Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
Yeah, the big problem, as I've said elsewhere either in this thread or others (or both -- I lose track), is release order. Marvel's success with the MCU has largely been due to starting with Iron Man in '08 and then going ever forward. Some films are flashbacks, but contextualized in sequence. Even Ant-man & The Wasp, which you should really see, @CutThumb -- it ties into Infinity War, while easing the emotion of the end of IW doesn't negate it, and quite likely hints at how things will be resolved in Avengers 4. It's neither fluff nor filler.
Meanwhile, Lucasfilm seems scattershot and without master plan because of that very same factor -- sequence. Can lay the blame for that at George's feet. Not so much bad as inevitable. By him choosing to take from the middle of his notes for what he thought was going to be his one filmic chance to visit that universe. So it was already borked from the get-go, should he ever have and take the opportunity to go back and do the earlier stuff. Then Clone Wars went back to between Episodes II and III. Then he left Lucasfilm with notes as to where to take the story following ROTJ.
So when viewed as a whole, starting in the middle, jumping back to the beginning, jumping back again a little to tell more out of the middle of that first part, jumping ahead to tell what happens way after the end of the middle, jumping back to tell what happens just before the middle, jumping back up to continue with the "after" era, jumping back again to tell a story from between the beginning and middle, jumping forward again to revisit what happens next, jumping back again to fill in a little of what happens between the end of the middle and the beginning of the after... Whew. No wonder it looks directionless.
I can accept it as almost a pontillistic exercise, filling in portions everywhere as the whole gradually takes shape. But I do wish it were linear from the start in the '70s.
Yeah, the big problem, as I've said elsewhere either in this thread or others (or both -- I lose track), is release order. Marvel's success with the MCU has largely been due to starting with Iron Man in '08 and then going ever forward. Some films are flashbacks, but contextualized in sequence. Even Ant-man & The Wasp, which you should really see, @CutThumb -- it ties into Infinity War, while easing the emotion of the end of IW doesn't negate it, and quite likely hints at how things will be resolved in Avengers 4. It's neither fluff nor filler.
Meanwhile, Lucasfilm seems scattershot and without master plan because of that very same factor -- sequence. Can lay the blame for that at George's feet. Not so much bad as inevitable. By him choosing to take from the middle of his notes for what he thought was going to be his one filmic chance to visit that universe. So it was already borked from the get-go, should he ever have and take the opportunity to go back and do the earlier stuff. Then Clone Wars went back to between Episodes II and III. Then he left Lucasfilm with notes as to where to take the story following ROTJ.
So when viewed as a whole, starting in the middle, jumping back to the beginning, jumping back again a little to tell more out of the middle of that first part, jumping ahead to tell what happens way after the end of the middle, jumping back to tell what happens just before the middle, jumping back up to continue with the "after" era, jumping back again to tell a story from between the beginning and middle, jumping forward again to revisit what happens next, jumping back again to fill in a little of what happens between the end of the middle and the beginning of the after... Whew. No wonder it looks directionless.
I can accept it as almost a pontillistic exercise, filling in portions everywhere as the whole gradually takes shape. But I do wish it were linear from the start in the '70s.
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