how did it take nearly 40 years for the owners of the star wars IP to figure out the core formula is move the plot along without a bunch of nonsensical bullshit
suffer through six crimes-against-storytelling multi-billion dollar installments literally everyone hates just to realize you can just produce great content by going back to 1920’s serials format and giving a damn about actually giving the thing plot momentum
here’s a character with rational motivations and here’s some obstacles, let’s see what happens! you don’t care about academic dissertations on the rules of the universe the characters exist in so we won’t even bore you with it. what a concept
it would’ve taken george lucas or the potpourri of passive aggressive weirdos behind the most recent trilogy 900 years to tell the story jon favreau shoehorned into a bunch of glorified saturday morning cartoons and it would’ve been 9 million times less fun or interesting
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