One Death Star didn’t work, a second death star didn’t work, a giant planet version of the death star didn’t work. You can only respect the Emperor’s best efforts 😂
@Splitinfinity Its just some people can't process sarcasm. Had a manger like that, took any comment I made very seriously no matter how obvious I made it.
@@Paulafan5 JJ had no story lines, he had a bunch of ideas and I guarantee you that he wouldn’t have capitalized on any of them. Rian took it in a different way, and instead of actually going with it to make a cohesive story, he tried to retcon an entire movie on his own. He could have just made a movie that logically followed the previous, but nah we got that cluster fuck of a movie
@@Jay-nl6de it was JJ, Rian just took the movies in a direction. We had no solid candidate for Reys parentage, no solid backstory for Snoke and who needed one? We didn’t know about the Emperor until the prequels(at least film wise). Saying Reys parents weren’t important was a logical and fair choice, and Ren becoming the villain would have been great. Bringing the emperor back, giving Rey a parentage that he essentially pulled out of his ass, that’s a retcon and a half ha
It's sad that "10,000 Star Destroyers" isn't even hyperbole. So many Star Destroyers - each one with the destructive powers of the Death Star - is so lidicrously overkill it's comical.
@@jackcristo1628 As very old people, we shall with our grandchildren watch the reprise of that scene with Darth Vader, dropping the plot twist of half a century, to the shrieking of a background laughter track.
Mike’s idea, Star Trek Galaxy, is a genuinely cool idea. He mapped the entire concept in one video and I’m not even a Trekker and I’m down for it. CBS should steal that one.
This just makes me think that the stupid Disney exec's were sitting at the table going, "How do we top an even bigger death star?" "I don't know, 10,000 star destroyers?" "Genius, Bob."
To be fair, that whole plot line *if done right* could actually be quite good. And it’s been done in EU content as well as battlefront 2’s campaign, both of which did a leagues better job of it.
@@trevordillon1921 Battlefront 2's campaign IS how they did it in the movie. Same canon. Whatever the case, even if it's the EU we're talking about, I have no love for any story that tries to tell me Palpatine survived. I already dislike how many clone shenanigans are going on in the EU, and that didn't change when Disney tried their hand at it.
@@trevordillon1921 The biggest hurdle of course is indirectly making a lot of the accomplishment of taking down the empire in Return of the Jedi next to void.
@@Dgero Yeah, I can’t disagree there. The sequels made no attempt to preserve the integrity of the originals, and that’s just one more reason to add to the pile.
@@theguywithsomething8634 I'm currently doing a project revolving around redoing the Skywalker Saga, based on "what if Qui Gon survived?", and by the time I reach the sequel era, I still plan on bringing Palpatine back, but in my AU it revolves around his son, a man named Arson Vana, bringing him back to life. Once Arson's guard is low, Palpatine takes over the superior vessel, and becomes possibly the strongest being in galactic history.
@@alpatr0s596 No, you are right that he died but his consciousness wandered into another body. That "clone" is just a clone when it comes to the body. It was the same soul, so still the original Darth Sidious.
i'm 100% sure these exact same words, even truncated by a chortle at the exact same point, were uttered in a writer's room at disney. what i'm not sure is did Mike channel the executive producers or was it the other way around?
Sounds like two kids playing pretend "Oh yeah, well i was just pretending to be dead, and I have like a bazillion star destroyers and can shoot super lightning out of my hands
This is the exact reason noone liked the sequels. It kind of felt like watching someone play with action figures and say some pretend lines. You hit the nail on the head.
fazrin affendi what makes you think GL quit because of the PT, GL should accept that the PT wasn't amazing andthere wqas no escape from its critisism, GL made a dumb choice of giving it to Disney and people still want him back hhahahh
I remember one time me and my friend were talking about this movie quite a bit before it came out, and my friend jokingly went imagine if palpatine was her grandad.
Luke:"me your father? Fuck no! I had sex with one girl found out later that of all the billions of chicks in the galaxy the one I got with is my fucking sister, I didn't take a chance after that so now just sit drinking alien tit juice. "
"And in Entertainment News, three middle-aged fan boys have just won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the House of Mouse on Appeal in Madison, Wisconsin this afternoon. Legal experts are shocked at the outcome, as the only previous claim to fame any one of the trio had ever experienced was an accidental appearance on Ellen."
