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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ART!" data-source="post: 7886928" data-attributes="member: 79926">The Mandalorian has a simplicity to it that's very..."cozy" isn't quite the right word, but you don't have to worry about being overwhelmed or getting lost when watching it. It's connected to continuity, but it doesn't expect you to know much. It's very down-to-earth.JJ's SW movies care almost too much about forward momentum, to the point that something Very Important is always happening. To some degree that's just the nature of movies vs tv series - for whatever reason, film-makers/studios think the movies "have to be" about something big, huge, earth-shattering, galaxy-threatening, and lose sight of the personal stories or even just the personal needs of people who want to enjoy themselves without being overwhelmed.If you count novels, comics, and video games, you're right about the scope of the SW universe, but of course most people know nothing about all that.This kind of begs the question: is there something inherently appealing about the OT's approach to things, setting aside nostalgia and familiarity? Has SW been around so long that rusty ships, the sound of TIE fighters, beasts of burden on desert planets, et al have a warm familiarity to enough people to keep a franchise going? Is there something inherently attractive about enough of these SW tropes to keep a franchise based on those going?I think it's safe to say the vast majority of people ever likely to sit down and watch a Star Wars thing (let alone read a book or comic) are not aware of this.Clearly, we could come up with what-ifs until the sun dies, so no, I'm good with what we've got. If I had a time machine and a magic wand, I'd probably have Leia not be Luke's sister, and after ROTJ Luke would go searching for his sister, but I'm not assuming that would yield better results.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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