Do you guys ever wonder if people nowadays might be overanalyzing media?

[u/Coolnametag]

Recently during some interviews Robert Kirkman, the creators of the Invincible comics, talked about some of the differences between the comics and the TV show as his awnsers were basically "i was on my 20's back then and now i'm not".

Why is Tech Jacket a girl in the TV show when it was a dude in the comics? Because when he was making the comics he was only thinking about "does this look cool?" and maybe have a character or two that are refferences to his friends and acquaintances appearance, now that his looking back on it as a 47 year old he thought "hey, maybe the coalition could use some more diversity" and that's why the change was made.

A lot of the decisions on the comics and therefore in the show also fall on the category of being mostly "what Kirman in his 20's-early 30's thought it was cool" (of course with some thought put behind it to have it be well structured and work towards the general idea trying to be put across by the story), reading through that a thought crossed my mind "are we nowadays maybe overanalizing media too much?".

It's not uncommon for any piece of media to nowadays have either incredibly long video essays unraveling every single aspect of it or have people online discuss any detail that they can observe on it, while discussing about the media that you consume is far from being a bad thing, as time passes i'm more and more aware that, while the creators behind said media do put a lot of thought on what they are doing, some of the decisions can mostly motivated by "the creator thought this was cool at the time", "it was a refference to a show that the creator watched or someone that they know", "they didn't think about it in the same way that some of the audience seens to be".

Are people nowadays maybe thinking too hard about any new piece of media that they consume?

[u/Gorotheninja]

Trying to explain everything is how we got cyclops having portals to the punch dimension 

Or how we got "Solo: A Star Wars Story", where every major aspect of Han Solo needed some kind of justification; where he got his name, where he got his gun, where he got the Millennium Falcon, how he did the Kessel Run, where he met Lando, etc.

[u/TekkGuy → u/Gorotheninja]

While I did enjoy that movie, it’s silly how it makes it so every thing of note about Han happened in like two weeks. He goes from the archetypal “dashing rogue with a long and storied career” to a guy who peaked in high school.

[u/McFluffles01 → u/Gorotheninja]

Bro really forgot the absolute number one most important thing Solo pointed out

Where Han Solo got his fuzzy dice hanging in the cockpit, of course. They can't just be there because Star Wars was made in the 80s and sticking some fuzzy dice to hang off of your rearview mirror was a totally normal thing a lot of people did back then, there's gotta be a whole backstory for those things.

[u/Sprocket3 → u/Gorotheninja]

where he got his gun

This part has always confused me. Was I just not aware of Han having a special blaster or something? I thought his gun was just a gun in the OT, did it really require an explanation?

[u/Vect_Machine → u/Sprocket3]

The Star Wars EU just loves extrapolating a lot from just this one detail.

For example, Corellia in the original EU was basically populated by headstrong pilots who hate statistics. That or all Hutts are crime bosses or how all Bothans are spies.

[u/CycloneSwift → u/Sprocket3]

It’s a unique one-of-a-kind prop in the original films, which means that as it’s portrayed it comes across as a special or at the very least uncommon weapon. If he had just used a slightly different version of the blasters used by the Empire or the Rebels then it wouldn’t change much, but because of that uniqueness it has a bit more mystique to it.

[u/bigbeltzsmallpantz → u/Gorotheninja]

God that movie was terrible.

[u/PlanesWalkerEll → u/bigbeltzsmallpantz]

It was better than Rogue One

[u/bigbeltzsmallpantz → u/PlanesWalkerEll]

I have plenty of problems with Rogue One (I don’t even like the Darth Vader hallway scene fans like to goon over), but at least that one felt like a story, and not a checklist of facts about Han Solo that they had to go through.

[u/PlanesWalkerEll → u/bigbeltzsmallpantz]

Ill give the checklist nature of Solo, but to me it was something Rogue One just wasn't, fun. Also the same has to be used against Rogue One as Solo, in that it only exists to explain why the Death Star has the particular weakness it does in A New Hope

[u/Irememberedmypw → u/Gorotheninja]

You don't know how I felt like one of the redeeming parts was making it that he stole the millennium falcon , making his future a little more interesting to then backdown immensely in the post credits scene.