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Spoilers Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Grading & Discussion

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I don't get the people who have to have new content all the time as if their very fandom depends on new movies and series episodes always being at their fingertips. We got just three new canonical Star Trek adventures between 2005 and 2017 and we did just fine.

I know that with the novelverse, Star Trek never really went away for me from 2005-17, it just took on a different form.
 
Same here. I don't think more than a couple weeks has gone by that I haven't gotten some kind of Star Trek content going back to at least 2003ish, when I first started reading the books.
There have been a grand total of maybe nine years since 1999 when Lucasfilm wasn't giving us new Star Wars content. We'll survive if we have to wait a couple of years between new movies or TV series, which likely isn't going to happen when it comes to streaming shows.
We won't have to wait that long between shows, we'll have at least 4 this year alone, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see more after those 4 are done. I have a feeling we'll eventually reach a point with Disney+ where we're going to be getting at least one new episode of something Star Wars for the majority of the year.
Nonstop content without any breaks is rarely good for any entertainment.
I think that was a big part of what brought a stop to Star Trek on TV from the end of Enterprise until Discovery started. We went 18 years straight with one or two Trek shows on every season, and after a while people tend to get tired of that kind of thing. I was a huge lifelong Trekkie, and even I stopped watching Enterprise for a while around the end of Season 1 until the end of Season 3.
 
Quantity was never a factor with Trek; creative stagnation was. The same people in charge of the franchise for so long led it getting stuck in a rut several miles deep and only an inch and a half wide. The last two seasons of Enterprise can only be described as "desperate flailing" as the people up top tried to figure out why people didn't want the exact same thing they'd seen 47,000 times before...

Star Wars is a whole different board game with a substantial stable of writers spread across the novels, comics and now the shows. Most of the more popular projects like 'The Mandaloran', 'Rogue One' and certain of the novels have been the result of some of these people directly pitching the idea and the people at the top okaying it and more or less letting them run with it.
 
It's out on digital today, at least in Canada and the US, not sure about other countries
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Upon rewatching it tonight I have to say I like it more than I did in December and it makes more sense. Not a whole lot more sense, but it's a more pleasant viewing experience and I feel more rewarded by watching it.
 
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