what's up everybody today we're here to talk about a subject i actually haven't talked in quite a
while and that is something i really love which is star wars and the reason why i haven't been
talking a lot about star wars well it's because uh there isn't in a lot to talk anymore you know
after the sequel trilogy i mean i'm i was very pleased with the mandalorian if you guys were
here around my channel you probably saw all my mandalorian reaction i am still
happy with the mandalorian i think that should be the future of star wars going forward
but i do not like the newer films i was not a fan i was one of those fans that was
very disappointed to the point that uh star wars was just it was just not what you used to be
you know i felt that what was done with the newer films completely disrespected what george created
and uh i just could not connect with the newer characters there are some characters are still
like i like kylo ren perhaps because he's a real skywalker i liked rey at first but then
there was no hero's journey for her and she just became this boring character that
that gets nowhere and knows everything because she's just is a woman i guess i don't like that
kind of stuff you know especially when lucasfilm is always so preachy about diversity and and
women and female stories but they don't even know how to actually write and develop them and i think
that was the biggest problem with the whole new trilogy uh also the biggest problem was the fact
that a lot of the fans that were complaining about these films they were framed uh as misogynist as
uh yada yada this this and that uh you know because you're not allowed to complain about
our films as if they were this perfect entity uh and uh so i really did not like that and
that relationship i think i think it was a little bit uh not a smart move from lucasfilm you know
you should always listen to your fans i know there are people out there that really like these films
and i it doesn't really bother me that there are people that like other fans of the newer films i'm
not one of them but i i was really bothered by the way that lucasfilm reacted to the fans criticism
you know especially ryan johnson after the um after the last jedi so i'm i'm definitely uh
if you've been around here you probably know i'm not a fan of these films and i i watched it only
once when it came out and i don't even want to visit it again and that's not a good thing
for star wars fans and fandom in general however the mandalorian seems to be uh taking
into a different course i just hope that they don't really try to merge with the newer films
because even jj abrams now is admitting that they did not have a plan and this is something
that was so clear in the films i don't even know how many videos i made complaining about this
up to the point that i'm just i'm done complaining about star i'm just don't even want to talk about
it anymore that's how upset i was uh and i've made videos and so many people on youtube said
they've had no plans for these new films and this is a big mistake when we are dealing with
a franchise that has been around for 40 years you have all these fandom with all these fans
with expectations right we had a story that george gave us that even if you don't like the prequels
the story makes sense you know you can connect wow this is how it happened everything uh
everything is part of that story however when it comes to the newer films they bring palpatine back
and then anakin skywalker is not even involved even though he had already defeated palpatine
so all his sacrifice was pretty much disregarded because now rey needs to defeat palpatine and end
the whole thing and then she just calls herself a sky i just i really don't i cringe every time
i even think of these films you know and then when i thought well at least we'll have one skywalker
alive so they can uh continue the story or try to redeem them somehow and then they kill kylo ren
i know he wasn't a good uh the best character but he was the last skywalker and they killed them all
they kind of wanted to bury everything that uh belonged to george even though they bought the
franchise and they wanted to bring this forward so i felt like they disrespected the fans they
disrespected the story the legacy they just created a whole mess and this is just pretty much
confirmed by jj abrams himself you know we had daisy ridling talk really talking about uh they
you know making things up in on set not really having a plan they didn't really know and this is
what i don't understand because if you're dealing with a story that started uh so long ago right uh
how could you not really sit down and have an overall arc for how the three films should go
this is just unimaginable to me and this is all kathleen kennedy's fault you know like
her or hate her or admire her i just think that she does have a lot of accomplishments
but she messed up with star wars big time because she was probably more concerned about uh woke
stuff and and this this yeah the other stuff that i just uh the public is not really interested okay
i really love diverse characters and female stories but i really hate when they bring this
diversity that is so forced because they don't even know how to write it it's just there because
oh we have our token character here this is not really serving either parties and i really
it irritates me every time i see this stuff on uh films nowadays because our entertainment
in general because that's that's how it is nowadays unfortunately we can't get rid of it
but let's talk about jj gabriel's because that's what i wanted to address here
so i'm going to be reading from esquire article where he's saying jj abrams admit the obvious
disney didn't have a real plan when they made the new star wars trilogy ha duh we already knew that
uh i'm actually happy that jj abrams is actually talking about it i think that he always knew this
and uh i think that a lot of people i mean i don't hate jj abrams but i definitely do not trust him
anymore especially now that he's going over dc it makes me really nervous because i love dc i
love superman and i really don't want him anywhere near superman after what was done with star wars
or perhaps he's really learning from his mistake but at the same time i cannot really put the blame
fully on jj abrams because directors even though they have a lot of control they don't have full
control kathleen kennedy was the one in charge she should have been the one that demanded this
overall arc and story not just going with the flow that's not how filmmaking works and not giving
your main character hero's journey just destroyed the character and make made her unlikable and
boring you know we as human we connect with human stories that that's why luke skywalker represents
star wars way more than rey you know that's why people made such a big deal when luke skywalker
came back on the mandalorian season you know i was just blown away because ah that's star wars
that character represented everything we we we wanted to be with star wars it's not just about
gender or all of this it's just about this human character that struggled so much and the story is
amazing you know imagine when you find out your dad is just this psychopath and uh then you have
to steal you have love for him and you try to redeem him it's just an incredible storytelling
and then oops my phone is uh falling but i'm not gonna cut it let's just continue
