10 Reasons The Best Things About Star Wars AREN'T The Movies
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The sequel trilogy is officially over! And while it didn't exactly leave everyone universally satisfied, with this fandom, that's not exactly a realistic goal because you'd have an easier time getting the American government to agree on something than the Star Wars fandom.
But that doesn't mean they don't have a point. Star Wars has been around for a long time and has been in the hands of a lot of people. While George Lucas, J J Abrams, and soon Rian Johnson have been the ones leading the charge on the movies, a much more diverse pool of creators have been working away at the t.v. shows, books and games.
And some have the gall to say that those shows, books and games are the better Star Wars products. And you know what? They're not entirely wrong.
Movies have limitations, only being able to tell one story with one or two sub-plots for a set period of time. But there are some stories that can only be told in different, much longer and much more complex ways. And there are many reasons that those methods make Star Wars better than its movie incarnations. Here are ten such reasons now.
10. Better Endings
When the best trilogy ending so far comes from the prequels, you know you have a problem.
Ending a trilogy is hard, especially with a property that has as much on the line as Star Wars, so of course there's a ton of meddling that just ends up hurting the final product. Meanwhile the books and tv shows have the privilege of just chugging along just fine until they feel like ending, at which point they can do so at their own pace using their own ideas.
Now, granted, Rebels is the only Star Wars show so far to have a proper conclusion, as Clone Wars is set to get an actual honest to god ending this year. However, there are also really good book trilogies like the Aftermath novels by Chuck Wendig, and the KOTOR games had a decent enough ending with KOTOR 2.
Endings, especially ones to massive franchises that are - of course - going to keep going after your entry, are quite the difficult balancing act to pull off. But the extended universe proves that it's far from impossible.