| ▲ | dabockster 15 hours ago |
| That, plus fewer studios mean less creativity goes to the mainstream. If you thought AI slop was bad, go re-watch Star Wars Episode 8. |
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| ▲ | nake89 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Me and my wife were Star Wars fans. The last Star Wars media we watched was episode 8. I almost walked out the theater. |
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| ▲ | wooger 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I've watched and enjoyed Andor since, but yeah other than that zero star wars movies and TV shows since episode 8. I hear 9 was also hilariously bad, but I'll not ever bother seeing it. | |
| ▲ | baq 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Star Wars is synonymous with Andor at this point. The original trilogy is second, but it isn't a close second. | | |
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| ▲ | i80and 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I mean, 8 was easily the most functional of the new trilogy, if a somewhat overly ambitious muddle, so that's a bad example. There is a real problem with too many sequels and adaptations though. |
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| ▲ | phantasmish an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 8 is at least the fourth best Star Wars movie. Maybe 3rd. Jedi is gorgeous but the script for everything past Jabba’s Palace is a mess. Doesn’t know what to do with all its characters, feels the need to have them all around anyway. | |
| ▲ | NBJack 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If 8 had followed through on its narrative promises, it would have had a chance. But unfortunately, much like a modern LLM that exceeds its context window, it lost its way in the final act. As for sequels, we are at a weird time in history. Due maybe in part just how prevalent media is and how easy (relatively) it is to create, we've been super-saturated in "like X but with Y" stories. We have dedicated websites mapping tropes. It's hard to come up with anything that hasn't been done a few million times. AI will probably accelerate that, and I can't say I know what comes next. |
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| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You will still have Amazon, Apple, Paramount, Disney, and NetMax spending billions each on content and streaming and Sony being the mercenary creating content for the highest bidder. WB under Discovery was already becoming an also ran and more financial engineering than a real company. |
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| ▲ | AlexandrB 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Seems like a bad example. The problem with Episode 8 was not lack of creativity. Episode 7 was a complete retread of "A New Hope" and a bigger offender. At least blue Jedi milk is new. |
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| ▲ | bananaflag 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Episode 8 was a retread of Empire Strikes Back (ships chase through empty space while the main character trains with the old master on a wild planet). It seemed subversive just because ESB was subversive relative to ANH. | | |
| ▲ | NBJack 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Complete with "this guy will help us" to "oh no, they betrayed us!" |
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