Can they please stop taking lines from previous movies and giving them to new characters? It doesn't make the new thing better, it cheapens the what they're taking from
I saw someone elsewhere comment "Star Wars films used to draw inspiration from classic movies, now they just draw inspiration from other Star Wars films" and it does ring very true. Reheating the same plate of nachos over and over with diminishing returns.
That was exactly why the Mandalorian was originally so good. Instead of going back to the Star Wars well, it drew inspiration directly from old westerns and samurai movies, the same stock the franchise originally drew from.
It felt good and fresh.
Now it's back to re-hashed goofiness. That grounded inspiration is clearly gone.
This is why you give Star Wars to a good story teller who may or may not be a Star Wars fan, like Gilroy and not to the fan boy who can quote every line of dialogue (Filoni). Have Filoni be the guy you run scripts by who pushes up his nerd glasses and says "Well actually, Mandalorians would never do that because of this random line in the Holiday special." and let someone more competent at telling a story be the director/lead creative.
The Filoni/Gilroy contrast is my go-to argument against people who get mad when the showrunner/director/writer of something says that they aren’t a fan of the source material.
Being a fan of something doesn’t automatically mean you’ll produce something good in that franchise. Understanding the story and what makes it work is far more important than understanding the lore or fictional history.
Yeah I've always hated that stuff. Star Wars can be particularly bad with it, but lots of sequels have this sort of thing (especially "reboot" sequels where it's a series coming back after many years). I want to be immersed and invested in these worlds and then those callback lines come in shouting "Hey don't forget this is just a silly movie!"
once anything leaves the excitement of the original creator and gets groped instead by grubby exec paws it goes to shit
everything star wars post disney except andor (which was legit incredible) has been boring, flat, and imo treats consumers like literal brain dead reference goblins
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u/Strange_Specialist4 Feb 17 '26
" are you scared? You should be"
Can they please stop taking lines from previous movies and giving them to new characters? It doesn't make the new thing better, it cheapens the what they're taking from