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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 18, 2025

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Who on earth liked the Force witches or whatever the hell these things are supposed to be? (Just a hint here, if you're doing a sacred mystic ritual, try not to have it look like an am-dram society pretending to have epileptic seizures).

Didn't watch the Acolyte, but it is sad to see them botch the Force witches so bad. I like the concept of there being non-Jed/Sith force traditions out there, and I think with the right approach they could absolutely make them feel distinct and interesting. Too bad Disney doesn't know how to do that.

We had the Witches of Dathomir and they were fine.

Much like The Rise of Skywalker was an incompetent and facial adaptation of Dark Empire, this is once again just Disney remaking the EU but worse.

I take some perverse pleasure in remembering the old arguments about how ditching the EU was good, actually, because it unburdens the new writers by what has been, and enables them to be more creative.

I also seem to remember one of our regular posters had a bit about how nerds need to shut up, because corporate executives know better how to make their product appealing to a wider market.

With this latest capitulation, I've thought about doing a bit of a gentle retrospective over the various long-running fan debates here on the motte over whether or not The New Stuff was or wasn't a good idea. Most of those conversations died off as most of the old-timer Blues left, but it seems now the writing is pretty much on the wall.

Ditto for the conversations a couple years back about how the UK Tories were showing everyone what right-wing competence looked like.

Ditto for the conversations a couple years back about how the UK Tories were showing everyone what right-wing competence looked like.

I was thinking a lot about that one too.

I guess Lucas should have listened to the suits instead of his nerd buddies and ditched his pulp space opera idea. Audiences won't connect with it. And even if it was produced they would only give him the toy rights.

Reading the text of the chant (“The power of one. The power of two. The power of many.”) is doesn’t sound so bad, but when you watch the scene itself it sounds like a cross between “Gen-Z boss and a mini” and a cringe college protest chant. Just absolutely awful sound design.

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