In a nutshell: Not Worthy of the name.
It's the worst kind of Mary Sue versus Severus Snape and Lord Voldemort, INNN SPAAAACE! Aside from teh obvious homage moments (including one I attributed to the non-SW Lucasfilm movie WIllow, of all things) it doesn't match up very well with the previous movies, and outright contradicts them in places.
Han is old enough to remember the Clone Wars for one thing, the most obvious of the lot. The destructive power of lightsabers is also suddenly and obviously nerfed for no reason except needing these characters alive and intact for more movies, to to point of not even being able to break skin on a direct hit.
The x-wing redesign is minor and nothing I can't live with, but most of the other new visuals - the new ships, especially - are generic at best, and while the Satellite of Love worked fine for MST3K that was because it was explicitly "just a show, I should really just relax," Star Wars has pretensions of being a functional IC universe, and the dogbone shape is just ridiculous in that kind of context.
Watching order remains 4, 5, 2, 3, 6, with TPM as a side story; TFA is bad fanfiction committed on film. Most of the SWEU was better than this, and coming from me that's saying a lot..
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
It's the worst kind of Mary Sue versus Severus Snape and Lord Voldemort, INNN SPAAAACE! Aside from teh obvious homage moments (including one I attributed to the non-SW Lucasfilm movie WIllow, of all things) it doesn't match up very well with the previous movies, and outright contradicts them in places.
Han is old enough to remember the Clone Wars for one thing, the most obvious of the lot. The destructive power of lightsabers is also suddenly and obviously nerfed for no reason except needing these characters alive and intact for more movies, to to point of not even being able to break skin on a direct hit.
The x-wing redesign is minor and nothing I can't live with, but most of the other new visuals - the new ships, especially - are generic at best, and while the Satellite of Love worked fine for MST3K that was because it was explicitly "just a show, I should really just relax," Star Wars has pretensions of being a functional IC universe, and the dogbone shape is just ridiculous in that kind of context.
Watching order remains 4, 5, 2, 3, 6, with TPM as a side story; TFA is bad fanfiction committed on film. Most of the SWEU was better than this, and coming from me that's saying a lot..
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows