I’m voting Mike for his anti old people policies. Plus I think he’s more ruthless and arbitrary than Rich and that’s what I’m shopping for. Plus he already seems to be in charge.
@@migarsormrapophis2755 Star Trek is absolutely chock full of politics and always have been, idk what youre going on about. Also the Jedi have always sucked and been part of the problem.
It really is very funny that the best the Picard writers could do to "hold up a mirror" to modern issues was to teleport the characters to the modern day and have them shake their heads so we know they disagreed
It's just all intent with literally no cleverness to it. They could have just taken us to a planet with alien racism and been like "Yeah, the government is breaking up families of these squid mask wearing Halloween store costume aliens! That's bad, but let's not do anything about it." And then they'd leave without fixing things like every other TNG episode, lol!
The ultimate irony of these cultural vandals... they want to insert their characters in front so they can claim to be the 1st. Well..... now you have the issue where all this diversity is in charge and it's all going to shit. Then when you hit the OG show none of this exists... meaning at some point in time everyone got sick of their problems and solved it by removing all these DEI hires......
I just realised that Rian Johnson tweeted about how he loved and feared RLM before The Last Jedi came out. And Rich Evans came up with the idea for Luke giving up on the Jedi in 2015. Clearly Rian Johnson stole all his ideas from that predictions video. So in summary: Rich Evans ruined Star Wars.
I really feel for Mike having to defend himself on camera against people who genuinely believe he convinced George to sell to Disney due to the Plinkett reviews. @@jon4715
Plus, Rich often wears blue shirts. Blue shirts, like the blue milk. Combined with that "Half in the Bag" bit about Rich's "man milk", this clearly inspired Rian to bring back the blue milk.
I will never ever get tired of RLM cutting to random Star Wars theme park actors dancing to pop culture music to emphasize how much of a marketable, product pushing sh*tshow this franchise has been over the years.
I watch RLM instead of going to the cinemas, saves me on tickets, travel and concessions. I end up just as disappointed without having to leave my couch.
In all honesty it is true, this is something that has been said in the Video Game industry for decades, the point of art is to cause emotion in the audience so something bad is still better than something that elecits apathy cause the bad thing will at least make you angry, which is a prefereble emotion to indifference.
My favorite part is that every time they do, they say literally the same thing they did the time before. It's like they put in the "explain why ghostbusters is good" casette and go for a smoke break.
Same here. And then all of the people who suddenly were die hard fans since childhood, who used to make fun of me for liking Star Wars, once the prequels started coming out. Like I knew people who read the books and stuff. I just couldn’t get into them.
The fact that the show introduces a Wookie Jedi, who we never see fight anything, and when it is time for their big showdown we find them already dead is beyond hilarious to me.
26:20 "She's married to the lady with the bald, green head," is a very kind way to say "She gave her wife a speaking role in Star Wars, because she's her wife."
I kinda liked him in the past as an entertainer with G&S stuff and also his talk about his mental health issues. He is some guy so obviously one does not need to agree on all his opinions but on the roleplay shows he could be entertaining and had some interesting talks. But now he seems to really seem manic on these interview roles and it feels like he is desperate to make money for his family. It does not feel good even to hate on him and more like he needs help.
@@TheKrunchyI have trained a neural network on hours of Will Wheaton voice clips and given it control over my computer’s volume control to mute the speaker within a fraction of a second whenever Will Wheaton, in any one of his incarnations, starts to speak.
Even wiser man said "Don't nitpick new shows with complaints you forgive the originals for and claim to be "just asking questions". If new star wars sucked so bad the haters would not need to buy thousands of credits on GPT to post fake 1 score reviews. Star Wars didn't change, you all did, and that is OK. Watch rebel moon or something for all we care, this anger at stuff you claim you no longer like or care about is kind of pathetic and tiresome those of us who just like Star Wars.
@@sheildingepicness There is nothing leftist about corporate DEI. They've even started dropping the E, in emails at my company they've started just calling it DI, Diversity and Inclusion. Why drop the equity part? Because equity means paying people decent wages, giving women maternity leave and making sure employees can have a healthy work-life balance. It doesn't cost a single damn cent to be diverse and inclusive and everybody knows it. Talking about having 50% women in executive positions means fucking nothing when the regular women don't get proper healthcare, and that's all this corporate wokeness is, a grift, giving the illusion of caring that dumb morons on the internet can latch onto so they think that that company is "one of the good ones".
For me, a sign that a piece of media is possibly going to be bad is if the marketing focuses on an aspect that is ultimately unimportant to the piece as a whole.
@@migarsormrapophis2755Agreed, it also just doesn't make sense to make bad political art. I don't know what ideology the acolyte represents, but it must be stupid.
Watched a Bollywood flick the other day, and not a single African in the entire movie. Unbelievable. Where is the diversity, where is the representation?
"And Rian Johnson, we took him into a room and closed the door. Five minutes later, we opened the door and i said: he's our guy. And you know why?" "Sexual favours" This dialog almost started Mike's demoniac laughter.
I doth be of kindred spirit. My earliest film memory is Nightmare on Elm Street at the age of 3- thanks to my older siblings. I wouldn't change a dang thing
@@padawanmage71Even _Red Dwarf_ is probably easier to take seriously on top of actually being better than most of modern _Star Trek_ and _Star Wars_ at this point even if only limiting the alternate recommendations to space-faring sci-fi shows. Dtto _Futurama_ as well.
@@Akiva_MerkavaI thought both her and Ben Browder were great Stargate. I eapecially liked her and Michael Shanks' scenes together. She had great chemistry with Browder in Farscape, and then with Shanks in Stargate.
Guess Mike would like to talk about Disney's demons..... You know they support and secretly fund child genital mutilation in Florida? How about sexual assault on women... they hired Lesley Headland, Harvey Weinstein personal assistant. Are you anti-Islam? Disney used staff of a concentration camp in their movie Mulan...... you know... set the topic of the Acolyte criticism off on the right foot.
@@Jman92854 I mean, don't get me wrong. Mike's comment: "The irony is, they're nothing but bones now" was one of the funniest things anyone has ever said in the entire history of time. XD I'm just surprised he went for the high ground, when his whole shtick is being the unrepetent lowgrounder. XD
Which is "Rich" coming from someone who made a 9 part video series about the Star Wars prequel movies. Batman is right, if you live long enough you see yourself become the villain.
And yet Beverely doubled down and magically popped out another one. If they made another season... they could have gotten rid of 2 arcs no one ever wanted by breaking Riker's clone from whatever Cardasian prison they left him in. Then he could either have saved and adopted Picard's latest "I have a son???" Or killed him... either way.
@@hakaigonzalez7253 I guess he has to make it seem like he's doing such important work. I stopped watching the ready room interviews long before I stopped watching Discovery.
Its like herpes or shingles. It might go dormant for a time, maybe you can even take a treatment to keep it suppressed for a while, but it'll inevitably flare up from time to time for the rest of your life.
This is why I'm exhausted by all these movies and shows based on old franchises and I'd rather they just make new things. For example I've been recently watching this show called the Warrior. It's about a Kung Fu master who travels to the old west in search of his long lost sister and becomes embroiled with the various factions vying for control over San Francisco. People should go watch that instead.
I'm sorry but there are differences you cannot ignore and that are not transferrable. Making Rambo female would definitely impact the characters impact and so would it had the Terminator been a woman. Women aren't seen as inherently threatening. There is a reason why people are more afraiid of a guy in a dark alley than a girl. To say that there are no differences at all is just incorrect. In the same way Arnold Schwarzenegger would have made a horrible casting decision for Black Swan as a ballet dancer. There are characters who are have inherently male/female attributes and you cannot just switch them.
lol there is no way Will Wheaton said that about Stacy Abrams. No matter how many clips you find of him, I leave shocked at how embarrassing he is each time.
"The Boomers, the generation after The Greatest Generation." The fact that he forgot the Silent Generation is the best way to describe The Silent Generation.
@@staceyrumble8887 that's the forgotten generation. It's easy to mix them up. Forgotten, Silent, different generations, but they kinda mean the same thing, they are generations nobody talks about. But, yes, @SiriusSphynx is probably right. Although, there certainly are some traits that are more common in different generations. It makes sense that millenials are going to be more tech savvy than boomers, gen z has a shorter attention span because of social media, and gen alpha will probably grow up without certain skills because they were able to rely on ai.
The Fonz actually fought racism when he went to the south and a diner wouldn’t serve his black friend. I don’t remember which season/episode, but it happened.
Yeah they got happy days wrong. People didn't long forth 50s because of segregation, but because it was a culturally optimistic time prior to the extreme division and deadly riots and Vietnam of the 60s.
@@ravissary79...Mike was clearly being intentionally sarcastic and using _Happy Days_ as an example of an innocuous show that modern-day political zealots might pillory for issues with it that didn't actually exist within it via the same bad-faith argument he missed. Clearly his sarcasm was somehow too subtle.
The biggest crime of these Star Wars show is how little happens. Its supposed to be a space adventure, but they spend so much time walking around expositing. It feels more like a run through than a finished script.
Most big budgeted streaming shows are like this now. The format is, a good action packed first episode setting things up, 4-5 episodes of exposition and slow plot progression, and a decent final episode that set up things for the next season.
@@migarsormrapophis2755 They are critiquing people who endlessly vomit anti-woke garbage when discussing media. They're not critics of entertainment products, they're grifters.
@@dmac3183 The Acolyte has a scene with a camp fire in space or something… When people pointed out that was stupid nonsense the response of the creators was ‘it’s a fantasy show’.
42:29 I've just realised who Rich reminds me of when he laughs - its that little muppet thing that sits next to Jabba the Hut. That must mean Mike is Jabba, and Jay is about to turn up wearing a metal bikini.
I really hate how Obi-Wan's robes in the first Star Wars have become some kind of Jedi uniform. It's so idiotic. He lives on a desert planet! He's in hiding! He's just wearing generic desert clothes. Jesus.
It really is rather insane how no one noticed this, and confirms George Lucas does not at all understand his own creation. It's even funnier because it means Uncle Owen, a random zhlub on Tatooine, was also wearing the "Jedi uniform" in the original. Not exactly a good thing if you're supposed to be hiding Darth Vader's long-lost child.
why? robes are mysterious and monk like. It really fits the theme of the cultish jedi. In other media they wear proper fabric clothing beneath their religious-ish robes.
Before the Prequels, even before Empire Strikes back, there was a marvel comic about Obi Wan some time before he came to Tattooine. He still has his grey beard. He is dressed in a black leotard/catsuit with a belt to hang his lightsaber on. It's slightly evocative of what they later dressed Luke in for Return of the Jedi. Luke continues to wear black super hero suits, occasionally with a cape or arm bands in later material before the Prequels. I really dig this look for Jedi in general.
You have to remember that from what we have seen from the star wars universe, tatooine is the single most important place in the galaxy. With that in mind, it makes sense that the most powerful religious cult in the universe would be wearing the local attire from tatooine.
Well think about the lack of "diversity" in a New Hope this: George RR Martin said in an interview once in response to a racial charge about the slave army in Game of Thrones being black when in the books they were "white". George basically said, when you're filming in Morraco and putting a casting call for extras: Morracons are who show up. New Hope was filmed primarily on a soundstage in London. They put out a casting call for extras. Who showed up? A bunch of 1970s British white dudes. Not everything in a film is racism. Sometimes you just have to hire who shows up.
I can't wait for the finale where none of the hanging plot threads that Rich is looking forward to getting a satisfying conclusion get a satisfying conclusion
I can't even imagine the whiplash from going from staid, flat jedi characters talking to each other to fucking John Crichton going insane and throwing Rygel around the set. It'd be like following a bowl of oatmeal up with a shot of hot sauce.
I lost literally all respect for Mike in this episode. I'm actually astounded he can show his face or even have the gall to openly express opinions in general. Years of cultivating an audience that adore RLM wasted. How dare he sit down and have a discussion with Rich Evans of all people about _any_ subject matter without even having watched Farscape.
38:18 For those unaware, this video game cutscene Mike's talking about is from the MMO The Old Republic like 10 years ago. Nice looking fancy trailer, but yeah it's like THE example Star Wars "hyper fans" use for "peak awesome Star Wars, especially Old Republic era." When in reality the reason people love Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is because they were expertly written games with compelling complex characters, some of which actually had reasons to turn to the dark side and questioned the Jedi Order. Bastilla, HK 47, Kreia, Revan and Malak, etc. It was Bioware and Obsidian at their best.
Kreia and her character work, both vocal performance and writing, are, in my opinion, the best things qualitatively that the entire franchise has ever seen on an artistic level. Absolutely. Perfect. Credit goes to Obsidian for that, naturally.
I like both. The Old Republic trailers were really flashy and cool, but it was the later ones that had little stories that are much more interesting. I think part of the comparison being made is that "Sacrifice" and "Betrayed" convey character and emotion in their
Farscape certainly isn't flawless but it has come to hold a firm place in my heart. They knew what they had when they hit their standout villain, and they ran with it.
That part with the StarTrek showrunners talking endlessly about Stacy Abrahams... I find it particulary self-explanatory on the actual abyss between a hollywood elite and the common moviegoer.
Really? I'm not even American and I knew that she was influential enough to drive up voter participation or whatever. For me it's less about Stacey Abrams herself and more that Hollywood are too upper-class to fully comprehend the politics of what they're trying to adjust to so it all comes across as vacuous and empty headed. It's too.... disparate. I guess is the right word.
it kinda feels when people know they did something wrong but they keep talking and distracting themselfes until they´ve convinced themself. Maybe Michael Burnham is always playing that role but she was overacting that part where she is so happy to have a real polititian on Star Trek. Its just so wrong.
Remember when voyager had a crown prince who's now literally a king on? I'd forgive you if you didn't because it wasn't harped on or politicized to the hilt.
If I walked by Stacey Abrams on the street I would literally have no idea who she was. Weird to hear them talk about her like she's peak popularity Obama or something.
I'm not American, I have never heard of this person, but she seems to be Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks all rolled into one messianic hero. Will she bring balance to the force ?
@@hippityhoppitywI actually agree. I at least chuckled at the 2016 one. The new ones are like action movies which if they wanted to do that they should have made it animated. Especially with Sony's animation studio! They make great looking animated films. Even hotel Transylvania has a great energy to it.
@@Leiwanderer Culture wars around movies had always been around, or at the very least since the 60s in their "modern recognizable form" - the most recent wave probably "started" in 2014 with Gamergate, and you could see it brewing around films like TFA, GoT or Fury Road, however 2016 is probably where it really took off at the current level of intensity.
It turns out lasers are quite threatening to a Jedi under the right circumstances. As is steel, so long as it's a steel door being dropped on their heads.
8:30 There is indeed a reason why George Lucas set Star Wars "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away...." and not in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Great point, it is a major help for escapism. I think that is why I find the lore from the EU so interesting, much more Alien involvement. Yoda and Chewie are still the only Aliens we really know.
Reminds me of some of my favorite youtubers very valid complaint that Dr Who - a story where you can go *anywhere* in time and space - have gone from aliens and alien planets and hundreds of years in the past and future, to recently having an episode where Jodie Whitaker told Rosa Parks to go to the back of the bus. Like how did we get here?
That's always been the case with Doctor Who though. Go look up any season since Eccleston and you'll see episodes set on Earth, usually focused around some event or person of historical significance.
@@FalseHerald Since OG season 1 really -- the show was basically a mixture of Magic School Bus and Star Trek. Some episodes were human history, others were space aliens. The original companions were even school teachers.
@@yesnonotexactly25 "to recently having an episode where Jodie Whitaker told Rosa Parks to go to the back of the bus. Like how did we get here?" As far as I'm aware those "anywhere in time and space" also sometimes included current times or close to it, so don't inherently see an issue.
To summarize my hatred for Hollywood, its the combination of bad writing with disingenuous activism. There is a blatant problem of consistenly bad directors/leads landing big roles through a combination of nepotism and favoritism, who are also simultaneously out of touch, paired with the marketing and money folks trying to optimize the appeal of a show, all trampling over the few writiers who might have a genuine passion and skill for the craft.
how is it disingenuous. Wtf do you think the jobs of these people are??? If you're a professional panderer, and you pander - you're unironically gonna stand there and complain about the pandering? mate. I don't think the problem is with disney here....
@@HatoBumpkin I'm 17 minutes in and this is great. I love the conversation so far. I like the Acolyte and at the end these 2 guys might not and that's okay.
Not sure if it’s been noted but the Nina Simone song isn’t even her song. She only did a cover from a song from the musical “The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd” about British classism and all the songs were written by the same two British men who wrote all the songs for Willy Wonka. Just to add an extra layer of silliness to the whole thing. And to be honest, Nina Simone would probably tell them she didn’t give a fuck.
"There's not too much to talk about with the story because we're only four episodes in" Think for a moment how much story is in- for example- the pilot episode of Twin Peaks.
Yeah, that was frustrating. You're 50% of the way into the story and there's not too much to talk about yet? If that's NOT the sign of bad writing, I don' know what is!
Surprised this is getting thumbups, for context I believe Star Wars has been dead since 2011, and even then the last good thing to come out of it was in 2013 (the RPG)
It just plain sucks. Politics aside it's written by people that don't understand Star Wars like what's happening with things like Star Trek or Halo and it shows
Exactly this...its also culture how one is rared, their religion or no religion, politics...this is what informed the creation of star wars and its fanbase...a totally different culture and not just that but originally a far from mainstream culture being a nerd sub culture...the woke culture is just politics that's it their literally rebels without a cause looking for a fight...they don't care what made the original star wars they just want to erase what was before and insert themselves into it like every other established pop culture that came before them.
It's hard to not notice the age of these presidential candidates during this debate.
😅
The worst part about watching this debate is that believe it or not Rich Evans became 1 hour older after it. Disgusting.
@@leeroyjenks cite your sources sir. I don't believe that. Lol
lol. i do love RLM for staying out of politics as much as possible, like TFBtv is!
I’m voting Mike for his anti old people policies. Plus I think he’s more ruthless and arbitrary than Rich and that’s what I’m shopping for. Plus he already seems to be in charge.
Glad they’re back for their annual “we’re never watching Star Wars again” video.
🤣🤣🤣
Since Star Wars ended in 1983, it's technically true.
Lmao
To be fair. I despise Disney Star Wars yet I still Hate watch the show.
@@ZakMcDonald64 it’s a wonderful tradition!
I didn’t watch the Acolyte so that this video wouldn’t be spoiled for me.
Great choice!
I thought I was the only one 😂😂😂
I find watching rants about Star Wars more entertaining than Star Wars.
If they review a movie i don't care to watch, i imagine that they're ranting about a stupid movie they made up.
@@megaultradamn Whoa that would be next level.
Phew, I was worried for a second that Mike wasn’t going to start talking about Star Trek.
@@migarsormrapophis2755 Star Trek is absolutely chock full of politics and always have been, idk what youre going on about.
Also the Jedi have always sucked and been part of the problem.
@@migarsormrapophis2755 Inter Arma Emin Silent Leges
@@EkkieEkk In other words. "from my view, the Jedi are evil" - Anakin 😀
I KNOW WHAT THAT IIIIIIIIS
@@EkkieEkkyes i remember first scene with guinan she reminisces on how terrible the 2000s were and how much ICE was up her a-
What I've learned from this video: Wil Wheaton is absolutely insufferable as an interviewer.
Yup.
You didn't need those last 3 words
Shut up Wesley!
wil wheaton is absolutely insufferable.
hes insufferable in general.
Will Wheaton genuinely sounds like he's straight out of the Nerd Crew in those interviews.
He gives me douche chills.
He unironically called himself a “cishet male”. Ugh
Very cool
@@gwh3013very cool
very cool
It really is very funny that the best the Picard writers could do to "hold up a mirror" to modern issues was to teleport the characters to the modern day and have them shake their heads so we know they disagreed
It's just all intent with literally no cleverness to it.
They could have just taken us to a planet with alien racism and been like "Yeah, the government is breaking up families of these squid mask wearing Halloween store costume aliens! That's bad, but let's not do anything about it." And then they'd leave without fixing things like every other TNG episode, lol!
The ultimate irony of these cultural vandals... they want to insert their characters in front so they can claim to be the 1st. Well..... now you have the issue where all this diversity is in charge and it's all going to shit. Then when you hit the OG show none of this exists... meaning at some point in time everyone got sick of their problems and solved it by removing all these DEI hires......
@@dracocrusherAllegory? In these times?
And you can't expect people who can't read to be able to write.
Old Star Trek would've dedicated exactly one episode to ICE and they would've been dudes in walrus makeup.
@@yurifairy2969this is a great comment
I knew Mike had edited this when Rich's articulated and intellectual argument about politics in media gets interrupted by a dance number.
I knew Mike edited this when Jay was not involved in the episode. Because if Jay isn't in the episode, he's not going to edit it
Classic.
@@DeviantDorkhe was, they just edited him out
yeah, that was the only interesting part.
I just realised that Rian Johnson tweeted about how he loved and feared RLM before The Last Jedi came out. And Rich Evans came up with the idea for Luke giving up on the Jedi in 2015. Clearly Rian Johnson stole all his ideas from that predictions video. So in summary: Rich Evans ruined Star Wars.
RLM made Lucas sell Star Wars. RLM is responsible for Disney SW.
I really feel for Mike having to defend himself on camera against people who genuinely believe he convinced George to sell to Disney due to the Plinkett reviews. @@jon4715
@@jon4715 lmfao, my hats off to both of you kind sirs...
4.7 bn us dollars made Lucas sell, not rlm.
Plus, Rich often wears blue shirts. Blue shirts, like the blue milk. Combined with that "Half in the Bag" bit about Rich's "man milk", this clearly inspired Rian to bring back the blue milk.
Somehow Wil Wheaton has returned
Dany kinda forgot about the Iron Wheat
Much like herpes, he's never really gone.
Is Wil Wheaton incapable of talking in a non-corporate way?
Ironically he was fangirling about an actress in those interviews I never heard of.
@@CosmicWaltz7 No one's ever really gone
"When I was a children, I enjoyed watching people kill each other."
-Rich Evans, June 2024
Same.
Glory was a great movie
It was funnier when that happened in movies instead of in real life (like today).
