watching new Star Wars after Mandalorian Season 3 was a disappointment. Not watched Ahsoka (I literally couldn't care less about Filoni's orange waifu) or Andor (I loathed Rogue One).
Trelve posted...
Obi-Wan,

obi-wan would have been good if they cut the darth vader stuff

just have obi-wan rescue leia and the 2 bond which retroactively makes the OT hit different
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012yArthur0 posted...
I still remember all those discussions trying to justify that Holdo Maneuver.
The Holdo Maneuver was amazing for the fact that it killed Holdo. I fucking hated her.

Anyway, I love that somehow Plinkett returned. Ive been majorly depressed this week and I need as many laughs as I can get. I love all of RLMs stuff but without Plinkett I may never have found them.
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Sundercles posted...
The Holdo Maneuver was amazing for the fact that it killed Holdo. I fucking hated her.

why
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AceMos posted...
why
Her attitude was not remotely fitting for her position. Maybe Poe would have listened to her if she was actually slightly professional and not condescending. Shes probably my most hated SW character, even more than Jar Jar.
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AceMos posted...
why
Her character was just not needed in anyway. Some new character never shown or mentioned being controlling and stonewalling the heroes didnt help. Plus many issues could have been solved if she simply spoke of her plans to certain people.
Beyond that there was no reason for anyone to care for her character, its like she was added just to create drama and die.

yet General Ackbar was on the ship and died off without any message, it was more a background thing.
Him in her place would make sense, his sacrifice would have had emotion. Hes been there from the beginning and had everyones respect.
Sundercles posted...
Her attitude was not remotely fitting for her position. Maybe Poe would have listened to her if she was actually slightly professional and not condescending. Shes probably my most hated SW character, even more than Jar Jar.

fair enough

i disagree thoe

she had no reason to explain anything to poe as he was not int he chain of command and was in trouble for being hotshot just a short time before
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Not keeping things open with the soldiers is a really good way to lose their trust, especially when the morale is an all time low and people are in the need of answers. Then proceeding to bet everything on a "one in one million chance" tactic while berating Poe by calling him impulsive and dangerous.

If someone told me Holdo was some kind of satire of a Karen manager, I would believe it.
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AceMos posted...
fair enough

i disagree thoe

she had no reason to explain anything to poe as he was not int he chain of command and was in trouble for being hotshot just a short time before

Poe was a Commander, she should have explained the plans with him.
dhampire1 posted...
Poe was a Commander, she should have explained the plans with him.

he got demoted in this film for running off to be a hot shot
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AceMos posted...
he got demoted in this film for running off to be a hot shot

There is literally no sane reason not to discuss stuff with Poe. It only exists for artificial drama that causes more problems
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LightSnake posted...
There is literally no sane reason not to discuss stuff with Poe. It only exists for artificial drama that causes more problems

why would she discuss things with a hot shot who has a history of ignoring orders and running off to do his own thing

what military general would discuss things with such a soldier who was JUST demoted by the supreme commander (leia) for his disobedience

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I didnt watch this movie but AceMos seems logical. Why share with someone who is deemed irresponsible?
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AceMos posted...
why would she discuss things with a hot shot who has a history of ignoring orders and running off to do his own thing

what military general would discuss things with such a soldier who was JUST demoted by the supreme commander (leia) for his disobedience

To prevent exactly the thing that happens. Poe is still, like it or not, a soldier and officer in a position where cooperation and cohesion is needed. Holdo doing this creates artificial tension. And the "sit down and shut up and obey" causes more issues for a guy who runs off and does his own thing.

She does nothing to assure him she has a plan and instead lets him think they're in mortal danger
Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in."- RIP, Leonard Cohen
I think the issue with Holdo is that rather than saying "yes, I do have a plan, you need to trust me, but I can't trust you with this because of your actions earlier," she instead just... smugly smirks and refuses to answer, to the point where multiple crew members attempt mutiny and others are fleeing while they can.

TLJ is a film that is broken into two parts that don't really match up with each other, if it was just the Luke/Rey/Kylo storyline it'd be much better, probably would be the third or fourth best film in the franchise, but everything else about it drags it way down. The random aside to "yeah well it's the war profiteers who are really the bad guys here" is stupid.

The Holdo maneuver itself in TLJ isn't gamebreaking, it's that they do it again in TROS that's bad. Hell, the scene in TLJ isn't even the first time in extended media we see ships used as an attack like that. TCW S2 even has a story arc end with a ship being navigated into a planet when its hyperdrive is activated (we never see the outcome), and there's a story from one of the encyclopedias where a planet was devastated because of a similar action.

