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anghraineI liked what I saw of The Mandalorian, but not in a way that made me feel like ... idk, like it's all-caps core STAR WARS. It's not something that I feel inclined or driven to mentally integrate into my experience of SW the way that I did with RO.
That's part of why I was so nervous about RO back before it came out. If they screwed up, how would I reconcile it all in my head in a way that felt intellectually honest and consistent?? And then it wasn't a problem bc RO is amazing and did well by my new and old faves (I was so worried that they'd go the generic evil badass route with Anakin and then they had him sniping about the Death Star and making bad jokes, bless <3). And while Solo didn't touch my faves as much, it still registered as part of SW that, for me, needed to be accommodated. And I just don't have that feeling about any of the TV shows, regardless of their quality.
That's my thing, but it does occasionally make it surreal when someone reblogs a Luke gifset from me and is like ... it feels weird not to get this aspect of Luke's character in the TV shows, how do we make it work? I get the drive to do that with newer media you're ambivalent about (->me with the prequels). But the TV shows are so remote to me that it's a drive I don't have with them specifically. Like, someone talks about TV Luke and I'm just "whomst?"
Maybe I'll like the Kenobi or Andor shows, and maybe I won't. But even if I do like them, I don't think I'll ultimately feel beholden to them the way I feel I am to the movies. It's not that movies > television. Occasionally I wonder about alternate universe Neil Jordan actually getting to make his terrible screenplay for The Borgias, and while I'd have hated it, I think it wouldn't have registered on the same level as the actual show, even where the show is (especially) weird and inconsistent. IDK, I suspect it's connected to my hostility to fanon based on something second-hand like an adaptation or some expanded universe product or a popular fanfic or whatever. Like, when it's part of the original thing and plays out in the same medium, it just feels more ... cohesive, I guess? For me personally, anyway. It's probably an odd distinction to make with giant multimedia franchises, but it's how things register to me.
The end result is that I'm not really upset by what sounds like a wildly OOC take on Luke in the shows and actually have to remind myself that he "counts" as Luke to other people, because my brain is just ... oh right, they generated some fascimile for one of the TV shows or something, sounds weird. But I don't know that much about it and what I do know doesn't impact my view of Luke in any way.
FWIW the same goes for TCW/Rebels and Anakin, Padmé, etc. People will bring up examples from them in response to my film meta, even when I explicitly say that my SW is films-only, and apart from my basic irritation at that, my main feeling about them is "......." My view of Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan has nothing to do with what little I know about those shows because they just feel like they operate on a different level than film canon.
Again, this is me and how I engage with things, but it does make me feel pretty odd when I get responses about my faves in ancillary projects and spin-offs and so forth. I'm sorry for those fans who are upset about them, but also, the Luke who e.g. marches into Jabba's palace in black and immediately chokes some minions with his mind remains my Luke and nothing will change that.
That's part of why I was so nervous about RO back before it came out. If they screwed up, how would I reconcile it all in my head in a way that felt intellectually honest and consistent?? And then it wasn't a problem bc RO is amazing and did well by my new and old faves (I was so worried that they'd go the generic evil badass route with Anakin and then they had him sniping about the Death Star and making bad jokes, bless <3). And while Solo didn't touch my faves as much, it still registered as part of SW that, for me, needed to be accommodated. And I just don't have that feeling about any of the TV shows, regardless of their quality.
That's my thing, but it does occasionally make it surreal when someone reblogs a Luke gifset from me and is like ... it feels weird not to get this aspect of Luke's character in the TV shows, how do we make it work? I get the drive to do that with newer media you're ambivalent about (->me with the prequels). But the TV shows are so remote to me that it's a drive I don't have with them specifically. Like, someone talks about TV Luke and I'm just "whomst?"
Maybe I'll like the Kenobi or Andor shows, and maybe I won't. But even if I do like them, I don't think I'll ultimately feel beholden to them the way I feel I am to the movies. It's not that movies > television. Occasionally I wonder about alternate universe Neil Jordan actually getting to make his terrible screenplay for The Borgias, and while I'd have hated it, I think it wouldn't have registered on the same level as the actual show, even where the show is (especially) weird and inconsistent. IDK, I suspect it's connected to my hostility to fanon based on something second-hand like an adaptation or some expanded universe product or a popular fanfic or whatever. Like, when it's part of the original thing and plays out in the same medium, it just feels more ... cohesive, I guess? For me personally, anyway. It's probably an odd distinction to make with giant multimedia franchises, but it's how things register to me.
The end result is that I'm not really upset by what sounds like a wildly OOC take on Luke in the shows and actually have to remind myself that he "counts" as Luke to other people, because my brain is just ... oh right, they generated some fascimile for one of the TV shows or something, sounds weird. But I don't know that much about it and what I do know doesn't impact my view of Luke in any way.
FWIW the same goes for TCW/Rebels and Anakin, Padmé, etc. People will bring up examples from them in response to my film meta, even when I explicitly say that my SW is films-only, and apart from my basic irritation at that, my main feeling about them is "......." My view of Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan has nothing to do with what little I know about those shows because they just feel like they operate on a different level than film canon.
Again, this is me and how I engage with things, but it does make me feel pretty odd when I get responses about my faves in ancillary projects and spin-offs and so forth. I'm sorry for those fans who are upset about them, but also, the Luke who e.g. marches into Jabba's palace in black and immediately chokes some minions with his mind remains my Luke and nothing will change that.