For some reason I read this in Borrats voice 😂
See, I immediately thought of Evangelion's more wonky translation conventions when he said that.
They lasted 7 minutes without talking about ghostbusters
RESIDENT EVIL
I never heard of either of those but the Acolyte is amazing
"A vulnerable desert-dwelling teenager is radicalised by an elderly cleric. They team up with a drug smuggler to blow up the seat of government."
The Death Star was the seat of government, it was a battle station. It's more like taking out a naval fleet.
D-Dune??
@@Blodhelmit was a planet destroying cannon
@@comancostin4623 Aronofsky’s Dune was one of the main inspirations for Star Wars 😊
@@Blodhelmthe second death star was though
I will never ever get tired of RLM cutting to random Star Wars theme park actors dancing to pop culture music to emphasize how much of a marketable, product pushing sh*tshow this franchise has been over the years.
DROP IT
But it’s not about the show?
@@WallyWachell no perceivable difference
I mean, when it hasn't been like that?
You can't unsee Darth Vader dancing to gangnam style
"When I was a children I liked watching people kill each other" Rich Evan 2024
You caught that, too! Phew, I just thought my diabetes was messing with my hearing.
He fused together like a amoeba
I bet his Childrenhood was good
Rich was multiple children
You are what you eat!
I watch RLM instead of going to the cinemas, saves me on tickets, travel and concessions. I end up just as disappointed without having to leave my couch.
Same👍
Prob a better comment for a video about movies and not a show you can watch on your couch you'd be disappointed with
I'm honestly less disappointed when they talk about stuff I won't see
"Apathy is death, worse than death, cause at least death feeds the bugs or whatever" - Mr. Plinkett, 2024
this is a metaphor for current day politics, aka the literal communism we're all living through!
"Apathy is death" - repeated by Jay, Rich, Jack, Josh, Tim, then comedically slow spooky version by Macaulay Culkin
Apathy is death
Shut up don't ask questions just be grateful for new content - rlm
In all honesty it is true, this is something that has been said in the Video Game industry for decades, the point of art is to cause emotion in the audience so something bad is still better than something that elecits apathy cause the bad thing will at least make you angry, which is a prefereble emotion to indifference.
It’s 2024 and Redlettermedia is still explaining why the original Ghostbusters was better. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
They get a bottle of Crystal Head vodka delivered to the back entrance every time they plug a movie from the 80s.
Mike needs more
@@unclephillymyaREMEMBER WHEN ELNOR USED THE SWORD!?!????1!????
Where was Scientist Man?
REMEMBER WHEN SOMEONE SAID REMEMBER THE REBEL BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE
My favorite part is that every time they do, they say literally the same thing they did the time before. It's like they put in the "explain why ghostbusters is good" casette and go for a smoke break.
I miss the mid 90s, when Star Wars was just 3 movies I loved and a bunch of books I never read.
And some great video games.
I actually truly enjoy the prequels.
@@CryptoscammersbewareNo accounting for taste I suppose.
@@Cryptoscammersbeware Prequels were no fun at all. Too much sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Same here. And then all of the people who suddenly were die hard fans since childhood, who used to make fun of me for liking Star Wars, once the prequels started coming out.
Like I knew people who read the books and stuff. I just couldn’t get into them.
Here's a better idea for a show: a character called Osha goes on a mission to install various kinds of rails in all of these superstructures.
Best comment on here 👏
Underrated comment.
The Acolyte merely adopted cringe. Will Wheaton was born in it, molded by it.
I love how bad they make Wil Wheaton look through their editing of the Picard Reviews😅
Will Wheaton writing several paragraphs about how Larry David attacking Elmo traumatized him is the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Will Wheaties 🥣
Yeah, it's the editing that makes him look bad. @@drobinson-uo7ic
Every time they show those clips, I have to look away. What do the STAR TREK higher-ups have on him?!?!
“Will Wheaton’s a funnier character than we’ve ever had” - George Lucas
The fact that the show introduces a Wookie Jedi, who we never see fight anything, and when it is time for their big showdown we find them already dead is beyond hilarious to me.
And dead by a flesh wound.
They knew it's what people wanted to see, so they didn't do it. Top tier trolling, but not a great business strategy.
You will have nothing and be happy
It's a bold move, but also lame
This IS The Last Jedi effect. . . The Wookie dies right before a promised fight. Subverting expectations
26:20 "She's married to the lady with the bald, green head," is a very kind way to say "She gave her wife a speaking role in Star Wars, because she's her wife."
It's not favouritism if it's diverse.
Stop showing clips of Will Wheaton talking it’s an act of violence
I reflexively mute Will Wheaton clips when they appear.
Stacy Abrams!!!!!!!!!
Shill Wheathon
I kinda liked him in the past as an entertainer with G&S stuff and also his talk about his mental health issues. He is some guy so obviously one does not need to agree on all his opinions but on the roleplay shows he could be entertaining and had some interesting talks. But now he seems to really seem manic on these interview roles and it feels like he is desperate to make money for his family. It does not feel good even to hate on him and more like he needs help.
@@TheKrunchyI have trained a neural network on hours of Will Wheaton voice clips and given it control over my computer’s volume control to mute the speaker within a fraction of a second whenever Will Wheaton, in any one of his incarnations, starts to speak.
My main takeaway from this is that I am excited to see the re:View of Farscape
Best sci fi series ever imo.
Farscape is awesome!
I'm so excited, fucking love Farscape
Fartscape
More like Farcescape mehehehahahahahaaaaaaaaa 💩 🍻 😵
Still insane that Rich even predicted the title of Last Jedi
Predicted? He gave it to them.
Straight up Ryan Johnson ripped Rich Evan’s off. Just another corporate fat cat getting his sweet creamy milk :(
@@awonotoyeah, seeing that clip makes me think they did probably steal it from him
He dismantled Luke, thanks a lot Rich
He Jedi mind tricked them to name it like that.
Will Wheaton is reaching singularity levels of punchability...
Big time
I went through three monitors trying to watch this
What does that mean? All punches will eventually reach his face?
A wise man once said, ”Don't Ask Questions, Just Consume Product and Then Get Excited for Next Products.”
"Ask questions, but then just consume product anyway and performatively wonder why they're still making more."
Even wiser man said "Don't nitpick new shows with complaints you forgive the originals for and claim to be "just asking questions".
If new star wars sucked so bad the haters would not need to buy thousands of credits on GPT to post fake 1 score reviews.
Star Wars didn't change, you all did, and that is OK. Watch rebel moon or something for all we care, this anger at stuff you claim you no longer like or care about is kind of pathetic and tiresome those of us who just like Star Wars.
"Everyone who dislikes something I like is a hater" - A childs guide to understanding criticism
@@Matisarothe problem is, no one is watching the new stuff anymore. It’s bad on its own merit, not because people don’t like it.
But theres too much money and not enoughs product! What to dos?
All of the clips with Wil Wheaton feel like a nerd crew bit.
That’s funny because he’s only mentioning very basic leftist messaging, which really makes you the big angry nerd
@@sheildingepicnessit has nothing to do with politics. It’s just cringe. Chill out baby
@@sheildingepicness He's trying waaaaay too hard
I audibly said "Shut up Wesley!" during those bits lol
@@sheildingepicness There is nothing leftist about corporate DEI. They've even started dropping the E, in emails at my company they've started just calling it DI, Diversity and Inclusion. Why drop the equity part? Because equity means paying people decent wages, giving women maternity leave and making sure employees can have a healthy work-life balance. It doesn't cost a single damn cent to be diverse and inclusive and everybody knows it. Talking about having 50% women in executive positions means fucking nothing when the regular women don't get proper healthcare, and that's all this corporate wokeness is, a grift, giving the illusion of caring that dumb morons on the internet can latch onto so they think that that company is "one of the good ones".
