Star Wars Needs to Stop Explaining Star Wars
Star Wars' recent movies and shows have been too focused on explaining Star Wars. The Disney era of the Star Wars franchise has seen both big hits and big misses, but the franchise's obsession with fixing perceived plot holes or connecting dots in canon is undermining its ability to tell fresh stories.
The George Lucas era of Star Wars transformed Hollywood with some of the most innovative and popular movies in history, but the franchise has always been a magnet for divisive opinions. From complaints about the Ewoks defeating the Empire in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi to Lucas' numerous changes to the original trilogy re-releases to the divisive reaction to the prequels, there's always been a public discourse about what Star Wars is supposed to be, and now Disney faces many of the same problems Lucas did, but for totally different reasons.
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While George Lucas was frequently criticized for straying too far from what audiences wanted, Disney's Star Wars is heavily rooted in Star Wars itself, with movies and shows that strive to recapture the feelings audiences got from the more popular elements of Lucas' Star Wars, while avoiding the less popular elements. A certain amount of nostalgia, self-references, and adherence to canon should be expected from any franchise, but Disney and Lucasfilm's fixation on fixing Star Wars will only make the franchise feel smaller and less relevant in the long run.
After Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced plans to make more Star Wars movies, opinions began to swirl about what those movies should be. The prequels had grown a bit in popularity, but one of the loudest opinions was that Disney should is the
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