tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post7378962689822301845..comments2024-03-25T21:14:49.666-04:00Comments on Joel Swagman (Reviews / TESOL): Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-17170968818668389662017-08-07T01:19:47.984-04:002017-08-07T01:19:47.984-04:00I've been enjoying Star Wars Rebels myself.
...I've been enjoying Star Wars Rebels myself. <br /><br />Although after watching that Youtube video, they talked me into believing that maybe actually Star Wars Rebels was pretty awful.<br /><br />Although after reading your comments, I'm back to your side again. <br /><br />I suppose I'm easily persuaded.<br /><br />But yeah, agreed. It's pointless to complain about Stormtrooper ineptitude. The whole reason Stormtroopers exist is to be inept.<br /><br />And tonal inconsistencies are also pointless to complain about.Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-17584998829273687982017-08-04T15:26:14.867-04:002017-08-04T15:26:14.867-04:00I'm not going to take him on point-by-point, b...I'm not going to take him on point-by-point, but I will agree Clone Wars is the better series and that much of why we watch Rebels is to catch up where we can with characters in the CW timeline. But kvetching about Stormtrooper ineptitude? Man, that horse left the barn so long ago the barn is gone and the horse is dead of old age. If tonal inconsistencies are any sort of impediment to enjoyment there's very little to be said for watching anything Star Wars related.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-8472285757065125752017-08-04T10:38:04.448-04:002017-08-04T10:38:04.448-04:00I suspect that the first video is probably based l...I suspect that the first video is probably based largely off of The Making of Star Wars. (And even if it's not, it's at least a sure bet they contain the same information.)<br /><br />As you point out, we have indeed been over this ground before. But oh well. (Truth is, I've only got so many subjects in me, so I keep returning to the same points over and over again on this blog).<br /><br />Just saw this video the other day arguing that SW Rebels isn't a worthy successor to Clone Wars? <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvwNgtAR8cE<br /><br />Your thoughts?Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-68164211291477303802017-08-04T08:15:32.357-04:002017-08-04T08:15:32.357-04:00Well, I shall join you in beating one or two dead ...Well, I shall join you in beating one or two dead horses here -- and odds are pretty good I'll watch at least the second video in this series. I read <i>The Making of Star Wars</i> some years back (I was wracked with pneumonia, so <a href="https://whiskyprajer.blogspot.ca/2007/06/books-from-bottom-shelf.html" rel="nofollow">my commentary</a> was less than illuminating) and was impressed with just how gargantuan the odds were against <i>Star Wars</i> being anything but a quickly-forgotten cinema footnote (akin, perhaps, to Jodorowsky's <i>Dune</i> -- except that he took the impetus of Lucas' success and ran with it, until he couldn't). The book is HUGE and probably supplies the bulk of the material for your video commentator.<br /><br />I think I've said it before, but without Ralph McQuarrie SW would never have been anything but unintelligible scribbling in a forgotten red notebook. Studio powers looked at McQuarrie's work and wanted to see what that might translate to on the big screen, and Lucas had the zeal to pull together the team to do it (though he had no idea just how difficult that would be, I think he was akin in spirit to Walt Disney in that he forgot about the difficulty (and expense) when he got his hands deep into the machinery of making the illusion).<br /><br />I'm also of the school that thinks Lucas' vision is most seamlessly achieved in the various TV spin-offs we've enjoyed over the last two decades. <i>The Clone Wars</i> and now <i>SW: Rebels</i> are punchy, episodic serials that truly fulfill the vision Lucas initially had, much better than Lucas was ever able to. They're written for younger audiences, but as Lucas never tires of pointing out, so was <i>Star Wars</i>. And they work, although not on the silver screen scale that Lucas initially managed. And that's not a bad thing, I'd say. If the movies ever marry the nuance of the TV shows to the spectacle of the silver screen, we might all be surprised. But I'm not holding my breath.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.com