More Star Wars Hooray, Let’s Hope
By: Cory Smith
Tags: Star Wars, Disney Plus, Disney, Television, Pop Culture

Me and my big fat mouth, well sort of, I wrote an entire article about how I didn’t have any obligation to watch Star Wars this year, and the franchise was better for it, but the day I hit publish Disney announced a dozen new Star Wars things. When I said I had no Star Wars obligations, I meant that I didn’t need to make a trip to the theater. TV shows were always an inevitability, especially with the success of the existing shows. If there is any hope of this franchise finally dying, then the sunken fallacy cost will do it. What’s next, Watto’s Backstory, a wicket standalone story, the story about how echo base was founded, Princess Leia’s wine mom phase. To be perfectly honest, I’m actually interested in some of the announcements. Let’s go through them in order, and digest this Christmas miracle. By a miracle, I mean completely expected occurrence. I’m going to go in the same order as the announcements on starwars.com. If you want to follow along please click this link, https://www.starwars.com/news/future-lucasfilm-projects-revealed.

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Rogue Squadron Trailer

First up, we have a Rogue Squadron movie. My prediction for this film is a slideshow of murky visuals and a ten-foot view distance. Watch Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles scramble to find fighter upgrades while getting yelled at to shoot down tie bombers before they blow up a city full of Imperial citizens, all while protecting a convoy of rebel supplies. In all seriousness, the idea of a Star Wars movie centered around X-Wing combat is actually brilliant. The best part about Rogue One was the battle over Scarif. Not to mention the Death Star assault from New Hope or the opening of Revenge of the Sith. With modern computer graphics and high-quality models, this movie is bound to at least look amazing. So it will be nothing like Rogue Squadron the game. At the very least I’m sure it will be better than Red Tails.

One of the side effects of Disney’s new trilogy is that people appreciate the prequel trilogy. Either because they compare the two trilogies and find that one is actually much better because it brought nuance and original ideas to the franchise, or nostalgia have finally set it. I’m surprised that Disney is falling back to these movies'. Still, after Disney ignored the prequel trilogy for so long it's amazing that we got not only the final season of Clone Wars but now we’re getting Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen back for an Obi-Wan Kenobi standalone series.

Have you ever been curious about what Obi-wan did in the intervening years between episodes 3 and 4? Honestly, I don’t think it really matters, but I like the characters and that’s enough apparently. I hope it's a sitcom-style show where Obi-wan goes on mundane adventures around Tatooine. I don’t know where Darth Vader comes into it. Maybe he’ll be a hallucination or a memory. Maybe he’ll take the B plot and we’ll see daily life on a Star Destroyer.

I think Ahsoka Tano was supposed to die in the Clone Wars, but she became so beloved that they had to keep her around. Either for fan service or in case of stagnation, like how you should always keep a fire extinguisher in your kitchen. Now that fans have labeled Rey the ultimate Mary Sue and Jyn Erso had to puppy dog through every seen so hard that we’re happy to have Hayden back, it makes perfect sense that Disney fell back onto a female character that fans seem to like. It could be interesting. Although, we’ve already seen most of the interesting things this character has done. I’m optimistic that Disney is not going to ruin her. At worst, this show will probably be yet another superfluous addition to this already bloated franchise. At best, it will be a welcomed addition to the cannon, and it’ll prove that Star Wars does work with a female protagonist. Please be good. I don’t need to hear the fanboys winging about Ahsoka. She represents what’s still good about this saga.

Umm, this could be interesting. From the blurb on starwars.com, it seems like this show is meant to tie in with The Mandalorian. People seem to like The Mandalorian so far. I’d have to hear more about this new one, but it sounds like yet another excuse to keep us paying the streaming subscription. I like the idea of getting to know the New Republic Military. Maybe it’ll add some context as to why they were absent from the new trilogy.

The smoothest man in the Galaxy is back, and he’s been announced. Yeah, a lot of the announcements were just that, announcements. Most of the new shows are still in the early stages of development. I think this show could be fun. I like the idea of a Star Wars movie following a man with style and charm. Lando is a likable character, even if we can’t necessarily trust him all of the time. Moral complexity is something he has over Han Solo. His morality is harder to pin down. He’s a good guy, we just don’t know how good. I want the adventures of Lando before he settled down in Cloud City.

From the smoothest man in the Galaxy to the most boring. Cassian Andor is back, and he’s a rebel with a cause. This is could be an interesting series. I seem to be saying that a lot. I think there are other rebels that would be more interesting to follow. Like a piece of toast with the rebel insignia burned on top of it. Maybe this series will change my mind about this character. Having this character in a story where he’s not disposable might make the writers try to make me care about him. It will certainly have to in order to change my mind about him.

Preparedly, this series will take place during the High Republic era. Meaning, we’ll see something other than the Empire, Rebel, and Cartel dynamic that’s gotten stale. It seems like the show wants to be a dark, mystery, thriller. These words don’t actually mean anything when they’re used in marketing, but despite the fact that the blurb on starwars.com was so short, I’m kind of optimistic about this one. So far, this show looks the most unique. At least, it won’t be able to rely on familiar imagery. Acolyte might prove that this franchise actually does have a Galaxy’s worth of possibilities.

Don’t fuck this one up Disney. You hear me, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, the disembodied head of Walt Disney, make sure this one is amazing. This show will combine all of the greatest aspects of the Clone Wars and give us some of the most badass characters this saga has ever seen. The Bad Batch is important to fanboys and to me. They are prime examples of the brilliant potential of the clone army. Setting the show after the rise of the empire will surely be a good move on your part, Disney. Don’t screw this one up, I want a Bad Batch video game and Lego sets and Battlefront 2 mods as well. Please, I want this show to put the wars in Star Wars.

They’re making a Star Wars anime? Didn’t Shin Chan already do this? I thought this was Galaxy Express 999? Starwars.com says 10 leading studios are working on this project. Does that mean Kyo Ani is going to make a short about Darth Vader forming a light music club on the death star? Is Luke going to wear a sailor color? Visions sound a lot like the Animatrix, and I’m okay with that. This sounds like Disney is trying to pump some new ideas into the franchise. Star Wars also takes a lot of inspiration from Japanese cinema, so it’ll be interesting to see how it translates back over. That said, the real question, will there be AT-AT Gundams, and how many super force punches can they withstand from a shirtless Jedi?

Didn’t George already do this one? I could have sworn he had. I mean, there are new droids, and the canon has been updated since then. I’ll be honest, I’m probably going to skip this one.

The article on starwars.com then goes on a bit to inform us that there will be a sequel to Willow, alright. I liked the original Willow. I don’t see why it is getting a sequel now, but alright. They also announced that Lucasfilms is in the pre-productions stage for a new Indiana Jones…FUCK OFF!

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