It’s no big secret that the Mandalorian has found huge success with both its first season and now with the second season nearing conclusion – it has brought a side of Star Wars back to the viewer that hasn’t been felt for a long time and has opened up the possibilities for so many new shows to emerge too – and that is exactly what has happened with the recent announcements regarding the Obi-Wan show and now the Ahsoka spin-off. But it does ask the question, can this much content do more harm than good? It feels like we’ve already had the answer to this…
Everything about the Mandalorian for the most part has been beautiful – it has stay true to canon and has delivered a lot of fan service for what had been missing with the latest blockbuster Star Wars entries where many felt the sequel had fell far short of the predecessors – even the episode I, II, and III prequels were held in high regard in compassion and they all received their fair share of criticism compared to the original trilogy. It feels that a similar path may be on the way – whilst signing Dave Filoni may be able to continue to magic of Ahsoka in an original series, and Obi-Wan may be able to tug on some nostalgia strings with Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen back in the leading roles, with so much to judge on there’s plenty of room to let things slip through the cracks, and with a crunch to get the content out there, having so much all lined up once may create a similar effect to the recent yearly Star Wars releases of putting too much out there and creating this space where what has been created isn’t necessarily what fans wanted.
It’s easy to look at other online spaces and say how the opposite is true – gaming serves as a perfect example where there are so many releases that even if a bad one slips through every now and then it can largely be ignored, online casinos have been doing this throughout the year as despite regulation changes, credit card casinos have become available in droves, whilst some are bad, most are ok. Even in the bigger picture of gaming with titles like Cyberpunk not entirely living up to expectation, there’s still some good to come of it.
With Star Wars, it will no doubt all be a little bitter sweet – it’s easy to look at all of the positives and hey at the end of the day, it’s more Star Wars right? But there is certainly the potential for things to go very bad very quickly, and Disney have shown in the past they’re not always the most consistent with this kind of thing – whilst fans all over will be keeping their fingers crossed for the three new series to deliver masterpieces, it may still be important to ask the question of whether or not all of this content helps or hurts in the long run.
