I wouldn't even say it started with marvel, because star wars started the whole connecting movies thing, just done well. There are multiple throwaway lines in the original trilogy were expanded into plot points in the prequels. In a new hope obi wan said one line about luke's dad fighting in the clone wars and they made a movie and a half about that. Star wars is the franchise that is known for not throwing anything away, every single line is expanded into some great thing, yoda saying luke was too old, extrapolated to mean jedi start training when they're toddlers. instead of flashbacks or references to connect films there was the opening crawl, a literal exposition dump which was fine because it was star war's gimick
one thing i think you're noticing that i really feel looking at the sequels, that star wars was trying to be a lot like marvel, and it was not very successful. regardless of the view of the prequels at least those films used the language of star wars, there were a lot of gimicks that are known to be "star wars" that were ignored in the sequel trilogy in the idea that "oh well this other property we own makes so much money, lets just copy it". its kind of sad how the only things that feel like star wars are when plot points are lifted from the previous movies, because they wont utilize time skips or in universe lore or other things that are thought of as "star wars" separate from the plot. the clone wars and the mandalorian feel like star wars to many people because those don't try and be something else and dont copy whats already been successful, those use the established language of the franchise. The sequel trilogy really did not do that.
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Date: 29/12/19 13:15 (UTC)one thing i think you're noticing that i really feel looking at the sequels, that star wars was trying to be a lot like marvel, and it was not very successful. regardless of the view of the prequels at least those films used the language of star wars, there were a lot of gimicks that are known to be "star wars" that were ignored in the sequel trilogy in the idea that "oh well this other property we own makes so much money, lets just copy it". its kind of sad how the only things that feel like star wars are when plot points are lifted from the previous movies, because they wont utilize time skips or in universe lore or other things that are thought of as "star wars" separate from the plot. the clone wars and the mandalorian feel like star wars to many people because those don't try and be something else and dont copy whats already been successful, those use the established language of the franchise. The sequel trilogy really did not do that.