Star Wars isn’t niche my friend. It was always designed to also sell as much merch as possible. Examples are: Boba Fett in the OT and Darth Maul in the PT. It just so happens they also managed to capture the feel of an epic space opera that we all love.
Look at the PT, it was the most hated thing by Star Wars fans. But the kids who watched and loved PT grew up and suddenly PT is good now. For ST I concur with most of the fanbase being it misses completely on what made Star Wars Star Wars. TBH the series of new shows made by Filoni and Favreou really captures that Star Wars feeling. The attempt to make marketable things included.
On the subject of the PT, I grew up watching the phantom menace and love it but can still seperate things I like from things that are good. Although, the ST makes it look better by comparison.
From what i understand, the creation of the OT was a complete mess, and no one knew what the reception was going to be. I think it’s fairly clear by the massive change in quality and budget between new hope and empire.
It’s fair to say Star Wars became popular when the OT was released, but it didn’t start that way.
Boba fett had an unreasonably small role in the OT. Watching them again just last week, i was surprised at how little screen time such a memorable character had.
I can’t really argue with the darth maul thing. The double bladed lightsaber was a huge deal at he time. Everyone wanted to be darth maul when play fighting. Although he was introduced and killed in one film. He was brought back but much later.
I guess the point wasn’t really that Star Wars, specifically, was nishe, but more that disney only care about making profit and will forego a good story in order to do that. Making something that would have maily appealed to nerd culture into something bland that appeals to as many groups as possible.
So i would still argue that without disneys influence, that the star wars ST would have been a much smaller, and likely much higher quality end to the series.
Star Wars isn’t niche my friend. It was always designed to also sell as much merch as possible. Examples are: Boba Fett in the OT and Darth Maul in the PT. It just so happens they also managed to capture the feel of an epic space opera that we all love.
Look at the PT, it was the most hated thing by Star Wars fans. But the kids who watched and loved PT grew up and suddenly PT is good now. For ST I concur with most of the fanbase being it misses completely on what made Star Wars Star Wars. TBH the series of new shows made by Filoni and Favreou really captures that Star Wars feeling. The attempt to make marketable things included.
On the subject of the PT, I grew up watching the phantom menace and love it but can still seperate things I like from things that are good. Although, the ST makes it look better by comparison.
From what i understand, the creation of the OT was a complete mess, and no one knew what the reception was going to be. I think it’s fairly clear by the massive change in quality and budget between new hope and empire.
It’s fair to say Star Wars became popular when the OT was released, but it didn’t start that way.
Boba fett had an unreasonably small role in the OT. Watching them again just last week, i was surprised at how little screen time such a memorable character had.
I can’t really argue with the darth maul thing. The double bladed lightsaber was a huge deal at he time. Everyone wanted to be darth maul when play fighting. Although he was introduced and killed in one film. He was brought back but much later.
I guess the point wasn’t really that Star Wars, specifically, was nishe, but more that disney only care about making profit and will forego a good story in order to do that. Making something that would have maily appealed to nerd culture into something bland that appeals to as many groups as possible.
So i would still argue that without disneys influence, that the star wars ST would have been a much smaller, and likely much higher quality end to the series.