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Topic	Anagram Ranks Anything Star Wars-related with a Write-Up (spoilers)
Anagram 10/21/20 7:07:54 PM #389:	General Veers General Veers is unremarkable on his own, but he is part of ESB's silliest scene. He's the guy in the AT-AT walker who Vader calls on the hologram, and Vader's hologram is like six inches tall, like it's some kind of action figure. There's a reason why Palpatine and Snoke's holograms are filmed from low angles, and why both of them are always filmed head-on: Tiny things come across to the audience as inherently comical. That moment, when Vader is a tiny hologram, is so silly-looking. It's extra confusing, because we've established the video screens exist in this universe. Vader could just use one to contact Veers and it would look fine. Duck Vader I remember nothing about Tiny Toons except the opening lyrics "We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little loony." That said, imagine being George Lucas. You slap together a robot-y-looking samurai costume for your villain, and it becomes so iconic that it becomes shorthand for villains everywhere, to the point where it shows up in Tiny Toons. Pretty impressive. Star Wars Sound Effects I'm gonna say it: Star Wars has the best sound effects of any Star series. Star Trek is good and all, but nothing touches the lightsaber vwooshes, and probably nothing ever will. Blaster sound effects are also top-notch, as are the general spaceship movements. And if Darth Vader's breathing counts, then that by itself wins everything. Don't get me wrong, I love transporters, phasers, and warp drive hums as much as anyone, but I'm going with Star Wars here. Cara Dune We know what Luke can do, we know what Han can do, but the Mandalorian is just better than Cara at everything except maybe sniping, so she comes off as kind of just another pair of hands in practice -- which is fine, not everyone is a legendary warrior. She's a perfectly acceptable tough guy character. As an ex-soldier who's just looking for the quiet life, it's a little odd how she basically makes no attempt to be a normal person even once she joins that farming community, but it's fiiiiine. Dune Star Wars and Star Trek are the defining sci-fi works. Each of them ripped off another idea from about twelve years before -- Dune for Star Wars, Forbidden Planet for Star Trek. It's funny, too. Dune and Foundation are basically the building blocks for what Star Wars and Star Trek did, but the influences from Dune are way more obvious. Imagine if Lucas had instead mined Foundation for material, with its complete disregard for exciting action and preference for scientists and politicians who solve their problems with extremely verbose logical reasoning. I've only read the first two Dune books, but I know what happens afterward. I can confirm that the first two books are really good examinations of what happens when people take hero-savior figures too far and stop thinking for themselves. In any case, Dune is way smarter than Star Wars, and Foundation is smarter still. Speaking of which, the upcoming Foundation TV show looks terrible. Dune is sort of inherently unfilmable, but Foundation is even more unfilmable. Guaranteed one-to-two season run. Wilhelm Scream Sorry, but no. Whenever I hear a Wilhelm scream in a movie, it just takes me out of things. Cad Bane As I said before, I think Star Wars benefits from a very clear distinction between the magical mystical elements and the normal physical world stuff. Having a bounty hunter who specializes in fighting Jedi, who packs special anti-Jedi equipment, takes away from that. I'm not a fan of the general Wild West aesthetic, either. It makes sense in the context of living in a giant open plain or whatever, but in space? Having a long trench coat and wide-brimmed hat would just get caught on stuff all the time. And before you say that Jedi have robes, again, they're like magical mystical guys, so it's fine for them and only them. AT-ATs I could have sworn I already did these? They're great! They're basically just space tanks. The Empire needs a way to fight on the ground, so it makes complete logical sense that they would have some kind of mobile heavy artillery. Instead of just making a hovertank or something (which is what Warhammer 40K does with the Eldar), we have giant walking animal-shaped things? Cool. Single Biome Planets Yeah, yeah, okay. It doesn't make sense, but ** it, everyone loves these, and the cultures of planets don't matter in Star Wars as much as the vistas, so I'll give them a pass. That said, some vistas are inherently more exotic and cool than others. Deserts? Cool. Tundras? Cool. Redwood forests? Not exotic enough. Although I live in California, so my opinion may be biased. Harrison Ford Insulting Lucas' Writing** As a kid, I knew that Harrison Ford and Sir Alec Guinness hated Star Wars. I didn't understand how they could hate something so amazing! As an adult, I completely understand and respect their perspectives here. Star Wars' success to me comes off as almost a complete fluke, and I think Harrison Ford knew that from the start. Let's be real, here, RotS' dialogue isn't that much worse than ANH's, Lucas just had better actors and way more luck to compensate for his bad writing. --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005 <cite>Anagram posted [p:946130262] in Anagram Ra... [t:79033688]...