Jedijax719
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The biggest thing is that they killed the original heroes, created new heroes, but had absolutely ZERO goals or future with the new heroes. So they essentially killed EVERYONE with no place to go. They frantically threw things against he wall but the entire wall collapsed. Now they are stuck. The result is that SW has died a painful death. A few shows, as good as they may be, cannot rejuvenated the franchise.So the fanboy excuse?
no…not gonna get off that hook with that blanket excuse from the Clinton era…
disney spent $4 bil on something, but put together a plan without ever studying why it was successful in the first place. Their entire approach was “modernization”…which is ok if you do a story. They did a remake and then let it flop afterward. That was beyond stupidity level.
It sent the message to billions (literally) of people that they were somehow wrong to like it in the first place.
this was Bob iger’s billion dollar net worth job. Instead of taking some time or ID’ing why it worked would have been prudent. Instead they mined the past - to a degree - for current outrage. That never works.
how much of that is on KK? We can’t be sure…but she carried out her role in that error.
This is probably why the prequels (gulp) seem to be more accepted now in comparison. I’m not talking about comic con all access pass goers - I’m talking normal Joes.
lucas tried to exploit his franchise for money aimed at children…that seems to be more acceptable than trying to retcon the whole thing and killing the main characters in beyond unmemorable fashion while you do it.
They hired separate people to do separate movies but had no plans for continuity or connection. The first thing that KK needed to do is hire a showrunner and someone to write a TRILOGY and not a single movie. She needed to understand her own strengths and weaknesses and filled the gaps. They also needed to understand and monitor where JJ and RJ were going.
Is there room for redemption? I really don't know about that. I think they COULD if they focus on a different era. But there will be things that are now lacking and not able to recover. Sad part is. there is a list of things they could have EASILY added to TROS to make it actually a pretty good movie. Do a CGI scene with the original heroes together when Kylo was born or very young. have some more explanation as to Palpatine's return, focusing on the sith acoylytes' involvement, have a good epilogue honoring Leia (maybe a statue on Coruscant presented by Poe in the new capital city), Force ghosts present and visible at the end (like many fan edits have done which were so much better), and a scene where Leia and Kylo reunite using footage of Carrie-no words need to be said.
Those are ideas. Point is that they just needed SOME sense of vision and oversight.