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Great! You know, I hope he gives himself a better role in it in the future. I felt he kind of faded into the background in Season 3. I remember him being portrayed as concerned but passive. If they want to make Grayson the lead, that’s okay with me, but even as a supporting character Mercer should have more personality and story, IMO.

“In development, you look at every angle, and you see whether it’s worth it. And currently, it’s not. Currently, it’s off the table, because we all couldn’t find the right story to tell that we were all excited about enough. So, we decided to lay down tools with it for the time being. There may be a time in the future where we return to it, but at the moment, no. It’s firmly on the shelf.” Makes sense. One by one, spinoffs are being canceled if they don’t have GRM source material to work from. Reading between the lines, here, it sounds like the Jon Snow series would have mined the later ASoIaF books—and may yet, if they ever materialize.

I love that! Yeah, those two episodes are the ones to beat. “Mirror, Mirror” with the iso sound track is amazing, too, though. You can find it on the Roddenberry Vault.

No “Star Trek prequel” will ever top Forbidden Planet, an aesthetic masterpiece.

Enterprise-as-a-Kelvin-movie. Humanity’s first submarine-in-space. Spend some time on Vulcan. They unite against a common foe. That’s all I’ve got.

Nice that directors have nice, low-stakes Star Wars gigs to fall back on when their big superhero franchises flop.

Really? I’ve assumed it’s an imperceptibly-high-tech space suit.

Yes. Even with good material, it begins to feel like homework to keep up with it. Let alone try to get into it in the first place. That’s why franchises like Superman, Terminator, and Ghostbusters are always rebooting back to a minimal canon that “everyone remembers.”

My children are going to call it “The Baby Yoda Movie,” no joke. They’ve never seen the show, of course, but my kindergartner has Baby Yoda pajamas and a Baby Yoda stuffed animal. She WILL be bummed she can’t see the movie. Darn it!

Yeah, this is a bad move, to me. After burning out on Star Wars, I decided, well, I’ll skip the shows but come back for the movies. Even a bad Star War has got to be worth taking in once, in the theater. But now I gotta question it. The Filoniverse requires a big buy-in. So I dunno.

It may well will be Episode X in name, too, if the studio is at all confident in it.

That’s what I meant. I reformatted my post in hopes that it’s now clearer.

No, it’s a movie now!

• Rey’s New Jedi Order, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Damon Lindelof’s movie These are the same thing, but Damon Lindelof is no longer associated with it. • The Mandalorian & Grogu, directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Dave Filoni • The Filoniverse epic Avengers-like crossover, directed by Dave Filoni I’d guess the former is a refinement of the latter, or the latter is shelved/theoretical. • Dawn of the Jedi, directed by James Mangold Officially announced in 2023, supposedly still on. • Lando Officially announced in 2023. • Taika Waititi’s movie Still in development as of 2023. • Patty Jenkin’s Rogue Squadron movie • Kevin Feige’s movie • J.D. Dillard’s movie All officially dead. • Rian Johnson’s trilogy “Indefinitely postponed.”

They got books instead of cartoons, and that’s A-OK with me.

I thought it kind of generic and forgettable after Greg Edmondson’s TV score. :/

They were all either Unfinished or Lost.

The Attack on the Jakku Village sounds a lot like Far From Home / E.T. Alone .

I agree, for me the particular magic of the Original Trilogy has never been recaptured in a film.

It makes sense, on one level, that consuming Star Wars is not the key to creating good Star Wars. A good writer or director (of anything, really) should have a breadth of influences and a breadth of life experience. They should consume voraciously—film and literature and music and non-fiction (history and mythology and anthropology and popular science and mechanics)—and live voraciously—enjoying many kinds of activities in many kinds of outdoor environments, and in many countries, sampling the architecture and the cuisine and the social scene, etc. But the corollary of that is that if your creative well is such a deep well, such a colorful kaleidoscope, that’s much different than consuming five ingredients and vomiting them right back up onto the Star Wars canvas to where the audience can pinpoint your exact five influences and feel smug that they “got it”—and that’s the whole exercise. Especially if those five things are all just nerd culture things. The other corollary is that if your creative well is such a deep well, such a colorful kaleidoscope, then you have the capability to create something truly unique like George Lucas did in 1977—and in that case, doesn’t the Star Wars canvas really limit your creativity? The answer is yes. You should go forth and make something new. But if you are tasked with making new Star Wars (for love or for money), your job is NOT to innovate just because George innovated. The point of an imaginary universe is that you can imagine it as a coherent whole, hopefully without compartmentalizing each component. The more seamless the better. And that obviously involves an element of the ouroboros—themes and scenes and lore which feel like reflections or inverses or outgrowths of themes and scenes and lore that we have seen before.

Wow, hard disagree. The main story of Skin of Evil was indeed forgettable, but I thought the funeral scene was truly awful. Some of the worst television I have ever seen. I couldn’t watch the show any more after that.

I haven’t seen any of the Star Wars TV shows, and none of the other upcoming projects (TV or movie) have sounded very interesting to me, but this piques my interest TBH.

Christopher Tolkien addresses the question at hand in an excellent essay given given as the introduction of The Book of Lost Tales. I will offer three brief snippets from the essay (which is worth a read in full): <snip> <snip> He makes the case all the more energetically and joyously in his introduction to Unfinished Tales: Great stuff!

I believe the Menagerie Suite was also arranged by Courage.

Gotta love it!