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172 | David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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When he was writing the original trilogy, it was a ser s of stories. It was not even the same characters in the different stories. So obviously, ah, there's challenges here in adapting it. But you did not that stop you. You've really invented a number of clever ways to make it seem like a connected story. The books are fascinating, but they're dry. Almost all the action happens off screen. There aren't any character arks. And so we had this notion of a galactic empire that was resistant to change. That a its fall as predicted. There's nothing that they can do about it.

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