I'm tired of all these Ahsooka and Han Solo spinoffs. For once I want Disney to give me the story of Steve, the padawan no jedi wanted to train!
Steve: turns on lightsaber
Steve: Hm...what does the green plasma taste like?
After Mando and the MCU, I thought they'd go in the direction where you create different genres set in the Sta Wars universe, instead every genre is a Saturday morning cartoon.
Mandolorian - Western with a villain of the season and the wanderer goes to a new planet/sector
Andor - Gritty spy/war drama
Police Procedural - A Jedi solves crimes in local town while in hiding
Book of Boba Fett -mob crime show like breaking bad, sopranos
Rom Com - An ex storm trooper and a rebel fall in love
Sitcom - the office but set in a moisture farm
Heist - like Leverage with a bunch of criminals
Horror - A powerful Sith is hunting Jedi
Obi Wan - Slice of life, Ben the hermit does gardening and chores for the townsfolk, tries to fend off attraction for the local blue milk maids, sharpens his mind into razor sharp focus instead of swinging a baseball bat around. Uses wit and logic to solves problems
Shonen - basically the games but better
War - band of brothers but with rebels
It's cause the people that fund movies and games have absolutely no imagination. So to get something funded, you have to sell it as: Think of it as "Friends, but set in the star wars universe"
It think it has a lot more to do with how risky it’s seen- the budgets for these films and shows are huge.
Further they’re dinosaurs who still see sci-fi as “not popular” and “risky”- but a lot of that actually has to do with idiots doing broadcasting stupidity.
(Like airing Babylon 5 opposite St:DS9 in a time when DVRs didn’t exist, or mucking with the episode order of firefly, so everyone was extremely confused about who and what was going on in the first few episodes,)
Couple that with needing to include merchandising opportunities (baby yoda, for example,) and generally satisfying corpos that it’s going to turn bigger profits than, say, uh… whatever is currently streaming….
Pitch meeting nails how producers green lights movies and tv shows.
Most the shows he listed he’s giving examples of existing shows. And actually, his Police Procedural sounds exactly like the Peacock-Original “Poker Face”, except without Jedi…lead character (Natasha Lyone) is essentially a human lie detector. Great easy-watching bingable crime-comedy, IMO.
I want the Great Chandrillan Baking Show.
It's Shistivanen Week and Plintth is in his element!
""Oh, it's going to be meat pies! Savoury meat pies, sweet meat pies! Blood pies! This is my comfort zone!""
Meanwhile Kwen needs to wow the judges, after her Kakooloo nut disaster last week.
""Oh no! It's going to be meat pies! What do I do? This is terrible!""
There's drama...
""Bakers, you have fifteen minutes remaining!""
Tragedy...
""Oh no, oh no, oh no! This looks a mess!""
And Triumph...
""This is, without a doubt, the best Frischenaak, I have ever tasted!""
Under the kitchen dome, today on the Great Chandrillan Baking Show.
That was great. Perfection.
I'm tired of all these big tent "franchises" entirely.
Hey, filmmakers, authors, television producers, etc.: MAKE SOMETHING NEW FFS!
Star Wars has been fertile ground for writers for decades, though. For every movie or TV show there are half a dozen books. Hard to say no to that.
According to ahem Legends this was Obi-Wan. They sent Obi-Wan to a farming planet and was essentially booted out because no master would take him. From the book, Star Wars Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force.
Like the MCU, I'm just tired of star wars.
I never want to hear about the universe again.
let's move on and create some new interesting worlds.
I tend to agree. There are so many great sci-fi and fantasy universes waiting to be adapted. Just give me a Mistborn or The Final Architecture TV series.
A Mistborn show would be freaking awesome!
I've always wanted to see some movies/television based on Niven's "Known Space" universe, and not just because I want to see a Pierson's Puppeteer. There are interesting worlds, one with high gravity that has land poking above it's atmosphere, one Venus-type planet with a single high region that's habitable, a desert planet that has its axis 90° to the ecliptic, causing high winds half the year, a system of five worlds orbiting around each other, one of which has no sun and a trillion inhabitants...
But no, let's go to fucking Tattoine again.
Yoda: "The force is, not strong in that one, but owed his father a favor did I"
Autistic he is, special helmet he has. Mhhhhmph?
It’s tastes like mint toothpaste.
This is kind of the beginning of Zayne Carrick's story, tbh - from the Knights of the Old Republic comics - and I'm surprised they haven't done anything with that one yet. I'd probably watch it, too, even though we're living through a time of Endless Trash.
Maybe Disney will buy the Monty Python IP and remake "The Life of Brian" in the Star Wars universe.
He's not the Chosen One, he's a very naughty boy!
Where are those force welding kids in Last Jedi.
same place as the rest of all the interesting characters that had less than a minute of screen time but were essential somehow to the plot: fucking nowhere