but they uh they didn't do anything original with rey you know and i really hate that because then
they blame the fans that didn't like the films oh they don't like women i mean come on just
shut up but jj abrams kudos to you for admitting that you you know it's better to have a plan
but i i honestly just think that he's talking about this now because uh he's no longer under
contract it's been a while so now he's free to talk about it even though ryan johnson is still
being obnoxious about uh the last jedi you know he doesn't admit that that movie uh went into a
direction that shouldn't it was just did not serve the story in fact it just messed it up even more
so let's see what is jj abrams saying we also have a video that i'm going to react so let's
actually let's let's watch the video first and see what he's saying and then we check the article
okay two three and boom projects that have been um uh you know in most case series that have
ideas that begin the thing where you feel like you know where it's gonna go and then
okay sometimes it's an actor who comes in uh
other times it's a relationship that as it's written doesn't quite work and things that
you think are going to just you know uh be so well received um just crash and burn and other
things that you think like oh that's a little small moment that's a one-episode character
okay so i kind of see where he's going here because you know i think i've mentioned it
many times i went to film school i know very much how the film process works and yes that is true
sometimes you come in to set and you have a script but then an actor deliver a line in a certain way
that is just changes the whole thing so small changes like that i totally understand and i think
that's definitely something that you have to have some sort of flexibility but the problem with star
wars was not that it was just that the problem is that they despite the small changes they sh
they still should have known the main arc of the characters they should have known where
this starts and where this ends you know and the little changes in between that's totally fine
that's that's the process of filmmaking but not having a plan to what is going to happen to these
characters you know not knowing what to do with luke skywalker you're so afraid to deal with that
character because you wrote him off screen you know he put you put him out of the movie because
you didn't know what to do with him because he was overshining your precious ray that's lazy
filmmaking and that's just not creative you should it really annoyed me that we did not
get to see a reunion of these main characters and it's just never gonna happen unless they do
it in animation form because we don't have carrie fisher anymore but let's continue and i feel like
what i've learned as a lesson a few times now and it's something that good especially in this
uh pandemic year uh i wonder writers i wonder who was watching a lot of the rant youtube videos
about these star wars films i have quite a few of them you have to plan things the best you can
and good job and you always need to be able to respond to the unexpected and the unexpected
can come in all sorts of forms and i just i do think that uh you know there's there's nothing
more important than knowing where you're going and there are problems that i've worked on where hello
we had some ideas but we we hadn't worked through them enough we had some sometimes
we had some ideas but then we weren't allowed to do them the way we wanted to we had i mean
i've had all sorts of situations where um you know uh by the way guys that's the neighbor's
dog barking and it's funny enough every time i sit down to record he starts sparking
i think he wants to make a cameo appearance but let's continue you you plan things in
in a certain way and you suddenly find yourself doing something that's 180 degrees different um
and then sometimes it works really well sometimes just messing it up wow that really came together
and other times you think oh my god i can't believe this is where we are and sometimes when
it's without working out it's because it's what you plan and other times when it's not working out
it's because it didn't it's like you just you you never really know but but having a plan you know
i have learned in some cases the hard way um is the most you know critical thing because otherwise
you don't know what you're setting up you don't know what you're you know what to emphasize
because if you have the inevitable of the story you know you're just as good as your last
you know sequence or or effect or joke or whatever but you want to be leading to something inevitable
so there you have it so that's what jj abrams said when he was asked about the whole uh star wars
situation uh i did do i do not put all the blame on j.j abrams i think that kathleen kennedy was
the one in charge when you're is a an executive producer you pretty much can dictate whether store
is going to go and i think she just didn't care enough or had any sort of love for the franchise
to even care about the lore about what things i mean the force was this mysterious thing that you
it takes years of training and discipline for you to master and then suddenly you just have someone
that never trained you know is better than yoda that's an 800-year jedi you know uh you you and
you have these things that just doesn't make any sense such as lay a floating space it's just like
george lucas have said many times the force is not a magical trick but it just became this uh papadum
you know i was just expecting harry potter over there with the the one saying some magical spell
it was just a whole mess but i don't even think i need to get to the article to be honest because
this video of jj abrams says it all um this article on esquire that i was gonna
read is just kind of talking a little bit about johnson's direction on the last jedi which is why
i firmly believe took everything off trail uh but the biggest problem is that this ping pong this
this yeah they're they're playing like ping pong you know one director passing the the movie to
the other and that's not a problem as long as you have an overall arc for the charac for the
actors but jj abrams started a story sets things up and then ryan just came in and kind just uh
changed everything it seems like oh i don't like his script so i'm just throw that out and just
kill the characters off and just do something completely new uh and it was just not a and then
they brought james back to try to patch things up and it was just a disaster with the whole palpati
i just uh i i just can't it really makes me sad uh this is the that's the trilogy i do not have on my
collection i only have the original films i don't want to think about these films i have hope for
the mandalorian now especially with dave filoni taking a bigger role in the lucasfilm uh perhaps
they are listening to the fans because you know you need someone that understands it's kind of
a star wars geek to write star wars stories not only someone that likes star wars stuff because
a movie especially when you're dealing with star wars you already have very passionate fans and if
you don't respect the lore you can expect backlash but anyways guys that's the my take on the whole
jj abrams admitting finally that star wars did not have a plan uh but drop a comment down below let
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