this is what's so great about star wars
you will have one character that has one line and lasts 30 seconds and fans can turn him into a legend
Is that not the definition of overrating in this context?
I'd be on record that any character the fans do that to is really just a ******* lame character.
it is, but its also why we have so much lore and starwars backstory
its a credit to the movies that people care enough to do this stuff for minor characters
if the same situation played out in a lord of the rings movie no one would care about the character at all
No.
You don't get lore and back story from characters saying one line and being on screen for half a minute.
What happens is fans overrate ****, the ppl in merchandising profit off of that. The publishing get told to make some **** up so you can sell books and they do it. Now I haven't read the books and don't plan to but I'd assume in this case whoever was in charge got some good authors who probably never got the same mainstream appeal with their original ideas to write the stuff and the books came out good enough for fans to accept (not that if the books sucked they wouldn't have sold initially).
I find the Lord of the Rings boring so I wouldn't know but if they're caking off books or w/e it's not a surprise. That middle Earth **** has an audience. I highly doubt across the board they're having characters show up for a short time, say anything and then fans just gravitate to that character and the creators supply the demand with back story. You have to make good characters to properly create lore.
But hey I'm on record for not finding any of those characters you're referring to in OT interesting at all to really look up their back story in the first place. For me, George told a simple story about a father and son with a straightforward approach on the concept of good vs. evil. I was interested in the Jedi (and Sith), liked the amount of weird alien races he could come up with, and how the force worked. The smugglers, outlaws, bounty hunters, and specifically guys like Jabba the Hutt did nothing for me. I'd already seen stuff like that done better.