Are there notable trends and commonalities among the best and most successful science fiction shows and movies? What draws the audience to the theaters, to get that subscription, to turn on the tv channel? Can we mark out what those signifiers are?
There are a decent handful of projects slated for release this year. We can speculate on how well they will perform based on the quality of the past. So lets do that!
Speciating from homosapiens, what we are now as the human race, which should or would we speciate into? Mechanoid individuals known as cyborgs or genetically bolstered people called homosuperior.
Lets dive into Zach Snyders latest stinker, Rebel Moon. Does it have an redeeming qualities?........does it???
The Empire of the Hand, the Eriadu Authority, and the Zero Command are all cool, minor factions of the Warlord Era that ultimately were all absorbed into the Imperial Remnant. It is interesting that none of the factions are outright DESTROYED, they all get reincorporated in one form or another into a reforged, reinvigorated military power.
One of the New Republic's greatest opponents of the era, Warlord Zsinj was a classic, mustache twirling villain. His war of espionage, economic and biowarfare, and terrorism against the New Republic all made him and his Empire a chief obstacle that desperately needed to be overcome.
The largest faction to emerge from the splintering of the First Galactic Empire and arguably THE most important faction of all the old Star Wars expanded universe, the Imperial Remnant was GREAT!
One of the less significant, but still integral factions of the old expanded universe, the Greater Maldrood (aside from having such a silly name) was still a major player in the Warlord Era for two central reasons: they had a massive amount of territory with an important trade route and they had Gilad Pellaeon as their military commander.
For years after the death of Vader and the defeat of Sidious at Endor, the galaxy was steeped in a free for all, all out brawl between not only the Rebellion and what remained of the Empire, but a now fractured Empire and its own warring factions that sought to dominate each other. The Pentastar Alignment is one such Imperial faction.
Suffice to say, Disney has made some terrible decisions lately, with great confidence, landing them in some hot water: their over priced star wars hotel, having to merge Hulu with Disney Plus, their park ticket price hikes. And the bad decision making has bled into Star Wars and Marvel as well, unfortunately.