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It also isn't a formula for success, look at Ahsoka. No amount of nostalgia can save bad writing and directing.
I think that's even more of a testament to what good writing, acting, and directing can do. And a harsh indictment of the Star Wars DU as a whole. Bad set direction and blocking in Obi Wan. Turning Ahsoka into a live action Rebels, complete with childish dialogue and an absolute lack of verisimilitude. Book of Boba Fett having complete tonal shifts, not just episode to episode, but scene to scene. Shoot, i wish Disney would finally film and release Episode IX, just so we could have a completion of the sequels.
Sorry to say, but the "second coming" that is Dave Filoni is a pox on the franchise. He took the worst of Lucas's indulgent tendencies (world building over character building, crappy dialogue, aiming solely at kids, elevating Campbellian mythology into quackery like midichlorians and space whales) and somehow managed to take over the whole franchise. I simply cannot fathom the loyalty of the fan base to this guy, barring those who grew up with cartoons and the typical misogynistic knee jerk to Kathleen Kennedy. He has churned out 4 series of pure shite
Andor and TLJ were bright spots but I've more or less moved on from Star Wars. Let them earn back my interest. In the interim, I'll continue to slay in the fantastic Dark Forces remaster
Harsher than I would say is necessary, but agreed that Filoni has created more issues than he’s solved in live action. Maybe it was partly still crawling out of the COVID mindset, but Ahsoka felt so oddly small, both as a story and a production. Give him twice as many episodes to let the characters breathe in between the world building, and the relative freedom from production restrictions that you get in animation, and it would have been better.
Gilroy told a smaller story, but somehow it felt more expansive. The money was spent in ways that made it feel right, and when they needed to dial it back? Boom: arc in a plastic prison, instead of traveling to a completely different galaxy only to film in one sand dune and one hallway.