I just got back from #StopMakingSense. Two takeaways. First, it's filmed not like you're at the concert—although there are lots of shots of the whole stage from the audience's POV—but instead shot like you're one of the band/crew, with the camera walking around on stage and putting focus on the performers' relationships with each other, how they're *playing* with each other.
@b870d4c8@f9cb8dfe I thought that too, but it's entirely its own thing, and it's so good it makes most other Star Wars look like shit.
It's designed as a series of three-episode arcs, so it really is made for television. It's so good, you won't mind that there's no Jedi/Sith.
It's an actually honest depiction of an extractive empire and how brutal and inhumane that is.
100% recommend. Must watch.
@b870d4c8@f9cb8dfe I hear ya. They manage to tell a "very Star Wars" story without Jedi, and in a style that's entirely "late 70s." It's not I divergence. It's an embrace of early Lucas' style, like in THX 1138.
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