Imagine a world where the owners of an IP actually appealed to the fans of the IP. I know sometimes you can expand your customer base with certain products but certainly not when you try to do it at the expense of loyal customers.
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If Disney had a few braincells left (and that's REALLY up for debate) The Acolyte hopefully served as their 'all in on leftism' example where they didn't hold back so they could go 'well, you make use no money whatsoever so why bother listening to you?'
Compare that with Deadpool and Wolverine, they KNOW the winning formula and they can easily make a Gambit and Wesley Snipes Blade films for massive money if they basically follow what Ryan Reynolds does instead of Kathleen Kennedy.
The question is: can they even ditch the woke shit or has the rot reached too much of the head of the snake?
Personally I hope they continue down this path and crash and burn.
No, they literally cannot. Because the woke shit is now important canon in the story. So even if they change course, the woke shit will still require being acknowledged and worked with in every future property.
To retcon it, would require a full admission of wrong doing (something these companies will never do) and a massive PR backlash from the people who control social media (making it seem far more powerful and deadly than it is). Which is the only actual option for course correction.
Stories don't matter. They can do ANYTHING with the story.
The problem are the people at Disney. When everyone at Disney is woke there's nobody left to turn things around. There's nobody who could write better stories. There's nobody who could hire people who'd write better stories. There's nobody who could hire better HR. There's nobody to appoint better management.
In Canadian universities they hire DEI candidates and then they force everyone to lie and say she was hired off merit.
this same brainwashing is probably happening at Disney.
This is Star Wars, the fans they "betrayed" literally created the modern version of the obsessive fanbase that catalogues and cares far too much about every minute detail of canon.
That's the people they would be trying to get back by removing the woke shit, which means the story does matter more than anything else.
nah, no admission required. they just act like it never happened and move on.
look at what ghostbusters did in afterlife. paul rudd made a crack that ghosts used to be all over the place in the 80s, and then boom gone, nothing for over 30 years. they retconned ghostbusters 2016 out of existence and said nothing about it.
especially with these multiverse stories, or they can just pick a different universe. or they can fix it with time travel. like in star wars, filoni was gearing up to do the timeline thing in ahsoka, even showed the time bridge in the force with anakin. he talked about it in an interview a couple years ago, and a lot of it was from star wars rebels (which filoni was running). short version is this:
jon favreau was in on it too, giddy like a school girl. favreau is more like tom cruise -- keeps his politics veiled, just wants to make good media that a lot of people will love. but then kathleen kennedy found out and bitched them all out, made them reverse it immediately in the next season, episode 1 of mando. favreau allegedly told them all to fuck off, that he'd finish up what he contractually agreed to, and be done. he was executive producer on ahsoka as it was already in production, and kathleen kennedy was second guessing everything he did.
so this gives you an idea of how they can wipe it out with no mention, or even have an elaborate back story on wiping it out. but disney won't allow it to get cleaned up... they are owned by communist subverters like larry fink at blackrock.
To be fair, that also sounds retarded and awful in its own way. Not everything needs to be time travel and multiverse stuff. Most stories are better off without it. Hell, even the medium famous for it (superhero comics) would probably be better off if it was used a lot more sparingly and more consequentially (although the "internal consistency" and "consequences" issues with superhero comics are basically a hole with no bottom at this point. Overuse of the multiverse and time travel is hardly their only issue). Star Wars of all things is not a property that time travel and parallel universes belong in.
Also, Ahsoka is a fun character but she does not need to be in literally every Star Wars plotline.
It's still a step up from the sequels, but that's hardly a high bar.
I remember thinking after the massive positive reaction that Luke’s appearance at the end of Mando season 2 that it was the perfect time to retcon stuff. I’m a huge fan of the expanded universe and thought it was dumb to just wipe it out instead of continuing it in its own continuity. I remember someone tried to get me to watch Ashoka saying the have elements of Heir to the Empire. I would just rather see an adaptation of it than Disney’s bastardized version.
I’ve heard that Favreau hated TLJ
Even with a course correction, I don’t think the OG fans would trust them. Disney squandered the last chance to bring all three original characters back together. Star Wars is dead and needs to be buried, not paraded around like a corpse puppet on strings.
That's they're biggest crime innthe end.
Stories are immortal and IP laws are fake and gay. Star Wars will always live on due to those facts.
But the big three reuniting is an opportunity that HAS been squandered forever with no possible recourse. That chance is gone forever.
And why? Because it would have been "derivative" too "expected".
Well quite. I got married recently, but I plan to never have sex with my wife cause that'd be too cliche.
We can't make people happy, that's WAY to obvious.
all they had to do was make the thrawn trilogy. they could have easily added some younguns to the cast to set them up for the future.
Ryan Reynolds had to trick Disney to keep as much woke shit out of of DP&W as possible.
He even filmed scenes with both She-hulk and Captain Marvel on purpose, just to completely toss them in post.
Either way, mass firings need to happen
They can burn to the ground
Or purge and orientate themselves to follow the example of the recently successful film and give audiences what they WANT.
Find Abigail Disney and throw her in a Yellowstone geyser in Minecraft