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take it away from Disney

Let it die.

End it.

I'm not sure how recoverable it is at this point, but if you want Star Wars to act as a forever-story, don't treat it as one single story. Its okay if plot doesn't directly build with each release. Its okay if it doesn't connect to other parts of the cannon. Its okay if you have no shared characters. Hell, its even okay (if not ideal) if some media contradicts each other. The important part is making good stories, and if a new peice of media wouldn't work when attached to a larger plot, don't attach it to the larger plot. Simple as that.

Look at something like 40K, for example. While yes, there is a "main" plot, its only a small part. Honestly, fans often outright ignore the "main plot" Horus Hersey books, in favour of the more fun and compartmentalized books like the Eisenhorn Trilogy or the ork books because those are the books that most revel in the setting and themes of 40K and aren't burdened by dozens of other books that they have to tie in to.

One, Chewbaca needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Chewie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Chewie"?

Just stop? Some things don't need to be a "brand". There fine as one shots.

More stars at war

Upscale and release the Christmas special.

• stop creating characters solely for merchandising, i am looking at you porgs...
• actually come up with an overarching storyline. John Favreau stated some time ago, that other than the MCU Disney currently has no goal to work towards and is basically just freestyling
• give characters weight and meaning, instead of developing them and write them out of the plot, as soon as they are getting interesting. This is one of my main gripes with Obi-Wan

The light sabers should just slowly keep growing forever until they get turned off. Battles would be more complicated because the bad guys would have to keep turning their swords off so they don't slice up their own lair.

Officially licensed porn films

Explore stories with lower stakes that focus on different aspects of Star Wars. Not everything needs to be an epic galaxy-wide conflict that somehow includes ten OT characters as fanservice.

There are millions of planets, trillions of sentient beings, all with their own motivations and philosophies.

As controversial as Acolyte was, I really liked that it showed us force users that were neither Jedi nor Sith and how incapable the Jedi were of accepting that.

right now its pushing ou garbage as much as the mcu, need to slow down and work on writing and plots. the streaming service isnt doing it any favors.

Basically make young James Bond in space, but he's an imperial spy. Every season or movie could be a new story.

Does it need to be improved from a money standpoint? It seems to continue to be a money printer and my coworkers who like this kind of shit keep watching every new Star Wars thing and enjoying it even more than the original movies so from that standpoint I think it's doing just fine. There is no issue with the "brand" from Disney's point of view. As long as the general public continue to consume whatever slop they slap the star wars name on and love it, why would Disney ever do anything different?

Hire Kai Patterson who did an amazing job fan-editing some of the shows into movies. He is of course still limited by the source material but especially his version of Ahsoka was a lot more enjoyable than the show.

Change "I am your father" into "Obi-Wan killed your father" as shot originally. Discard everything after that scene, including of course the prequels and sequels (but keep Rogue One and Andor because this is now for grownups). Rewrite and reshoot everything else based on the premise that Vader and Anakin are two separate people, as was originally intended. Make a prequel about the relationship between Anakin, Vader, and Obi-Wan, in which Vader‘s face is that of David Prowse. And establish Darth as his first name ffs, not some stupid title or degree or what.

Create more adult themed Star Wars movies/shows, similar to Rogue One/Andor. Stop trying to milk baby Yoda snd other little kid bullshit.

Explore The Old Republic era more. And smaller, contained stories. Leave the grand, bombastic stuff to the trilogy movies.

Hot take:

End it… Just canonize a subset of the lore, remake that subset from beginning to end so it tells one concise story, and let it be done.

The real problem with Star Wars is that the lore keeps getting milked. It isn’t a story at all anymore. It’s just an IP. A cash cow to be milked. A dead horse for beating. Nothing they change now will fix that unless they uproot everything and remake it into something respectable.

Remake the original trilogy but replace every character with Jar Jar

2nd christmas special :3

Separate it from Disney. (financially, legally, ethically, forcefully...)

KOTOR 3

I mean, it's going to take a lot after those last 6 movies.