3 hours ago, HappyDaze said:That was the argument for the drop in quality from The Clone Wars to Rebels . This just takes it even lower.
And to an extent, I think us grognards knew Rebels would have to age up from early on. We looked at it and said "Hmmmmm.... They are going to have to dispose of those two by the time this thing ends...." Which meant getting the audience to a point where they could handle it.
Resistance is lucky in that there is less established material to match. So Kaz's future is more open ended. He can walk off into destiny at the end instead of getting blown up or kidnapped by space whales...
But you get me thinking...
Can a Star Wars kids show even be made these days?
Now of course the answer is "yes" but what I mean is we're in an age of accepted and extensive fandom, where every decision will be catalogued and reconciled into a single canon. When Ewok adventures, or Droids were on the air, that was kinda it. There were a few novels and such, but it wasn't being compiled and agragated like today. If you needed Wicket to interact with a magical sentient dung heap, you could do it and no one would care.
Today if you had Wicket find a crashed X-wing, and accidentally used a T-70 instead of a T-65 three years before the battle of Endor, the fandom would expect you to reconcile it. They'd ask you about it at Celebration, try and get an author to write a novel about a time traveling Poe becoming his own father, demanding a corrected version in the Blu-ray, and generally rail about you "assaulting" their childhood.
And that's where I think part of the trouble is. Releasing a "Star Wars" something on mass media today means making a "canon" story. If you make a kids show that isn't willing to flush canon and not worry about it, you're going to have to age-up it as it attracts fanboys of all ages, and by nature you want their old grognard money too.
If you flush canon, or even do something against what canon is expected to be... You're going to get beat up.
Edited by Ghostofman