Should Lucasfilm have taken a different approach?
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Re: Should Lucasfilm have taken a different approach?
It's not just you. It's writers in general that have a poor job world-building today, or trashing the world-building of previous lore. It's why I have so little faith in STG to hold strong to the previous continuity of TNG, DS9, and even Voyager.
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Re: Should Lucasfilm have taken a different approach?
Yes. Or have you never seen TNG?
Re: Should Lucasfilm have taken a different approach?
First off, Yes. They should have taken a different approach. Redoing Legends and the EU? Maybe.
But I have been a bit disappointed. This is Disney. They regularly take fairy tales and spin them into vivid tapestries to excite and stimulate the imagination. They move against the grain they themselves set and put down arguably a master piece. (Frozen) They took comic books and created a shared universe that practically everyone wants to ape.
So what went wrong? Did they go into Lucas Film and ask anyone that could even sign their name to get out because they did not need writing talent?
Some of what was done in the Force Awakens I think was good. Practical set pieces work better than all CGI in my opinion. Us the CGI for the stuff you can't make or fake. You want non WASP leads? Go for it. But don't write them as being not that. Write them as the leads and let gender and skin color not matter. If you have to be doing a pass the torch segment. Then let Luke be the elder teacher seeing his students go off to battles he can no longer join in. See Han with a nice great big ship he commands. And if you have to kill him off. Let it be heroic. Pull a Shepard from ME2. He went to ensure his passengers and crew got away from a wreck even if it cost him his life. Let people mourn but know he died a hero. A fitting legacy for a childhood icon.
Don't reproduce the same threat for a third time. I don't care if the base is bigger and shoots further. It is still a fancy Deathstar. Use a threat like the world dominators. Machines that come and Eat your worlds and make more of their weapons. You can even have it be something that got away from Imperial Remnants. So Finn is still a former Stormtrooper. But he knows these things have to be stopped. And don't let the badguys be stymied by a crank call. It makes the enemy look stupid, not threatening. Set the bar higher than 80's cartoon Cobra.
But I have been a bit disappointed. This is Disney. They regularly take fairy tales and spin them into vivid tapestries to excite and stimulate the imagination. They move against the grain they themselves set and put down arguably a master piece. (Frozen) They took comic books and created a shared universe that practically everyone wants to ape.
So what went wrong? Did they go into Lucas Film and ask anyone that could even sign their name to get out because they did not need writing talent?
Some of what was done in the Force Awakens I think was good. Practical set pieces work better than all CGI in my opinion. Us the CGI for the stuff you can't make or fake. You want non WASP leads? Go for it. But don't write them as being not that. Write them as the leads and let gender and skin color not matter. If you have to be doing a pass the torch segment. Then let Luke be the elder teacher seeing his students go off to battles he can no longer join in. See Han with a nice great big ship he commands. And if you have to kill him off. Let it be heroic. Pull a Shepard from ME2. He went to ensure his passengers and crew got away from a wreck even if it cost him his life. Let people mourn but know he died a hero. A fitting legacy for a childhood icon.
Don't reproduce the same threat for a third time. I don't care if the base is bigger and shoots further. It is still a fancy Deathstar. Use a threat like the world dominators. Machines that come and Eat your worlds and make more of their weapons. You can even have it be something that got away from Imperial Remnants. So Finn is still a former Stormtrooper. But he knows these things have to be stopped. And don't let the badguys be stymied by a crank call. It makes the enemy look stupid, not threatening. Set the bar higher than 80's cartoon Cobra.