This is cruel and inhumane, nobody should be forced to listen to the opinions of Will Wheaton.
/I'm sorry I thought this was a America. What happened to the 8th Amendment?
"Shut up Wesley!"
General Prime Directive Order 1
LOL
For me, a sign that a piece of media is possibly going to be bad is if the marketing focuses on an aspect that is ultimately unimportant to the piece as a whole.
@@migarsormrapophis2755Agreed, it also just doesn't make sense to make bad political art. I don't know what ideology the acolyte represents, but it must be stupid.
@@PeregrinTintenfish they're very open about which ideology it represents
They didn't market any aspect unimportant to the show; those were just the only things shitty internet trolls talked about from day 1.
@@WeRobBanksah yes blame the evil trolls, what are you Chris chan?
@@leviticusprime4904 what the fuck is a Chris chan? I’m sorry they have women in things now.
"There is no diversity in Squid Game" absolutely bodied me, made even better by Rich's reaction.
Watched a Bollywood flick the other day, and not a single African in the entire movie. Unbelievable. Where is the diversity, where is the representation?
unfortunately Mike was wrong because the Rich People in the box seats.
Plus the literal subplot of racism@GoetiaTV
Lots of hollywod representation, I mean no white dude in sight and it is all in korean 😮
Wait until you see most countries' Olympics teams!
Its nice that Rich takes time out of his day to let Grandpa ramble at him.
All that's missing are the Werther's Originals butter candies.
I think Mike would beat Rich at golf
I'm still suprised that the Smiling Friends show had enough money to hire these two exclusive super actors
What is even more magical that red lettermedia uses a voice actor from smiling friends as a camera operator!
you could probably buy Mike for a bottle of red.
Marinara@@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail
@@neliz2kwhen was that?
@@option3590 Jay is the camera operator in this Episode, he's the intergalactic cop in Mike and Rich's episode, they're all in it
"If you want to nit pick...."
Yes, yes i want you to nit pick.
Perhaps in some kind of multi point list.
Possibly narrated by an elderly serial killer... Or something.
PAAAAAAAAART 1
And this list perhaps has 25 points on it. All of them are good points.
😊
"And Rian Johnson, we took him into a room and closed the door. Five minutes later, we opened the door and i said: he's our guy. And you know why?"
"Sexual favours"
This dialog almost started Mike's demoniac laughter.
Rian*
@@SofaPop. Oops. Corrected!
@@KraftfanHe subverted your expectations about how Ryan is spelt
God bless Nanu for letting Rich watch literally everything starting from the age of 3.
Rich is something of a chronological oddity...born three years before everything!
@@unclephillymya And Mike is his Palpatine using him to do abilities some consider to be unnatural😏
I think he said Nana not Nanuet
I doth be of kindred spirit. My earliest film memory is Nightmare on Elm Street at the age of 3- thanks to my older siblings. I wouldn't change a dang thing
Based Nanu..
the Wheaton show looks like satire
Stacey Abrams
@@sheevkeef I wish it was.
“That which is sufficiently silly becomes indistinguishable from satire” - Hellen Keller
Another episode of the Panderverse
Self-parody.
Every Star Wars discussion should end with "Go watch Farscape."
@@justinclloyd claudia black is still fine. im one of the few who actually liked her in stargate.
Or The Expanse, or Babylon 5 or Twilight Zone....
@@padawanmage71Even _Red Dwarf_ is probably easier to take seriously on top of actually being better than most of modern _Star Trek_ and _Star Wars_ at this point even if only limiting the alternate recommendations to space-faring sci-fi shows. Dtto _Futurama_ as well.
Every starwars discussion should end at the business end of a shotgun, damn does starwars and its fan SUCK
@@Akiva_MerkavaI thought both her and Ben Browder were great Stargate. I eapecially liked her and Michael Shanks' scenes together. She had great chemistry with Browder in Farscape, and then with Shanks in Stargate.
Man, there's people starving around the world.
Rich: *hearty cackling*
Guess Mike would like to talk about Disney's demons.....
You know they support and secretly fund child genital mutilation in Florida? How about sexual assault on women... they hired Lesley Headland, Harvey Weinstein personal assistant. Are you anti-Islam? Disney used staff of a concentration camp in their movie Mulan...... you know... set the topic of the Acolyte criticism off on the right foot.
Mike's attempted moral argument falls apart when you show him a video of an elderly person dying and he just starts laughing uncontrollably.
@@casbyness yeah, wtf kind of point was that from the alcoholic who laughs at the elderly?
@@Jman92854 I mean, don't get me wrong. Mike's comment: "The irony is, they're nothing but bones now" was one of the funniest things anyone has ever said in the entire history of time. XD
I'm just surprised he went for the high ground, when his whole shtick is being the unrepetent lowgrounder. XD
Which is "Rich" coming from someone who made a 9 part video series about the Star Wars prequel movies. Batman is right, if you live long enough you see yourself become the villain.
Cutting Rich's rant off with the Star Wars musical number is peak comedy
Star Wars Weekend Events at Disney’s MGM/Hollywood Studios were fun but Rich getting cut off by song an dance number is funny!
yeah, muting Rich because RLM is afraid of its own shadow.
@@russ254 Huh? They waited until he had made all the relevant main points, the cut was just a joke.
@@WreckageBrother-rd5zf It also wasn't a rant.
Wil Wheaton is a way more annoying character than Wesley ever was.
He is incredibly pretentious and way more annoying than Wesley.
Damn. It's true. But I guess the guy has to grift somehow.
The brown nosing done in that interview was next level shit fam.
And yet Beverely doubled down and magically popped out another one.
If they made another season... they could have gotten rid of 2 arcs no one ever wanted by breaking Riker's clone from whatever Cardasian prison they left him in. Then he could either have saved and adopted Picard's latest "I have a son???" Or killed him... either way.
@@hakaigonzalez7253 I guess he has to make it seem like he's doing such important work. I stopped watching the ready room interviews long before I stopped watching Discovery.
"Don't ask questions, just consume product"
At first I was laughing when Mike once said "Prepare to have constant Star Wars for the next 30-40 years of your life". But now I am crying...
Its like herpes or shingles. It might go dormant for a time, maybe you can even take a treatment to keep it suppressed for a while, but it'll inevitably flare up from time to time for the rest of your life.
I think some nerd pissed off some coffee girl in like Ohio and she struck Star Wars down.
They're compromised
The last last last last last last last last jedi
A timeline where endless Star Wars is the worst thing that’s happened “oh how sad” 😢
The wil Wheaton Stacey abrams section is so gruelling
The should let him do an oscar awards show and one of the "gags" is every single audoence member goes on stage to slap him in the face.
It felt like it went on for about 3 hours.
He's insufferable
It's beyond putrid. How do people watch that crap?
That was painful, and left me wondering who the hell is Stacey Abrams?
“The biggest mistake a storyteller can make is forget that they’re telling a story.”
That is very true.
This is why I'm exhausted by all these movies and shows based on old franchises and I'd rather they just make new things. For example I've been recently watching this show called the Warrior. It's about a Kung Fu master who travels to the old west in search of his long lost sister and becomes embroiled with the various factions vying for control over San Francisco. People should go watch that instead.
@@arcadeassassin7176 Yeah, we'll never get the next "Star Wars" if they never stop making Star Wars.
