I'm still agog that Disney took the message of The Last Jedi (You don't need to be special to be a hero, you just need to try) out back with a shotgun so that they could make "No, actually everyone is related and only the Skywalkers matter, super wacky no-way school style"

From a purely cynical standpoint, you want kids to feel engrossed in the universe because they'll be new fans and get their parents to buy them shit

From an idealistic standpoint, imagine being a kid and being told "Haha, get fucked, you're not special, you can't be a hero, here's a stormtroopers costume, it's $69.99", tell me you wouldn't be crushed

Star Wars is about big ideas and concepts like ...

Like Good vs Evil and the superiority of special-powers people!

Like imperialism and fascism arising from liberalism

Yeah, but at least it was high-effort schlock. Lucasfilm invented new filming technology and techniques to get the results they wanted. George Lucas had a story he wanted to tell and an experience he wanted to create for his audience.

Disney just wanted to dispose of the original characters as quickly and cheaply as possible so they could be replaced with new characters that they would have full control of (no established lore or fan base) and new actors that they wouldn't have to pay as much.

Lucas shopped Star Wars out to make money, but it was mostly to enable his projects and support his filming technology addiction (greed with a purpose).

Disney just wants to make money from Star Wars. They don't care about the story or the characters or the universe or the experience as long as people will keep buying it (greed with no purpose) and you can smell the low-effort coming off of their movies. You can feel it while you're sitting in the theater watching for the first time, not sure exactly what's wrong but sure that something is... even if you can't explain it in specific terms, you can feel the lack of care .

Star Wars has been creatively bankrupt since 1983. I have not seen Andor though and I'm told that slaps.

I have legit never understood this. Aside from not having any fucking nostalgia at all for being a child (zero agency, things decided for you, school is worse than most jobs) I grew up with George Lucas' dumb fuckin scifi property. I still have the DVDs we got to replace the old videotapes, the Silver ones with the laserdisc rips. I played a bunch of the games, had a few of the Dark Horse comics, and the end result is... The original trilogy are fun 70s scifi with some cool themes and reallly impressive effects work. I'll never not keep rips of 4K77, 4K80 and 4K83 or the Despecialised versions around, but that's about it. No harsh to classic EU stuff, I'm sure the Thrawn trilogy and stuff are cool, but I do not understand the relentless brand loyalty combined with "everything was better when I was ten years old" that these people experience.

I miss the EU.

It's more fun to think about Star Wars than it is to consume it. The world has a lot to captue in the imagination, but most of the stories told in it are derivative.

Kinda like 40k.

I was going about, living my life, and then I remember that someone on hexbear implied that the new Acolyte show didn't contain very much magical martial arts? Like what's the fucking point????? If it's not that then nobody cares about the fucking Jedi. Just hit each other!

I've mentioned this before but one of the funniest things I saw about star wars was one of these nerd malcontents posting "the success of the new Dune movie proves that there could be star wars aimed at an adult audience."

Like bro you are so close to understanding that it's Sci fi slop for children. So fucking close.

Many people are saying this

There's a whole ecosystem of youtube critics who complain about the degrading quality of..... spongebob episodes.

Can't even have good sci-fi action schlock anymore, because of woke.

I love the chuds losing their shit and blaming Kathleen Kennedy for 'ruining Star Wars!'. She's been involved with LucasFilm/SW since 1983. You'd think that forty years would be ample time to kill a fucking film franchise, even for C-Suite level talent.

You would think after 40 years the trend of "you like the media that came out when you were the target audience for it and dislike it once you outgrow that age and their target audience is someone else" would be pretty obvious

star wars has never been anything other than dog shit for children 👍

Death to America