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krpalmerAn announcement from Rick Worley that he was getting around to the “Part Three” of “How to Watch Star Wars” did excite my interest. He’d closed “Part Two” of his video series with a promise to next put together the publicly available scraps of what’s known about “George Lucas’s sequel trilogy.” Time has passed since then, but maybe that just gave the promise’s impending fulfilment more impact.
The video started by going back to the days of the first three Star Wars movies, when there might have been more of an expectation there would be “nine Star Wars movies” in the end. Worley argues that Lucas’s own comments on the matter then weren’t all that different from what was said in the twenty-first century, even with the rise of the continuation by other hands in other formats that turned into “the Expanded Universe.” He also deals with the scarcer hints of a full dozen Star Wars movies, including the undetailed outline included in “The Making of The Empire Strikes Back,” and suggests this wouldn’t have been a matter of “four trilogies.” Lucas’s comments get contrasted to those from several other people trying to set themselves up as authorities, or at least treated as that.
I suppose I have got to wondering if our best efforts to speculate what the “Lucas sequel trilogy” would have been run the same risk as too much speculation about “Episodes I to III” before the fact ran, namely that our speculations become “obvious” and get in the way of being able to think through and accept an actual reality that still might yet emerge. Worley’s arguments that the “Art of” books for some of the “Disney movies” include early art that illustrated Lucas’s further-ranging ideas seem easy to accept. His suggestion that Lucas’s comments in “The Star Wars Archives” that Luke would seek to recreate the Jedi just the way they’d been before, starting with young children cut off from external attachments, would just lead into having to start over from scratch in a different way with an older female protagonist whose parents are established from the start did have me pondering that certain problem with different people being able to be “saga-positive” yet dividing into “the Jedi were wrong” and “the Jedi were right.” Most of the other fans I was lucky enough to first find, who tended towards the first option, have vanished by now, which leaves me more exposed to fans who tend towards the second idea. I’ve made certain efforts to contemplate the potential virtues and necessities of stoicism, but it can also get to feeling like “in this engineered case...”
While this video was welcome and thought-provoking, it did start off with a comment or two about how a critique of The Force Awakens wound up being displaced to its own video “for later.” I don’t know when that “later” will be. Worley tossed in a few YouTube search thumbnails to show how late he already is to the critique game, and while I can see the definite unhealthiness of seeking out too many of those videos it just so happened I did recognise some of the thumbnails and even suppose one of them relatively positive. The question is whether there was some element of recommendation to the thumbnails or whether they just turned up first.
The video started by going back to the days of the first three Star Wars movies, when there might have been more of an expectation there would be “nine Star Wars movies” in the end. Worley argues that Lucas’s own comments on the matter then weren’t all that different from what was said in the twenty-first century, even with the rise of the continuation by other hands in other formats that turned into “the Expanded Universe.” He also deals with the scarcer hints of a full dozen Star Wars movies, including the undetailed outline included in “The Making of The Empire Strikes Back,” and suggests this wouldn’t have been a matter of “four trilogies.” Lucas’s comments get contrasted to those from several other people trying to set themselves up as authorities, or at least treated as that.
I suppose I have got to wondering if our best efforts to speculate what the “Lucas sequel trilogy” would have been run the same risk as too much speculation about “Episodes I to III” before the fact ran, namely that our speculations become “obvious” and get in the way of being able to think through and accept an actual reality that still might yet emerge. Worley’s arguments that the “Art of” books for some of the “Disney movies” include early art that illustrated Lucas’s further-ranging ideas seem easy to accept. His suggestion that Lucas’s comments in “The Star Wars Archives” that Luke would seek to recreate the Jedi just the way they’d been before, starting with young children cut off from external attachments, would just lead into having to start over from scratch in a different way with an older female protagonist whose parents are established from the start did have me pondering that certain problem with different people being able to be “saga-positive” yet dividing into “the Jedi were wrong” and “the Jedi were right.” Most of the other fans I was lucky enough to first find, who tended towards the first option, have vanished by now, which leaves me more exposed to fans who tend towards the second idea. I’ve made certain efforts to contemplate the potential virtues and necessities of stoicism, but it can also get to feeling like “in this engineered case...”
While this video was welcome and thought-provoking, it did start off with a comment or two about how a critique of The Force Awakens wound up being displaced to its own video “for later.” I don’t know when that “later” will be. Worley tossed in a few YouTube search thumbnails to show how late he already is to the critique game, and while I can see the definite unhealthiness of seeking out too many of those videos it just so happened I did recognise some of the thumbnails and even suppose one of them relatively positive. The question is whether there was some element of recommendation to the thumbnails or whether they just turned up first.