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.
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.