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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

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IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They had 5 seasons originally?

Goddamn bullshit we got fucking robbed. That is so much story there they could have done.

I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn't have good stuff, but it's because Disney fucking sucks. Yay.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

They had 5 seasons originally?

Showrunners planned for five seasons, with each three-episode arc commanding something like a $75M budget and months of filming. This was planned back when Netflix, HBO, and Apple were pushing out projects on a similar scale for their top tier shows. Gilroy notes that, at the current pace of release, the project wouldn't have been completed until 2034. Some degree of scaleback had been anticipated for a while.

But post-COVID and following a huge industry-wide reevaluation of the prospective future growth of the Streaming media model, the big studios decided to cut back significantly. HBO / Warner Bros, under newly minted CEO David Zaslov, led the pack by going so far as to scrap existing projects and take a tax deduction rather than releasing functionally finished projects. Now Max is fully invested in Discovery Channel tier Reality TV and back catalog movies. Netflix began hard-capping their projects and churning out a bunch of AI-generated slop a year or two ago and is also heavily leaning on its back catalog. Disney is just following the pattern.

I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks.

Every season was effectively planned to be a year, in the five year run up to Rogue One / New Hope timeline.