Reply To: Star Wars: The High Republic

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I get that SF as a genre is often used to sell a modern moral/political idea in the form of a story.
However I’ve noticed that whenever the SJW crowd and related political activists get to do it the story takes a backseat and the message gets hammered with the subtelty of a twenty ton anvil being dropped on your family jewels.

This trailer where they so proudly talk about having ‘freedom’ to create (as if that never ever happens in products of this status) and the short list of things they ‘need’ to have in Star Wars makes me feel like they’re too focussed on creating a message that they forget about telling a good story.

Within a shared setting there are going to be restrictions on what can and cannot be done, because that’s what keeps it a cohesive setting.
That list should have been there instead of written from scratch, because they’re building onto an existing universe as is.
Never mind that there already was a load of talent responsible for the expanded universe. Why sell this ‘high republic’ as something ‘new’ when it is something that already was possible within the universe that had been created up until Disney got the license ? Bioware managed it when they created KotOR …

From the female version of Thor in comic book series to Rey in Force Awakens to the female Doctor in Doctor Who.
It’s like nothing is left to chance to hammer home a message that those characters apparently are too weak to tell organically through their story.