Leonard you are one of the few people whom I still respect even despite differing opinions because you would not become a lying piece of shit and for some reason and accuse me of being a Soviet sympathizer like Handsome Creepy Eel did, just because I like the show he pretends to dislike, despite me voicing opinions against socialism so many times in this forum.
I would therefore like to politely point out how wrong you are on most of what you wrote.
I actually saw original Star wars when I was an adult for the first time just when first prequel episode was. (Because I actually was born in the motherfucking Soviet union, experienced the long lines for food, which I disliked, and Star Wars were not part of my childhood). So as someone for whom Star Wars is not childhood nostalgia I can tell that prequels are actually even slightly better then originals. I liked prequels more. Only way how originals look better is trough prism of nostalgia, which most western fans have.
(05-19-2019 10:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: The Star Wars prequels were shit but they were shit in a way that kind of withstood the test of time where people looked back fondly at stuff like Jar Jar Binks and sighed "that whacky Lucas, what was he thinking?"
Jar-jar was goofy all right, but I didn't mind. Btw I always suspected he was a secret "drunken master" before I even heard of the Lucas confirmed theory that he is a Sith Lord. So sad that Disney dropped Jar Jar due to fear of stupidest of fans getting outrageous if he would appear again. Would love him to reveal his true Sith colors in movies. He is literally the master manipulator, amazing character.
(05-19-2019 10:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: The shitness became part of the lore. Dumb droids.
Dumb droids were invented in original trilogy. In fact the first twenty minutes or so of the very first SW movie is all about those annoying droids. C3Po and R2D2 nnoyed me much more then Jar-jar and they had much more screen time in original trilogy then in prequels.
(05-19-2019 10:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: Chinese bankers.
I didin''t notice any chnese bankers but the first prequel episode had an (((Toydarian))) merchant and slave owner. How cool and red pill was that?!?!?
(05-19-2019 10:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: Mitichlorins.
Mitichlorians are cool. What is the closest thing to a Jedi in a real world - a Yogi. And do you know what is the single most apparent biological difference between an advanced Yogi and a common omnivorous material person? Utterly different gut bacteria. SW got that one right. When you sun-gaze and start living of Prana and renounce foreign protein your gut bacteria and blood changes.
(05-19-2019 10:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: The franchise had a big enough engine to carry that trash. The new Star Wars trash fucks directly with the engine (kill beloved characters, fuck the remaining ones up, etc) which is why it stalled and crashed.
Yes Disney SW is atrocious by how it handles old beloved characters. I do not defend Disnay SW which is abysmal. I defend SW prequels which are awesome and GoT season 8 which is adequate (neither great but neither bad).
(05-19-2019 10:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: GOT doesn't have the franchise engine to carry this trash, clearly. I'm watching this from the outside and it's still obvious. Trash like the finale of Dexter was shrugworthy because Dexter wasn't epic. GOT raised the bar on expectations and then just faceplanted into it. Even if they simply coasted into a win for the heroes and prison for the villains then people mightn't have been hyped but they also wouldn't be calling it a shitshow. It would also leave the door open for a new series down the road.
To me this looks like a pretty clear cut case of two hack writers who can't hold a candle to the OG so in a narcissistic tantrum they decide to "burn the whole thing down" as it were, for cheap shock effect. The dragon burning the city is a pretty visceral indication of that.
Cannot comment on Dexter, didn't see it.
Dragon burning King's Landing has been foreshadowed since Season 1 when the mad king ( an ancestor of Daenerys) was killed because he kept giving orders "Burn them all". It's cool that it was not a wasted moment and that this burning actually happened. Were this just abandoned it would be a waste.
I liked the destruction of King's landing it was an awesome episode. Power, or more accurately the fear of loss of the power finally got to Daenerys and corrupted her.
Have you noticed how Cersei and Daenerys are so similar now - they both act more and more crazy the more of their children die. They both had 3 children. Their power rests on their children. For Cercei it's heirs and her power as Queen-mother. For Daenerys it's because her children are dragons, the most powerful military units out there. The more children they lose the more desperate and tyrannical they become.
I like this similarity. it makes them both really cool realistic female characters, not overpowered bland Mary sues like the new SW lead or captain marvel, but actual proper characters with depth and both light and dark side. I bet you critics of the show haven't even thought about it and didn't spot it, you just spot small errors to nitpicking and magnify.