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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
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)
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I think you have this kind of upside down. The shows are now viewed by people of have contempt for the source material.
People have whined and complained and intimidated the studios into adapting fan fiction instead of building out new stories within these worlds. The Rise of Skywalker is the perfect example, it's not Disneys fault, it's only a little bit JJs fault, blame lays squarely at the feet of the people who have built their identity around loving Star Wars, but who clearly hate it deep down inside, and are just waiting to pounce down the throat of any misstep that lays just 1 or 2 mm out side of the expectations they built for themselves.
If you hate all of it, just start watching mindless rom-coms or something. Stop worrying about it. Like it or not it would hard to argue that Stars has put out much content better than this show in the past decade (probably Andor, Modo S1, Rebels and that's about it). So if you can't bring yourself to just enjoy it, than you may have outgrown star wars.