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  • I had read almost every Star Wars novel on the planet, even the bad ones. I had played almost every Star Wars video game on the planet, even the bad ones. My understanding of Star Wars was that it’s a vast universe that enables the telling of all kinds of stories with slight magical and/or sci fi twists.

    When they announced that all those stories would be thrown away to make space for new ones I was slightly perturbed but was open to seeing what they’d do with it. After all they had plenty of examples to show them what not to do.

    Then they released a somewhat enjoyable movie with an imperial war lord (again) being controlled by some dark Jedi (again) using an even bigger deadlier superweapon (again). And they paired that up with an incomprehensible political landscape that makes absolutely no sense other than to press the good guys into an underdog role (again).

    Still, the movie was somewhat enjoyable. So I was ready to see what they had in store to tie all of that together. And then The Last Jedi showed that they had absolutely nothing in store. Nobody had thought of anything beyond that one movie. It was just a disjointed mess of wouldn’t it be cool if.

    The last one just cemented that feeling. I didn’t even bother to watch that one in theatre which turned out to be a good decision. They had thrown away thousands of pages of material to give us this mess. And they didn’t even acknowledge any wrongdoings.

    I watched the side stuff. The Mandalorian season 1 could still live outside of the rest of Disney. But with season 2 ever more connections crept in.

    I got so sick and tired of being reminded of what they had destroyed I couldn’t even enjoy the good stuff. I gave up on Star Wars. I’ll just play Jedi Knight, KOTOR and TIE Fighter forever.










  • I rewatched the old ones recently (and am currently watching the animated series from the 90s) and I honestly thought that the third one was the best.

    The first one took itself much too serious, tried to be super artsy and fell flat on its face. With the third one they at least dared to play around and have a little fun. That made all its shortcomings feel not so bad.

    But damn, the animated series is a blast. The first season isn’t that great but by the second season they had found their grove. The episodes where Superman meets Batman for the first time and one where he tries to save a man from a death sentence by doing detective work are especially good.






  • Meh, I don’t see this as a problem. People already crosspost into multiple relevant communities. If anything doing so with one post is a feature that’s missing from Lemmy/Piefed. Or is it missing? I’ll try posting into multiple communities after this comment.

    It seems to me that your problem is more aesthetic in nature. Maybe ask your favourite UI to make a feature to hide mentions and hashtags that are alone on their line.