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-Poe Dameron
TIL people actually quote the sequels. The PT was a hot mess with tons of issues but at least they are infinitely memeworthy; ST is just so incredibly forgettable and unmemorable..
ST is just so incredibly forgettable and unmemorable…
"The garbage will do"
Rey Skywalker
I literally don't know if this is a real quote and don't even have a guess what the context was. After Han's snippy remark about a trash compactor maybe? Idk
When Rey and Finn are running to find a ship off of Jakku and Rey calls the Millennium Falcon garbage, then the ship they wanted gets blown up so she says the above quote.
forgettable and unmemorable
Not true, I distinctly remember my hatred of the entire plot and progression of The Last Jedi and the ending of Rise of Skywalker.
The rest of it I don't know anything about but that's more likely because I've only seen each one once and never subbed to r/sequelmemes and have only played The Complete Saga LEGO Star Wars games.
Heh, I too vividly remember my disgust, confusion, disappointment, etc. But the movies themselves, I can barely remember anything. The structure was just so nonexistent, the plot so weak, the whole thing felt like a series of B plot vignettes duct taped together into one frankensteinian trilogy of nonsense.
Ok, I just remembered them riding horses on the hull of a star destroyer in orbit! Not sure how to meme that but there's something. And freeing those horses at the monte carlo casino (briefly before they got recaptured obviously)..oh and the part where the totally fucking ruined everything about space battles by telling us we could just be ramming capital ships and death stars with small objects going lightspeed.
Godamnit now I'm all freshly pissed off again, fuck I hate those movies so much lol
I decided to watch Rise of Skywalker, just so I could finish Star Wars and be done with. Halfway through I realised that I've already seen it but had forgotten. Just think, the culmination of Star Wars was so bad, that I couldn't remember watching it. I still can't remember anything about the film.
Somehow Star Wars Memes returned.
I hate the sequels but I'll allow it for the survival of the Jedi.
Differences?
Did you guys really have some kind of rivalry over meming?
You've taken your first step into a larger world.
Mostly in jest, but there were some pretty epic battles.
Honestly PrequelMemes is the largest subreddit I'd likely miss the most from Reddit. That and lotrmemes. It's good to see it's found a home here already!
Have you seen lotrmemes these past couple weeks? They're the most actively anti-protest sub I've seen, it's so bizarre.
I have not, aside from the story I've been following for a while on /r/HFY, I haven't actually used Reddit at all since that certain AMA.
Sad to hear that, especially with the amount of bots they have in the comments over there that would be affected. Though I vaguely recall the mods there actually don't like the bots anymore, so maybe that's part of it.
Maybe I can help you bond by saying that I think it was actually the Star Trek memes that was first.
Star Trek even has their own instance
WHAT WOULD PADME DO IF SHE WERE IN YOUR POSITION?!?!
Who needs memes when you have this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvlTVgeivU
"Midichlorian Rhapsody".
Holy shit. I'm posting and pinning this
To be united by hatred is... a fragile alliance at best.
~~I'm reasonably certain I'm butchering the quote, but oh well~~
(seriously tho, one more good thing to come over from That Old Site)
Honestly prequel memes started going to hell anyway. Everyone treated people who liked new stuff the same way prequel lovers were treated at their release. Simultaneously they were becoming blind to the issues with the prequels and unironically thinking they were perfect.
That's because it was prequel memes not sequel memes, and most people hate them because they're soulless Disney "content firehouse" cash grabs that render the OT moot as they retread it while simultaneously doing it worse.
The fan base wanted the prequels ever since the words "clone wars" crossed the lips of Alec Guinness. No one asked for the sequels because there was no untold story worth telling. Which is why they resorted to undoing everything Luke fought for so they could hamfistedly fuck it all away. Just slather it up in enough CGI and "fan service" (aka too lazy to write a plot, LOOK THE MILLENNIUM FALCON!) to make the Marvel generation cream their pants.
No one will look back fondly in 20 years on the sequels because 1. They're narratively destitute, the only thing they do well is look good, which cannot stand the test of time. 2. Disney pushes out content so quickly that they don't build things to last, they build them to keep you occupied until the next dose of content. This leads back to point 1.
It's hilarious how you're exactly the person I talked about and you don't even seem to realize it.
Oh no, I totally get it. I knew before I ever tapped out the response.
I just think the difference between sequel hate and prequel hate is the prequels are a good idea executed poorly and making fun of them is like watching a movie that's so bad it's good. Then you have the sequels which feels like watching a movie so bland it's not even worth calling "bad." It's like eating a bowl of oatmeal for every meal for months, here's another CGI ADHD explosion fest to keep you from thinking about the slowly crumbling world around you.
If you replaced "Jedi" with "superhero" it's unidentifiable from every Marvel shit show in the last five years.
It hilarious you think you're any different from the people who shit on the prequels when they first came out.
I believe it's different, everyone knew the kids raised on the prequels would feel nostalgic because they weren't in the internet age. The sequels were invented in a post-content world where everything is shiny, substanceless, and intended to be just good enough that they can be pumped out endlessly in a drip feed. The kids raised on the sequels will have so much from this era to watch that it'll get lost in a sea of mediocrity. By the time they're old enough to be nostalgic (which is one of the only reasons the prequels made a comeback) it won't stand out enough to have more than a niche following.
However, the prequels had an idea and stuck to that idea, that's what lasts. They were full of shit acting (mostly Lucas' fault), and shit choices (also Lucas' fault.) But they tried as hard as they could to give the rise and fall of Darth Vader a proper arc. I'll never say they were perfect or even good, but they had soul and you could tell.
It's funny, I watched my two favorite franchises Halo and Star Wars fall for the exact same reasons. Every installment in the trilogy felt like it was supposed to be the first because each one failed to set up meaningful threads and absolutely shit the bed on following through.