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I’m extremely angry with LF rn. That whole “The Fett standalone is 100% not happening and you should focus on The Mandalorian” thing KK said today. Not only is that the second time it’s been cancelled, it’s not even the first time this year I’ve gotten my hopes up for Boba Fett and had them shattered. And I am not touching that show until I know for sure whether or not he’s involved somehow. I’m not getting my hopes up again.

KK being KK again again, eh? I’ve been wary since John Favreau referenced Boba and Jango in the mockup crawl for The Mandalorian, thinking he might be using the Fett name to prop up a white protagonist by association with familiar names. Like you, I’m not getting my hopes up.

I wonder if Solo 2 and 3 would have been infinitely better than Solo. But as TLJ demonstrated, maybe Lucasfilm doesn’t do well with improving on flawed but promising starts and we should be glad we’re only being told one third of Han’s story.

I mean back-loading the awesome is a terrible strategy with any kind of media but particularly in movies, since a weak first installment makes sequels that much less likely. No one has the patience to sit through a bad first part on the promise that it gets better from there. You make the first part awesome and THEN make it even better from there. Even if the end is kinda meh much will be forgiven on the strength of a good beginning and middle, see the original trilogy. The prequel trilogy was the opposite, a weak start with a much stronger finish, but with a start like TPM the prequels would never have gotten to the third movie if they weren’t Star Wars saga movies.