Looking at the romance end of it (and there never seems to be an end to 'Star Wars', but I think it's a good enough example) ...
Many people began to fall in love with the Luke Skywalker character ...and then many of you may have wanted to see Luke fall in love with Leia. Such a nice sound to it ...Luke & Leia.
But, then we found out they were brother and sister ...and of course, they hadn't known it at first either.
And no, there was not going to be a Shakespearean tragedy twist of a disturbing nature. The conflict was as natural and innocent as it often is with us ...where we don't seem to like someone very much, then we find ourselves liking them very much. And this would be the Han Solo & Leia romance that began to develop.
And the moviegoers fell for it too ...as they quickly accepted the Han & Leia idea. And as they together successfully resisted that which stood in their way ...we celebrated with them in the end (of movie #6). And though it would be many years before the 7th movie came out, we held that 'happily ever after' thought for Han & Leia. And many of us wanted to hold a similar dream for ourselves ...that our heart may someday realize, and live to its fullest.
But, then years later ...the 7th movie finally came out, 'The Farce Awakens'.
Sorry, it was 'The Force Awakens' ...and we see that Han & Leia had married, had a son, but none of them were presently together. They've since then done backstories, but they will probably never do a movie that fills in that gap ...to show how the marriage fails. They had to move from the 'happily ever after' ...and fill it with much action and adventure, but they didn't want us to focus too much on the broken marriage and view it as a farce. No, that would not bring people to the Box Office. New dreams have to be created ...and we cannot focus on the 'what went wrong'. Yes, that works if we begin with disliking a character, like Darth Vader, and then feel a bit sorry for him as we see what went wrong. It works well with the tension woven throughout the movie ...but, keep some hopeful romance available to us. We don't want to think about what forces someone to love someone at one moment, then moves them to decide they no longer can. That destroys our 'happily ever after'.
And the moviegoers fell for it too ...as they quickly accepted the Han & Leia idea. And as they together successfully resisted that which stood in their way ...we celebrated with them in the end (of movie #6). And though it would be many years before the 7th movie came out, we held that 'happily ever after' thought for Han & Leia. And many of us wanted to hold a similar dream for ourselves ...that our heart may someday realize, and live to its fullest.
But, then years later ...the 7th movie finally came out, 'The Farce Awakens'.
Sorry, it was 'The Force Awakens' ...and we see that Han & Leia had married, had a son, but none of them were presently together. They've since then done backstories, but they will probably never do a movie that fills in that gap ...to show how the marriage fails. They had to move from the 'happily ever after' ...and fill it with much action and adventure, but they didn't want us to focus too much on the broken marriage and view it as a farce. No, that would not bring people to the Box Office. New dreams have to be created ...and we cannot focus on the 'what went wrong'. Yes, that works if we begin with disliking a character, like Darth Vader, and then feel a bit sorry for him as we see what went wrong. It works well with the tension woven throughout the movie ...but, keep some hopeful romance available to us. We don't want to think about what forces someone to love someone at one moment, then moves them to decide they no longer can. That destroys our 'happily ever after'.
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