I just saw Solo
Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 1:02 am
I just saw Solo, I Enjoyed it. There’s a lot of emotional reaction to it.
As a young person I was always more of a Trek Fan than a Star Wars fan, even though I was very much a fan of Star Wars growing up, I always Saw Star Wars as more Cartoony.
As an adult, I can see that indeed, Star Wars WAS intended to be a less serious space adventure. I can also see that Star Trek often fails in it’s goal to be Hornblower meets Gulliver’s Travels in Space.
So I have never been as emotionally invested in the lore of Star Wars. I think this allows me to view Modern Star Wars Films in a different, less critical way. It’s Flash Gordon Part 23. It’s Buck Rogers with CGI.
It was always MEANT to be a fun popcorn movie, not anything so serious.
Like Star Trek, I approach star Wars as a Buffet. “How could I use this in a daydream> how could I use this in a fanfic? how could I use this in a RPG?”
And that allows me to bypass Dumb stuff and stuff that didn’t work.
I think an argument could be made that it leaves me too uncritical, since I am not going to pnd a lot of tim disapproving of elements I won’t be using anyway.
One big example is starship Fuel. It has been a MacGuffin in the last two star Wars films.
In Jay-SW, the ships do not use fuel. They use (magical) Zero Point energy generators. I made this element up in my head to explain why from 1977 until 2017 it was NEVER mentioned.
I actually made this idea up in the early 1990s when my brain decided I needed to make up Jay-SW as a role playing setting. Not because I had any intent at that time, just because my brain works that way.
So when, in TLJ or Solo, it becomes a plot point My brain goes “Oh, okay, for this story, that’s an important thing to these characters, but I won’t worry about it in my telling.”
And I don’t get upset about it because it’s not my problem
As a young person I was always more of a Trek Fan than a Star Wars fan, even though I was very much a fan of Star Wars growing up, I always Saw Star Wars as more Cartoony.
As an adult, I can see that indeed, Star Wars WAS intended to be a less serious space adventure. I can also see that Star Trek often fails in it’s goal to be Hornblower meets Gulliver’s Travels in Space.
So I have never been as emotionally invested in the lore of Star Wars. I think this allows me to view Modern Star Wars Films in a different, less critical way. It’s Flash Gordon Part 23. It’s Buck Rogers with CGI.
It was always MEANT to be a fun popcorn movie, not anything so serious.
Like Star Trek, I approach star Wars as a Buffet. “How could I use this in a daydream> how could I use this in a fanfic? how could I use this in a RPG?”
And that allows me to bypass Dumb stuff and stuff that didn’t work.
I think an argument could be made that it leaves me too uncritical, since I am not going to pnd a lot of tim disapproving of elements I won’t be using anyway.
One big example is starship Fuel. It has been a MacGuffin in the last two star Wars films.
In Jay-SW, the ships do not use fuel. They use (magical) Zero Point energy generators. I made this element up in my head to explain why from 1977 until 2017 it was NEVER mentioned.
I actually made this idea up in the early 1990s when my brain decided I needed to make up Jay-SW as a role playing setting. Not because I had any intent at that time, just because my brain works that way.
So when, in TLJ or Solo, it becomes a plot point My brain goes “Oh, okay, for this story, that’s an important thing to these characters, but I won’t worry about it in my telling.”
And I don’t get upset about it because it’s not my problem