Background Pony #2987
Its ironic the writers are putting it in the same universe as G4 to hopefully attract back some G4 fans to watch this new thing when such a move is only likely to invite broad comparisons to G4 and a sense among fans that the legacy of the G4 main cast was ultimately a failure as the world’s worse off than ever.
A separate G5 universe would still be compared endlessly by fans to G4 but it could have just been brushed off as nitpicking by fans trapped in the G4 nostalgia trap and unwilling to move on. We really can’t do that now. Can G5 stand on its own as its own work? Yes but not completely, for as much as it may be a separate series with separate problems revolving around a separate cast, the shared universe aspect means it can’t simply be cleaved off from G4 like people hope.
Simply put, for G5 to exist, the efforts of Twi and pals in G4 had to fail. That implication alone is offputting to fans who’s goodwill the writers supposedly did this shared timeline thing for. A separate universe wouldn’t have to touch that narrative like the G5 we’re getting needs to.
It really is the Star Wars Sequel trilogy all over again. I just hope the writing’s better for this one.
A separate G5 universe would still be compared endlessly by fans to G4 but it could have just been brushed off as nitpicking by fans trapped in the G4 nostalgia trap and unwilling to move on. We really can’t do that now. Can G5 stand on its own as its own work? Yes but not completely, for as much as it may be a separate series with separate problems revolving around a separate cast, the shared universe aspect means it can’t simply be cleaved off from G4 like people hope.
Simply put, for G5 to exist, the efforts of Twi and pals in G4 had to fail. That implication alone is offputting to fans who’s goodwill the writers supposedly did this shared timeline thing for. A separate universe wouldn’t have to touch that narrative like the G5 we’re getting needs to.
It really is the Star Wars Sequel trilogy all over again. I just hope the writing’s better for this one.