I would love to be a fly on the wall during the conversations Dave Filloni and George Lucas had during the production of the Clone Wars animated show. Filloni being a die hard fanboy of the series and Lucas just being kinda tired of the whole thing, making suggestions to put weird ass things in for shits and giggles.
Auteur theory, but it's all the people around the auteur reigning in the extraordinarily stupid ideas (Marcia Lucas in this case) that make the great media.
It was much the same with Star Trek. When Gene Roddenberry stayed in his producer lane in TOS and don't have the personal fame and influence that came later, he was able to gather an amazing group of people to make some great high-concept sci-fi. There's a reason that the venn diagram of "worst TOS episodes" and "Gene Roddenberry decided to try writing" is almost a circle.
But his personal fame grew, he had less and less people around him to rein in his worst ideas, and the result was TNG seasons 1 and 2. It wasn't until he was too ill to micromanage that TNG found its feet instead of being TOS with find-and-replace'd names in the scripts.
I would love to be a fly on the wall during the conversations Dave Filloni and George Lucas had during the production of the Clone Wars animated show. Filloni being a die hard fanboy of the series and Lucas just being kinda tired of the whole thing, making suggestions to put weird ass things in for shits and giggles.
In fairness to Lucas, that habit predated his apathy.
Auteur theory, but it's all the people around the auteur reigning in the extraordinarily stupid ideas (Marcia Lucas in this case) that make the great media.
It was much the same with Star Trek. When Gene Roddenberry stayed in his producer lane in TOS and don't have the personal fame and influence that came later, he was able to gather an amazing group of people to make some great high-concept sci-fi. There's a reason that the venn diagram of "worst TOS episodes" and "Gene Roddenberry decided to try writing" is almost a circle.
But his personal fame grew, he had less and less people around him to rein in his worst ideas, and the result was TNG seasons 1 and 2. It wasn't until he was too ill to micromanage that TNG found its feet instead of being TOS with find-and-replace'd names in the scripts.