@@Ale-dd3ek JJ Abrams actually had a plan for episode 8, Rian Johnson didn't use it and he made it his own film, so Rian Johnson actually did fuck up what was planned, I think JJ also had a plan for episode 9 but they had to change episode 9 around a lot because of the mess Rian Johnson made
Mike is so cynical at this point that he can know exactly what is gonna happen in the future and be cynical about that in the present Maybe that's why he's always grumpy
@Enclave Communications Officer a lot of his older videos online show that too. he was genuinely a super chipper dude, and it DOES shine thru nowadays. its a terrible time for cinema, and it must be horrible to have dedicated your life to it and see it dragged thru the mud. ive heard a lot of the same thing about people in the music industry. if youre mega-famous, youre more than likely a corporate shill, and that sort of business model turns away a lot of genuine talent
@@killer900rocks He's been doing the grumpy act for years. He definitely plays it up at different times, but that's just his general attitude towards shitty uninspired corporate blockbusters
The prequel trilogy is very good, just cry baby do not like it because there are too much politics but revenge of the sith is by far the best star wars.
For those that think this was some crazy prediction: Disney already showed they were taking ideas from a non-canon comic book series called "star wars legacy". A lot of people predicated rise of skywalker correctly
My friend and I were predicting episode 9, from the title, all the way to the ending. I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney implanted a bug in our school bags and took down notes because we were both right lmao
I wouldn't be surprised if in about a decade Mike actually admits to spreading such ridiculous ideas into the Internet so that Disney hears them and puts them in their movies.
Disney was that desperate in salvaging the franchise’s reputation after the TLJ debacle that they turned to the most reliable creative minds they could find to write TROS
How the pitch meeting went: "So, we had a death star in the fourth one and another death star, a bigger one in the sixth one and a even bigger death star in the seventh one. What death star are we going to have in the ninth one?" "What about ONE THOUSAND Death Stars??" "That's a good start, maybe make it super-star destroyers? Because it's so fresh?" "Yeah, let's make it Star Destroyers because people like it, ALL WITH DEATH STAR CAPABILITIES BECAUSE DOOM!" "YEAH!!! GOOD IDEA!!" "YEAH!!!" "YEAH WOOOHOOOOOO!!!"
The most ridiculous part is that not only is the Emperor and mega-destructive 10,000 star destroyers accurate, but even that he's pretty much in this 'alternate' universe because you have to go through some wormhole to reach Exegol.
The alternate universe theory wasn’t exactly correct, but even then the “alternate universe” idea is already presented in things like Rebels, let alone canon comics. But yeah, he was 100% about that Star Destroyer idea. Not 100, not 1,000, *10,000.* And even better, a good amount, if not all of them, each have the firing power of a Death Star. Each individual one. I... *I can’t, this is too good...* I just love Star Wars man.
Okay so I just started watching RLM so don’t crucify me please. If this prediction Mike gave actually came before the movie came out that is absolutely *FUCKING INSANE* he predicted it like that
There’s a similar thing with Halo. On a commentary for Halo 1 when Chief is with guilty spark and they’re at the control room. The devs discuss they scrapped the idea where Cortana would reveal after having spent some time in Halos control room that she would become evil after the hardware of Halo made her feel like a god. They scrapped that idea......it became the plot twist of Halo 5.
I love how they break character at the sheer insane hilarity of this idea, yet somehow, they put it in the ACTUAL movie.
Yup
they probably read the leaks
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One Death Star didn’t work, a second death star didn’t work, a giant planet version of the death star didn’t work. You can only respect the Emperor’s best efforts 😂
@@ChukwuemekaClan And he comes back with 10,000 ships that have deathstar lasers
This isn’t a prediction, disney just took the idea
Disney thought it was a legit podcast of Star Wars fanboys. "Oh, so that's what they want".
@@ThoRCX it was a full on fan service
@@ThoRCX I can see how they made the mistake even Shatner believes this is real.