TFA and TROS both have much more egregious hyperspace issues than TLJ.
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I feel like there's a cohort of people who especially hate the leader character on top of her decision making because she's a woman, and then there's another cohort of people who sort of vigorously defend her in reaction to the misogyny angle
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Doe posted...
I feel like there's a cohort of people who especially hate the leader character on top of her decision making because she's a woman, and then there's another cohort of people who sort of vigorously defend her in reaction to the misogyny angle

I think two things are true at once:
A lot of dudes on the internet are VERY NORMAL about their hotshot pilot rogue hero being put in his place by a woman superior officer with purple hair.

That Holdo is unnecessarily secretive, hostile, and creates more issues via her attitude, but nobody would care as much if it was Ackbar
Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in."- RIP, Leonard Cohen
Doe posted...
I feel like there's a cohort of people who especially hate the leader character on top of her decision making because she's a woman, and then there's another cohort of people who sort of vigorously defend her in reaction to the misogyny angle

i think alot of people treat star wars like its some religious gospel

and things that dont conform to doctrine have to be relentlessly attacked

and i think its shallow to say "people only defend holdo because of the haters"

why do people have to have a essay length reason to like a damn movie or character

3 things 1. i am female 2. i havea msucle probelm its hard for me to typ well 3.*does her janpuu dance*
Tbh i dont even remember holdo except she wears a night gown to work, her hair is purple and shes ellie sadler/david lynch woman.

Did she do some dum butt things? I think so. Was that a top twenty issue in the film? Absolutely not. I hear so much bitching about her and people almost never mention the inane casino planet that looked like worse cgi garbage than some things in the prequel or stopping the actually important plot to waste time on the fate of some space llama shrimp in a symbolic gesture of stupidity.

Also, people are way too quick to just say Holdover was an idiot in the relationship between her and Poe. Nobody in the film acted like a real person who is not just lines on paper in advancement of an idiotic plot. Not Holdo. Not Poe. Not Finn and not even Lea.
DodogamaRayBrst posted...
people almost never mention the inane casino planet that looked like worse cgi garbage
Funny you mention this because pretty much all of that that wasn't like the casino interior itself was actually shot in Dubrovnik, Croatia, like right down one of the main streets of the city and a few of the side streets as well.
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AceMos posted...
i think alot of people treat star wars like its some religious gospel

and things that dont conform to doctrine have to be relentlessly attacked

and i think its shallow to say "people only defend holdo because of the haters"

why do people have to have a essay length reason to like a damn movie or character


Don't you think it's a little silly to say I was only anecdotally claiming Star Wars has more male fans than female and going quiet after I posted two sources proving it but you're now trying to claim "most people love The Last Jedi" based on feels?
LightSnake posted...
There is literally no sane reason not to discuss stuff with Poe. It only exists for artificial drama that causes more problems
Poe just defied orders and got their bomber fleet decimated and there was the idea that someone is leaking info because it wasn't known at the time that you could track ships through warp drive. So yeah the guy comes off as a saboteur in the moment.
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MuscleRobo posted...
Don't you think it's a little silly to say I was only anecdotally claiming Star Wars has more male fans than female and going quiet after I posted two sources proving it but you're now trying to claim "most people love The Last Jedi" based on feels?

i never said most people love the last jedi

i said plenty of people enjoy it

those are vastly different arguments

and i never saw your post with your source i apologize
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You know, Holdo didn't have to give the specifics but a simple "don't worry, we have a plan" would have sufficed. When moral is low its kind of the CO's job to help keep people in line.

Instead she just pointlessly berates and acts like a smug shithead when everyone is feeling extremely down after losing their figure head.
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MuscleRobo posted...
Male dominated doesn't mean no women, it was 60/40 as of a year ago with men still being the majority. And if we're going anecdotal aren't most of the people complaining and saying they're done men? So it was probably higher percentage of men pre Disney. Plus the 60/40 split is just ticket sales. I bet if you look at merchandise like toys the split gets even wider.