</cite> <quote>General Veers General Veers is unremarkable on his own, but he is part of ESB's silliest scene. He's the guy in the AT-AT walker who Vader calls on the hologram, and Vader's hologram is like six inches tall, like it's some kind of action figure. There's a reason why Palpatine and Snoke's holograms are filmed from low angles, and why both of them are always filmed head-on: Tiny things come across to the audience as inherently comical. That moment, when Vader is a tiny hologram, is so silly-looking. It's extra confusing, because we've established the video screens exist in this universe. Vader could just use one to contact Veers and it would look fine. Duck Vader I remember nothing about Tiny Toons except the opening lyrics "We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little loony." That said, imagine being George Lucas. You slap together a robot-y-looking samurai costume for your villain, and it becomes so iconic that it becomes shorthand for villains everywhere, to the point where it shows up in Tiny Toons. Pretty impressive. Star Wars Sound Effects I'm gonna say it: Star Wars has the best sound effects of any Star series. Star Trek is good and all, but nothing touches the lightsaber vwooshes, and probably nothing ever will. Blaster sound effects are also top-notch, as are the general spaceship movements. And if Darth Vader's breathing counts, then that by itself wins everything. Don't get me wrong, I love transporters, phasers, and warp drive hums as much as anyone, but I'm going with Star Wars here. Cara Dune We know what Luke can do, we know what Han can do, but the Mandalorian is just better than Cara at everything except maybe sniping, so she comes off as kind of just another pair of hands in practice -- which is fine, not everyone is a legendary warrior. She's a perfectly acceptable tough guy character. As an ex-soldier who's just looking for the quiet life, it's a little odd how she basically makes no attempt to be a normal person even once she joins that farming community, but it's fiiiiine. Dune Star Wars and Star Trek are the defining sci-fi works. Each of them ripped off another idea from about twelve years before -- Dune for Star Wars, Forbidden Planet for Star Trek. It's funny, too. Dune and Foundation are basically the building blocks for what Star Wars and Star Trek did, but the influences from Dune are way more obvious. Imagine if Lucas had instead mined Foundation for material, with its complete disregard for exciting action and preference for scientists and politicians who solve their problems with extremely verbose logical reasoning. I've only read the first two Dune books, but I know what happens afterward. I can confirm that the first two books are really good examinations of what happens when people take hero-savior figures too far and stop thinking for themselves. In any case, Dune is way smarter than Star Wars, and Foundation is smarter still. Speaking of which, the upcoming Foundation TV show looks terrible. Dune is sort of inherently unfilmable, but Foundation is even more unfilmable. Guaranteed one-to-two season run. Wilhelm Scream Sorry, but no. Whenever I hear a Wilhelm scream in a movie, it just takes me out of things. Cad Bane As I said before, I think Star Wars benefits from a very clear distinction between the magical mystical elements and the normal physical world stuff. Having a bounty hunter who specializes in fighting Jedi, who packs special anti-Jedi equipment, takes away from that. I'm not a fan of the general Wild West aesthetic, either. It makes sense in the context of living in a giant open plain or whatever, but in space? Having a long trench coat and wide-brimmed hat would just get caught on stuff all the time. And before you say that Jedi have robes, again, they're like magical mystical guys, so it's fine for them and only them. AT-ATs I could have sworn I already did these? They're great! They're basically just space tanks. The Empire needs a way to fight on the ground, so it makes complete logical sense that they would have some kind of mobile heavy artillery. Instead of just making a hovertank or something (which is what Warhammer 40K does with the Eldar), we have giant walking animal-shaped things? Cool. Single Biome Planets Yeah, yeah, okay. It doesn't make sense, but **** it, everyone loves these, and the cultures of planets don't matter in Star Wars as much as the vistas, so I'll give them a pass. That said, some vistas are inherently more exotic and cool than others. Deserts? Cool. Tundras? Cool. Redwood forests? Not exotic enough. Although I live in California, so my opinion may be biased. Harrison Ford Insulting Lucas' Writing As a kid, I knew that Harrison Ford and Sir Alec Guinness hated Star Wars. I didn't understand how they could hate something so amazing! As an adult, I completely understand and respect their perspectives here. Star Wars' success to me comes off as almost a complete fluke, and I think Harrison Ford knew that from the start. Let's be real, here, RotS' dialogue isn't that much worse than ANH's, Lucas just had better actors and way more luck to compensate for his bad writing. --- Not changing this sig until I decide to change this sig. Started: July 6, 2005</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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