@Splitinfinity Its just some people can't process sarcasm. Had a manger like that, took any comment I made very seriously no matter how obvious I made it.
they probably read the leaks
J.J.: “write that down, write that down!”
"Well, after Rian Johnson destroyed all my storylines from episode 7, what other choice is there?"
@@Paulafan5 That's a good point actually. JJ had to go up and clean after his mess and while the effort was good, the movie......
@@Paulafan5 JJ had no story lines, he had a bunch of ideas and I guarantee you that he wouldn’t have capitalized on any of them.
Rian took it in a different way, and instead of actually going with it to make a cohesive story, he tried to retcon an entire movie on his own. He could have just made a movie that logically followed the previous, but nah we got that cluster fuck of a movie
@@thechimera5988 who retconned what?
@@Jay-nl6de it was JJ, Rian just took the movies in a direction. We had no solid candidate for Reys parentage, no solid backstory for Snoke and who needed one? We didn’t know about the Emperor until the prequels(at least film wise).
Saying Reys parents weren’t important was a logical and fair choice, and Ren becoming the villain would have been great. Bringing the emperor back, giving Rey a parentage that he essentially pulled out of his ass, that’s a retcon and a half ha
“he flies out of the alternate-“
*bursts into laughter*
The alternate burger
yep, that happened in the video
@@LemonsIab relax
@@LemonsIab Its a quote idiot
Yeah we saw the video too.
It's sad that "10,000 Star Destroyers" isn't even hyperbole. So many Star Destroyers - each one with the destructive powers of the Death Star - is so lidicrously overkill it's comical.
And there one weakness, knowing which way is up.
IKR I don't understand why RoS gets so much hate, it was hilarious.
@@montyroot9090 Some people just still can't accept that Star Wars is a comedy now.
@@jackcristo1628 As very old people, we shall with our grandchildren watch the reprise of that scene with Darth Vader, dropping the plot twist of half a century, to the shrieking of a background laughter track.
Not to mention that the giant Death Star laser on each Star Destroyer looks like its dick.
I don't know how much more evidence does anyone need to see that RLM are (unwitting) creative consultants for Star Wars and Star Trek.
Mike’s idea, Star Trek Galaxy, is a genuinely cool idea. He mapped the entire concept in one video and I’m not even a Trekker and I’m down for it. CBS should steal that one.
You're right, Disney used Red letter 💌 Media's videos as market research and creative control research. RLM exposed George Lucas too.
im pretty sure both disney and RLM got the idea from legends
@@muckymucks Star Trek Galaxy was the version of Picard we should have gotten.
This just makes me think that the stupid Disney exec's were sitting at the table going, "How do we top an even bigger death star?" "I don't know, 10,000 star destroyers?" "Genius, Bob."
This is such an underrated comment
“I was joking.”
@@JeffreyAdamiDrums haha yeah bob was having a laugh.
@@indieeasmr7101 bob didn’t know what he was signing himself up for haha
Not to mention that all of these star destroyers have weaponry to destroy entire planets but didn't move in the movie. I mean they just hovered there
“Emperor Palpatine survived-“
I already don’t like this movie
To be fair, that whole plot line *if done right* could actually be quite good.
And it’s been done in EU content as well as battlefront 2’s campaign, both of which did a leagues better job of it.
@@trevordillon1921 Battlefront 2's campaign IS how they did it in the movie. Same canon.
Whatever the case, even if it's the EU we're talking about, I have no love for any story that tries to tell me Palpatine survived. I already dislike how many clone shenanigans are going on in the EU, and that didn't change when Disney tried their hand at it.
@@trevordillon1921
The biggest hurdle of course is indirectly making a lot of the accomplishment of taking down the empire in Return of the Jedi next to void.
@@Dgero Yeah, I can’t disagree there.
The sequels made no attempt to preserve the integrity of the originals, and that’s just one more reason to add to the pile.