https://www.jeditemplearchives.com/2024-06-12-the-demographics-of-star-wars-fans/

see this post now

and it seems we have a different definition of dominated when i hear people say stuff like that i tend to think of it as a overwhelming majority like 75%

but i apologize for not seeing this sooner
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I didn't realize Holdo was such a big issue for many. I didn't enjoy her, but I didn't enjoy Poe either (I like him, and basically everyone else, better in the first movie). My issues were mainly Casino planet, stupid arms dealer morality (wow you need to buy weapons to fight fascists? That's awful, we aren't any better than them I guess), whatever the fuck was going on with Rei's "training", and everything they did to Finn (especially at the end when we get this weird ass nonsense morality about saving what we love instead of destroying what we hate; it's a fucking war). That movie is like the anti-Andor. I guess it's fine as a kids movie, but I just can't enjoy it personally.
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Unknown5uspect posted...
So yeah the guy comes off as a saboteur in the moment.
Implying that a guy who was on the ground with the resistance since minute one and helped smuggle the super omega Death Star plans in a Droid to the resistance is a mole for the First Order is almost as stupid as thinking that the guy who did a full Hitler tier speech regarding the New Republic while blowing up their major planetary holds would actually be a spy for them.

ssjevot posted...
I didn't realize Holdo was such a big issue for many. I didn't enjoy her, but I didn't enjoy Poe either (I like him, and basically everyone else, better in the first movie). My issues were mainly Casino planet, stupid arms dealer morality (wow you need to buy weapons to fight fascists? That's awful, we aren't any better than them I guess), whatever the fuck was going on with Rei's "training", and everything they did to Finn (especially at the end when we get this weird ass nonsense morality about saving what we love instead of destroying what we hate; it's a fucking war).
I will never forgive Rian for what he did with Finn's character in Last Jedi.
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McmadnessV3 posted...
You know, Holdo didn't have to give the specifics but a simple "don't worry, we have a plan" would have sufficed. When moral is low its kind of the CO's job to help keep people in line.

Instead she just pointlessly berates and acts like a smug shithead when everyone is feeling extremely down after losing their figure head.
She is a god awful leader, and as much as I love Leia it makes her seem incompetent for choosing Holdo. Holdo comes off like a petty 13 year old who clearly has never lead people in her life.

Also she was trying sit down, shut up, and follow orders to people in a damn rebellion? Holdo had zero clue what she was doing.

Yeah, Poe did the whole hotshot thing but Holdo seemed completely inept at best and like a spy for the First Order at worst. If I was Poe I wouldve been wary of her too.
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dancing_cactuar posted...
I will never forgive Rian for what he did with Finn's character in Last Jedi.

He got doubled down on in the next movie. Just a joke character who gets a new love interest every movie and has his character arc reset every time. Really sucks because he started out my favorite of the new characters.
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Him getting the lightsaber in ep7 is the best segment of the sequels. The lighting of it in the snow was so cool it looked right for him to have it. and he wounded Kylo, even if Kylo had his guard down
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ssjevot posted...
He got doubled down on in the next movie. Just a joke character who gets a new love interest every movie and has his character arc reset every time. Really sucks because he started out my favorite of the new characters.
Finn had great potential coming out of VII, but they just kept repeating the same damn plots with him. What a waste. He only got any actual character development after VII in the LEGO Holiday Special of all things.

Doe posted...
Him getting the lightsaber in ep7 is the best segment of the sequels. The lighting of it in the snow was so cool it looked right for him to have it. and he wounded Kylo, even if Kylo had his guard down
Definitely a well filmed scene. The snow fight was visually my favorite thing in the ST.
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Doe posted...
Him getting the lightsaber in ep7 is the best segment of the sequels. The lighting of it in the snow was so cool it looked right for him to have it. and he wounded Kylo, even if Kylo had his guard down
That fight was legitimately the best saber fight in the entire sequel trilogy as it was the only one that felt like there was an underlying thing besides two laser swords clattering at each other. It reminded me a bit of Luke and Vader where neither bad guy is giving their 100% until the protagonist gets a good hit in, which then the bad guy basically decides to end the game right then and there.
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Sundercles posted...
Yeah, Poe did the whole hotshot thing but Holdo seemed completely inept at best and like a spy for the First Order at worst. If I was Poe I wouldve been wary of her too.
Yeah. The way she acted could easily make her look like a mole. It isn't far fetched for some rebel to imagine that she might be throwing everyone there to their deaths on purpose.
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012yArthur0 posted...
Yeah. The way she acted could easily make her look like a mole. It isn't far fetched for some rebel to imagine that she might be throwing everyone there to their deaths on purpose.

and from her perspective HE is acting like a mole

picture this a recently disgrace pilot that the supreme commander deemed worthy of personally demoting for his actions

is constantly skulking about and trying to insert him self into tactical discussions
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