overkil6 t1_j8tlgky wrote on February 16, 2023 at 9:23 PM

Reply to comment by HappyGilOHMYGOD in How Much Is Too Much Marvel and ‘Star Wars’? Disney Rethinks Franchise Output by verissimoallan

They’re basing it on stories that were originally written for 9 year olds. Star Wars was meant for kids too. We just grew up - the content, for the most part, didn’t.

attemptedmonknf t1_j8us2hl wrote on February 17, 2023 at 2:19 AM

Originally sure, but comics have been increasingly adult oriented for the last 50 years, and have had a lot of complex and well written stories in that time.

Parking_Onion_3846 t1_j8v8oc3 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:37 AM

"Meant for kids" also had a really different meaning when Star Wars came out. All that "meant for kids" meant back then was that it didn't have nudity or gratuitous gore.

It always changes, too. Comics were specifically for kids when the Comics Code took effect in the 50's and into the 60's, but as those kids aged so did comics. By the late 80's and early 90's, comics definitely weren't kids stuff anymore. Spawn was comics grown up, but so was Batman and the X-Men and pretty much the whole stable of comics' evolution from that time.

Star Wars always appealed to more age groups than just kids, but it also grew with the fans who had all those toys as kids; part of its struggles have been because its identity is kind of trapped between misunderstood fan service nostalgia for adults and a marketing engine trying to grow a future fan base through cartoons. Rebels might be designed for kids, but Andor sure wasn't, as one example. A big part of the problem with Star Wars at the moment is that you never really know which one you're going to get... or if they're going to try and make it for everyone, and make no one happy.

The_DevilAdvocate t1_j8w39ln wrote on February 17, 2023 at 10:52 AM

A fault of the writers and not the audience.

UmeshgaarB t1_j8wyvwq wrote on February 17, 2023 at 3:29 PM

Star Wars movies? Yes probably. But not every piece of content is geared towards kids. With Clone Wars they stopped trying to appeal for kids and instead just went on to tell a good story. The story has now ended up being people's favorite piece of Star Wars content.

It's not that the content didn't grow up. It's essentially just that rhey are forcibly keeping the content back from evolving to something good or even better.