@@theguywithsomething8634
I'm currently doing a project revolving around redoing the Skywalker Saga, based on "what if Qui Gon survived?", and by the time I reach the sequel era, I still plan on bringing Palpatine back, but in my AU it revolves around his son, a man named Arson Vana, bringing him back to life. Once Arson's guard is low, Palpatine takes over the superior vessel, and becomes possibly the strongest being in galactic history.
the emperor surviving was the biggest slap in the face to how the original trilogy ended
Agreed. That and the force healing at the end is an even bigger slap in the face to Anakin's story.
The original canon had that happening too so like
You can't fuckin win with this franchise
@@bernebelmont1857 not quite, no. Palatine had clones that came back, but the original palpatine still very much died
@@alpatr0s596 thats the same thing since it was the same soul going into those bodies
@@alpatr0s596 No, you are right that he died but his consciousness wandered into another body. That "clone" is just a clone when it comes to the body. It was the same soul, so still the original Darth Sidious.
He literally burst into laughter after this, that's how I feel about the movies
i'm 100% sure these exact same words, even truncated by a chortle at the exact same point, were uttered in a writer's room at disney. what i'm not sure is did Mike channel the executive producers or was it the other way around?
Sounds like two kids playing pretend
"Oh yeah, well i was just pretending to be dead, and I have like a bazillion star destroyers and can shoot super lightning out of my hands
"Well i am all the sith!"
"I am all the jedi and everyone knows jedi beats sith du-uh!"
This is the exact reason noone liked the sequels. It kind of felt like watching someone play with action figures and say some pretend lines. You hit the nail on the head.
The “Sequel” Trilogy felt like a fanfiction written by a 12 year old.
@@ltb1345 that’s offensive to 12 year olds . They can make better stories
"Yeah? Well I can turn siths to the light side."
Lamo imagine if they did that
How silly that would be
Imagine...
@@ruairimusic2747 There's no heaven
Thank God Disney would never do something so stupid right? Right??!??!!!??
Yeah...... They would never do that...
Lol yeah, and Palpatine is Reys dad since were being silly
J. J. Abrams: ‘Interesting.’
I love how accurate this is...and its a JOKE
Proving that the sequels are a joke
>shit on prequels somehow leading to GL quiting and selling star wars
>predicted TROS
Mike is the key to all this
He is an ancient sith
Next thing you know they’re gonna hire Mike to direct a Jar Jar Binks series for Disney+.
He also recommended JJ Abrams to direct.
fazrin affendi what makes you think GL quit because of the PT, GL should accept that the PT wasn't amazing andthere wqas no escape from its critisism, GL made a dumb choice of giving it to Disney and people still want him back hhahahh
@@aperson22222 Not to write though keep that in mind before you blame him. JJ is a good director but a terrible writer.
Disney: “write that down, write that down!!!”
Rich came in his pants when he heard there were going to be star destroyers
Have you tried appearing offline?
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@@bobc2032
STOP GIVING ADVICE ON THINGS YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
I remember one time me and my friend were talking about this movie quite a bit before it came out, and my friend jokingly went imagine if palpatine was her grandad.
Lol
Well actually this plot wasn't that bad. It was better than imagining luke being her father but the execution... Well.
Luke:"me your father? Fuck no! I had sex with one girl found out later that of all the billions of chicks in the galaxy the one I got with is my fucking sister, I didn't take a chance after that so now just sit drinking alien tit juice. "
I love how he starts laughing at the end because how stupid the idea is and it actually happened 🤣
Spongebob: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!
You don’t know how that meme works, do you?
@@BrendanJSmith 217 people disagree with you lol
@@PuffnStuff117 no. He shouldn’t have put “Spongebob” at the beginning. He should’ve put Disney instead.
@@PuffnStuff117 cause spongebob didn’t make TROS lol
Honestly, The Nerd Crew is my favorite series of theirs. I wish they would do more.
Prequel triology: too much politics
Sequel triology: where the fuck is all my politics??
It almost like there's a middleground that exists in there somewhere.
"And in Entertainment News, three middle-aged fan boys have just won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the House of Mouse on Appeal in Madison, Wisconsin this afternoon. Legal experts are shocked at the outcome, as the only previous claim to fame any one of the trio had ever experienced was an accidental appearance on Ellen."
