Star Wars Episode VII

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  • pinkfloyd5

    • history repeats itselfOP31
    • update of a good franchise.ApeRobot
    • whoever wrote that deserves a doughnut. every fucking film these days is a reboot.Bluejam
    • upvoting myself on this onepinkfloyd
    • its all about money. all those movies are based on pre-made recipesBen99
    • It's just your typical regurgitated Hollywood garbage that all the naive, ignorant, fanboys jerk-off and fantasize about.utopian
    • Agreed, however, we here (and the critics) have treaded this ground ad nauseam.ETM
    • these nerds do realise this was done on purpose right?inteliboy
    • Although I am not a nerd, I did not realize that.pinkfloyd
    • You're on QBN. There's a wee bit of nerd there :)ETM
    • Comic books have been doing this for 40 years. Reboot everything at least once a decade and make all changes short-lived or superficial.i_monk
    • Because every comic is someone's first – they don't care they're reading a retread of a story from the 80s, it's new to them, and they're the growth market.i_monk
    • Yeah, but they don't meet San Tekka, do they!?baseline_shift
    • I heard somewhere there's only 34 or 42 total plots.pinkfloyd
    • There is THAT many?? :)ETM
    • I heard 16. Or 3 or something. There are a few books about that.monNom
    • It wasn't a reboot though - it was a sequel that was part of a saga and the issue is not with the story arc (yes we all know there are few of those) but withfadein11
    • the details - desert planet, plans in droid, mystic, trench battle, another death star etc. the story arc I could live with - it was the lazy regurgitation of afadein11
    • previous SW film I could not.fadein11
    • @fadein11 I've heard people refer to it as a soft reboot :)jagara
    • hehefadein11

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