Why is Lucasfilm so much better at unifying all aspects of canon than Marvel is for the MCU? In Star Wars, the cartoons actually feel like they matter because of all the references and characters that originated in them being seen/mentioned in the movies, whereas the MCU TV shows are "kinda sorta but not really" canon as in they don't affect the movies at all.
>>89679019
Two reasons:
One is that LucasFilm has had like 25-30 years of trying to get their EU fitting together with the mainline films, of which there were only 6, and they had fairly chunky gaps in between them. It was easy to get things to fit. Not, they have an actual dedicated hivemind for this stuff, so it just gets easier.
Secondly, Star Wars stories are on the same scale. Good guys vs Bad guys, and epic space adventures. It's easy to cross that shit over. With Marvel, you've got people fighting space armies across the galaxy, fucking gods, and then there's little Daredevil beating up Kingpin. And they're all on different budgets, different schedules, and as far as I know, ran by different teams with little communication from one another.
>>89679019
For one, they plan out animation far in advance, where Live action shows tend to go month by month in terms of plans. I mean, we'll be more likely to see the cast of Rebels in a film because the Netflix shows and AoS are constantly in production and working. If the AoS want to be in Infinity Wars, that means the show will have to know 2 years in advance what to do to align with the movies.
And keep in mind, putting the TV show characters in the movies would confuse many audience members, and telling them "To understand _________ watch 13/28 hours of this show". Audiences would hate that.
>>89679214
Though with that, I think merging Marvel TV and Movies is the next big gamble. After Spider-Man in Civil War, and GOTG in Infinity Wars, there isn't much you can merge in the films to get people really excited. If the Defenders, AoS and all that were to cross over, it would make everything feel vastly bigger.
>>89679019
Because there's a group for keeping a cohesive canon that works together and communicates with each other.
>>89679294
they never should have split.
Perlmutter fucked up.
>>89679019
If anybody gives you any reason other than because Marvel Studios and Marvel TV have different leaders and Perlmutter doesn't want to play ball then they're lying
>>89679019
show makers and writers are actually friends between the different groups
marvel and dc are all people trying to be better than each other for a higher paycheck
>>89679019
Didn't Lucas Arts kill off an entire chunk of Star Wars in the name of making it easier to make canon movies?
>>89679387
It was going to happen even under one house.
Because they don't have 8593758 different spin-offs like MCU, they have like 3.
>>89679019
Lucasfilm doesn't have a Perlmutter
>>89679019
No in-studio rivalry between the heads. Everyone at Lucasfilm is friends with each other, visits sets, etc.
>>89679530
>Didn't Lucas Arts kill off an entire chunk of Star Wars
No. Lucasarts was shut down before that happened. Also that chunk, as you put it, was never part of recognized canon.
>>89679393
>Perlmutter doesn't want to play ball
>Implying it isn't based Feige doing right good work and keeping Perlmutter's garbage out of the MCU.