{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Monday, 25-Jan-16 02:55:23 UTC","author_name":"Narwhal (narwhal)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/narwhal","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/4067938","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/17847\" class=\"url\" title=\"Mattimation\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">mrmattimation<\/span><\/a><\/span> My first thoughts after watching The Force Awakens were &quot;This feels like if A New Hope were done by an actually competent filmmaker&quot;. Which isn't to say I dislike A New Hope, it's a great film, but you can tell lots of its best elements came into place by circumstance, like how he'd stumbled across the Monomyth from old Westerns and borrowed the Jedi from classic samurai films."}