Disaster

The reason why the sequels failed so spectacularly at being Star Wars movies has…a pretty basic reason. But it’s not exactly what everybody thinks it is. In my opinion, that happened because they weren’t directed by George Lucas. Not because he’s just a better director or he had more creative ideas, or he made Star Wars out of passion and not for money (all of that too, ofc). The main reason is that Star Wars (prequels and ot) is a structure, where everything clicked eventually. It has a solid base for storytelling, it has fantastic parallels, basically, quoting Lucas, it’s like poetry. It rhymes.

The sequels, unfortunately, weren’t made that way. They were filmed to, let’s be frank here, suck out more money out of Star Wars. I don’t think that the directors were milking a dead cow, which The Mandalorian illustrates perfectly, they just didn’t have the same dedication, vision, passion, drive and, most importantly, goal. They wanted more viewers, more dollars, more fame. They did get some of that, TFA alone brought Disney more than a billion dollars. But their quality, despite their success (well, depends on how you define it), became much, much worse. Simply because the sequels weren’t part of that poetry, that elegant structure that Anakin Skywalker’s story was in the prequels and the OT.