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A new Star Wars film used to be an occasion to savour. The anticipation, the countdown, the wait, just used to fuel it all. If you’re getting new films every six months or so and other canon material, TV series, comics, novels etc even more frequently, you lose all that anticipation. You end up getting all Star Warsed out.
Building hype only benefits Disney/LFL's bottom line, it does nothing to guarantee quality and to a point just sets up unhealthy expectations. The Phantom Menace and The Force Awakens were both pretty significant releases and neither lived up to they hype they had or truly deserved the box office return based on quality (IMHO)...
I’ve always been a release-weekend SW film watcher, but I’ve not even seen Solo yet. Not because I don’t want to. Far from it. I just don’t feel the urgency. It will no doubt be out on Blu-ray/digital in a couple of months anyway. Disney look to be wanting a return on their investment as quick as they can.
and yet here we are with a 19 month gap between films. I dont' think Star Wars fatigue can have set in that badly yet... as mentioned, look at the rate MCU chucks out films.
I for one will take it all.
Me too...
... personally I'll take the rough with the smooth, Star Wars is a 40+ year old universe, and every new story, film, book, comic, game, series etc. builds on that... it would be great if it was all top-notch stuff, but inevitably, there's some stuff that not everyone's going to enjoy. The important thing is to be able to accept it all, and enjoy the bits you like, without the bits you don't like tainting the rest of it.