Hopefully, the new title won't go to his head and he becomes all hat, no Nerf.
News Dave Filoni promoted to Executive Creative Director at Lucasfilm
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I take it you don't like Filoni much?"Universally beloved by fans."
Speaking for myself, the only Filoni-led Star Wars project that I haven't loved practically unreservedly has been Resistance.
Also, it's pretty clear Resistance wasn't Filoni's baby.
A shame really because the idea of basing a Star Wars show around a bunch of barnstorming racers a generation after the war had a lot of potential. Paradoxically, it may have had a better chance if it was developed *after* the movies were out so there wasn't such pressure to tie the two together; would have given it more room to breath.
A shame really because the idea of basing a Star Wars show around a bunch of barnstorming racers a generation after the war had a lot of potential. Paradoxically, it may have had a better chance if it was developed *after* the movies were out so there wasn't such pressure to tie the two together; would have given it more room to breath.
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I'm not sure how clear that is. He has sole created-by status for it.
Crystal clear. For example note the chronic lack of wolf imagery!
Seriously though, he may have come up with the general premise (hence "Created by") and somewhat guided development, but he's hardly the only senior creative on the project. There were two other executive producers and two others again with the "Developed by" credit. He also didn't write or direct a single episode, only getting a "story by" credit for the premier. Again indicating that he gave the team a starting point and allowed them to take it from there.
On top of all that, none of it really feels like Dave's style of storytelling. Indeed I get the distinct impression that it wasn't *anyone's* baby in particular. Most likely something mandated into existence by Disney and cancelled when the first wave of toys didn't sell well to the target demo. Between them Justin Ridge and Steward Lee (both TCW & Rebels alumni) directed the bulk of the episodes but neither of them had any writing credits. Conversely Brandon Auman, Kevin Burke and Chris Wyatt each wrote the most episodes...but not by much since there are no less than 14 credited writers over the mere 40 episode run, with each writer averaging about 3-4 credits each. Auman (the only EP with any actual writing credits) wrote 9, which is almost twice as much as anyone else. But then Steven Melching was brought on to season 2 as "story consultant", seeming to be the closest thing the show had to an actual show runner. The whole thing screams "run by committee".
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I don't know, it tied in specifically with two movies which were released respectively three years and one year prior to its premiere. The fact they had no idea what was in store for the third movie shouldn't have been too much of a factor for planning the show out.
Starting so late in the run of the trilogy didn't exactly help matters either since the release of TRoS seemed like a pre-determined cut-off point.
Honestly I can't decide if they only got 2 seasons because Disney lost interest in ST era tie-in media (outside of the parks) once the movies were done, because the toy sales and/or ratings were sub-par, because there just wasn't enough enthusiasm for the project at LF, or some or all of the above.
It's not a bad show by any means, but it just lacked a certain...spark.
I think it's the fact that it's not as good as the other animated shows were. Even at this early stage, The Bad Batch has already upstaged Resistance.
No question. Hell it's already at a place that it took Rebels a full season and change to get to; and I think the key reason is that 'The Bad Batch' is a show that people at LF actually *wanted* to make. It's not being driven by toy sales, or corporate mandates for product synergy, or because they needed something to quickly fill the void left by 'Rebels' (which I still feel like it was ended before they were quite done with it, but the advanced notice at least let them spend a whole season tying things off.)
'Resistance' by contrast never felt like it had that level of passion around it. Competent and attentive work to be sure, but work nonetheless. Had it gotten another two seasons and some distance from the promotional machinery of the movies then it might have been able to carve out it's own space the way Rebels did, but it didn't, so it couldn't.
Though in fairness to Rebels & Resistance, The Bad Batch has the distinct advantage of essentially being season 8 of The Clone Wars. It's not having to start from scratch, but building on a VERY solid foundation.
None of the above, they only planned to have 2 seasons according to interviews.
In case people didn't understand, Filoni's new title does not give him much, if any, creative control beyond what he already had; it simply reflects his high position as a driver of narrative content within the company.
I have my doubts about accuracy those statements. It feels a lot more like they planned for more but it got cut short early in season 2's production. If it was planned as just those two seasons then it was fairly poorly planned as the show very hurriedly wraps up a few character threads in the last few episodes and just *stops* with plenty left unresolved.
Well they know better than you.
The lack of a meticulous resolution doesn't automatically mean things were 'rushed' or that something didn't finish according to a plan.
I've only seen like three episodes, but I thought Resistance took place just before or roughly concurrent to TLJ?
And we don't know what their plan for post-ROS is. (Yes. There undoubtedly is one and it will probably come to light sooner than most expect.)
And we don't know what their plan for post-ROS is. (Yes. There undoubtedly is one and it will probably come to light sooner than most expect.)
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