The original plan for the series was five seasons. And you can see it in the edges - scenes that were filmed before the decision to cap the series at two that didn’t seem to sync up with the rest of the plot, characters introduced in a dramatic fashion who only had a few minutes of screen time, production quality in the final episodes falling off a cliff.
The last episodes were done very well in my opinion.
The final episode of the second season had a Xena Warrior Princess tier budget. Tons of close in shots, virtually no special effects after the return to Yavin, weird janky uses of greenscreen and CGI in the final five minute epiloguish-thing. This was a beautiful show that was chopped off at the knees.
Gilroy exited the project gracefully, but its abundantly clear that Disney execs looked at the returns on their streaming service and said “Fuck it, we’re better off following the Zaslov Model”. So now, much like Netflix and (HBO?)Max, AAA movie quality television at Disney is getting flushed down the toilet and we’re pivoting back to Michael Eisner’s “Give me a forth direct-to-DVD Tinkerbell movie” business plan.
The original plan for the series was five seasons. And you can see it in the edges - scenes that were filmed before the decision to cap the series at two that didn’t seem to sync up with the rest of the plot, characters introduced in a dramatic fashion who only had a few minutes of screen time, production quality in the final episodes falling off a cliff.
The final episode of the second season had a Xena Warrior Princess tier budget. Tons of close in shots, virtually no special effects after the return to Yavin, weird janky uses of greenscreen and CGI in the final five minute epiloguish-thing. This was a beautiful show that was chopped off at the knees.
Gilroy exited the project gracefully, but its abundantly clear that Disney execs looked at the returns on their streaming service and said “Fuck it, we’re better off following the Zaslov Model”. So now, much like Netflix and (HBO?)Max, AAA movie quality television at Disney is getting flushed down the toilet and we’re pivoting back to Michael Eisner’s “Give me a forth direct-to-DVD Tinkerbell movie” business plan.
They had 5 seasons originally?
Goddamn bullshit we got fucking robbed. That is so much story there they could have done.
I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks. Yay.