Watched a Youtube clip of Hayden’s flashback. Was kind of cool, but it gave me a “too little, too late” type feeling. Like, most of the general Star Wars fandom/audience (read: not the super geeky fraction of the audience) have no knowledge of Anakin and Ahsoka.
Why didn’t they do the Clone Wars era with Hayden and Ewan in the Obi-Wan Kenobi show? It’s like; it’s a brilliant f*in idea, but Disney always seem to do the right thing at the wrong time. The audience was THERE for The Obi-Wan Kenobi show. But it was the third major SW flop in under 5 years and now most people are gone.
I’m not going to waste my time watching this show yet, since it seems to be dull as a turd and relies on your prior knowledge (never watched anything of the animation stuff), but I can’t help but shake this feeling that using Hayden/Anakin and Luke now; after having failed to use them when it really mattered (during and after The Sequel Trilogy hatred), it all just feels so… cheap. Irrelevant. Sidestory content. Late.
Instead of creating a Luke Skywalker or Anakin “Clone Wars” show/movie, something that the people would really like and would bother giving a chance to restore their love for the property, they always seem to “miss the mark” with their new shows and films.
They should stop/pause the process of making irrelevant live-action content, and just make something that will bring the fanbase back into the now-dying universe of Star Wars! Make a Luke Skywalker film. Make a live-action Clone Wars film. Do SOMETHING that will actually be relevant to the general audience instead of the minority of it?
The audience need an apology and a reason to come back to the universe. This stuff really isn’t the answer.
Nobody and my aunt gives a toss about Ahsoka, the animated shows, the books and all that side-story content when the “main story” is what hooked us, and also what ultimately let us down.
Talk to anyone about Star Wars, and they will all talk about how The Sequel Trilogy failed Luke, Han and Leia, how the Obi-Wan kenobi show was shit and how The Mandalorian was fun 3 years ago…
Disney’s main struggle as of now is not the writing process or the direction. It is actually the ability to READ THE ROOM. It seems like they now have the pen at paper at the correct spot - but their timing is too late, and their execution still a tad too dull.