Here we go again. Another Star Wars TV show trying to profit from the nostalgia and the Intellectual Property that has spanned generations of fans.
And yet again it's crap.
Writing. Writing. Writing.
I don't care if everyone has unusual hair colors and has sex with everything that moves. That's not the problem with the latest batch of shows.
You can't just say "we will make them all diverse" and decide on how a few key scenes each episode are to be done and they hand wave off the writing everything in between. You need a reason for those various scenes to happen and to link them to the next scene as well as the larger story.
This is what good writers do. They actually write a narrative story that ties all the pink hair, weird sex scenes and light Saber sequences together so it all makes sense. Very good writers adhear to Canon wherever possible and string together a story that no only connects the funny hair, the weird sex and the lightsaber battles together BUT also tie it in to the existing Intelectual Property so it feels like part of a cohesive whole that one can make the viewers believe was always planned to be done by the creator even if he had zero plans beyond the one movie.
This is why the shows are failing.
Want to see how it's done? Look at the Fallout series. They managed to take a VIDEO GAME and make a story so strong and compelling there are REAL LIFE WOMEN who want to date the GHOUL!!! Have any of the recent Star Wars movies and TV shoes made a single character that anyone has wanted to date? I can't think of any. They're all so badly written that no one wants to touch those charachters much less date them.
And yet again it's crap.
Writing. Writing. Writing.
I don't care if everyone has unusual hair colors and has sex with everything that moves. That's not the problem with the latest batch of shows.
You can't just say "we will make them all diverse" and decide on how a few key scenes each episode are to be done and they hand wave off the writing everything in between. You need a reason for those various scenes to happen and to link them to the next scene as well as the larger story.
This is what good writers do. They actually write a narrative story that ties all the pink hair, weird sex scenes and light Saber sequences together so it all makes sense. Very good writers adhear to Canon wherever possible and string together a story that no only connects the funny hair, the weird sex and the lightsaber battles together BUT also tie it in to the existing Intelectual Property so it feels like part of a cohesive whole that one can make the viewers believe was always planned to be done by the creator even if he had zero plans beyond the one movie.
This is why the shows are failing.
Want to see how it's done? Look at the Fallout series. They managed to take a VIDEO GAME and make a story so strong and compelling there are REAL LIFE WOMEN who want to date the GHOUL!!! Have any of the recent Star Wars movies and TV shoes made a single character that anyone has wanted to date? I can't think of any. They're all so badly written that no one wants to touch those charachters much less date them.
