from the the-drug-is-strong-with-this-one dept.
CNet:
When a Jedi becomes one with the Force -- as Luke Skywalker did in Star Wars: The Last Jedi -- the theory is that a Jedi isn't dying but is actually starting a bigger spiritual journey.
However, what if becoming part of the Force really means a Jedi has overdosed on its power like it's a drug?
On Monday, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill tweeted images from The Last Jedi comic book adaptation of the film, commenting on that theory.
"The Force killed Luke," Hamill tweeted Monday. "You have to acknowledge the irony in his fate. Almost like an addict that kicked his habit cold-turkey, remained clean for decades, only to re-use just once and then, tragically, overdoses. #SadSkywalker #ForceFatality #JediJunkie."
Mystical energy to Midichlorians to Drug.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by NPC-131072 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:51PM
End white privilege!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @01:53PM
But too edgy.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:12PM (2 children)
Opiod crisis strikes the Force.
Warning to Jedies, Siths and comics consumers - large quantities of Force found adulterated with Fentanyl.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by ikanreed on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:34PM (1 child)
You don't want to sell me deathsticks.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:05PM
Of course not, giving stuff to people who can't pay is bad business for a Hutt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:45PM
Because he wasn't shooting up with Carrie Fisher when they were shooting Episodes four, five and six.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Alfred on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:06PM (8 children)
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday October 24 2018, @07:23PM (7 children)
What, by making a film that people want to see? And then tell other people it was good, so they go and see it too? And then buy it on Blu-ray so they can watch it again, or in some cases for the first time, largely because of the (hopefully) positive reviews the film got?
Doesn't that make it a win-win, if it works?
Cuh, how dare they entertain people and expect to be paid for it.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @07:46PM
queue?
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday October 24 2018, @08:04PM
I also believe that better stories can be made and we could have great instead of good, maybe that would cost more. But whatever i pointed it out as fodder to the complainers.
As long as I'm seeming to contradict my self I also acknowledge that movie companies don't owe me anything and they are allowed to turn out crap or kill off character some people love.
I don't watch movies much anyway so I guess I am an entertainment libertarian?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:39PM
If only "The Last Jedi" was such a film...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday October 24 2018, @09:55PM (3 children)
What is this Ray of Blue of which you speak? More Jedi mysticism?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 25 2018, @01:22AM (2 children)
Did Luke actually die in the movie? It was so awful I suppressed all memory of having seen it. All that remains is anger, deep sadness, and the sensation as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 25 2018, @05:11PM (1 child)
After watching the first movie with the Emo bad guy, I have effectively blocked all of the new Star Wars films from my mind. The only redeeming grace was: "Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base" In contrast, Rogue One was what I'd hoped the new Star Wars would be like. Not a film full of nostalgia, death by stupid, and Emo. I could have gotten behind the new series of films, if the main bad guy wasn't portrayed as an entitled teenage brat. We already had that in Episodes I - III and those were done better, even if you didn't like Jar Jar Binks.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 26 2018, @06:24PM
Ended up watching the latter two movies on dvd because people had told me they were better. Honestly the Star Wars Porn Parody was better than either the prequels or sequels ended up being. And it's not like that movie had a lot of plot or dialogue :)
The loss of the EU however is the worst for me. West End Game's RPG, the Adventure Journals, and the authors (recruited as a result of the journal, or from professional publishing sources) did far more to flesh out the Star Wars universe than George himself ever did (Go look how much of Ralph McQuarrie's concept drawings fleshed out the universe for instance.) The universe while Lucas himself neglected it grew by leaps and bounds, not all of it great, but far less of it the steaming pile that came after.
Having said that, much like Star Trek, its time and story have ended and for those people who were 'nerds' of it, it really is time to move on.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:27PM (3 children)
I thought it was bad writing that killed Luke Skywalker.
I mean in "the force Awakens" they did everything they could to make you think that Rey was Skywalker's daughter.
Then in "The Last Jedi" they say nothing more of it... Making everyone think that Luke is some kind of asshat that abandoned his kid. And then he basically has no feelings for her.
For a movie that is supposed to make you root for the heros, why would you make them look like asses?
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:47PM (2 children)
They say she's just a random nobody with drunk/drugged up parents who sold her for money to fund their bad habits. It's one of the many moments connecting TFA and TLJ that compiles into a giant pile nonsense that should have never come up in the first place. Given how many gotcha moments TLJ had I was hoping by the end everyone would be dead and the series would be finished. That would have truly subverted my expectations.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday October 24 2018, @11:39PM (1 child)
Well... at least they didn't say Rey's exceptional connection with the force was from virgin pregnancy that gave her a high count of midi-something-something... that would have been worse right? Right?!
