Reminds me of when Assassin’s Creed wrapped up the big modern day storyline they had been setting up for over a decade in a comic no one read
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And in the most sucky way possible, as I recall. Big Bad digital baddie who had spread through the web got a centralized human body, so they killed it
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Yeah that might be, Star Wars is pretty big when it comes to franchises and when those in charge makes a big point out of that everything is canon and that the saga continues in multiple formats, it carries weight.
It might be inevitable that contradictions will come, but when big story elements are explored and drastically changed to fit another format. To a point where it isn’t just a small change that can retrofitted is another issue. I prefer them being more mindful, rather then just spitting out content for the sake of content.
It makes anything outside the movies and shows feel redundant and carrying no real weight. Which is a shame for those who buys into the whole “it’s all canon” I did and I burned my fingers. Mainly due to nonsense story lines lol where Luke had 30 + plus additional adventures and went up against a sexy redhead space queen vampire.
This is why I determine canonicity based off of what is found in the mainline work first and foremost. It doesn’t matter what even the very creator(s) of the work may say in interviews or in their memoirs or whatever, it doesn’t matter what may be in some comic book spinoff billed as canon; if it’s not in the work, and particularly the mainline work, do not count it as canon until it is determined that it does not contradict what’s in the work. And if it does, discount it as a what-if alternate universe at best, officially published fanfiction at worst.
I can follow that train of thought and I have myself also applied it to Star Wars in terms of comics and books. The whole line of comics that follows Luke, Han and Leia between A New Hope and Empire Strikes back is too crowded and often dumb, I have chosen to disregard those. Where a majority of the Vader comics are well crafted and a good read.
Here I’m a loyalist to the creators vision. In the end it doesn’t really matter, it’s more about ones own experience. I can still enjoy Heir to the Empire and Knights of the Old Republic, even though they aren’t inside the canon timeline.
The creators often don’t even know or understand their own vision. They start the work before they’ve decided what certain things are actually supposed to be, they even change their minds about things as they go. And once their initial vision has been made real, the moment they keep going because it was well-received, it is no longer their vision. They already did that. Now they’re just cranking more out to keep it going, not even understanding what they’re doing with their own creation and just making up new stuff as they go. The biggest offender to that who I can name off the top of my head is Akira Toriyama and what he did with the DragonBall franchise. And that’s assuming it’s even just one creator or group of them, and not a constantly shifting, rotating line of new people adding their own ideas to something already established. Look at Marvel, DC, or Star Trek for examples of that. I hold ultimate authority to what is in the work, not who made it or why.
That train of thought I simply don’t agree with. The vision can change and adapt and to me that doesn’t lessen their creation or what they envisioned. Nor does it mean they don’t understand it, some might not. But honestly I find that to be bold and narrow view of their creation.
But it’s a consistent one. Creators who adapt their vision as they go never had a clear vision to begin with, and it makes them less reliable on determining what is canon, especially when what they initially envisioned is completed and they keep going. I have found this to be true across all fiction.
Doesn’t equal that they don’t understand their work. One might not have a clear vision of where it will lead them. Exploring it further doesn’t mean not understanding one’s own work.
We as fans might latch ourselves onto aspects of it. I rather have the creator completely ignore the fandom and follow the path they want wander. Not giving into our expectation. That’s how we end up with Rise of Skywalker.
Letting the creator go where they will is also how we end up with The Matrix Ressurections.
And I’m not saying every creator doesn’t understand their own work, but enough have shown that to be the case for me to conclude that they are not reliable as the source of final say on what should be considered true within the work 100% above all else. This most strongly applies when they keep going and adding to the work after they’ve done the part they set out to do. At that point, it’s no longer about their vision, it’s just about keeping it going.
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I would wipe everything Star Wars related from after the Disney acquisition. From the bad, the good and the great. Even Andor, the single best thing in SW universe since the Empire Strikes Back. Just to see George Lucas original idea for the sequel trilogy brought to life. Fully knowing that it might very well not be good. From his own outline, it would dive even deeper into the much hated midiclorians.