The fact that he was laughing during when he said it just tells you everything you need to know
Rich predicted TLJ and Mike predicted ROS. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Disney said:
"Well, people seem to like RLM, lets see what their ideas are for the last movie"
This isn't a prediction; Disney was just scrambling to come up with ideas and stumbled onto this video and was like *there's an idea*
“Fuck, Rian Johson really fucked up what we had planned, oh- yes ok these dudes have an idea, RUN WITH IT, let’s gooo”
@@onelusciouslad7841 no he didn't. Because they didn't plan ANYTHING
That’s what happens when you make shit up on the fly and have no arc.
@@Ale-dd3ek JJ Abrams actually had a plan for episode 8, Rian Johnson didn't use it and he made it his own film, so Rian Johnson actually did fuck up what was planned, I think JJ also had a plan for episode 9 but they had to change episode 9 around a lot because of the mess Rian Johnson made
Imagine that lad sitting in the cinema being just like "NO WTF NO, HOW WHA-"
He could've easily gotten that from the leaked script but damn it still sounds hilarious
The absolute madman, he did it
Mike is so cynical at this point that he can know exactly what is gonna happen in the future and be cynical about that in the present
Maybe that's why he's always grumpy
Or he’s grumpy that it isn’t satire anymore. They became real life. ☹️🍺
He is just grumpy because he saw that big movies won’t be stupid until 3 weeks after he dies
@Enclave Communications Officer a lot of his older videos online show that too. he was genuinely a super chipper dude, and it DOES shine thru nowadays. its a terrible time for cinema, and it must be horrible to have dedicated your life to it and see it dragged thru the mud. ive heard a lot of the same thing about people in the music industry. if youre mega-famous, youre more than likely a corporate shill, and that sort of business model turns away a lot of genuine talent
@@killer900rocks He's been doing the grumpy act for years. He definitely plays it up at different times, but that's just his general attitude towards shitty uninspired corporate blockbusters
He can see things before they happen. That's why he appears to have such quick reflexes. It's a Jedi trait.
when they gonna start cutting our Red Letter boys their check
They also owe Jay for the Captain America look alike action figure.
It's maddening how accurate they were
The only thing they got wrong was that he would be from an alternate universe. Other than that they were spot on!
The sequel trilogy was worse than the prequel trilogy
By orders of magnitude. The prequels may be plodding and dull, but they are about something, and they’re telling a story.
This new trilogy did not.
No shit
The prequel trilogy is very good, just cry baby do not like it because there are too much politics but revenge of the sith is by far the best star wars.
TFA still gets a pass from me.
@@corey9746 Hey if you want a new hope 2.0 go right ahead
Annnnnddddd that’s in the movie.
Great. Good job, Disney. *Clapping sarcastically*
He was joking and that was actually the plot. You love to see it.
You can hear the writers furiously scribbling notes as he talks
damn disney must’ve paused before he started laughing
For those that think this was some crazy prediction: Disney already showed they were taking ideas from a non-canon comic book series called "star wars legacy". A lot of people predicated rise of skywalker correctly
Disney: But what he didn’t predict was those 10,000 Star Destroyers would have a mini DeathStar cannon attached to them hahaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!
My friend and I were predicting episode 9, from the title, all the way to the ending. I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney implanted a bug in our school bags and took down notes because we were both right lmao
Lucasfilm: Write that down!! Write that down!!
JJ: "WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN"
I love how he starts laughing because it sounds so ridiculous then that’s actually what happens
"Write that down-WRITE THAT DOWN!"
*this podcast gets released*
Disney “write that down!”
He can’t even say it without laughing and Disney was like “WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!!!”
JJ Abrams : ✍️ emperor ✍️ palpatine ✍️ survives ✍️second ✍️deathstar ✍️ explosion
I wouldn't be surprised if in about a decade Mike actually admits to spreading such ridiculous ideas into the Internet so that Disney hears them and puts them in their movies.
Nerd Crew: jokes about the plot of Star Wars episode IX
Disney: *Hippity hoppity this joke is now my property*
This is at the same time incredibly funny and so sad... Great content ! 😂😭
JJ Abrams: "Oh, that's pretty good. I should write this down."
