honestly the problem with shows like ahsoka, mandalorian, clone wars etc is theyre all picking each others plot threads up to be spun off or concluded in another spinoff.
there was an x-men comic called x-men: grand design where it was essentially a retelling of the story of the x-men rexamined and rethought to remove filler, tell the most important stories in a shorter and more concise way with less of the insane wierdo shit that you naturally get from writing ostensably one continuing story over decades with 100 spinoffs. id love to see something similar done for star wars.
actually id like a full ultimate spiderman style reboot now that i think about it
They are kind of doing this but with an older Spider-Man (It's actually really good).
But yeah, one good thing about the OG Ultimate Spider-Man was how it had 40-50 years worth of stories not only to adapt, but to also learn. So we got some real good retellings of already great pieces of work.
References work best when you're able to fit them into the narrative. I really hate how star wars does it because they are put in to give People something to talk about.
Everything I heard about the Mandalorian was great... until all I heard was a Luke Skywalker cameo which killed my interest in the show.
It's all People can talk about now, even if the show gave them something else.
And honestly, I think this is all a response to the reception of The Last Jedi, that film seemed to go out of its way to try and not reference everything that came before... It did it with mixed results admittedly, but all anyone could say was how upset they were that we never got the trio back in one room again, or how Luke wouldn't act like this (which is A. not taking into account the 30+ years that had passed between films and B. Ignoring possibly the best moment in all of Star Wars, where Luke starts going ham on Darth Vader at the end of episode 6).
Now we just get references to make it good. Bear in mind, I do think the "War never changes" is an important line for the franchise as a whole, and I'm surprised they didn't say it in every episode, so I can at least forgive that.
I've not seen the rest of the show, so I don't know how House fits into it, hopefully it's in a role like Kane has in the first Red Alert, where he is there, but not really the main focus of anything.
On a side note, Twin Peaks Season 3 did the best references with having a few sprinkled in the series.
