How I'd fix Star Wars


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Umbran

Mod Squad
Staff member
What is "broken" with Star Wars is that it had too much time lying fallow during which fans' ideas of what Star Wars is "supposed to be" crystalized around an amazing trilogy of movies that, whatever their flaws, stood so far beyond anything else at the time in scope and achieved ambition within their genre that no movie as movies are today can possibly live in their shadow.

I'm going to turn this around somewhat...

What is "broken" with Star Wars is the fans who became so obsessed with what Star Wars was "supposed to be" that no movie can possibly live in the shadow of their expectations.
 

Zardnaar

Legend
What Star Wars needs is:

-A few new ideas that don't lean on the original trilogy.
-New characters we care about.
-Stakes we care about.

Andor was a step in the right direction. No lightsabers, no Jedi. Just a mature plot about oppression, with genuin stakes.

I'm going to turn this around somewhat...

What is "broken" with Star Wars is the fans who became so obsessed with what Star Wars was "supposed to be" that no movie can possibly live in the shadow of their expectations.

Not really they just made a couple of dud movies, screwed up the ending of the ST and made a dud show.

Their average hit ratio is reasonably good.
 







Starting from zero a new IP? Possible but hard to get the same level of popularity, at least in short term. Even other IPs haven't could. If it was so easy, then comic publishers or videogame studios had created their own space fantasy.

Who should be closest would be Starfinder by Paizo. Maybe Amazon after "Legend of Vox Machine" could dare to talk with Paizo.
 

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