I recently bought some Star Wars (pre disney) expanded universe books and comic books from my local used book store and it got me thinking. Star Wars was probably my biggest "nerd interest" growing up and when I was 12 I got Heir to the Empire for my birthday. It was exciting because I didn't know there were books took place in the Star Wars universe. I even was excited at the time when I heard Disney bought Lucasfilm (yes I was very naive).
Honestly Star Wars (and to a lesser extent Ghostbusters) should be a lesson on how not to handle a franchise. Yes, the sequel trilogy made money, but I think it could've made even more money. It still baffles me that nobody thought "you know maybe having Luke be a grumpy hermit that does nothing might not be the best thing" or "not having Luke or the Jedi Academy in episode 7 might not be a good idea". Also Kathleen Kennedy has the same poisonous mindset that a lot of people in charge of IPs I have enjoyed do of hiring people who hate the product or putting diversity over good storytelling.
There were already women who liked Star Wars but I guess she was mad in general that the hobby consisted of mostly men. I remember a sequel lover called me sexist for not liking TLJ and I told them that I would've loved a sequel trilogy where Jaina Solo was the main protagonist. Of course they didn't know who Jaina Solo was. Also Mara Jade was very popular! A slam dunk for Disney had they used her.
But anyway, I no longer have Disney Plus and I really have no interest in the shows since they all lead to the disney timeline. Does anyone have faith that Star Wars can make blockbusters again? Like I said, Star Wars should be example number one on how not to treat fans.
Star Wars was given the Disney treatment, they butcher the characters and make a Mary Sue out whatever woke demographic they want. Look at what they did to espn. The “expanded” market theorem for them is to make complete crap but have it touch as many diversity check marks as possible. Disney knows women care more about feelings than story, so we get soap opera level writing in every show. It’s hilarious because people are now flocking in droves to Asian cinema and anime due to this.
I really enjoy Anime and I need to check out Asian cinema because I hear great things. I remember someone telling me that in the west they write women so horribly because they are terrified of making them look bad or showing a woman getting beaten or losing. Kind of boring, and with anime I have seen great female characters. Part of a great story arc is getting knocked down but getting up to keep fighting.
The rising of the shield hero had feminists here screeching because like in real life a woman made a false rape accusation. It hilarious that we can’t even replicate reality without women demanding it be changed.
They claim false rape accusations are rare. They always post this same chart that's supposed to show percentages which shows like 3 proven rapes and 1 proven false accusation. Now a reasonable person would be like, okay so 25% of accusations are false, but no they have another 10 or so non-proven rape accusations and they assume all of those accusations are true rather than the reasonable thing of assuming that the same proportion would exist in the nonproven cases. Bad enough but wait there's more- then they have 86-ish rapes that are never reported but totally exist you see and if they were reported they would be true accusations, so you see although it would appear to the uneducated mind that it is 25% of accusations in fact it is 1% because I have a degree in womens studies but not one in math!
In comic books they always say “we are just reflecting society”
Social engineering doesn’t work if you know they’re doing it