But yea I do agree the way it played out was anti-climactic. The lead in and build up with misdirection I can take if it had a good reveal at the end, but it didn't.
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:38AM
Well, keep in mind that the person telling Rey that she was a nobody really isn't someone I would consider a reliable source. So if you want to be optimistic, they could have something more interesting planned for the next movie. Heck, she could even still be Luke's daughter - waiting to reveal that you happen to be someone's parent until the most dramatic moment possible seems to have a history in the Skywalker family...
With that said, it's Disney, and it's pretty clear they are making it up as they go (see: Pirates of the Caribbean) so don't get your hopes up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:03PM (3 children)
Look, the Luke character was a good gig for you. Yeah, it's going to be the biggest part of your obituary, so you're never going to be completely free of being Luke.
But it's over. They killed (or whatever) that character off. It doesn't matter what you think happened, because the Disney writers can pull whatever feces out of their anus and throw it on a page and screen, and that's what happened.
The gig is over. Move on. Your voice work is excellent and very well respected, try concentrating on that.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:20PM
He issued a pretty sarcastic tweet about his character. Star Wars fans probably hound him every day with questions about stuff like this. Like many people, he didn't like the way his character was portrayed in the new movies, so he tweets about force overdoses to fuck with everyone.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:25PM
I douby Mr Hamill particularly loves Star Wars. It's an albatross around his neck that paid the bills. Like editing .xml is files for you. I'll enjoy reading your obituary: He was an average coder but never really grew beyond changing config files. His favored editor was notepad. He is survived by an AI that does his job faster and better. In fact, it replaced his whole department. May he rest in peace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @05:04PM
Mr. Lucas, welcome to SoylentNews!
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:20PM (2 children)
Another less interesting explanation would be that he died of exhaustion. Projecting your image halfway across the galaxy would be a huge amount of work. Add that on top of the trauma of Yoda burning the temple and you can make a fair case that he his ticker failed.
That wouldn't generate "buzz" though, so that can't happen.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:32PM (1 child)
Luke died from a rare bout of "Force Constipation".
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday October 24 2018, @04:48PM
He should have taken a bit of Force-Lax instead of thala-siren milk.
(Yes I had to google it and yes, I googled it.)
Disney just hopes the audience has the real Force-addiction.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:05PM (7 children)
What a complete and total load of utter crap. Mark Hamill is a poor actor and a one trick pony. As for killing Luke, Lucas's pretentious writing and Disney's bottomless greed did that. If either decides that they need Luke back they will just rewrite everything, cast off what has gone before again, and off they will go without regard for anything but possible future profit. Lucas actually believes all the hype he spread and that his dogma changed the world. He made the Kool-Aid then forgot he spiked it and drank deeply from the pitcher.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @10:04PM (1 child)
And here I thought the Whills refused to pay Schwartz taxes to Luke over his plan to make the Republic great again.
It's amazing how people keep talking about these films like they're anything but summer blockbusters written by theater grads over a weekend or two. Then again, people still believe in the bible so what can you do...
(Score: 2, Troll) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 25 2018, @01:28AM
More like they were written by gender studies majors over a weekend or two, while stoned, shortly after coming back from a #resist march.
I am as progressive as they come, but man that was awful. Everyone involved with the new Star Wars movies should be thrown into the belly of the sarlacc to find a new definition of pain and suffering as they are slowly digested over a thousand years.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @12:58AM (2 children)
STFU. Mark Hamill is the best actor who ever lived and played the best character of all time in the best movie of all time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @03:42AM
The counterpoint to that is Harrison Ford who also played a character in the exact same movies.
Though I will give that Mark Hamill did a pretty good job or portraying Luke as a whiny teenager in the original film.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday October 25 2018, @05:08PM
Yeah, and that is supported by the long string of successful movies and parts, as well as awards he earned as an accomplished veteran actor of stage and screen. His best and most realized talent was voice acting in animation.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/ [imdb.com]
I loved Star Wars as a youth, the revamped 'New Hope' BS made sort of a mockery of that and the 2nd group of film releases were definitely sub-par. The last group recovered and were better but sequels almost always result in an inferior product.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 25 2018, @05:13PM (1 child)
I liked his acting in "Wingcommander: Prophecy"
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 26 2018, @06:31PM
Although they fucked it up by changing him from a dark haired guy in WC1/2 to him, and Tolwyn from a guy who looked of darker complexion to Malcolm McDowell (Who did an excellent job as the viper waiting to bite you.) For me the pre-3D Wing Commander games were always the best (cumulating in Privateer/Armada) but 3/4 and Privateer 2 had their own appeal. Honestly Prophecy didn't interest me enough to buy it and my computer at the time was too slow to run it.