I'm sorry but there are differences you cannot ignore and that are not transferrable. Making Rambo female would definitely impact the characters impact and so would it had the Terminator been a woman. Women aren't seen as inherently threatening. There is a reason why people are more afraiid of a guy in a dark alley than a girl. To say that there are no differences at all is just incorrect. In the same way Arnold Schwarzenegger would have made a horrible casting decision for Black Swan as a ballet dancer. There are characters who are have inherently male/female attributes and you cannot just switch them.
@@EbonyPope you can absolutely make a female rambo, lol
I LOVED IT WHEN THE ACOLYTE SAID "WHAT IF GOOD ACTUALLY BAD????????"
lol there is no way Will Wheaton said that about Stacy Abrams. No matter how many clips you find of him, I leave shocked at how embarrassing he is each time.
He is the absolute most noodle arm nerd of his generation.
"Shut up Wesley." -Jean Luc Picard
Unbearably cringe
"Shut up, Wesley!" - Doctor Crusher
Remember him freaking out about Elmo getting beat up?
"He's just a bee po bup bup robot, there's nothing lesbionic about him." That's the gold right there.
Lesbionic Robot is a great band name
Im Lesbionic Robot's biggest fan@@alexsilva28
A badass anime about mecha women who somehow fall in love and try to survive life of their reality lol
lesbionicle the rebrand?
"The Boomers, the generation after The Greatest Generation." The fact that he forgot the Silent Generation is the best way to describe The Silent Generation.
Wasn't silent before the greatest?
@@deepspacedruid7673 nope, in between.
The “silent gen” is Gen x
Generational labeling is so vague and unscientific, you might as well tell me what your f*cking sign is too.
@@staceyrumble8887 that's the forgotten generation. It's easy to mix them up. Forgotten, Silent, different generations, but they kinda mean the same thing, they are generations nobody talks about. But, yes, @SiriusSphynx is probably right. Although, there certainly are some traits that are more common in different generations. It makes sense that millenials are going to be more tech savvy than boomers, gen z has a shorter attention span because of social media, and gen alpha will probably grow up without certain skills because they were able to rely on ai.
The Fonz actually fought racism when he went to the south and a diner wouldn’t serve his black friend. I don’t remember which season/episode, but it happened.
The Fonz (Henry Winkler) also sodomized the blonde girl from Poltergeist to death.
Yeah they got happy days wrong.
People didn't long forth 50s because of segregation, but because it was a culturally optimistic time prior to the extreme division and deadly riots and Vietnam of the 60s.
@@ravissary79...Mike was clearly being intentionally sarcastic and using _Happy Days_ as an example of an innocuous show that modern-day political zealots might pillory for issues with it that didn't actually exist within it via the same bad-faith argument he missed. Clearly his sarcasm was somehow too subtle.
The biggest crime of these Star Wars show is how little happens. Its supposed to be a space adventure, but they spend so much time walking around expositing. It feels more like a run through than a finished script.
You only get lesbian rage rituals in the forest now. Pray they don’t start singing at you.
Umm did we not watch the Prequels?
@@vlogily8043atleast there was stuff going on, people dying and stuff.
@@russianoverkill3715 rewatch The Phantom Menace - it's Exposition: The Motion Picture
Most big budgeted streaming shows are like this now. The format is, a good action packed first episode setting things up, 4-5 episodes of exposition and slow plot progression, and a decent final episode that set up things for the next season.
the most shocking thing about this video was learning that Anthony Daniels is not actually gay
He only loves himself.
@@TXiCN Ha!
@@TXiCN nice one
He's just scared
He is though…
Somehow, Rich Evans has returned
Yeah it’s called money.
@@arbiter8246more like stunning miracles in the field of medicine
He flies now.
@@jeremy____5747 he flies now?
@@Music-vr7szit's bad man
I was suffering through Star Wars Acolyte but then realised there were people starving in Africa and immediately stopped watching.
@@migarsormrapophis2755 They are critiquing people who endlessly vomit anti-woke garbage when discussing media. They're not critics of entertainment products, they're grifters.
Imagine thinking the anti-billionaire side is the grifter side… not the side openly being paid in access and gifts for positive reviews.
It's a satirical point of view
Re:view should apologize for the lack of diversity in the cast.
Exactly! As Martin Luther King jr. said "The only thing that matters is your skin color"
You guys are sooooo hilarious making the same joke over and over and over and over again!
@@malis9045Bot detected
@@malis9045 "Jokes should never be offensive whatsoever." - Richard Pryor
well they USED to have women on but the internet couldn't fucking behave itself, so now the only femininity on the show is jay.
It will never rival the action chase of baby Leia out running bad guys in forest.
I cannot see that scene ever being defeated in the stupidity.
Lol😅😅
Low-speed Vespa chase was worse.
@@dmac3183
The Acolyte has a scene with a camp fire in space or something…
When people pointed out that was stupid nonsense the response of the creators was ‘it’s a fantasy show’.
@@dmac3183 How about the prequel scene where a child has to explain gravity to Obi Wan?
In the old Droids cartoon, R2 goes to a whorehouse full of R2 units. That’s a real episode.
lol, holy crap, please tell me you mis-spelled 'warehouse'.
*clank, clank, clank, clank*
@@os10v311 I think Rich Evans knows.
@@GjVj we all know what he was there for
@@os10v311 you have to remove the restraining bolt.... carefully
Ki-Adi-Mundi: What about the droid attack on the starving children in Africa?
The power of Rich.... The power of Mike... The power of AAAAAAIIIIIIIIDDDDSSSS
Remember, the AIDS will be with you, always.
YAAAS YAAAAAAAS
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@daintywalrus4226 I wish I could say that at an interview and the interviewer would get the reference and hire me on the spot. I wish.
you win. You just...... you win.
“The 45 minute preamble is over”
-Rich Evans (56 minutes in)
I bet Mike added in an extra 10 minutes just to spite him.
"45 minutes" seems to be a running theme in RLM's output; maybe it's the magic rune number used in their Jay's eternal youth ritual.
i need Wil Wheaton trigger warning
42:29 I've just realised who Rich reminds me of when he laughs - its that little muppet thing that sits next to Jabba the Hut. That must mean Mike is Jabba, and Jay is about to turn up wearing a metal bikini.
Did you just match Rich's aura to that of Salacious Crumb?
It doesnt matter what theyre talking about it always comes back to ghostbusters
That response did tell the corpos that outrage would sell
Ghostbusters and Star Trek.
Ghostbusters (2016) was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand event that launched us into our current-year hellscape
RLM see themselves as a real world version of the Ghostbusters crew. Justifiably so.
@@Lobstro I can think of something more important that happened in 2016
I really hate how Obi-Wan's robes in the first Star Wars have become some kind of Jedi uniform. It's so idiotic. He lives on a desert planet! He's in hiding! He's just wearing generic desert clothes. Jesus.
It really is rather insane how no one noticed this, and confirms George Lucas does not at all understand his own creation. It's even funnier because it means Uncle Owen, a random zhlub on Tatooine, was also wearing the "Jedi uniform" in the original. Not exactly a good thing if you're supposed to be hiding Darth Vader's long-lost child.
That's always bothered me too, it's an early form of member berries
why? robes are mysterious and monk like. It really fits the theme of the cultish jedi. In other media they wear proper fabric clothing beneath their religious-ish robes.
