Dave Filoni’s The Clone Wars Unlocked the Secret to Star Wars
It’s about faith
Spend some time around Star Wars fans and it won’t take long before you hear some piece of Star Wars content described like so: “it was fine, it just wasn’t Star Wars.”
Listeners will nod along or passionately disagree. But no one will dispute that there is some mystical element which is, unquestionably, the real Star Wars, the genuine article. There is content that is labeled Star Wars and then there is content that is Star Wars. No one agrees on what it is, but everyone assumes it exists.
Some claim it’s a cosmetic quality — that if the story doesn’t exist in “dirty space” then it isn’t authentically Star Wars. But the real debate is a religious one, both in-story and in the culture of the fandom. Fans see Star Wars as a sacred story, a stirring tale encased in a nostalgic glow. Every prospective addition to the canon has to pass the test of whether it can reproduce that same pseudo-mystical experience they had watching it as children.
