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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Anyone holding out for universal agreement in a fanbase as large and diverse as Star Wars's will be waiting a VERY long time... I'd argue the more relevant point is the second one, that when the vocal Star Wars fans DO speak up about what they want what they're asking for usually lacks that all-important "general audiences" appeal... when it's not simply impractical or impossible. (For instance, doing away with the sequel trilogy.) I agree completely... but enough fans are into that kind of thing that it does demonstrably sell, though better practice would be to keep it to secondary media like novels and comics. 🤔
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    To be frank, I'm not sure that's necessarily true. On an individual level, many fans do seem to have a pretty clear idea of what they want from Star Wars. All you have to do is ask and many of them will tell you quite a lot about what precisely they want from it. They just can't manufacture a consensus because the fanbase is so bloody big and so heavily divided against itself. It surely doesn't help that what the die-hard fans want and what is actually marketable are often two very different things. Tales of the Empire is exactly the kind of writing which the franchise has historically used to pander to that die-hard crowd. Their whole "every single background character is the hero or villain of another story" schick is standard expanded universe writing and something that Star Wars frequently indulged in before Disney. So much so that even a filthy casual like me had one or two of the "Tales of ______" books. It might be weak writing to general audiences, but to the die-hard fans it's continuity porn.
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    The obvious problem with that idea being that "stupid" is a highly subjective value judgement. A sufficiently skilled spin doctor can make even objectively unsound ideas sound brilliant... and with enough polish, ideas that started out sounding completely imbecilic when they were first proposed can be refined into something genius. Star Wars itself started out as the latter case. George Lucas's original concept for it was a complete trashfire, and with a truly gargantuan amount of patient refinement it was turned into one of the most iconic films ever made. Considering that the usual Star Wars story format is either a simplistic "Good vs. Evil" narrative about the eternal conflict between incorruptible pure pureness and baby-eating complete monster villainy or a side story that takes the form of a string of interstellar fetch quests, I'd reckon Star Wars could do with a bit of complexity in its life like what we got in Andor. Not that I think we'll get that from The Acolyte, since the Jedi and Sith live in a world of moral absolutes and the Dark Side seems to run on motive decay and encourages jumping off the slippery slope. FWIW, it'll be damn pretty to look at and the fight choreography is going to be very solid.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, the end of the promo reel was that trailer... So we got that full fight scene, and then we got the trailer that was using the footage piecemeal.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    So... I just got back from the 25th Anniversary re-release of The Phantom Menace and got to see the promo reel they had for The Acolyte after the film. The promo reel was... All in all, pretty to look at but not very substantial. It's not enough to give a real impression of the series proper but it doesn't give me much hope for the show's writing.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    So... if there's a Most Improved award for an anime season, HIGHSPEED Etoile might be in the running. The director and animators seem to have finally figured out how to animate a race in an exciting and visually appealing manner. If everything else weren't still horrible, I'd almost believe it was a completely different show. It's not exactly a dignified plot twist that the protagonist Rin Rindo suddenly goes from propping up the bottom of the rankings to the middle of the pack as a result of...
  7. Seto Kaiba
    The fatigue is indeed real. Your example is a fantastically appropriate one. The Star Wars franchise is encountering exactly the same kind of audience fatigue that Star Trek did in the late 90's and early 00's, and the Disney execs overseeing it are making the same mistakes that the Paramount execs who flew Star Trek into the ground did. They have a formula that worked well and are unwilling to consider deviating from it even as it becomes increasingly stale and uninteresting. They've got an enormous and highly versatile setting but a very narrow view of the kind of stories that are appropriate to tell in that setting, Maybe the Star Wars writers feel hemmed in by the second word in the title... everything has to come back to a war. (Not that Star Trek learned its lesson either... they just waited until the fatigue wore off and went back to doing exactly what they were doing before.)
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Well, after seeing this new trailer, it definitely feels like The Acolyte is headed into Plot Hole: the Series territory. We'll know for sure in a month, though. Except, of course, for any characters appearing in later titles... e.g. Yoda. They're perfectly safe.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    My money's on them going for "Little Horus" Aximand instead. He too has a miniature, but unlike Garvi he stays with the Sons until his death during the Siege.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Considering his role in the story, I doubt Garvi's going to show up as part of the Joytoy Sons of Horus line. He only spends the first three books of the sixty-four book Horus Heresy series as a member of the XVI Legion. Most of his appearances in the series are as one of Malcador's Knights Errant, the Legion-less group of Astartes that carried out various special operations on the Sigilite's orders and later... ... shortly before the start of the Siege of Terra. It was only after the Knights Errant were disbanded that he started painting his armor again, and went back to using the colors of the pre-Heresy Luna Wolves during the Siege. If a Garviel Loken figure is coming, it'll probably be either in the Knights Errant marking-less gray armor or in old Luna Wolves white.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Started Mushoku Tensei today while I was dogsitting. Ended up marathon-ing about 14 episodes of it. It's not a bad series by any means, but it does lose me pretty reliably every time Rudeas starts perving on an underage girl... which is distressingly frequent. Thus far, I'm feeling like the series is a more-or-less capably written isekai story with an engaging plot and some likeable characters that's mainly brought down by its protagonist's whole family being slimeballs.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    It's true. Sony's press release from after the acquisition of Crunchyroll was finalized in 2021 stated that they intended to merge the Funimation and Crunchyroll streaming libraries, and they confirmed about six months later in Q1 2022 that all of the different anime streaming services under their banner (Funimation, Wakanim, and VRV) would be consolidated into Crunchyroll. They started merging the streaming libraries shortly after that announcement and AFAIK they finished merging the libraries months ago. The last few months the news has been all about merging user accounts for people who'd had both services, but that finished for all outstanding accounts weeks ago and they've shut down the Funimation servers as of April 2. That said, Funimation stopped adding new titles to their catalog around the time the acquisition was finalized. I'm pretty sure they didn't have MOSPEADA on their service when the catalog was frozen. It may be something they've picked up recently as an addendum to having the rights to Robotech delegated to them by Harmony Gold a few years back.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Not surprised it's the same transfer from the DVD release in the 2000s. There would've been a lot more fanfare if they were going to remaster the series again. Still, it's nice to have it available. I'm surprised it took this long for it to land on Crunchyroll since Funimation's been dumping most of its back catalog there with little-to-no notice.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    Starting Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master... it feels like it might be a very similar series to The Raven of the Inner Palace, which would be quite welcome. (If nothing else, there's certainly a fair bit of courtly cattiness in the first part of this medieval fantasy series...)
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Proudly representing the Commorragh Chamber of "Commerce" since 3rd Edition! Picked up Necrons for a bit after they were first introduced, but never updated to the "Newcron" range when they graduated to being Space Tomb Kings because I didn't enjoy their ruleset as much.
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