In reply to Chuck.

Yeah - I liked the idea that maybe "The Book of Boba Fett" was the followup to "The Book of Din Djarin" and that maybe the next one would be "The Book of Bo-Katan" then "The Book of Grogru" or something. I definitely think the Star Wars TV Universe could support 10 shows as long as they were all kind of individual visions in the same world tied together by a Feige-esque Filoni/Favreau overseer. The universe is definitely rich enough for a huge variety of stories. But I do get shades of Activision with the sheer content of stuff they've announced.

I know opinions vary wildly on this, but the thing I was most disappointed about was the lack of any followup on Rian Johnson's supposed trilogy-in-the-works, and I wasn't sure whether that was "cinematic news really isn't a 2020 thing" because of COVID, or whether the sequel trilogy backlash really sunk in, or what.

I loved what Johnson did with the universe, in terms of blowing it open for non-Skywalker Force stories. Where The Mandalorian (mostly) is about the scum & villany on the outskirts of the universe (except all the times they go to all the same places the main trilogy went), rather than the core story being about the Force, it'd be interesting to see more cinematic stuff about post-Empire rando Force stuff, but I expect that Johnson isn't gonna get that shot. Which is a shame, to me. I really like his deconstructionist tendencies, and I think it'd be a great counterpoint to someone like Filoni, who has this very tight, constructed version of what the universe is. But obviously, just bouncing those two forces around willy-nilly gets us the sequel trilogy, which was totally incoherent and meaningless when all put together.

Man, Abrams really fucked up the sequels with RoS. It's really bad. It didn't really sink in *how* bad until a little distance had gone by, because there were some charming and surprising bits in the movie that I liked (I thought Adam Driver remained stellar, and potentially having Rey kill Chewbacca was *shocking* at the time until it was all made irrelevant and meaningless with bullshit sleight-of-hand). But boy, in retrospect, it really completely fucked the sequel trilogy and rendered it totally irrelevant. :(

Anyhow. Rambling. :P

IIRC, you weren't a fan of Lord/Miller, but I was also really disappointed when they were fired, as I think an unfettered Lord/Miller Solo story would have been super exciting. So I would really look forward to a SW universe where those oddball voices find some footing, and they get to tell stories that aren't all in the same general tenor.