New Star Wars sucks Part 2

I explained why Star Wars - the Last Jedi sucked in my last post. But that focused on the trend of political correctness and feminism in movies and TV shows that's taking place in Hollywood right now. Meaning the female characters in most shows are the dominant characters and the men mostly weak. It's been prevalent in TV and Film for the last several years.

But there's another reason the last two (in particular) Star Wars have sucked. Oh, they don't suck if you ask any Star Wars fanatic, of which there are millions. And because there are, the producers don't care about anything original. And that's what I mean regarding why the last two Star Wars sucked. (Aside from the feminist thing, I mean.) They sucked because they were just carbon copies of the first two Star Wars movies. Or Episode IV and V, as they would have them called.

The first Disney Star Wars was nothing more than a retelling of Episode IV. Except, of course the Luke Skywalker character was now a girl. And the Darth Vader character was now Princess Leia's son, complete with black robes and full face helmet/mask.

And this new one, The Last Jedi was nothing more than the retelling of Episode V, complete with the traveling of the female Luke to a distant planet to be trained by Luke, instead of Yoda, and then we find out later that she's not even Luke's daughter, as was the only thing that might have made sense of it all. But no. We don't even get that.

I understand why Disney is rehashing the original trilogy. They paid four billion bucks for the rights to make these movies. They can't take any chances for their versions to flop. Meaning, they don't dare try something original. Meaning an original story, with original characters, and an original premise. Which would have been so much better. Sure it would be in the same universe. You know, the one long ago and far, far away. With references to the original characters who might have appeared in cameos and such.

But no. It had to be the same characters: Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbaka, the two robots, a "Darth Vader" character, etc. And with the same story of a wayward character unaware of his, (now her) destiny, and the exact same premise: a rebellion against the same "evil" empire.

In a Science Fiction story, the concepts for stories are endless. Like in the original Star Trek show, almost every single episode had a completely different story, and almost all of them worked. Disney wanted to take no chances to get their 4 billion back. And they're not complaining. Because they are getting their money back. It's all they wanted. The bottom line. Money.

So expect more of the same. Disney will be happy with their money. The fans will be happy because they get to see Star Wars movies. But people who like original stories and a fresh new premise are disappointed. Doesn't matter to Disney. They still get their bank account filled. That's all.