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The planet doesn't have a capital city - it is a capital city

That said, the region around the Jedi Temple and Senate is probably the closest equivalent.

 

Moana is the worst Disney musical.

 

The best era of Disney movies was the early 2000's, from The Emperor's New Groove to Home on the Range. The animation was fluid and confident, the blending with CG effects grew better with each film, and the stories were all very unique and mould-breaking.

 

The Little Mermaid and Frozen are two of the worst Disney princess movies. Tangled was much better than either of them. I'd say those are unpopular sentiments of mine.

 

Princess Mononoke is superior to all this peasantry going on around here.

 

Nah, Princess Yuki is better.

 

Way late but one more for the road, Prince of Egypt is better than any of the Disney renaissance musicals. Better songs, better character development, better score.

 

Well, Prince of Egypt was playing with the big boys back then. (See what I did there?)

 

At the risk of being too off topic,

I will agree compared to the other Disney classics Moana is a weaker film-the music especially was quite weak IMO. But in terms of animation-it was breathtakingly beautiful to look at!! My kids watch that movie all the time, so I have almost all the songs memorized

In Little Mermaid, the story left something to be desired, IMO but it's by far my favorite in terms of music. Under The Sea is my favorite Disney song!

Kay, anyways, ON topic:

I have always liked the pan up in the AOTC opening. I've heard many gripe about it, but I thought it was a cool effect. I hope we might be treated to something other than a pan-down in one of the ST films...

 

AOTC Tusken slaughter > ROTS Separatist slaughter > R1 Rebel slaughter

 

R1 was a nice fanservice and I admit, there was some excitement.

However, nothing can add up to the emotional power of AOTC/ROTS slaughters.

 

Here's one I think is pretty unpopular - the ROTS novelisation by Matt Stover is REALLY overrated.

 

I would add that I don't like Star Wars to this thread, but it seems to be common among Star Wars fans.

 

The pan-up was one of my favorite things about Attack of the Clones. It felt really jarring the first time.
Unpopular opinion: Jar Jar wasn't in Revenge of the Sith enough. Since he was a major character, he should have had at least one good scene instead of barely there. It just seems like a cop-out.

 

I don't get the hype behind Dave Filoni.

 

I used to complain about this all the time


another thing that annoys me, is little minor errors in the book like stating Amidala being the youngest queen elected. Big deal? not really in the grand scheme of things but then I hear Lucas "edited it line by line" whatever the heck that means. THEN it becomes an annoyance.

 

The PT is just as good as the OT.

 

Karen Traviss' books were actually good *shots fired*

 

Anything besides what's in the movies is effectively worthless. Canon or not canon.

 

The first Republic Commando was genuinely great. And as a writer she is probably one of the best to work in the EU. However, her... vehement... views and her constant overreaction to just about anything sour the works by association for me. I mean, ''Talifans'' is only a micrometer away from invoking Godwin's Law if at all.

 

As a fandalorian I liked how she depicted the Mandos and the Clones. Also liked the other perspective on the Jedi and on the Force users in general.

 

The idea of another perspective on the Jedi and the Force was a good one, and at first approached with a degree of subtlety inasmuch as you could conceivably read it as merely a character's own thoughts and not as some absolute fact. Unfortunately further down the line the ''alternative perspective'' was pretty crammed down reader's throats as the One True Perspective and any other was a lie. Coupled with the personal and direct attacks on people for the diabolical sin of actually liking the Jedi (she said that being a fan of the Jedi was the exact same thing as being a proponent of the slave trade. Literally.) and it became too hard for me to separate the author from the work.

Then again, another of my unpopular opinions (though I suspect not as unpopular as others I have put forward) is that the Mandalorians as a race of Badasses who go around fighting Jedi through technology and sheer machismo is just awful. Boba Fett's status as a badass in the movies proper was only ever memetic among fans. For writers to then make this status canonical is one thing (if done properly and thoughtfully, Last Man Standing is outstanding in this regard) but with every Mandalorian therefore ALSO being super badass Jedi killing mercenaries takes it to almost self-parodic levels.

 

It was more "liking the Jedi for being cool lightsaber users is fine - believing everything they do is "morally justified" isn't" as I recall.

http://www.karentraviss.com/page22/files/Is_it_true_you_hate_Jedi_.html

As someone who'd already been hit by a lot of personal attacks - she'd grown very touchy and prone to counterattacking.