Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm

I'm actually not sure if it's cause or effect. You have an entire studio filled with activists who sneer at their audience.

They paid 4 billion for it

The sale price to Disney was 4.1 billion, so it was worth much more than a billion

I am guessing since it was the 80s and 90s being the right hand woman to a person like Lucas meant fetching his coffee

Blind commitment to the political cause while being surrounded by people telling her that "The Force is Female" would be the next big thing?

She was good at the business side of making movies, helping translating the artistic vision of a more creative person into palatable movies for the public and critics. However, Disney made a number of mind-numbing choices for Star Wars. They threw out all the established lore and decided to go at a trilogy without bothering to you know write the entire trilogy plot first. They also decided to use different directors and writers for every film. Since KK was in charge of everything, she ended up being asked to make large scale creative choices and to meld wildly different and conflicting visions into a cohesive narrative. Not being talented at this, she defaulted to a Mary Sue self-insert as the protagonist and agreed to as many memberberries as possible to drive box office results.

The board installed Pao, made a bunch of controversial changes, "responded to user outrage" by sacking her. Got their new censorship-friendly reddit even as they were hailed as saviours. Scapegoating 101.

Did anyone you know play the Star Wars, Ghostbusters or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPGs?

Sidenote: Ghostbusters was good but I'm still shocked at the huge cult following. It was just 2 movies and a cartoon that I don't know the quality of.

kids in the 80s quickly forgot about Starshit without the internet to constantly ram it down our throats

I don't think that's historically accurate. In the '90s we all loved it because there was still nothing with better special effects. Well at least with better special effects and better storytelling in general.

I was a astar wars kid in the 90s when they had those micro machine sets. The best space battles still belong to the original trilogy like nothing is much better even with 40 years later. Return of the Jedi was slop but it had a huge dedicated fanbase long after the orignial films ended

A critic I like argued that without the prequel trilogy being so awful, people would probably not like star wars as much, which is an interesting idea.

The EU was full of random trash, some of the comics were the worst about it, I though Disney throwing a bunch of it out was a great idea at the time, so that they could then go back and cherry pick what wasn't r-slurred.

Tbf I've been in this situation before and it's really easy to just imagine he's not fricking the 17-year old girl. It's only like 10 years later that you realize "ohhhh that was obviously going on right in front of me".

It says she knew because the press had reported on it? She wasn't in on some secret.

!tldr

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Paw Patrol and it's not even close

God this whole narrative drives me crazy "actually his wife saved the movie" "star wars was saved in editing" "lucas has great imagination but poor actual skills" shut the frick UP he's said that the real filmmaking only starts after filming of course editing is gonna have a big impact. He was a revolutionary genius even before star wars not some random hack and even his prequel movies show this if you're not a dumb r-slur

oh word do you also believe einstein stole all his papers from his secret genius wife?

People like to imagine that the rich are some cabal of evil geniuses. The really sad truth is they're just a bunch of total fricking morons like everyone else.

Theyre getting paid no matter what

The force is female chud stop asking questions