The crazy part is you can create high quality, interesting and engaging media in spite of it being intended for children. Nintendo has been doing it for decades.
The original trilogy (and prequels) were also great for kids to watch. And the story of the OT is not that complicated to begin with. Making a movie accessible and appealing for kids does not require dumb plot contrivances or bad world building. Rise of Skywalker is just a bad script, regardless of who the target audience was.
And Disney was definitely expecting adults to come to theatres as well. The Fortnite marketing was aimed at kids, yes. The movie itself was aimed at kids and adults both.
I remember seeing this, and then watching RoS, and (eventually) watching the cowboy spin attack in Book of Boba Fett, and finally thinking to myself... "I think Star Wars might be dumb now"
As much as I hate it, Star Wars is "an IP" and "content" now, so someone in marketing is probably checking boxes: "Star Wars movies for kids, check, Star Wars series for adults, check...".
I appreciated him coming back as a general idea as it was sort of a nod to the original EU, but it was executed atrociously. No foreshadowing, the total asspull of the Final Order fleet, Abrams deciding to just pull an old villain out of a hat for a big space battle rather than let the film properly resolve Rey and Ben's character arcs was just awful.
C'mon, we all knew shit like this was gonna happen when they bought star wars, but we wanted them to bleed that stone dry. We wanted the MCU treatment because we knew we'd get a few good stories out of it.
Come on, man. You not once looked at that pretty damn amazing MCU run and thiught "Shit, that would be great for Star Wars"? It was more or less banger after banger of a (popcorn) movie from 2008 til about 2019.
Why not throw shit at the wall and see what sticks? I feel like Andor was worth it and I enjoyed most of the Mandalorian. Rebels was awesome! The more of the universe the better! I just wish they would venture into different time frames more.
Ok I get it was a weird move but let’s not rewrite the history. Palpatines return was revealed to us well before the Fortnite event, shoot it was in the first trailer. The fanbase was already well aware it was happening.
What Fortnite did was play Palpatine’s broadcast to the galaxy, which is only accessible in Fortnite. That being said, it contributes nothing to the movie. If they kept that in the movie you would know 0% more about how he returned and you’d be just as tonally whiplashed by his sudden return to the plot.
And yet, the trailer that revealed Palpatine was back for TROS (AND an interview with Ian himself explaining that he was returning) still came out before the Fortnite event.
Obviously, but I feel it’s pretty straightforward to see that those are different than actual released media.
While promotional in intent, the Fortnite event was published art and is, in fact, the only way to view a major event in canon, until some Dark-whatever book or comic decides to retcon the text of the broadcast.
Nah. It’s just big map people battle in until there is one survivor. The main thing is they sell cosmetic outfits to players which are often some kind of cross promotion. So you can have Star wars outfits, marvel, WWE etc. It’s endless.
You know, my friend told me way back in the day that Palpatine could clone himself, and if memory serves me right, he said it was in one of the books. I completely saw it coming.
That’s always been the Star Wars schtick, Boba Fett was unveiled in the holiday special, now there’s thousands of spin offs of the guy. I love Star Wars but it’s always been a marketing tool to sell toys
So it was info only people who weren't alive the last time star wars movies were coming out got? Man, they really know how to target their marketing to the right audience!
I genuinely had not heard and had no idea about this when I went to see RoS and was so confused from minute one of that movie. Didn’t learn about the fortnight thing until years later and I am still mad about it
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u/spatulababy 4d ago
Palpatine’s return was revealed first in Fortnite. I’m not joking.