To drive this point home watch this.
Within 10 seconds we have Leia s*** on hans ship(she busts his balls the entire time), like ten armored stormtroopers show up; Han shoots ONE and they all start running in the opposite direction while he chases them screaming like a mad man. He turns a corner to see like 50 troopers waiting for him and still shoots another one before he is shot at, escaping snd running backwards down the exact same hallway he just chased them down.
Now, some of yall forgive this, might not even remember it, because it's in the originals. If this happened in a modern stat wars show some of you would say its the dumbest thing ever filmed and you probably wouldn't even be wrong.
So where is the disconnect here? This is GOOFY ass s***, straight out of Looney tunes. This has been a part of the franchise since day one. Incompetent villains, visual and physical gag humor, and general silliness whilst trying to save a captured table from an imperial regime.
Why is it people are so cynical now that star wars being star wars is now anti star wars? Folks are s***ing on turbolasers, visual gags, and slapstick bit those are NOTHING new here. Some of you guys have rose tinted goggles, or have forgotten the target demographic of this franchise. It was THIS before it was ever gritty or serious.
Im with you, everyone has the right to like whatever they like. For me though in this example, this is the kinda of suspension of disbelief I can handle. Is this goofy and would Han actually get smoked here? Yeah of course. But it's not jump the shark levels of ridiculous, imo.
It's like ok, so we know Stormtroopers are incompetent. Hans going to startle them here and scare the shit out of them and get them running. Then they realize hes alone and so he starts running. Goofy sure, but not so insanely dumb its distracting. And the way its executed its actually pretty funny. People can get startled and freaked out for a second.
Theres a scene in Band of Brothers where this squad of American soldiers are trying to deliver a message to the other parts of the village and they have German soldiers in between them. They dont have any ammo, but the guy is like "They dont know that"... and he charges this German position while theyre eating or something screaming like a maniac and holding his gun up. All the Germans shit their pants and freak out and drop their guns and run or try to surrender... and the American dude just runs right past them untouched and delivers the message. I mean thats a stone cold serious WW2 series, but the scene still works.
And I dont even mean to say everything needs to be based on hyper realism... the context around the Star Wars example is way sillier than band of brothers, for sure. Im just saying that scene in Star Wars, while goofy, doesn't make me roll my eyes for being overly dumb. I still feel like Han can be shot and killed, he just got the drop on them and spooked them and a funny scene played out.
But now imagine that as they start to escape in the millenium falcon after that, all the Death Star weapons target them and unleash a massive laser barrage. Luke Skywalker goes out into space... stands on the top of the ship as they fly away, and deflects an onslaught of laser bolts as big as he is away with his lightsaber. Its just... odd lol. Doesnt fit the feeling of how the rest of the movie treats itself at all.
Maybe we just interpret it different and thats cool... but to me that is a far cry different than Han scaring stormtroopers. Thats next level ridiculousness and doesn't really play along with the rules they already established for their universe. And I feel like a lot of the Disney stuff starts to lean way more that way than the spirit of the originals.
Even just how they build out their basic logic trees of making a coherent story, even disregarding the actual moment to moment dialogue for a second.
OG: "We need to blow up the Death Star" -> "It seems impenetrable, we need spies" -> "Spies found secret plans" -> "We gotta steal those plans" -> "A strike team stole the plans" -> "We have a politician on our side, she'll deliver the plans under disguise" -> "We got the plans, we identified a weakness, lets attack"
Okay, fine. Makes sense. Seems logical enough for a military operation, Ill play along.
New Series: "We need to blow Death Star 2" -> "Finn - I WORKED THERE AS A JANITOR. THEY TELL JANITORS HOW TO BLOW IT UP."
I mean holy shit, we even trying anymore?
In my opinion.... its just way too dumb. Its just has a dumb and lazy overall aura to it that feels way inferior. And I dont think its rose tinted goggles cause I dont feel that way about all of it. I mentioned quite a few times that Andor and Rogue One I thought were great.
Back to the Jurassic Park example. Original Jurassic Park is a classic. Are we suspending disbelief... yeah for sure. We have fuckin dinosaurs running lmao. But people still act and behave somewhat like you might imagine if they were being terrorized by dinosuars. They can't physically compete with a dinosuar in hand to hand combat. Cause that would be dumb, even within this world we are operating in.
Flash forward to Jurassic Park 3. A 14 year old girl kills a velociraptor with a Gymnastics routine. BZZZZZZZZZT. Wrong. Dumb. We have flown past the acceptable limits. Shut it down. Lmao thats what we are dealing with now. Imho.
