Yeah, see, I guess that's how much I dislike Abrams. That actually *does* sound like an upgrade to me. :)

How would he go from Straw Dogs to directing a Star Wars movie?
Keep your fourth wall breaking and "witty" humor out of my Star Wars.

I went to see Avengers 2 and I was just meh. Same old same old. The only thing that interest me about the MCU as of late is Thanos. Hurry up and get all 4 gems for the Infinty Gauntlet and fuck shit up Thanos.

Well regardless of what one thinks of Abrams, the guy knows how to make a movie. Whedon is a TV director, his strengths lie elsewhere.

Agree to disagree... {shrug}

Yeesh! Really? You definitely have some hang-ups there.
...dary! LEGENDARY!
There are six Infinity Gems.
J.J. Abrams also was a TV director.

Lightning bolt and whiskey, just like I said. What do I have to do, draw you a map?

I mean that him directing a Star Wars movie is like Martin Scorsese or Quintin Tarantino make a Star Wars movie.

I got a better idea hire Robert Zemeckis.

So who gets murdered near the end of the movie to provide "a dramatic push"?

FUCK JOSS WHEDON.

You know, it's not unprecedented for characters to die in the Star Wars films. Wars is in the title. People die in wars. I don't see the problem.

True. I don’t mean to imply that no TV director can make a good movie director (neither am I putting movies on a higher pedestal, they're both great), only that movie directing requires a different skill-set to television and some who make the transition haven’t adapted. Whedon seems like a TV director even when he’s directing blockbuster movies.

I loved Buffy and Firefly and Avengers 1. I'm sure Joss would do a great job, although no doubt it would show his fingerprint. That might make it a little different to ep 4 - 6 but not worse than 1 - 3. Besides, what other director is halfway worthy?

Not a great choice, not a terrible one either. I loved Firefly and Serenity, but I have not seen anything else from Whedon close to that, and Avengers was a fun action flick, but not the kind of thing I want Star Wars to be. Honestly, it's hard for me to treat any such Star Wars related news with much excitement. It's not like anything can shock or offend me as a Star Wars fan anymore. The shock value there is entirely depleted.

I think the only news that could get me excited is if they got Kenneth Branagh to direct. He is one of the greatest directors ever, he proved with Thor that he can do big budget sf blockbusters, and I think his shakespearian experience could help him bring back the larger-than-life quality and that certain intangible "magic" of the original SW.

Hell, if they got him to make William Shakespear's Star Wars movie I'd be looking foreward to it more than the new trilogy.

Well... that'd be an interesting experiment. The sterilized Star Wars experience, now with Whedonisms on top.
Still, a step up since Abrams.

Keep in mind there are also the Star Wars Anthology films that will come out every other year. It could be they'll let Whedon have his own corner of the Star Wars universe in which to create original characters he'll make us love and then brutally kill off. ;)

Whedon?? Then Abrams was better..