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Originally Posted by blankall
These are all great.
The main problem with the new trilogy is that the writers clearly don't have a grasp of the original movies, let alone the expanded materials. Not to beat a dead horse, but the decision to allow 2 totally different writers in a trilogy was baffling, especially when one of those writers makes it his mission to destroy the previous movies plot and "subvert" everyone's expectations.
The Mandalorian is what you get when a writer actually familiar with the content writes a story. Rogue One, similarly, had John Knoll as the primary writer. He'd not only worked on the prequel trilogy, but had been working in sci-fi since the 1980s.
When you have a pre-established franchise. You need to get people familiar with the previous material writing.
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Well....that and people who actually give a crap and are interested in telling a decent story over the course of a Trilogy.
TFA could have been written by a monkey, pretty much everyone understands exactly what that movie was and for what it was it was pretty good.
Introduce new characters, new situations, new circumstances and more or less an entirely new Galaxy while trodding along the familiar.
Fair enough.
But then to have a film given to Rian Johnson who wanted to reinvent Star Wars in one movie within the constraints of a sequential trilogy with conflicts and characters baked in that he wanted to also be controversial was just....'poor planning' seems like an understatement.
And finally, frankly, your middle film really needs to be the meat and potatoes.
You introduce in the first movie. Check. You establish the conflict and pattern the circumstances in the second movie. Giant swing and a miss. And then finally the third movie wraps everything up.
It all just crumbled into a barely coherent mess.