I had read almost every Star Wars novel on the planet, even the bad ones. I had played almost every Star Wars video game on the planet, even the bad ones. My understanding of Star Wars was that it’s a vast universe that enables the telling of all kinds of stories with slight magical and/or sci fi twists.
When they announced that all those stories would be thrown away to make space for new ones I was slightly perturbed but was open to seeing what they’d do with it. After all they had plenty of examples to show them what not to do.
Then they released a somewhat enjoyable movie with an imperial war lord (again) being controlled by some dark Jedi (again) using an even bigger deadlier superweapon (again). And they paired that up with an incomprehensible political landscape that makes absolutely no sense other than to press the good guys into an underdog role (again).
Still, the movie was somewhat enjoyable. So I was ready to see what they had in store to tie all of that together. And then The Last Jedi showed that they had absolutely nothing in store. Nobody had thought of anything beyond that one movie. It was just a disjointed mess of wouldn’t it be cool if.
The last one just cemented that feeling. I didn’t even bother to watch that one in theatre which turned out to be a good decision. They had thrown away thousands of pages of material to give us this mess. And they didn’t even acknowledge any wrongdoings.
I watched the side stuff. The Mandalorian season 1 could still live outside of the rest of Disney. But with season 2 ever more connections crept in.
I got so sick and tired of being reminded of what they had destroyed I couldn’t even enjoy the good stuff. I gave up on Star Wars. I’ll just play Jedi Knight, KOTOR and TIE Fighter forever.
Yes, but they crammed four seasons of story into season 2. Originally they wanted to end with season 5.
This is what happens when you plan out the whole thing ahead of time. You can pivot on the spot to meet market (or overlord) demands. Must have been too organised for Disney.
I had read almost every Star Wars novel on the planet, even the bad ones. I had played almost every Star Wars video game on the planet, even the bad ones. My understanding of Star Wars was that it’s a vast universe that enables the telling of all kinds of stories with slight magical and/or sci fi twists.
When they announced that all those stories would be thrown away to make space for new ones I was slightly perturbed but was open to seeing what they’d do with it. After all they had plenty of examples to show them what not to do.
Then they released a somewhat enjoyable movie with an imperial war lord (again) being controlled by some dark Jedi (again) using an even bigger deadlier superweapon (again). And they paired that up with an incomprehensible political landscape that makes absolutely no sense other than to press the good guys into an underdog role (again).
Still, the movie was somewhat enjoyable. So I was ready to see what they had in store to tie all of that together. And then The Last Jedi showed that they had absolutely nothing in store. Nobody had thought of anything beyond that one movie. It was just a disjointed mess of wouldn’t it be cool if.
The last one just cemented that feeling. I didn’t even bother to watch that one in theatre which turned out to be a good decision. They had thrown away thousands of pages of material to give us this mess. And they didn’t even acknowledge any wrongdoings.
I watched the side stuff. The Mandalorian season 1 could still live outside of the rest of Disney. But with season 2 ever more connections crept in.
I got so sick and tired of being reminded of what they had destroyed I couldn’t even enjoy the good stuff. I gave up on Star Wars. I’ll just play Jedi Knight, KOTOR and TIE Fighter forever.
At least it got us Andor, which is very very good.
And even that they had to cancel.
How? Isn’t Andor’s story complete?
Yes, but they crammed four seasons of story into season 2. Originally they wanted to end with season 5.
This is what happens when you plan out the whole thing ahead of time. You can pivot on the spot to meet market (or overlord) demands. Must have been too organised for Disney.