Is Filoni the nuLucas...?
The comparisons trying to make Filoni some sort of modern-day Lucas are profoundly misguided, IMO. Lucas was an innovator while Filoni is more of a duplicator.
Lucas was innovative by taking inspiration from a variety of other works, and then using elements of those to craft something new and different from it. That's the key: *new* and *different.* I see it as homage without being just lazy imitation; more of a subtle pastiche. Filoni, on the other hand, does nothing more than straight up imitation from anime, shows, and movies. Nothing original in terms of structure or narrative. I think some people might be getting the two approaches confused.
Filoni is a huge SW fan with tons of lore knowledge, and with a strong fidelity to the core Lucas themes. He's also probably a really nice guy. But the second coming of Lucas in a creative sense? Maybe only to younger people who haven't seen all of it before in one form or another.
But the OT only focus is Luke and Vader we barely see the actual galaxy, thats why concepts like space whale looks out of a place if you look by OT standarts. Now Star Wars is a galaxy way more larger than what we saw in OT, so we get more strange concepts and magical stuff, the world just gets bigger and bigger.
I know you're joking about space animals, but there is actually a space lizard that can block force powers.
Its like watching the first Iron Man and compare with Infinity War\Endgame, the MCU's sandbox got so big and diverse that the armor Stark wears is like magic(Nanotech).
The jedi from the OT were simple Space warriors but the Jedi from PT became Space wizard knights.
Star Wars means something different to different people. And a lot of that depends on what SW you grew up with. So it should be no surprise that some of us reject things like space whales propelling themselves through hyperspace, or Mortis "gods of the Force."
I'm guessing that the 95 in your username is probably the year you were born. If so, you grew up with a Star Wars that had already changed radically from the one that people my age grew up with.
I grew up with a SW that was great to me (as I found out while getting older) because it was allegorical fantasy about relatable things like a farmboy leaving home for adventure and heroics, and then themes about family, fathers, sons, and redemption. The setting of space was nothing more than a novelty to set it apart. And the space wizardry was there for much the same reason. These things were a means to an end, and changed depending on what the story needed, but never got so "out there" as to detract from the human drama and relatable themes.
Lucas himself changed SW with the PT, and that's fine. It has since gone on to change even further. But old farts like me will every now and then wish it hadn't changed from more of the simple and grounded foundations that were the backdrop for movies that completely won us over. Enjoy your SW, but don't be surprised that other people want to do the same with theirs.
