Still enjoy the franchise as a whole, but the recent stuff just hasn’t had me as hyped anymore. I guess I’ll still cautiously watch the upcoming stuff (heavy emphasis on cautious, particularly regarding The Acolyte) but it’s not as instantly drawing to me like before.
Mando seasons 1-2 were the peak of Disney Star Wars hype imo. Book of Boba had some goodwill from the end of Mando to keep us invested, but squandered a lot of it. From then on I haven’t been as immediate to watch the new stuff, except for Ahsoka, which wasn’t as much of a hit for me as I was hoping. Idk, maybe I’m just depressed in general or something.
The comics haven’t really been hitting the same either. It’s plagued by a lot of wheel-spinning and unnecessarily grandiose events stacked one on top of the other to increase sales. I don’t think they’ve gone more than 10 issues since the post-ESB comics started without another crossover across multiple books. First they had War of the Bounty Hunters, then Crimson Reign and Hidden Empire, and now Dark Droids. Plus they’re making comic adaptations of Mando for no effing reason. Most unnecessary comics ever lmao. Just watch the show for crying out loud!
The new slate of Prequel comics sounds promising enough. Qui-Gon and Mace Windu centric stories might be a little safe, but I think they’ll be good. I just wish they’d go for some more out-there Jedi. Give us some more of the oddballs we don’t get to see a whole lot. Make us care about Agen Kolar, Even Piell, Ki-Adi-Mundi, or Oppo Rancisis. Hell, maybe give us an actual canon origin for Grievous, please? So far barely anything from his Legends EU stuff is canonized. Even if you want to go in a new direction, I think I’d be fine with that. Just for the love of god, build on his generic motivations and explain why he has the damn cough.
High Republic is okay I guess, but Phase 2 really shouldn’t have been slapped right in the middle of the whole event. It throws everything sharply into a different era with completely new characters and little narrative or thematic consistency with the other phases, so it’s super jarring and disrupts the flow. I think that’s really where a majority of people got lost, and Phase 3 is struggling to pick things back up again. I barely looked at anything from Phase 2 besides The Blade comic. I’ve been meaning to check out some of the novels though.
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