Just as TV shows don’t really end anymore, the new platonic ideal for a movie series, at least for some fans and/or execs, is one that keeps going indefinitely, with no end designed or in sight. That’s what seems to have happened to the Star Wars series following its 2012 sale to the Walt Disney Company, resulting in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first Star Wars movie without an “episode” designation. Naturally, Rob and Sabrina and Nathaniel and Marisa and Jesse went to see it and naturally we all had some opinions.
Our second Star Wars podcast, then, examines Rogue One and our thoughts on it, along with how it fits into this new mass-media landscape of franchises that just don’t know when to quit. Glory to our thoughts on Rogue One as a prequel, the uncanny valley, our internal squabbling over the status of the various Extended Universes, and our many impromptu pitches for further Star Wars spinoffs, and that’s before we even get to talking about the Fox X-Men movies and the DCEU. It’s all very nerdy and spoilery and you’re gonna love it.
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Ooh! I stand by my answer about The Nice Guys and all (and about basically already being catered to to an absurd extent), but I also remembered that I have actually lamented in the real world that I won’t get sequels to Tron: Legacy, John Carter, or The Lone Ranger. I shouldn’t complain too much since Disney is currently supplying me with a firehose of Star Wars and Marvel Studios movies, and I’m even more into the “let’s loot our animated catalog” live-action movies they’re doing than anybody else at SportsAlcohol.com. But I’d have loved to get the sequels they had in mind for those first two, and I’d be really into seeing a Verbinski-directed Lone Ranger sequel (though it’s possible that he already crammed everything he’d have to say in the first one).