A Spirited 15 Rounds ...

[HMF]

Hence why he walked away.
By George's own admission, he "quit the Internet" after reading reviews from the prequels.

Exactly!

 

[The_Jobu]

"quit the Internet"

By quit the internet, I'll take it he meant "laughing while rolling around in large piles of money".

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

By quit the internet, I'll take it he meant "laughing while rolling around in large piles of money".

I'm thinking of a Scrooge McDuck-style money pit!

 

[HMF]

By quit the internet, I'll take it he meant "laughing while rolling around in large piles of money".

Well, at least it's some compensation. In all seriousness though today's Disney Company wouldn't have let Walt Disney in the Company.

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Well, at least it's some compensation. In all seriousness though today's Disney Company wouldn't have let Walt Disney in the Company.

Saddest and yet most accurate quote ever.

 

[The_Jobu]

today's Disney Company wouldn't have let Walt Disney in the Company.

I don't disagree, I just fear you kicked a hornet's nest....

 

[HMF]

I don't disagree, I just fear you kicked a hornet's nest....

@WDW1974 has said the same thing multiple times.

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Well, at least it's some compensation. In all seriousness though today's Disney Company wouldn't have let Walt Disney in the Company.

Let's not forget, at one point, Steve Jobs was too extreme for Apple.

 

[HMF]

Let's not forget, at one point, Steve Jobs was too extreme for Apple.

Creative people are more difficult to control thus unpredictable and Wall Street likes predictability unfortunately we live in a world where the money people control the creatives where it should be the other way around.

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Creative people are more difficult to control thus unpredictable and Wall Street likes predictability

No doubt. Walt would walk into the office and immediately be branded a "risk". And we all know Iger is risk-averse.

 

[The_Jobu]

Well, at least it's some compensation. In all seriousness though today's Disney Company wouldn't have let Walt Disney in the Company.

I'm constantly in search of a better resolution copy print of this photo to frame in my office, but no luck yet. Love his expression.

 

[jakeman]

By the way, I asked Zahn if his stories were related to the stories Lucas had for the sequels and he wouldn’t discuss it but did tell me that there were certain guidelines he had to be faithful to.

They were not related.

The guidelines were very broad.

"Don't kill the Big Three."

And later after Kevin J Anderson's Young Jedi Knights debacle, "No Wookiee Jedi".

Lastly, he forced the EU to kill Anakin Solo because he didn't want awesome, heroic Anakin Solo confused with cardboard whiny Anakin Skywalker.

 

[AEfx]

You can’t criticize any lines in TLJ compared to previous Star Wars films and keep a straight face.

When I see this excuse I just shake my head, because it is the weakest argument for anything relating to the new films.

In this instance, because Lucas is widely acknowledged to be a crap dialogue writer, that we should continue to expect crap dialogue.

In any case, I'd take your challenge - Finn's "Chrome Dome!" line was just terrible. Besides the fact it literally was straight out of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", it also took me right out of the film, in the only good scene that Finn was in. Mentioning an Earthly material by name like that was just lazy and not-Star Warsy. And Lucas would have never done that.

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

When I see this excuse I just shake my head, because it is the weakest argument for anything relating to the new films.

In this instance, because Lucas is widely acknowledged to be a crap dialogue writer, that we should continue to expect crap dialogue.

In any case, I'd take your challenge - Finn's "Chrome Dome!" line was just terrible. Besides the fact it literally was straight out of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", it also took me right out of the film, in the only good scene that Finn was in. Mentioning an Earthly material by name like that was just lazy and not-Star Warsy. And Lucas would have never done that.

No...he would have just written another scene with Jar-Jar.

 

[AEfx]

No...he would have just written another scene with Jar-Jar.

Oh come on...we are talking about dialogue here. Don't move the goal post.

That said, I think Lucas atoned for Jar Jar pretty well, considering that it turns out to be him that is responsible for Palpatine's ultimate rise to power, LOL.

 

[The_Jobu]

No...he would have just written another scene with Jar-Jar.

Too soon bro, too soon...

 

[Hatbox Ghostbuster]

Oh come on...we are talking about dialogue here. Don't move the goal post.

That said, I think Lucas atoned for Jar Jar pretty well, considering that it turns out to be him that is responsible for Palpatine's ultimate rise to power, LOL.

lol. Jar Jar had dialogue though! Mee-sa don't know about you, but it was pretty cringe-worthy.

 

[AEfx]

lol. Jar Jar had dialogue though! Mee-sa don't know about you, but it was pretty cringe-worthy.

Sure, but he never said "Mesa love pizza with pepperoni!"

 

[invader]

Creative people are more difficult to control thus unpredictable and Wall Street likes predictability unfortunately we live in a world where the money people control the creatives where it should be the other way around.

Counter point, some of those creatives likely wouldn’t have the opportunities they do if it weren’t for the money people. Give & take relationships can be good.

 

[peter11435]

When I see this excuse I just shake my head, because it is the weakest argument for anything relating to the new films.

In this instance, because Lucas is widely acknowledged to be a crap dialogue writer, that we should continue to expect crap dialogue.

In any case, I'd take your challenge - Finn's "Chrome Dome!" line was just terrible. Besides the fact it literally was straight out of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", it also took me right out of the film, in the only good scene that Finn was in. Mentioning an Earthly material by name like that was just lazy and not-Star Warsy. And Lucas would have never done that.

I never said we should excuse or accept crap dialog. But to say that any dialog in the film wasn’t appropriate for the saga is laughable given the history of the films. They’ve been all over the place from iconic quotes to cringeworthy dialog to massive errors in continuity from the beginning.