oragator said:
She still doesn't get it on multiple levels. It's bizarre to watch considering her stellar history. This was the first prime example of the SW 40 plus years of goodwill running out. When I read interviews with her, she seems to want to fight the fanbase instead of leaning into it. It's largely a white male middle aged group. And yet not only does she make very little for them, she walks around wearing a T-shirt saying the force is a woman, then talks repeatedly about how toxic the fanbase is etc.
The extreme example I would give would be if they brought in a man over the Barbie franchise and did the same thing in reverse. It would be idiotic. That movie spent two hours without a single positive male in it (amd even vilified Ken) and made a billion dollars. There's value in leaning in to your core audience.
And even beyond the whole woke argument. outside of Andor, there's nothing specifically for adults, which their core audience has been demogrqphically for decades now. It's no coincidence that andor's ratings increased over time and it was the best reviewed series they've had. This series bombed after two episodes.
And all that is before even talking about the unoriginal garbage that was the last trilogy. Took exactly zero chances and basically copied four for 7. Amd how unoriginal and paint by SW numbers the underlying storyline was here too.
And yet, even with all that, she's still in charge and still throwing this junk up at us as the best they can do. Disney deserves this failure and if they don't learn from it, they deserve the next one too.
/nerd rant.
I've always wanted to see another Last Action Hero. Maybe this is it? All the SW characters are struggling to under the stupidity of their lives and decisions (the storylines) but then they find out it's all because an out of touch producer forced it on them. They revolt and kill her in the real world. The end. Rogue 2
