"Why are the new Star Wars movies so obsessed with nostalgia pandering?"
Star Wars came out in 1977, 16 years after Yuri Gagarin entered orbit and exactly 22 years after the start of the space race and beginning of the mass popularity of space toys, fitting right into the 20-to-30-year-nostalgia bubble, Star Wars is fundamentally based around "nostalgia pandering".
Execution, on the other hand, is another matter - but critcising the simple idea of "nostalgia pandering" as a whole as opposed to how it is done is, for many IPs that have managed to sustain themselves for a long time, completely neglecting their historical context.
Star Wars came out in 1977, 16 years after Yuri Gagarin entered orbit and exactly 22 years after the start of the space race and beginning of the mass popularity of space toys, fitting right into the 20-to-30-year-nostalgia bubble, Star Wars is fundamentally based around "nostalgia pandering".
Execution, on the other hand, is another matter - but critcising the simple idea of "nostalgia pandering" as a whole as opposed to how it is done is, for many IPs that have managed to sustain themselves for a long time, completely neglecting their historical context.