Yeah, but at least it was high-effort schlock. Lucasfilm invented new filming technology and techniques to get the results they wanted. George Lucas had a story he wanted to tell and an experience he wanted to create for his audience.
Disney just wanted to dispose of the original characters as quickly and cheaply as possible so they could be replaced with new characters that they would have full control of (no established lore or fan base) and new actors that they wouldn’t have to pay as much.
Lucas shopped Star Wars out to make money, but it was mostly to enable his projects and support his filming technology addiction (greed with a purpose).
Disney just wants to make money from Star Wars. They don’t care about the story or the characters or the universe or the experience as long as people will keep buying it (greed with no purpose) and you can smell the low-effort coming off of their movies. You can feel it while you’re sitting in the theater watching for the first time, not sure exactly what’s wrong but sure that something is… even if you can’t explain it in specific terms, you can feel the lack of care .
Well maybe… I certainly wasn’t born rich like Harry.
But… I don’t have any ‘woke agenda’ complaints about Disney’s handling of Star Wars, and I’m not old enough to have seen the originals in theaters.
Lucas, for all his clumsiness in writing dialogue and characters, cared about what he was doing and it showed in his work. He got other people to care about it too, and they improved the work.
Disney doesn’t care, and it shows. All of my complaints about ‘new’ Star Wars stem from the money-grubbing corporatism and short-sighted fanbase exploitation that the new owners have demonstrated.
So, I don’t think I’m really like Peter in this comic… I’m not carrying that burden of nostalgia, and frankly with Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks as examples I think some ‘wokeness’ only improves old franchises.
Except that they had multiple opportunities to kill off Leia, including when the actor actually fucking died, and instead of that we got her performing space Jesus magic, only to awkwardly die the next movie
Just terrible, and terrible for no discernable reason,
Imagine making one of the most large scale planned cinematic experiences over 10 years and then just not planning your star wars trilogy for some reason
They definitely weren’t out to kill the originals, they needed at least one per movie to nostalgia bait people in and were more than happy to use Carrie Fisher’s ghost
Well, that’s what I mean though - they only included the original characters as nostalgia bait, and then wrote them out of the plot as quickly as they felt they could get away with. They certainly had no plans to continue writing stories with the original characters, and look, they disposed of Ackbar off-screen. It was literally just for trailer scenes so they could draw people into the theaters.
Of course, with the absolutely pointless sideplot they sent Finn on in The Last Jedi, and the batshit discombobulated plot of Rise of Skywalker, it’s not clear that Disney had any plans for writing stories with their new characters either.
Yeah, but at least it was high-effort schlock. Lucasfilm invented new filming technology and techniques to get the results they wanted. George Lucas had a story he wanted to tell and an experience he wanted to create for his audience.
Disney just wanted to dispose of the original characters as quickly and cheaply as possible so they could be replaced with new characters that they would have full control of (no established lore or fan base) and new actors that they wouldn’t have to pay as much.
Lucas shopped Star Wars out to make money, but it was mostly to enable his projects and support his filming technology addiction (greed with a purpose).
Disney just wants to make money from Star Wars. They don’t care about the story or the characters or the universe or the experience as long as people will keep buying it (greed with no purpose) and you can smell the low-effort coming off of their movies. You can feel it while you’re sitting in the theater watching for the first time, not sure exactly what’s wrong but sure that something is… even if you can’t explain it in specific terms, you can feel the lack of care .
You’re Peter.
Well maybe… I certainly wasn’t born rich like Harry.
But… I don’t have any ‘woke agenda’ complaints about Disney’s handling of Star Wars, and I’m not old enough to have seen the originals in theaters.
Lucas, for all his clumsiness in writing dialogue and characters, cared about what he was doing and it showed in his work. He got other people to care about it too, and they improved the work.
Disney doesn’t care, and it shows. All of my complaints about ‘new’ Star Wars stem from the money-grubbing corporatism and short-sighted fanbase exploitation that the new owners have demonstrated.
So, I don’t think I’m really like Peter in this comic… I’m not carrying that burden of nostalgia, and frankly with Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks as examples I think some ‘wokeness’ only improves old franchises.
Except that they had multiple opportunities to kill off Leia, including when the actor actually fucking died, and instead of that we got her performing space Jesus magic, only to awkwardly die the next movie
Just terrible, and terrible for no discernable reason,
Imagine making one of the most large scale planned cinematic experiences over 10 years and then just not planning your star wars trilogy for some reason
They definitely weren’t out to kill the originals, they needed at least one per movie to nostalgia bait people in and were more than happy to use Carrie Fisher’s ghost
Well, that’s what I mean though - they only included the original characters as nostalgia bait, and then wrote them out of the plot as quickly as they felt they could get away with. They certainly had no plans to continue writing stories with the original characters, and look, they disposed of Ackbar off-screen. It was literally just for trailer scenes so they could draw people into the theaters.
Of course, with the absolutely pointless sideplot they sent Finn on in The Last Jedi, and the batshit discombobulated plot of Rise of Skywalker, it’s not clear that Disney had any plans for writing stories with their new characters either.