Originally posted by: Anchorhead
Well, it's Star Wars. Star Wars could be placed over a program with the subtitle "Watching Grass Grow" and it would still turn out oodles of change. If the show fails...however...I don't want to hope that it will, but whatever it takes to get him to finally see that he's alienating his fans and get the OOT out there...
I know of only 3 shows (well, maybe 2) that had a 5 year plan at the beginning and all of them ended up running longer. Babylon 5, which the network made a mess of by constantly playing the "you're cancelled...well, no you're not" game, X-Files, which Fox pushed 3 years beyond what Carter ever intended (and it shows), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which didn't turn out that bad (there's even a Season 8 comic ). I don't think Buffy actually had a 5 year plan, it just looked that way from the S5 finale. However, none of those shows was greenlit for 5 years at the beginning. They all had to prove themselves and get renewed each year.
Originally posted by: andy_k_250
Also - isn't it pretty ballsy to make 40 episodes of a 100-episode series before you even have a distributor?
It just shows his arrogance.
Also - isn't it pretty ballsy to make 40 episodes of a 100-episode series before you even have a distributor?
It just shows his arrogance.
Well, it's Star Wars. Star Wars could be placed over a program with the subtitle "Watching Grass Grow" and it would still turn out oodles of change. If the show fails...however...I don't want to hope that it will, but whatever it takes to get him to finally see that he's alienating his fans and get the OOT out there...
I know of only 3 shows (well, maybe 2) that had a 5 year plan at the beginning and all of them ended up running longer. Babylon 5, which the network made a mess of by constantly playing the "you're cancelled...well, no you're not" game, X-Files, which Fox pushed 3 years beyond what Carter ever intended (and it shows), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which didn't turn out that bad (there's even a Season 8 comic ). I don't think Buffy actually had a 5 year plan, it just looked that way from the S5 finale. However, none of those shows was greenlit for 5 years at the beginning. They all had to prove themselves and get renewed each year.
I think that everyone's hit the nail on the head here; Lucas want to do so much, and even with the Star Wars name, you can only burn the candle at both ends for so long before, well, pardon my language, but, nobody fucking cares. I think that it's his taking, even by his standards, attempts to milk the franchise, to ends that the networks don't want to to go to; I think that it's all of the mentioned factors. And to be honest, I don't give a fuck. Because I don't think that I'll be watching it anyway.