Heart of the City by Steenz for February 11, 2013

Say it ain’t so! (Is there going to be a “Star Wars: Episode VII”? I’m missing out. I understood SW & Disney working together, but not this.)

Yes, Disney purchase SW rights from Lucas for beaucoup $. They’re looking at episodes 7, 8, 9 and maybe other ventures. Not necessarily doing whatever Lucas might’ve had outlined for the third trilogy. Not likely doing anything like Zahn’s Heir To The Empire trilogy.

…and, yes, JJAbrams is apparently handling ep 7. Didn’t you feel a grave disturbance in the Force, like millions of souls crying out in agony?

The grimmer truth to contemplate is what will happen when Heart realizes “Others? There’s more like him?”

It took four comments to be excited about J.J. Abrams and Star Wars? Seriously, he did a great job with Star Trek, and most importantly, he’s not George Lucas.

Almost every day, kid… Almost every day…

Yes, JJ Abrams made a goofy re-boot of the ST universe with flashes and then walked away.

Nothing like white washing over a Rembrandt and then scrawling your concept over it, leaving it unfinished…

Can’t wait to see the SW universe Disney-fied while re-booted by Abrams — the horror, the horror

At least no one will be able to pile complaints on Lucas anymore…

I’m looking forward to seeing DHARMA hatches on Tattooine.

Yes, JJ Abrams totally destroyed Star Trek by making it fun and watchable. Gosh, what a terrible fate it would be, should that happen to the Star Wars franchise as well.

Love it or hate it, JJ Abrams didn’t whitewash the Star Trek universe. The first movie made it clear that going forward would be an alternate timeline (so if anything, it’s looking at a Rembrandt as a reference for your own art). Also, the second movie comes out this summer, so he didn’t just walk away.

The bigger issue is no one man should be at the helm of the two biggest sci-fi franchises in the world. They’re different stories, they need different story tellers.

Also, Heart, I’m disappointed. As a tween girl, I expected you’d be on tumblr. Which means you’d be fanning over ST: Into Darkness because Benedict Cumberbatch. So most of this should have been old news to you.

The good thing about SW sequels is you won’t have any ridiculous cameos (like Chewbacca was fighting with Yoda?!). Lucas had good ideas, he just got too into CGI and had to write his own dialogue in the prequels (Irv Kirschner wrote the actual dialogue in Empire and Jedi, which were classics).

I heard the working titile is STAR WARS EPISODE VII – THE SEARCH FOR JAR-JAR BINKS, in which both the Rebel Forces and The Empire makes sure Binks is on Genesis when they blow it up.

Well, Abrams couldn’t do any worse than Lucas did. I liked what he did with Star Trek, and I’ve been watching Star Trek since 1967. And if you think Lucas was great, I dare you to find a copy of “The Battle for Endor” and watch it. It proves, without a doubt, that George Lucas had nothing but contempt for his fans.

The new movie will doom us all. It will mess up canon more than Clone Wars has. It will be stupid. No one will put as much care into it. They’ll pick the wrong actors. I feel sick just thinking about it.

YAWN

I liked the “Star Trek” reboot a lot. It wasn’t perfect, but it was fun, and since my interest in Trek begins and ends with James Tiberius Kirk, better that (even Shatner-less) than another NextGen movie or a Voyager movie or a DS9 movie.

As far as the “Star Wars canon” goes, you may simply have to revise your definition. With “Trek”, events in the books were only “canonical” if they made it into a movie or TV show. With “Star Wars,” nothing that occurs after the death of Palpatine has yet made it to the screen (so far as I know), so anything goes.

No comment.

One big problem I have with MT’s run of Heart of the City is that he often used Dean as a mouthpiece for his opinions about Star Wars, which also meant that strips that had his opinions in them became dated pretty quickly (unlike Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts, which never did this kind of thing)