Circle of Willis
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Reading just the last few pages of this thread has made me sad. Reflecting on the dismal state of Star Wars in Current Year+8 has made me sadder still.
It's been 3-4 years since TROS without another Star Wars movie, all such projects (like Rian Johnson's totally not cancelled trilogy) having been put on ice at best, and it's pretty much impossible to fathom how anyone is going to continue the 'story' of the sequels from where Plan IX from Outer Space left off with even the lead actors not wanting anything to do with SW anymore.
Andor dropped last September, was apparently OK if also slow & boring (full disclosure, never watched it because I frankly have no interest in Disney Wars media at this point except to hear about all the different and creative ways they fucked it up, just saw a Critical Drinker video about it and read some reviews) and yet was hindered by the horrible taste left in people's mouths by earlier TV shows like Book of Boba Fett & Kenobi.
High Republic's Phase II apparently kicked off last fall, to zero fanfare and apparently a pretty much totally apathetic flop of a reception. I honestly didn't know about they had gotten to that point until about five minutes ago when I specifically looked it up. And this is supposed to be Disney Wars' big push into KOTOR-tier worldbuilding?? SW print media in general seems to be dead, nobody wants any part of it (can't blame them when the likes of Chuck Wendig are/were the 'big names' involved).
New season of Bad Batch just dropped. Again, I've seen basically zero excitement for it even on Reddit, which is one of several major consoomer/bugman hives on the Internet and where great pains are taken to protect Disney Wars outside of specifically critical subreddits like r/salterthancrait.
Honestly it doesn't feel like there's any excitement for any Star Wars content anymore (and why would there be at this point?) It's a shame I've lost contact with those among my friends who used to insist that the Disney buyout and their canning of the old EU could only be beneficial, I'd love to see their reaction to the state of Nu-Star Wars lmao. Also, it's really quite depressing to contemplate how what started as a megahit film franchise has been reduced to pumping out TV shows like a drowning man flailing in the water and sucking in huge gulps of air every time he can, just to put off his death a little bit longer.
And because the Disney '''''canon''''' isn't enough of a jumbled mess with retcons, barely disguised authorial fetishes and favoritism, generally terrible characters, apparently no editorial wrangling of this idiocy to speak of, etc. out the ass, now they're going back to do what bad fanfic writers do and retcon the sexuality of major characters like that's going to even remotely come close to helping dig Star Wars out of the hole it's in? Under Disney's mismanagement this franchise feels like a walking zombie, something that should have died with TROS but is somehow impossibly still shambling around and moaning in pain, the film equivalent to The Simpsons. And it's been reduced to this state within less than 10 years since TFA!
It's been 3-4 years since TROS without another Star Wars movie, all such projects (like Rian Johnson's totally not cancelled trilogy) having been put on ice at best, and it's pretty much impossible to fathom how anyone is going to continue the 'story' of the sequels from where Plan IX from Outer Space left off with even the lead actors not wanting anything to do with SW anymore.
Andor dropped last September, was apparently OK if also slow & boring (full disclosure, never watched it because I frankly have no interest in Disney Wars media at this point except to hear about all the different and creative ways they fucked it up, just saw a Critical Drinker video about it and read some reviews) and yet was hindered by the horrible taste left in people's mouths by earlier TV shows like Book of Boba Fett & Kenobi.
High Republic's Phase II apparently kicked off last fall, to zero fanfare and apparently a pretty much totally apathetic flop of a reception. I honestly didn't know about they had gotten to that point until about five minutes ago when I specifically looked it up. And this is supposed to be Disney Wars' big push into KOTOR-tier worldbuilding?? SW print media in general seems to be dead, nobody wants any part of it (can't blame them when the likes of Chuck Wendig are/were the 'big names' involved).
New season of Bad Batch just dropped. Again, I've seen basically zero excitement for it even on Reddit, which is one of several major consoomer/bugman hives on the Internet and where great pains are taken to protect Disney Wars outside of specifically critical subreddits like r/salterthancrait.
Honestly it doesn't feel like there's any excitement for any Star Wars content anymore (and why would there be at this point?) It's a shame I've lost contact with those among my friends who used to insist that the Disney buyout and their canning of the old EU could only be beneficial, I'd love to see their reaction to the state of Nu-Star Wars lmao. Also, it's really quite depressing to contemplate how what started as a megahit film franchise has been reduced to pumping out TV shows like a drowning man flailing in the water and sucking in huge gulps of air every time he can, just to put off his death a little bit longer.
And because the Disney '''''canon''''' isn't enough of a jumbled mess with retcons, barely disguised authorial fetishes and favoritism, generally terrible characters, apparently no editorial wrangling of this idiocy to speak of, etc. out the ass, now they're going back to do what bad fanfic writers do and retcon the sexuality of major characters like that's going to even remotely come close to helping dig Star Wars out of the hole it's in? Under Disney's mismanagement this franchise feels like a walking zombie, something that should have died with TROS but is somehow impossibly still shambling around and moaning in pain, the film equivalent to The Simpsons. And it's been reduced to this state within less than 10 years since TFA!
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