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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023

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because Kennedy insisted nothing from the original trilogy be included, but all her Rey Skywalker movies

I think there's good reason to not blame Kennedy for everything that went wrong (my understanding is that the original sin of rushing the Sequel trilogy without a set plan was a Disney mandate) but I honestly don't know how she a) was even allowed to make this call in the first place (the only thing the ST had going for it was nostalgia) and b) hasn't been fired for it.

I'm not able to keep up with the number of Star Wars movies by now, to be honest, but around the time J.J. Abrams got the gig I was very surprised, because they seemed to be jumping from one director to a different one for the next movie, and the new guy immediately started contradicting the stuff set up in the last movie, then the next movie contradicted that.

I think people like the original trilogy because (1) they grew up on it and (2) it's consistent. Luke and the Rebels are the Good Guys, Vader is redeemed in death, the Empire is the Bad Guys and at the end the Good Guys win. Simple, exciting, and no "and then they all turned into the Atreides family and started trying to murder each other".

  1. She's a woman

And 2) She must have some dirt on those in power in that corp or else she would have been fired about 2-3 movie trashfires ago.