Before the Prequels, even before Empire Strikes back, there was a marvel comic about Obi Wan some time before he came to Tattooine. He still has his grey beard. He is dressed in a black leotard/catsuit with a belt to hang his lightsaber on. It's slightly evocative of what they later dressed Luke in for Return of the Jedi. Luke continues to wear black super hero suits, occasionally with a cape or arm bands in later material before the Prequels. I really dig this look for Jedi in general.
You have to remember that from what we have seen from the star wars universe, tatooine is the single most important place in the galaxy. With that in mind, it makes sense that the most powerful religious cult in the universe would be wearing the local attire from tatooine.
Mike saw Ki-Adi Mundi and he clapped.
Ki-Adi Mundi gave Mike "the clap".
@@miyagidoI cried
_DO YOU REMEMBER THE GUY ... FROM THE ... THING?_
" a rollercoaster into a grave!🎉"
What a soy
Wow, The Stacey Abrams!
Who's The Stacey Abrams?
Trust me, you don't wanna know.
Leftism is when you worship politicians and corporations, right?
She’s trash, that’s all you need to know
Well think about the lack of "diversity" in a New Hope this: George RR Martin said in an interview once in response to a racial charge about the slave army in Game of Thrones being black when in the books they were "white". George basically said, when you're filming in Morraco and putting a casting call for extras: Morracons are who show up. New Hope was filmed primarily on a soundstage in London. They put out a casting call for extras. Who showed up? A bunch of 1970s British white dudes. Not everything in a film is racism. Sometimes you just have to hire who shows up.
Also I'm glad they put in that wiki insert about Stacey Adams because I had no fucking clue who that was.
@@personanongratis oh racism ended in the 60's? how so? I guess i didn't learn that in history class, where all racism just disappeared one day.
An apt consideration which some entrenched people who believe every location on Earth is and always has been multinational will still not consider.
Not only that but the unions demanded that their actors be hired for extras.
@@greenpinapple820
The Nation of Islam and the BPP waved their magic wands apparently lmao
I can't wait for the finale where none of the hanging plot threads that Rich is looking forward to getting a satisfying conclusion get a satisfying conclusion
I just hope the finale has a white man getting his comeuppance.
"Go watch Farscape. I'm talkin' to you, Mike!"
-Rich Evans.
I can't even imagine the whiplash from going from staid, flat jedi characters talking to each other to fucking John Crichton going insane and throwing Rygel around the set. It'd be like following a bowl of oatmeal up with a shot of hot sauce.
@@XX-jn8co more like following it up with a shot of absinthe
*Encounter at Farscape
Hell yeh
I NEED MORE LIGHT PILOT!
Man, you guys gave this show waaaaaay too much credit.
I lost literally all respect for Mike in this episode. I'm actually astounded he can show his face or even have the gall to openly express opinions in general. Years of cultivating an audience that adore RLM wasted. How dare he sit down and have a discussion with Rich Evans of all people about _any_ subject matter without even having watched Farscape.
Kind of want to watch it now.
FUCKING EMBARRASSING!!!! John Crichton is rolling in his wormhole!!!!!!!
@@ATCrogerwilco it's amazing
@@ATCrogerwilco It's got goofy puppets and hot chicks. Worth a watch.
Farscape re:view vaguely confirmed at 1:25:50 get HYYYYPEEEEE
I can't believe Mike didnt know what OSHA stood for, kinda explains the devastating health consequences that working in that warehouse for poor Rich
I mean he did know what it meant in that one BOTW episode with Osho the guru.
38:18 For those unaware, this video game cutscene Mike's talking about is from the MMO The Old Republic like 10 years ago. Nice looking fancy trailer, but yeah it's like THE example Star Wars "hyper fans" use for "peak awesome Star Wars, especially Old Republic era."
When in reality the reason people love Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is because they were expertly written games with compelling complex characters, some of which actually had reasons to turn to the dark side and questioned the Jedi Order. Bastilla, HK 47, Kreia, Revan and Malak, etc. It was Bioware and Obsidian at their best.
Kreia and her character work, both vocal performance and writing, are, in my opinion, the best things qualitatively that the entire franchise has ever seen on an artistic level. Absolutely. Perfect. Credit goes to Obsidian for that, naturally.
15 years ago now. TOR came out in December 2011, and that was one of the first trailers if not the.
There are more people claiming to love the KOTOR era than actual players, the whole image created around Revan demonstrates it.
I like both. The Old Republic trailers were really flashy and cool, but it was the later ones that had little stories that are much more interesting. I think part of the comparison being made is that "Sacrifice" and "Betrayed" convey character and emotion in their
Never played the game but my cousin would tell me tons of stuff about it, like the mandalorions and whatnot.
People complained that New Hope had no black people.
So Lucas made Lando specifically for them.
Leave it to Mike to make a Star Wars review so that he can talk about Star Trek lol
Star Wars and the Wheel of the Worst. Two torture devices for the modern age that they will never, EVER, escape.
They are not letting Mr. Plinket review Star Wars anymore, but they still have him write the descriptions.
I miss Plinkett reviews…
Crazy how the Plinkett reviews are 10 hours of nitpicking the prequels and here they are today telling you you're a loser for nitpicking Acolyte.
@@moneenerd I think they're telling you you're a loser for still caring about this after the Disney trilogy
@@DantesGrillyep exactly. The last Jedi already destroyed Star Wars, seems the fans are a bit slow to realize this...
@@DantesGrilldude, they hated the prequels far more than the sequels.
Disney did something older Lucas could not do for them, Andor. They love Andor.
The problem with identity politics in the show is that you can tell the focus was on that rather than the plot or character development.
Farscape certainly isn't flawless but it has come to hold a firm place in my heart. They knew what they had when they hit their standout villain, and they ran with it.
@noremac7777 Don't forget to watch Peace Keeper Wars. It ties up the loose ends, so to speak.
@@StarTrekDoor Yes! You can tell it was rushed, but it's a much more conclusive ending than a lot of shows get.
@@noremac7777 Indeed, friend. 🙂👍
I agree with, Disney needs to watch Farscape and learn how to write characters and even learn a thing or to about diversity
@@brgessner they did its called Guardians of the Galaxy and it rules
That part with the StarTrek showrunners talking endlessly about Stacy Abrahams... I find it particulary self-explanatory on the actual abyss between a hollywood elite and the common moviegoer.
Really? I'm not even American and I knew that she was influential enough to drive up voter participation or whatever.
For me it's less about Stacey Abrams herself and more that Hollywood are too upper-class to fully comprehend the politics of what they're trying to adjust to so it all comes across as vacuous and empty headed. It's too.... disparate. I guess is the right word.
it kinda feels when people know they did something wrong but they keep talking and distracting themselfes until they´ve convinced themself.
Maybe Michael Burnham is always playing that role but she was overacting that part where she is so happy to have a real polititian on Star Trek. Its just so wrong.
@@TheCaptainCrack, "themselfes," "themself?" WTF? Are you just making up words?
Remember when voyager had a crown prince who's now literally a king on? I'd forgive you if you didn't because it wasn't harped on or politicized to the hilt.
If I walked by Stacey Abrams on the street I would literally have no idea who she was. Weird to hear them talk about her like she's peak popularity Obama or something.
That stacy abrams bit was so embarrassing.
I had to skip through it, too much cringe for me.
@Shockwave1985 Can we get anyone better to shill something lame? Doubtful!
I haven’t cringe so hard since Kristian Harloff went off for not be inviting to Galaxy’s Edge
Exceptionally embarrassing.
I'm not American, I have never heard of this person, but she seems to be Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks all rolled into one messianic hero. Will she bring balance to the force ?
Wil Wheaton could be replaced by an AI version of himself and it wouldn't sound any different.
