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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9047957" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>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. The way to make more Star Wars was to continuously make more Star Wars since the 80's, but then again the original trilogy would not have had the same mystique if that had happened (certainly the anti-Return of the Jedi crowd would have held a lot more ongoing sway if there were further diminishing returns 80s Star Wars to group it with, rather than it being part of The Trilogy).</p><p></p><p>Star Wars is now caught in an inescapable dilemma, along with many other old franchises. We live in a culture that both puts originality on a pedestal and at the same time is awash in nostalgia. Fans want new entries to be new but also exactly the same. You do something actually original and its not really what people want. You deliver people pure nostalgia and they complain that it lacks originality. There is no winning move. Star Wars fans won't like the things they think they want.</p><p></p><p>OP's "solution" immediately went into "not my Star Wars" territory for me, and presumably most fans. No I don't want some additional race of super jedi showing up. It's decades too late for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 9047957, member: 6988941"] 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. The way to make more Star Wars was to continuously make more Star Wars since the 80's, but then again the original trilogy would not have had the same mystique if that had happened (certainly the anti-Return of the Jedi crowd would have held a lot more ongoing sway if there were further diminishing returns 80s Star Wars to group it with, rather than it being part of The Trilogy). Star Wars is now caught in an inescapable dilemma, along with many other old franchises. We live in a culture that both puts originality on a pedestal and at the same time is awash in nostalgia. Fans want new entries to be new but also exactly the same. You do something actually original and its not really what people want. You deliver people pure nostalgia and they complain that it lacks originality. There is no winning move. Star Wars fans won't like the things they think they want. OP's "solution" immediately went into "not my Star Wars" territory for me, and presumably most fans. No I don't want some additional race of super jedi showing up. It's decades too late for that. [/QUOTE]
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