re: Star Wars Spinoff Shows For Captain Phasma And Rose Tico Reportedly In Development

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I think everybody is excited for the backstory of a character that was in a grand total of 4 scenes, with 2 of those scenes involving her being defeated in humiliating fashion without putting up much of a fight.

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They are trying to make her the female Boba Fett. The difference here is that Fett was intriguing. Phasma, not so much.

I will admit, though, if done correctly - and in the right hands - it could be a good series.

The Rose series is a strange decision. Like they want her character to be liked so much they're going to force feed a show about her to us.

I don't think anyone is really clamoring for the backstory on a chubby Asian chick. I'd watch the shite out of a chubby white dude show based on Jek Porkins though.

How Kathleen Kennedy still has a job is completely mind blowing. She’s singlehandedly destroying Star Wars for the millions of people that made it what it is today.

I can understand a Captain Phasma show. The rest is completely uninteresting to me.

Phasma would be a case study for decades on how to set the stage for an interesting villain... and then completely flush that down the crapper. Except they did an even worse job with Snoke.

Lets look at Star Wars villains by the series.

The original OG series had: Jabba the Hutt, Bobba Fett, the Emperor, Grand Moff Tarkin and the gent that lands at the top of almost every movie villain list Darth Vader. That is a Murderer's Row of villains for three movies.

The prequels weren't as blessed: Darth Maul, Count Dooku, The Emperor, and, at the end Anakin. That isn't a shabby group of bad guys. All were presented as legitimate threats.

The new series, so far: Snoke (built up and then killed with ease), Captain Phasma (beaten easily and humiliated in just about every scene she's in), Darth Beiber Kylo Ren, General Hux (spends all of his scenes being the butt of jokes or delivering over the top, frothing at the mouth, speeches).

Only Ren is presented as anything remotely resembling a serious threat and its hard to buy into a bad guy who is shown to be far less able then the main hero from the first movie on.

The best thing to do with the new movies is finish them and then let Star Wars lay fallow for a few years. Do the TV show if you want too since it shouldn't be tainted.

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How Kathleen Kennedy still has a job is completely mind blowing. She’s singlehandedly destroying Star Wars for the millions of people that made it what it is today.

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We're going to find out one day that she was an intern at Lucasfilm during the days of the original movie and George Lucas smacked her on the arse or Mark Hamill called her "sweet tits" and from that moment forward, she set in motion a decades long plan to Keyser Soze the franchise.

I've been given early access to some of the early footage of the Captain Phasma prequel. ***Spoilers*** It largely involves her wandering the Riverlands with the Kingslayer and proving her worth as a woman in combat, though she does need his help when forced to fight a giant Ewok-like character, which some might call a "bear".

Who in the frick would be interested in a Rose story?

you mean you arent interested in how she was raised as a low income person on the evil casino planet?

or why she thinks it is acceptable in a galaxy far far away to be a sexual predator and betray the trust of friendship to make her own sexual advances without consent

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