8 years later and we're still bringing up how bad Ghostbusters 2016 was. That's actually pretty impressive for a movie in a weird way.
That movie blew chunks and somehow I still disliked the most recent one even more
It was the movie that started this trend of culture wars abround movies, I think. That's how it stayed relevant.
I wonder if we'll still be bringing up how Ghostbusters 2016 was hunting spiders in the Amazon with my mom just before she died, in 8 years.
@@hippityhoppitywI actually agree. I at least chuckled at the 2016 one. The new ones are like action movies which if they wanted to do that they should have made it animated. Especially with Sony's animation studio! They make great looking animated films. Even hotel Transylvania has a great energy to it.
@@Leiwanderer Culture wars around movies had always been around, or at the very least since the 60s in their "modern recognizable form" - the most recent wave probably "started" in 2014 with Gamergate, and you could see it brewing around films like TFA, GoT or Fury Road, however 2016 is probably where it really took off at the current level of intensity.
Wil Wheaton is insufferable, those clips are painful
I want to feel bad about the child actor trauma he endured…but he just sucks.
He's not even slightly convincing, it's just all so obviously fake.
He lost his mind. He’s actually more like the Sheldon bully he portrays in the first seasons of The Big Bang Theory.
"Everyone was yelling about lesbian space witches, and I was like, 'maybe I'll watch this.'"
~Mike Stolklasa, 2024
We're they bimbo lesbians?
Most relatable thing Mike has said in years.
Unironically, people wouldn't complain about a brand new comedy about lesbian space witches. At least not the same people.
I didn’t like Star Wars until the Lesbian race was introduced.
So does this raise or decrease the chances for a Mass Effect show? Cause I still remember certain media outlets losing their minds over the Asari.
You know shit is bad when they spend 45 minutes trying everything they can do to not talk about the actual show.
?
@@amandahuginkys7878 You outed yourself as mentally incapacitated by admitting to watching EFAP.
@@KrustyJoe show me on the doll where efap hurt you
And EFAP spends 3 hours to discuss a point most people can do at the same level of comprehension within a couple of minutes.
@@KrustyJoe Nothing wrong with EFAP but they are hyper picky
"Steel or laser are no threat to them."
Jedi gets killed by small throwing knives.
And then later lasers
It turns out lasers are quite threatening to a Jedi under the right circumstances. As is steel, so long as it's a steel door being dropped on their heads.
Cut to Amazing Spider-Man, "My weakness! Very small knives!"
i don't think jedi are immune to being stabbed in the heart
@@Hydrogue Yup, "lasers" (blaster, akhshually) worked quite well when Order 66 was issued.
8:30 There is indeed a reason why George Lucas set Star Wars "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away...." and not in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Great point, it is a major help for escapism. I think that is why I find the lore from the EU so interesting, much more Alien involvement. Yoda and Chewie are still the only Aliens we really know.
Reminds me of some of my favorite youtubers very valid complaint that Dr Who - a story where you can go *anywhere* in time and space - have gone from aliens and alien planets and hundreds of years in the past and future, to recently having an episode where Jodie Whitaker told Rosa Parks to go to the back of the bus. Like how did we get here?
That's always been the case with Doctor Who though. Go look up any season since Eccleston and you'll see episodes set on Earth, usually focused around some event or person of historical significance.
@@FalseHerald Since OG season 1 really -- the show was basically a mixture of Magic School Bus and Star Trek. Some episodes were human history, others were space aliens. The original companions were even school teachers.
@@yesnonotexactly25 "to recently having an episode where Jodie Whitaker told Rosa Parks to go to the back of the bus. Like how did we get here?"
As far as I'm aware those "anywhere in time and space" also sometimes included current times or close to it, so don't inherently see an issue.
"There was not a lot of diversity in Squid Game"
There's not a lot of diversity in South Korea. Or the rest of East Asia for that matter
That's why it's getting an American Remake!
Yeah they were all korean
They had the Indian guy! @@acoustichitman4544
To summarize my hatred for Hollywood, its the combination of bad writing with disingenuous activism.
There is a blatant problem of consistenly bad directors/leads landing big roles through a combination of nepotism and favoritism, who are also simultaneously out of touch, paired with the marketing and money folks trying to optimize the appeal of a show, all trampling over the few writiers who might have a genuine passion and skill for the craft.
how is it disingenuous.
Wtf do you think the jobs of these people are???
If you're a professional panderer, and you pander - you're unironically gonna stand there and complain about the pandering?
mate.
I don't think the problem is with disney here....
@hiya2793 Take your meds.
@@rubyy.7374 Go get therapy
56 minutes in and they are just now starting to talk about the actual show lmao 😂
I was looking for this comment
The actual show is the least interesting part.
@@HatoBumpkin I'm 17 minutes in and this is great. I love the conversation so far. I like the Acolyte and at the end these 2 guys might not and that's okay.
"It's the most interesting thing to come out of star wars in a while"
Yeah it was when KOTOR came out 20 years ago.
The first episode genuinely reminded me of KOTOR and Jade Empire smooshed together. It would be so cool if that was intentional lol.
Not sure if it’s been noted but the Nina Simone song isn’t even her song. She only did a cover from a song from the musical “The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd” about British classism and all the songs were written by the same two British men who wrote all the songs for Willy Wonka. Just to add an extra layer of silliness to the whole thing. And to be honest, Nina Simone would probably tell them she didn’t give a fuck.
Just consume content and get ready for next content.
"There's not too much to talk about with the story because we're only four episodes in"
Think for a moment how much story is in- for example- the pilot episode of Twin Peaks.
Devils advocate that pilot episode was an hour and a half, I haven’t watched Acolyte so I’m unfamiliar with their length
@@kremesauce 8 half hour episodes. 4 hours total time, including credits and openings "previously on" of every episode, for 180 million dollars.
@@kremesauce It's too fucqing long that's for sure.
Yeah, that was frustrating. You're 50% of the way into the story and there's not too much to talk about yet? If that's NOT the sign of bad writing, I don' know what is!
Or Firefly...
"What do YOU want for star wars?"
To let it die.
I want more of Andor. Fuck the Force
@@enviritas9498 No, no more fucking the Force, that's how we ended up with the arsonist twin, and the sand-people destroyer.
"The Empire, your parents, the Resistance, the Sith, the Jedi... let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. "
Kill it if you have to?
Surprised this is getting thumbups, for context I believe Star Wars has been dead since 2011, and even then the last good thing to come out of it was in 2013 (the RPG)
Now I just have the mental image of Mike fighting a squad of Navy Seals with a lightsaber
Would probably seem a lot like Ki-Adi-Mundi's death scene, but he's just awkwardly flailing it around like the way Mundi dies.
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An AR-15 would win against a lightsaber i think.
@@JOSEPH-vs2gcuh, akshually, they use MK 18s, not AR 15s.
@@AliceBowie nah, a squad with glocks would end a lightsaber fight, but i figure you're gonna tell me they don't use glocks no more...
It just plain sucks. Politics aside it's written by people that don't understand Star Wars like what's happening with things like Star Trek or Halo and it shows
Exactly this...its also culture how one is rared, their religion or no religion, politics...this is what informed the creation of star wars and its fanbase...a totally different culture and not just that but originally a far from mainstream culture being a nerd sub culture...the woke culture is just politics that's it their literally rebels without a cause looking for a fight...they don't care what made the original star wars they just want to erase what was before and insert themselves into it like every other established pop culture that came before them.
And that’s why dei is so bad, none of the people making decisions were chosen because of ability. They were chosen because they checked boxes.