> not exceedingly popular outside North America I can tell you it is exceedingly popular in Hungary. I have no reason to believe it is not similarly exceedingl

> not exceedingly popular outside North America I can tell you it is exceedingly popular in Hungary. I have no reason to believe it is not similarly exceedingly popular elsewhere. > Star Wars itself is stretched out. It is now. Franchises need nurturing to remain valuable. The biggest crime they commited is that they did not employ the same screenwriter for all 3 of the sequels. When you are making a trilogy, and you know that you are making a trilogy, you better write the complete arch as a consistent whole and then find the 3 separate sub arches in that. Instead of that what we got is 2 different teams subverting each other’s ideas and basically messaging to each other. (And the message was that “your ideas are baaad”) It was as if watching someone build a sand castle, someone else comming along kicking it down starting to build a different one, and then the first person returning and kicking the second sandcastle down to build a third. “Yes, and…” is not just the way to do good improv, but also the way to build good movies built on each other.