{"id":590750,"date":"2026-05-18T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590750\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:00:24","slug":"its-felt-like-homework-why-star-wars-went-so-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590750\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s felt like homework&#8217;: Why Star Wars went so wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Indeed, this might be a problem with the whole Star Wars universe, as it&#8217;s developed over the past decade \u2013 while the interconnected web of storylines might be a boon for committed Star Wars fans, it&#8217;s a burden for the casual viewer. The post-Empire narrative begun by The Mandalorian, and set to be continued by The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu, has run across not only other live-action series The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew, but also the acclaimed animated offerings Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, also created by Filoni: these shows have 11 seasons combined. &#8220;It has felt like homework to try to keep up with everything, so I wonder if that might limit their audience,&#8221; says Harrison, who is also the author of forthcoming book A Star Wars World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indeed, this might be a problem with the whole Star Wars universe, as it&#8217;s developed over the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}