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| Topic | Anagram Ranks Anything Star Wars-related with a Write-Up (spoilers) |
| Anagram 10/11/20 6:40:13 PM #42: | Baby Yoda The Mandalorian is the only good thing to come out of Star Wars, besides memes, since 1987... Maybe the Knights of the Old Republic games, too. They knew exactly the right amount of heart to include in the show, too. If I'd never seen the Mandalorian, I would have said that there should never be another of Yoda's species ever shown, that they're more interesting the less you see... But dammit, Baby Yoda is just so good. It tears me up inside. Wookiepedia Tree Article "Trees were usually deeply rooted and strong, and firmly connected to nature, yet they bowed and shifted at the promptings of wind and weather." I sometimes wonder how much of Wookiepedia is meant ironically. Grand Moff Tarkin Tarkin is interesting. Not as a character -- he's just a guy. He's the head Nazi. He's the local leader of the Gestapo, basically. No, what's interesting is how big a deal he is. He has almost as much screen time as Vader in ANH, his decisions are just as important as Vader's, and yet of the big Star Wars villains, I'd say Tarkin is the least referenced pop culturally? Vader, Palpatine, Jabba, Darth Maul... I guess Tarkin is more known than Dooku and Nute Gunray, but only because he has the fortune to be in a good movie. I think we can all agree that CGI Tarkin was a mistake. It is so cartoonish and distracting. If it had just been one scene, then sure, but he's constantly showing up in that terrible Rogue One movie. The only good thing to come of it was that they didn't CGI Leia in TRoS, but that's a story for another day. Oh, did you want an actual analysis of his character? Tarkin represents the Empire's power, but also how full of itself it is. He's absolutely confident in his actions, even when they're mistakes, and he cannot fathom the idea that the Rebels pose a real threat. But what makes him a little more nuanced than that is that he's the only Empire guy who takes Vader seriously. The other admirals are like "lol Vader dumb religion," but Tarkin instantly respects Vader's demand to fight Obi-Wan alone. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back What would Star Wars be if not for ESB? ANH is a lucky confluence of good and bad ideas, but ESB is the creation of men and women who actually knew what they were doing from the start. It's weird, it takes risks, and it ties everything together flawlessly. If ESB never existed, would Star Wars be remembered as another Alien or Terminator, where there are one or two good movies and a bunch of embarrassing crap attached? Like ANH, ESB does everything right. Aside from the question of Han Solo reaches Bespin without a hyperdrive (I still like joking about that), the script is perfect, the dialogue is tight, and the heroes... lose. And no matter what George Lucas claims, everyone knows that Vader being Luke's father was a decision made after ANH was filmed. What a ****ing genius move. That is the defining movie spoiler, to the point where any other movie twist is compared to it. Kettch I'd never heard of Kettch, but this is fine. This is the kind of silly EU stuff that's good. The idea of like friends having a silly running joke about an Ewok pilot and playing teddy bear-based pranks on each other is completely sensible and funny. The stupid Wookiepedia article goes too far and starts speculating about an unrelated sketch of an Ewok pilot from 1993 being retroactively assumable as one of the Kettch teddy bears the pilots play with, but the joke itself is good. --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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