Yeah, but he’ll be back.*
And the same goes for R2, likely.
Although for the time being, it’s definitely the end of the road. Or bottom end of the reactor shaft, rather.
Which is sad for R2, but otherwise fortunate, since it means we can pick up from that abandoned cliffhanger – on Monday.
* Somehow.**
** See my earlier remarks on why I myself don’t really know why he even shows up so much around here. >_>
Yep! Drinker covered this one a while back: https://youtu.be/QZZRP81gaiM
The current generation can’t create anything of value, so they take what OUR generation loved and marinate it with their crap, like a pack of cannibals eating the flesh of a fallen warrior.
I’m not sure I’d blame the current generation of movie makers, I think the issue is more with the studios. The makers would probably be able to come up with something worthwhile, but the studios are too fixated on sequels, reboots, remakes or anything else that allows to appeal to an existing fanbase – even if that requires tearing back up a story that was actually already (quite satisfyingly) concluded.
I mean, the original Star Wars felt no need to feature Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon in a cameo…but the newest Ghosbuster movie brings back all of the surviving original Ghostbusters, all of the new Ghostbusters introduced in the last movie and then introduces a number of new character on top. The climax features 12 Ghostbusters in all…so I guess the next part will have 18, and then 24 and then…
Yeah, making this a generational thing feels unfair (there was plenty of serialized to hell and back stuff in the past, too – just look at how many Frankenstein movies happened, the studios have always wanted to mine success over and over!) – there’s interviews with some modern filmmakers that talk outright about how it’s so much more difficult to get an original concept approved for a high budget production than one with a franchise name. Studios want what works, no matter what the people behind the movies would rather make.