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D+ series.

Did any of you call for this? I didn't call for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbveDpUZv4

I didn't ask for it but I'm not upset.

It kind of looks like it'll be in the same space as Wheel of Time and a lot of other fantasy-based TV shows, so who knows, it might be decent.

The film kind of grew on me over the years--Lucas' direction is kind of inept (a foretaste of his SW prequels issues) but there's some elements there that might have worked better.

Ron Howard directed the movie. Lucas just wrote the story (not the screenplay) and exec. produced it.

It kind of feels very Lucas-y, though, doesn't it? Like he was pretty much telling Howard what to do.

Not really. It felt very much like a Ron Howard film. Ron Howard can be a great director as long as what he is directing is in his wheelhouse. Cocoon is great. Splash is great. Apollo 13 is great. These are two light comedies and a drama. I hear A Beautiful Mind was great also.

Where I think Ron Howard isn't very good is action movies. Willow would have been a better movie with another director. So would Solo. I don't think anyone could have saved the Da Vinci Code and its sequels but the action would have been better with a different director. I just don't think he has a good eye for filming action scenes and so they tend to be sort of stiff and boring to look at. I think this is one of the big things that brought down Willow especially.

Willow was fine for the era. Probably even better than most "action" movies of the time.

But the story ultimately isn't an action story.