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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I think that the dude who wrote game of thrones said it best. That there's a new generation of screenwriters and directors who search out the opportunity to work on these legacy stories like Star Wars and others, and they want to put their stamp on it, and surpass the creators.
Star Wars that's especially true, with the ST, and even with the TV shows.
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Movies are now made by people who have contempt for their source material.
Lord of the Rings was made by people who love Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power was made by people who love money.
You see it with the live action Disney movies. They’re trying to “correct” the cartoons. It’s gross.
But you also hit on the fundamental problem - the people who are writing these shows aren’t great writers and they don’t have great stories to tell.
And nobody on the studio side gives a #### about the stories, so nobody’s there to say “stop letting people survive lightsaber wounds.”
So it all ends up feeling hollow and wrong.
(Post script - the larger overall problem in the Star Wars universe is that there is nothing generally worth defending. There is no Shire. There is no place removed from the action for the hero to return to. Everyone is an orphan from a terrible place, and fighting is the only way for them to escape their boring/hellish existence)