The idea of exploring his vision of where Star Wars should go is more interesting to me. Which is why I’m also a strong advocate for Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels, warts and all. It pains me that we never got a third prequel film from him.
I would actually very much like to see that myself. The midichlorians were a brilliant addition to the lore that fully explain how and why the Force is what it is while also allowing the events of Star Wars to actually exist within our universe rather than an alternate one, as it even explains why the Star Wars galaxy has the Force but the Milky Way does not. The midichlorians are the Star Wars canon’s unifying theory of everything, and all fans can do is whine that it means it’s not a mystical, magical source of power anymore… even though Obi-Wan and Yoda explained it in the first two movies in a way that already showed it wasn’t.
Finally watched Jurassic World Rebirth. Better than I expected it to be, and unlike all the callbacks to the first movie that the other World movies had, this one felt more authentic. It also had the most enjoyable and believable characters since the first movie, bar none. The dinosaurs didn’t feel any more real than they did in the last few, but that was almost beside the point. The dinosaurs weren’t really the stars in this one, the humans were, and somehow, they made it feel like that was right with this story. It also had very little of the whole humans making dinosaurs is wrong because we’re playing God thing going on. Now it was more about who science is supposed to benefit rather than if it should be done. Not original, but at least it was different as far as this series goes.
Over all, I’d rank this one squarely in the middle. Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Jurassic World all rank above it, in that order, Dominion, Fallen Kingdom, and III all rank below it, in that order.
So i saw Obsession.
Whoa. What a horror movie.
I loved the fact it uses a smaller boxy aspect ratio, as everything is framed so tightly together and made a lot of scenes feel unnervingly claustrophobic.
It makes great use of framing just enough of a main subject that you fear what might creep into the sides of it at any moment…
It didn’t take long for things to get spooky and hoo boy, Inde Navarrette did such a great job with it.
Her over-enthusiastic responses and mannerisms to convey her deep attachment Obsession with main character Bear were really well-crafted.
I read that the director told her not “to play as if posessed” but just incredibly invested in the relationship no matter what. Try faces in the mirror too, things like that.
It feels like a small-scale movie with big mysterious avenues it could pursue in the future with the Wish Willows – since with how heavily successful this movie is, I’m sure the studio will want a follow-up. Though I like where it stands as a scary-yet-blasé concept. The ridiculousness of the setup lends itself well to how fucked-up things get later.
It’s a twisted film that did a great job at being scary, had me tense with fear at times, even made me jump once (though that was an editing jumpscare, damn it) and tread the line between scary and funny with how over-the-top some of the scary reactions Nikki has when denied her one true love.
Great watch in a cinema, as tons of other people let out yelps and nervous chuckles at different moments. Also what an ending.
Don’t want to see this one again for a long, long, long, long time for sure. Yay yikes good job. 
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It’s a great, great movie. I’ve been following Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson for the past year or so. Love their skits on YouTube
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Just got back from watching Masters of the Universe. It was a confusing watch. The intro is cool, the bit on Earth goes on for too long and feels too silly in the wrong ways. Bits in Eternia drag on a bit as well, but somewhere around halfway to two thirds of the movie I just got invested, and then I just felt like it got better and better. By the end I was really happy with it.
I saw some worrying reports that the movie dealt with “toxic masculinity”, and I feared it was gonna be some cringy stuff, but i’d just say that it deals in what good masculinty is. There’s no sort of “ugh… men” kind of sentiment going on, just a sentiment of what is a healthy ideal for a man to strive for.
The movie isn’t a straight 100% adaptation of the cartoon (or any one interpretation), instead it takes from multiple sources and adds it’s own twists on it as well. I felt like it largely works.
This might be the first time in years that I’ve enjoyed Jared Leto in something. His skeletor is deliciously silly and over the top in all of the right ways.
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