Why Star Wars is Falling Apart | Video Essay

Honestly, I'd say the force awakens was the real start to the downfall. Because in episode six the empire was defeated and luke was to build a new jedi order. TFA just hit the reset button and brought back the empire and destroyed the new republic and we didn't see luke's new jedi order. Fans accepted it, because it was the first time in over ten years a new star wars movie came out and it was a nostalgia trip and we fell for it. The last jedi was more of a wake up call if anything.

Please don't let Disney find out the Old Republic even exists. It's the only thing left that they haven't ruined. Let it sit in our hearts forever untarnished by Disney's incompetence.

I’m so glad I gave Andor a second chance it’s phenomenal

Im really glad you mentioned Fallen Order. Cal Kestis is pretty interesting but what makes that games story great are the villians. They're so well written into the story with actual legitimate reasons for their existence and their reasoning for fighting Cal

I remember seeing a full plot leak for the rise of skywalker before it came out, and I thought to myself "wow, this can't be real, this is worse than fan-fiction. if the movie is like this I don't even want to see it." And then I went to the theaters and the leak was accurate word for word, and that's when I gave up on disney star wars

There's absolutely nothing defendable about how Disney treated Star Wars IP. Even J.J. Abrams and some actors admitted there was absolutely no plan for the three movies when they started shooting the sequel trilogy and Disney CEO Bob Iger said the main thing they focused while doing Episode 7 was copying the original movie. There was absolutely no creative vision. They treated the IP as cash cow ready to milk as much as possible.

When Rey mind controlled a storm trooper when she didn't even fully believe the force was real yet, and then the first time she turned on a light saber beat someone who had trained their whole life, that was when I knew Disney Star Wars was bad. Throw in Fin gunning down his squad mates in glee just a few scenes after being too traumatized by combat to even shoot his blaster, and it's clear as day. TFA was a bad movie, but if you got carried away with the cultural hype it's understandable. It just means you have difficulty independently judging a film and instead use popular opinion in lieu of your own.

The worst thing that can happen to Star Wars has already happened: audience apathy. Most people simply don’t care anymore, and once you lose that momentum and fan passion, it is incredibly difficult to regain it. I have absolutely zero interest in Star Wars under Disney’s purview. None. It’s dead to me because not only is it creatively bankrupt and incompetently executed, it represents nothing I adore about the property. For as bad as the prequels were in execution, at least the soul of the IP was there. At least it was about the universe, characters, mythology, and journey. About the trials and triumphs. Now, it’s all about treating it like a commodity and shell to cash in on. Show after show after show barfed up from the Mickey Mouse factory assembly line to sell tickets and fill rides. This is not what people want, or why we were fans. The absolute cluelessness of Disney and those managing Lucasfilm is remarkable to witness. I’m only immensely grateful that we have the three (unaltered) OT films, and they can never be taken away from us. I will treasure and remain incredibly thankful for those brilliant visions by people who strived to tell us wonderful stories that spoke to fundamental human truths and values, and who put commercial considerations in the background. Do it to tell us great stories, and the money will pour in. Do it for the money, and you will fail.

You nailed it with "couldn't let Boba Fett be Boba Fett in his own show."

The saddest thing is knowing what this franchise could have been if it was in the right hands.

The fact that so so so many Lucasfilm films and projects and films have been cancelled are grounds alone for Kathleen's firing. This amount of cancelled projects just doesn't happen in any other studio

Mandolorian season 3 should be good. Oh... if only you knew 1y ago. And let's not speak about Ahsoka. Feloni being the savior? All hope is lost, SW is unfortunately dead 😢

Kathelen Kennedy has a long resume of successful shows but when you analyze her role in the development of those shows, she was not the show runner . She was an assistant. She didn’t learn anything. But she rose to the top the same way that shit floats up.

As Darth Traya would say: “Apathy is death, worse than death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects.”

26:21 Well, that didn't age well.

whenever the goal of a movie is to propagandize rather than entertain, it falls apart.

I hope Disney sees the response to Andor and realizes which way to go forward. however, andor isn't nearly as popular as shows like kenobi so I doubt they're going the quality route

Whenever they said "we can't do better than Darth Vader, so we might as well turn that aspect into the new villain, not being able to live up to his grandfather", they clearly also said "we can do better than Luke, so we might as well turn that aspect into the new hero, being able to outshine Luke at every opportunity possible".

I watched the first 2 episodes of Andor and stopped watching it. A month after i gave Andor a second try and boy, i was surprised. The later episodes really got me. I love slow stories. Andor is down to earth storytelling and it actually feels real. I love the show.

I wanted to see Obi working through everything. He went from broken to a wise mentor from 3 to 4. I wanted to see that! And why is he afraid of Vader? He whooped his ass so hard he needed permanent life support for the rest of his life!