![]() Though I’m still not crazy about the CGI Leia, which means each viewing ends on a tiny sour note. ![]() I loved the movie in that moment, and I continue to love it. Truth be told, I suspected as much from the minute my first viewing ended. But after giving it a lot of thought over the last couple months…I don’t think I do. We’re largely the same type of fans here at Eleven-ThirtyEight-the site was created in part to act as a bridge between the EU and the larger fandom-and without having asked, I’d venture to guess that most if not all of my staff writers also prefer RO to TFA. This is no great surprise, in my opinion, as Pablo is an “old school” fan and RO is very much an “old school” kind of Star Wars story if not for the fact that it directly overwrites around a dozen stories from the Expanded Universe, it would fit in very neatly with that brand of storytelling, which is where Pablo largely cut his teeth as a Star Wars professional (and as a fan). What I do want to unpack is something he’s mentioned once or twice in the last few weeks-that he prefers Rogue One to The Force Awakens. Needless to say, those questions are exactly what he gets, and while he must find it rewarding or amusing on some level, the intensity of the reactions he can provoke occasionally seems to frustrate him-over the last couple months, he’s made a series of lighthearted attempts to rebrand himself as a Transformers artist (which, okay, he technically is), a Revan stan, yours truly, and as of this writing, a lovable kitten.īut I can’t read his mind his social media personae are his own prerogative and he owes us nothing. While several other prominent Lucasfilm employees have Twitter accounts, Pablo almost certainly has the biggest profile among major (read: obsessive) Star Wars fans, due to his status as one of the company’s “continuity experts” and his willingness to answer, or at least respond to, even the most inane and redundant questions. Story Grouper Pablo Hidalgo is hard to avoid. If you have any involvement whatsoever in the loose-knit community that is “Star Wars Twitter”, And if you’re not, fair warning-parts of this piece may not make much sense to you.
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