https://staging2.theplaylist.net/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-20151222/ Fri, 13 May 2016 09:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-20151222/#comment-49634 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:28:59 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-95850/#comment-49634 Everyone in the Rogue One caption looks so dead serious, it makes me wonder if it\’ll have room for aliens and droids. However, I am excited in the Force-less direction it\’s undertaking, considering the ignorant assumptions that Star Wars cannot go without the Force, when Star Wars if far more than that.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-20151222/#comment-49635 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:28:59 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-95850/#comment-49635 The review in Disneyleaks is right on. This is the least imaginative or original Star Wars movie so far. It was just a scene-by-scene ripoff of the Episodes IV and V that was so predictable that any true Star Wars fan would feel let down that Disney decided only to reboot the original movies. It was a big disappointment.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-20151222/#comment-49636 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:28:59 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-95850/#comment-49636 The thing that confuses me most about ROGUE ONE is that it seems to be claiming ground already trodden by STAR WARS REBELS. One can see Ezra, Kanan, Sabine, et al going after the Death Star plans themselves. How could the two not overlap somehow? (It also begs the question of where REBELS is headed, given none of the characters show up in A NEW HOPE.)

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-20151222/#comment-49637 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:28:59 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/what-to-expect-from-the-star-wars-spin-offs-and-why-they-might-be-a-mistake-95850/#comment-49637 If franchises are an inescapable reality moving forward, at the very least the Star Wars franchise is willing to release content and tell stories that aren\’t essentially elaborately budgeted CW shows such as those from the Marvel-verse. Star Wars as a universe is probably more elastic than other franchises so hopefully they\’ll take advantage of that.

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