Reply To: Star Wars: The High Republic

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@hobbyhub no I don’t … but then I rarely know any names of directors/producers of anything.
IMDB lists he has done both Rebels and Last Jedi
One was excellent … the other crap.

I’d say based on his timeline he is getting worse in Star Wars stories, not better although we don’t know how much influence he really had.

The more the advertising focusses on how ‘diverse’ the writers are the more red flags are raised for me.
I don’t want to know what skin colour they have or what gender they are.

Star Wars as it was after the orignal trilogy was an ok franchise.
Every modern iteration appears dead set on making it ‘inclusive’ and ‘diverse’ when it already was exactly that.
We never questioned why Lando was black and why he was friends with Solo, because they just were.
In Force Awakens I find myself wondering if Fynn was black and Rey was a girl because the producers had to tick a few boxes.
It makes me wonder why practically every evil character is male and every ‘good’ character is female.

It makes me question tthe authenticity (sp?) of the story and message they’re trying to send as opposed to just enjoying the movie for what it is.

And going that extra mile to pretend that ‘High Republic’ is something new when ‘The old Republic’ already covered a suspiciously similar era within Star Wars ?

I do hope it gets Starwars back on track to being good.
And the Mandalorian sort of proves it can be done if they want to based on what I’ve heard (can’t watch it because I am not paying for yet another streaming service using ‘exclusive’ content as bait).

It’s the way it’s promoted and hyped that makes me have serious doubts.
Star Wars has a galaxy worth of potential for awesome.
And yet somehow that potential has been wasted every single time in order to please the shareholders and a few wannabe activists instead of their actual fan base and those who might want to get hooked.