Caston said:
Unfortunately, it appears so. What a waste for 30 years of storytelling opportunities in the Star Wars Universe. As well as being a completely underwhelming and baffling journey’s end for the OT-era heroes.
I agree but please stop making me want to cry. (Excellent post BTW)
In conclusion: It feels like they are going out of their way to make the New Republic, and certain legacy characters seem incompetent, and doing so with very little nuance. That the writers don’t know how to write politics, and so the characters then come across as flat moustache-twirling villains or inept bureaucrats, with the plot operating on a level of briskly getting from point A to B without wanting too many questions asked. Such little effort or quality is put in, that the New Republic repeatedly comes off as feeling two-dimensional and inept, something that the viewer then doesn’t really care about, or is invested in.
I don’t think they’re trying to make the New Republic seem incompetent. They just suck at writing this stuff. All the Favreau/Filoni shows basically suck. Mandalorian Season 1 was an anomaly, and even in Season 1, the signs of creeping bad writing were starting to show. This has nothing to do with the New Republic specifically - it’s just the Favreau/Filoni shows happen to be set there, and Favreau/Filoni suck at Star Wars.
I haven’t watched Ahsoka and probably won’t. I’ve accepted that for the time being, Disney is not capable of producing any quality Star Wars content, with the stunning exception of Andor.
As for the New Republic, any number of fascinating political-intrigue type stories could be told in this setting. But the big elephant in the room is the glaring absence of the OT heroes. We all know the main action driving the politics of the New Republic should involve people like Leia, Lando and Luke. But those characters are gone. The actors are old or dead, and I don’t know if a deep-fake/AI main character is financially or technically feasible yet. Even if it is (or even if they decide to recast), Disney has shown little interest in pursuing something like this - and given the depressing fates of the OT heroes in the Sequel Trilogy, it might be difficult to get too invested in such stories anyway.