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I want to talk about what a pulverized skullfucked corpse Star Wars is anymore without the Culture War Thread's pretense of being edifying in any way, so here we are.
Yeah so listen, there's a Star Wars movie coming out like four months from now and as far as I can tell no one gives a shit at all. There's just zero hype or awareness. I know there's a big marketing push yet to come, but come on, think of what the prelude to a Star Wars movie was like back in the pre-TLJ world where people still gave a shit.
But even when the marketing does hit?
"Hey guys remember the Mandalorian? It was on Disney Plus a few years ago. Okay yeah I know the last season was kind of bad, but remember when it was popular? Oh and attention everyone in the entire fucking world who isn't a Disney Plus subscriber, remember Baby Yoda from like keychains and plushies and stuff? Well he's part of a show called the Mandalorian that you didn't watch but will hopefully want to turn up to a theatrical movie for."
Like good fucking luck with that pitch. Star Wars is screwed and they know it. They're so screwed with this movie that Kathleen Kennedy couldn't wait another four months to retire. Seriously the timing of her stepping down is a huge red flag to me. If she really thought the movie was going to get anywhere she'd stay unretired for another twelve or thirteen weeks and go out on a high note.
I bet this is the last Star Wars movie ever made. They've been prevaricating on everything else waiting for this to flop so they can call it.
To indulge in sheer schadenfreude-driven bitterness for a moment...
Good.
I loved Star Wars when I grew up, but right now, Star Wars needs to rest. The franchise needs to just lie dormant for a while. It's done this before - 1983-1991, for instance - and probably been better for it. Our media overlords should put it down and stop trying to exploit it.
Maybe one day there can or should be a Star Wars renaissance, but it is not happening now. Give it at least a decade of rest.
It really doesn't though. Maybe they should give up movies, but for whatever reason they never give the public (me) what it wants when it comes to video games, no matter how successful. For a period, up until around the late 00s, Lucasarts was producing some absolutely killer Star Wars themed games. And I don't think they've run dry the mine of both the storyworld of the Old Republic (which is just better in nearly every way from mainline Star Wars) or style of games such as the old Jedi Academy games. They just won't do them because it's not GAAS optimized slop. And when they do do something like an open world Star Wars game (killer in theory) they insist on wokifying it - but you don't have to do that.
I wouldn't read them, but probably you could theoretically do good books. Comics in the west are probably dead for a generation, at minimum, but if that weren't so you could theoretically do that too.
Anyway, there's still a Star Wars world at Disneyland, so I don't imagine they'll give up totally soon. It takes money to dismantle that thing, and anyways, it honestly looks cool. Speaking of, I heard they're finally giving up forcing the turd sequel IP line exclusively for Disney's Galaxy Edge and letting in nostalgia bait like Vader along with the joke that is Kylo Ren and the neo-Rebellion. Wise.
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