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OMG what the hell happened with that Star Wars video, it's up to 300,000 views!?!?

Needless to say that was a shock, never have I seen that kind of success on the internet and considering how much influence Star Wars holds, I imagine the video will be shared for a while. 

What does this mean for the channel?

Well, Westworld is on hold, it stands at around 40K words currently and its rather in depth but we will have to pause it while I re-jig my goals this year, firstly, I have been hammering away at a new script. 

This will be a 4-5~ hour full critique of Star Wars: The Last Jedi as this will tick three boxes.

1- I want to make something for the people who have been on my channel for ages who like the long form in depth stuff rather than a rant video again to appease new peeps.

2- The new people clearly like star wars and film criticism so this should work as a bridge between the new and older content.

3- Something that I actually have investment in making.

I love Star Wars, it's a really neat universe as well as being a great source of fun for when I was a kid. Seeing the new film is essentially watching the death rattle of the entire thing. We all know where it is going to be taken in the future, endless films adding nothing of substance. 

So! My new video is going to be strange as I have never done a film before but the plan is to take it down chronologically while talking about aspects outside of the film when they become relevant.

At the end I will comment on the more meta aspects of the whole thing, but yeah, it will be long and it wont require that you see any of the content being covered though that would obviously help!

I would like to say thank you and welcome to the new patrons! were nearly half way to the first goal now, which is pretty crazy to think about, as well as the fact that I have been getting traffic on a lot of my other videos thanks to this new one. 

Generating more and more fans as we go!

This new year is going to be great i'm sure and I look forward to checking out some media with you all right the way through. 

You can expect the new 3 part series to be released in about 2-3 weeks and then I shall be thinking about what to cover next as a lot of games are making their way to release. 

Thanks as always for checking out my work guys :) 

Comments

Anonymous

Hello there! I loved your video and analisys on TLJ, and I would love to have your feedbak on a personal project I have been working on to polish my screenplay writing skills , born from the same disapointmend this last addition to the Star Wars saga was . You can find me in here patreon also. Is still on the work and is not much, but I already have something to show, please let me know what you thing about my take of what Episode 8 should have been. Is going to be kind of a gift for a fan to the fans. Se you around and have a nice day!

MauLer

Yeah that's in my script; interestingly I have no counter to that. If that was said by Rian, that magnets make it do the thing, then fine but the film never has that line. Is that bad? not catastrophic but surely not great since so many people have been questioning it.

Anonymous

It's a good representation of the underlying problems that permeate the material ever since Disney bought the rights to Star Wars; there's this yawning vacuum where answers should exist - exposition seems to be something the new trilogy scorns. The cynic in me cannot help feel it is all in service to purchasable supplementary material like the 'visual dictionary' and a multitude of spin-off films...and ah, pardon for cluttering up the place with a forum-length ramble. Honestly, signed up to pester you about video games, not Star Wars.

MauLer

Pester away, I agree with what you said there, i think there's some bits in my script about it already haha. I will be happy to return to some video games after this constant Star Wars business, such an unfortunate fate for such an awesome work of fiction.

Anonymous

Well then, I shall leave you to work on it and present a vaguely related article I hunted down delving into this whole mess - since it is (I believe) one of the rebuttals/counters ironically used to silence criticism of this very issue. Clumsily. Feel free to skim read the excessive verbiage/avoid altogether <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080410181840/http://uzwi.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/very-afraid/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080410181840/http://uzwi.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/very-afraid/</a> (attributed to M. John Harrison, British sci-fi author in a 2014 Telegraph article).

MauLer

First off, world building is only dull to the dull. HBomberGuy made a similar argument for the lack of grounding in Dark Souls 2's opening, the lack of coherence in favour of interpretation of the elements; I say Bah! that's a cop out. You only need to look to Amnesia and SOMA for worlds filled with interpretation that have a backbone of grounding behind them. Actual intention behind the work means that we know it wasn't just splattered across a page and hoping to find the right audience to love it. Instead, it can satisfy those people while being an objectively well realised work. So, not off to a great start with this article for me personally haha. "It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn’t there. A good writer would never try to do that" What a sad outlook on world building. Another argument I would give is that world building and rules provide the writer with responsibility of their progression, without it, they can summon what they like, when they like and nothing can take me away from immersion better than that. I would love to have a conversation with this guy, like I try to do with everyone I criticise but I think I require more popularity before anyone takes me seriously. Thanks for the article and Part 1 is already complete! I am pretty proud of it but I still have two more to go ;-; 4-5 hours of Star Wars incoming :D