Topic of the Week - Money Over Good Storytelling

The Rise of Skywalker was just recently released and it seems the grand opinion is of a mix bag of feelings to absolute hatred for what Disney labeled as "the end of the saga". The movie tries desperately to redcon The Last Jedi which made long time fans turn their back on the new trilogy in how it treated the series and the original trilogy characters. It was a mess to say the least and J.J Abrams was brought in to clean the mess that Rian Johnson created. However, the movie falls short in many ways by its desperate attempts to recreate old moments and change the story to almost eliminate The Last Jedi from the picture.

The movie itself is a tough pill to swallow for any Star Wars Fans. Hell, I feel like the prequels did a better job at telling a Star Wars story than the Disney branded Star Wars and thats where I want to talk about, the kicking of the dead horse. Star Wars is an amazing franchise and universe but Disney has ruined or rather put a sour taste in peoples mouth by it's recent features of the universe. You can hold baby Yoda all you want but it wont fix the other greedy crap they've done.

The story lacks heart or really good story telling. It heavily depends on recreating original trilogy moments as well as destroy the original trilogy characters to give foundation to the new characters. Not only that but they simply change the design of some characters or introduce new and shiny new armor, aka Capatin Phasma, to just sell toys. They also use it to push a political agenda which is annoying because sometimes you just want to watch a movie for a movie.

Nowadays thats tough because everywhere you look someone is pushing agenda. No longer are movies just creative ideas blossoming on the big screen. Instead you have greedy corporations that push their political money greedy agenda down our throats. It ruined many franchises and it seems like Star Wars is next in line. Hopefully fans outrage can turn that tide, but now it seems our only hope is no where to be found from preventing bland boring Star Wars films, something Star Wars wasn't created to be. This has been the Topic of the Week, thanks for reading. Ricardo signing off.