That's why Mandalorian works so well. It is just no holds barred a single cowboy in space.
But like you said, lots of franchise worship. Ditch that and get down to just being gritty and real. No need for it. A big problem all new content has right now is that it's all made as a tribute and homage to Star Wars instead of just being Star Wars. If the franchise continues onwards I would hope to see that people figure this out and move on creatively from it... Assuming actually-creative people remain in positions of value of course. If corporate drones end up churning out any old shite they'll sit around a meeting table and repeatedly make a ragtag bunch of heroes with [insert hero archetype from first trilogy here]. Here's Han, here's Chewy, here's the Princess, etc etc.
The most relateable character that has been written since the first series is K-2SO. Although L3-37 the robot from Solo is a close second because she wanted a fucking revolution, they fucked her up by turning her into a fucking spaceship computer and enslaving her for eternity though. If I were the Falcon's computer after expressing her revolutionary energy I'd have killed the people responsible.
That's why Mandalorian works so well. It is just no holds barred a single cowboy in space.
But like you said, lots of franchise worship. Ditch that and get down to just being gritty and real. No need for it. A big problem all new content has right now is that it's all made as a tribute and homage to Star Wars instead of just being Star Wars. If the franchise continues onwards I would hope to see that people figure this out and move on creatively from it... Assuming actually-creative people remain in positions of value of course. If corporate drones end up churning out any old shite they'll sit around a meeting table and repeatedly make a ragtag bunch of heroes with [insert hero archetype from first trilogy here]. Here's Han, here's Chewy, here's the Princess, etc etc.
The most relateable character that has been written since the first series is K-2SO. Although L3-37 the robot from Solo is a close second because she wanted a fucking revolution, they fucked her up by turning her into a fucking spaceship computer and enslaving her for eternity though. If I were the Falcon's computer after expressing her revolutionary energy I'd have killed the people responsible.