"Pick A Year You Cowards!" (Andy Greenwald, from The Watch podcast)
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This was just such a huge red flag when I watched it - like… this isn’t ancient history in-universe. This just fucking happened. And as far as we know, the NR isn’t doing the whole “un-history” bit that the GE loved to do in a lot of situations, so there’s no real reason why everyone here doesn’t know exactly when the “fall of the empire” started. It just smacks of incredibly lazy writing, and I’m extremely concerned about the precedent it establishes for the series.
And that’s without touching on the glacial pacing and fits of awkward acting.
I want to like it, but there’s just a lot of problems so far, and I’m not feeling terribly optimistic about how it will pan out.
At this point, you kinda just gotta accept that the galaxy in Star Wars just has an extremely short memory.
Jedi are legendary warrior-monks/peacekeepers/whatever in the prequels, but then 19 years later someone who was already alive during those times (Han Solo) claims to have been all over the galaxy and never heard of no Force.
That's like, idk, someone born in the 90s not knowing about 9/11
Or more topically, someone born in the 80s not knowing (or at least, not admitting they know) about Tiananmen Square… which is 100% a real thing in the modern world.
That's less topically.
If he had just said "several years ago" I'd get it. That's a massive political shift that didn't happen overnight, Battle Endor may have been the fall of the empire, but the Empire still existed. It took time for the New Republic to form and then wrest control.
In the same way that Rome didn't disappear overnight.
But because he said "on this day" it means this planet/sector has chosen a specific date, which would include a year.
It's by far the best Disney SW show. And it's not lazy writing to stop pandering to uhm akshually types, avoiding dates is important because allows the show to be in universe but not mired in it.
How can you call it the best show by far after 2 episodes? You think it is better than Andor or The Mandolorian?
Sorry I forgot about Andor which is also excellent. The others are all hot garbage.
You have shit taste in fiction if you "forgot" about Andor and think that the Mandalorian is hot garbage, child.
I loved Andor but life is kinda busy when you work fulltime. Lots going on. Mando started out great but ended pathetically, especially once it drifted into the rotting pile of shit that was Boba Fett.
I saw Star Wars in its first run at the cinema. I wish I was a child.
In some ways, it seems you still are.