It really is. Lucas had a few good points, and maybe some writers have done something interesting with the setting, but it's ultimately just vibes based slop and even Lucas didn't do a very good job of articulating his points.
I think the most impressive thing about the franchise is that a janky sci-fantasy samurai cowboy movie about Space-WWII-Vietnam-War-mashup in space managed to mainstream and legitimize sci-fi as a genre.
Sfdebris (super old online video guy, like rlm ancient) did a really good George Lucas examination. Part.one is The Heroes Journey covering his rise to star wars, the shadows journey about him becoming a corporate hack (the videos do it more gently) and the hermits journey about the prequels. It's super well researched and fairly sympathetic to.the guy. George Lucas at this pont to me, with what I know, is a pretty tragic story and I do think as a person he really really didn't want to become who he is. He thought he could use the money and the money used him.
It really is. Lucas had a few good points, and maybe some writers have done something interesting with the setting, but it's ultimately just vibes based slop and even Lucas didn't do a very good job of articulating his points.
I think the most impressive thing about the franchise is that a janky sci-fantasy samurai cowboy movie about Space-WWII-Vietnam-War-mashup in space managed to mainstream and legitimize sci-fi as a genre.
Sfdebris (super old online video guy, like rlm ancient) did a really good George Lucas examination. Part.one is The Heroes Journey covering his rise to star wars, the shadows journey about him becoming a corporate hack (the videos do it more gently) and the hermits journey about the prequels. It's super well researched and fairly sympathetic to.the guy. George Lucas at this pont to me, with what I know, is a pretty tragic story and I do think as a person he really really didn't want to become who he is. He thought he could use the money and the money used him.
https://sfdebris.com/videos/special/herosjourney.php