Sounds like a D&D plot
Disney was that desperate in salvaging the franchise’s reputation after the TLJ debacle that they turned to the most reliable creative minds they could find to write TROS
The alternate universe part is the craziest part. Especially with what happened with Luke in mando
Disney: so you know how anakin was the chosen and destroyed the emperor? Yeah f**k that noise, I got a better plan.
How the pitch meeting went:
"So, we had a death star in the fourth one and another death star, a bigger one in the sixth one and a even bigger death star in the seventh one. What death star are we going to have in the ninth one?"
"What about ONE THOUSAND Death Stars??"
"That's a good start, maybe make it super-star destroyers? Because it's so fresh?"
"Yeah, let's make it Star Destroyers because people like it, ALL WITH DEATH STAR CAPABILITIES BECAUSE DOOM!"
"YEAH!!! GOOD IDEA!!"
"YEAH!!!"
"YEAH WOOOHOOOOOO!!!"
Disney Team: "Quick, write that down!"
The most ridiculous part is that not only is the Emperor and mega-destructive 10,000 star destroyers accurate, but even that he's pretty much in this 'alternate' universe because you have to go through some wormhole to reach Exegol.
There was a lego short where they used a space crystal to go back in time…
JJ Abrams: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
“Write that down! Write that down!”
Wow...this really puts into perspective just how much they fucked up.
The alternate universe theory wasn’t exactly correct, but even then the “alternate universe” idea is already presented in things like Rebels, let alone canon comics.
But yeah, he was 100% about that Star Destroyer idea. Not 100, not 1,000, *10,000.* And even better, a good amount, if not all of them, each have the firing power of a Death Star. Each individual one.
I... *I can’t, this is too good...* I just love Star Wars man.
JJ Abrams: Write that down! Write that down!!
J.J. Abrams: Write that down!!
The best part is after this he says that Palpatine will get a Star Crystal and time travel. LO AND BEHOLD: LEGO STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Disney: Write that down JJ. Write that down.
I thought this was tongue in cheek but holy fuck it’s on goddamn point lol
I REFUSE to believe they didn’t know. ITS SO WILD 🤣🤣🤣
Okay so I just started watching RLM so don’t crucify me please. If this prediction Mike gave actually came before the movie came out that is absolutely *FUCKING INSANE* he predicted it like that
He called a few things in the Solo movie too.
just search readlettermedia predictions
Wasn't an alternate universe though. But the 10000 star destroyers was spot on
Disney just went "Write that down!"
He can see things before they happen. It’s a Jedi trait
When I predicted: shit , I wasn’t wrong?
J.j Abraham: "Yes! This is genius!"
You can even hear him laughing after that what turned out to be true
Like many have said.... "Star wars is 6 films"
Disney writers: "Write that down!"
Rare footage of Disney discussing The Rise of Skywalker
Disney: *Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!*
This is not a podcast, just an excecutives meeting
The fact that they literally say in the movie that the new fleet will increase their forces “10,000 fold” lmao it’s not even a hyperbole anymore
THE LAUGH AT THE END
“It was said that you would theorize about TROS, not know it!”
I want to see his reaction to the movie
JJ Abrams: “...shoot I better write that down”
There’s a similar thing with Halo. On a commentary for Halo 1 when Chief is with guilty spark and they’re at the control room. The devs discuss they scrapped the idea where Cortana would reveal after having spent some time in Halos control room that she would become evil after the hardware of Halo made her feel like a god. They scrapped that idea......it became the plot twist of Halo 5.
The laughter at the end 😆
Can this even be labeled a prediction? Straight up foretelling
Disney writers: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!
I mean it was easy to predict, even I predicted the whole plot
See, Jar Jar didn't know they were making fun. He thought it's a serious fan idea.
Man, I'm really the only guy here that wants the villains to win.
Hate to burst your bubble guys but they did this video after the rise of Skywalker reveal trailer that had all that information in it
This literally was the plot to a fanfic I wrote when I was like 11
Disney: write that down, write that down
JJ Abrams: WRITE THAT DOWN