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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Not surprised.
I will give credit, the fight choreography was top notch. Qimar was really good. I think the problem was that the rest of the cast was just so flat, and the story wasn't all that interesting.
Right now Disney is facing a lot of criticism for the Star Wars universe. Outside of the Mandalorian, and even that suffered in the last season, the shows haven't jumped out, and the ST was awful.
I mean, I'm the biggest Star Wars nerd out there, but I haven't bought a new Star Wars book since I finished the Aftermath series, and I'm probably not that interested in Skeleton Crew.
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It's the same problem with Marvel and a few other things. Stuff just becomes oversaturated and uninteresting. We all love hockey and the Flames. But if they had a 24hr Flames channel and a some new Flames TV show every 3-4 months, even the hardest fans would stop tuning in. And then before you know it you forget that it's actually all centred on the game.
Part of what's special about something is anticipation, surprise, even completely forgetting it was a thing before BAM remember this?! F*** YEA! That's how I felt when I saw Finn sit up in a Stormtrooper outfit in the desert for the first time. "Oh s***! There's more Star Wars?!" And everyone got pumped. Quality of that series aside, I was stoked to see them.
And then they just want to churn out as much as possible as fast as possible forgetting that people DO recognize quality, even people who aren't that critical. And geeks can only convince their friends that so many things are good. I remember having to convince my friends that Ironman was awesome. They all thought it looked lame and I was like "no we're going". Then our generation became the Marvel fans.
But now, endless Marvel shows, endless Star Wars shows, endless everything people start to tune out. You need to take something away for a while. Not like a few months. Like years. I really wish Marvel had just dropped everything for 5+ years after Endgame. I really wish they had the sack to keep RDJ in the Doom mask for 3 full movies before revealing it was him. I really wish Lucasfilm had the guts to turn their heroes into villains and create an actual compelling story within the films so that people outside of big nerds would be interested in watching the shows. But there's just no risk taking and so there's no payoff.