Relentlessly squeezing out every last dollar they can out of it is a definition of "increasing value," I guess. This is, of course, a side-note to the reality that monetary value is a necessary evil of creating art and should not be the end goal. Let old properties rest in peace.
So there's no reason to be invested in anything that happens when I know the Rebellion was all for nothing.
Yeah, I know Andor exists. Counterpoint: I don't care Rogue One was mid Cassian has the personality of wood, and well:
Damn straight
Alternatively, pandering exclusively to manchildren and reactionary YTers are also not exactly a good marketing and business plan.
Disney's destruction of the Marvel and Star Wars brands will be future case studies in business schools about buying a brand without understanding who the customers are, and the impact to revenues when annoying the loyal customer base.
America is a land where making war is sacred, and making love is obscene. Take that knowledge how you wish.
I know some think it isn't useful to expose yourself to these horrific stories, they call it tragedy porn, but... I kinda think its important to be reminded once in a while. Cry, scream, feel something about the pain of other people. Don't numb yourself completely. Hold on to your humanity.
We've spent decades forgetting the warnings of World War II amongst inane vicarious pageantry. To the point that when domestic political parties and elected officials now speak of and practice Nazi ideals, the media won't even call them out as such. We have failed as a society.
Someone in that company needs to be brave enough to throw the whole sequel trilogy away
Might be, but I'm still not gonna watch it. #starwarsisdead
He wanted to make A New Hope so bad he made Star Wars worse.
The Death Star development takes a decade and an entire galaxy-wide apparatus of control, genocide, and domination to produce, but some half-baked underground fascist movement can somehow turn an entire planet into a star system-destroying super weapon without anyone caring? I hate JJ Abrams.
Who in the fuck cares about the main characters of some of the worst sci-fi movies in the modern era, especially Rey Palpatine, the face of the death of star wars? Nobody of the modern generation cares. Certain not actually star wars fans
Remind me what happens at the end of Episode 9? Oh right: - The galaxy is in flames - The Jedi are dead - The new republic is dead - All the heroes are ruined and/or dead - The spawn of palpatine buries anakin's lightsaber in the sands of the place he hated I have plenty reason to complain
ugh watching videos on EU Luke Skywalker makes me dislike Last Jedi even more. They just assassinated his character.... for what? He could have easily been Rey's Yoda without going from Mr. "I know there is good in him" to Mr. "I need to smite the boy suffering from nightmares!"
That will only happen after they retcon the sequels. Which is never. #starwarsisdead
He has a point.
"beloved" right
I mean she was stuck on Tatooine forever so thats fair....
#starwarsisdead
Science fiction as a whole seems to have fallen into this trap. Endless nostalgia bait, prequels and reimaginings of well-trod franchises, and little actually new under the sun. It very much feels like we're not even allowed to think about a better future anymore.
The horizon is a red sky choked with smoke and Star Trek is captured by a company willing to mouth right wing nonsense in order to accumulate shareholder value. Shit sucks yo
Iunno there's something grim about Star Trek, a series meant to be a hopeful and optimistic vision of the future, ending up being mostly prequels playing off nostalgia. Very appropriate for the mood of this era, however!
Reposting from X. I can't stress this enough. We live in a fascist society. When capitalism strips stories of their context and meaning and sells them back as empty nostalgia, they stop questioning power and become just aesthetics. That’s how we forget what they were meant to teach us.
Lol, ok shill.
And it's all gonna be total shit. #starwarsisdead
Bullshit
What i mean to say is that: if you still call yourselves fans after IX, what made you come back? I genuinely want to know. I want to like this franchsie again. #starwars
Genuine question, #starwars fans who still consume? Why do you still like the franchise? Do you think like me that the sequels invalidated everything, or is it just me? Do you mind the fanservice direction it is in now? What makes you go back?
#starwarsisdead
Nothing! #starwarsisdead
#starwarsisdead
Star Wars is a lot like your brain dead, vegetable family member that you won’t take off life support because you think they might get better
So many spectacularly dumb moments in Rise of Skywalker but the most heartbreaking one is Isaac realizing he is not the new Han Solo as he says “somehow, Palpatine returned”
Rey should’ve buried the Skywalker lightsabers at Padmé’s resting place, instead of a sad barren planet they all hated and wanted to leave whenever there. That way the family could metaphorically be together, and the saga begins and ends on Naboo. “It’s like poetry, it rhymes.”
If more people did care, DC would be in ruins by now and this fucking joke of a nation would finally be dead.
Also, Ubisoft is a terrible, abusive company that pumps out mid slop because they're only focused making franchise money than actual good games made with passion.
youtu.be/Jkmzw8wuO9w?...
The sequel trilogy was a total failure that invalidated the entire franchise All the shows are cheap garbage that only gets views due to member-berries The only exception got terrible views There's so much star wars crap that oversaturation rules And nobody really cares anymore Not bullshit to me
Yep, Star Wars is pretty much dead at this point.
After how bad they were, the (justified) lack of sequel trilogy content, and just how stale eveyrthing is now, i rather doubt it. They will be seen as the death knell of star wars
Aura? I barley remembered his name!
the closest thing we've had to a good mainline Star Wars movie since 1983 is the Last Jedi, and the Last Jedi was an interesting failure. TROS is *exceptionally* bad but it's not *unusually* bad.
Yeah, The Force Awakens wanted to be A New Hope so badly that it killed any opportunity to move the Star Wars story in new and interesting directions.
That's pretty much why i refuse to watch it. #starwarsisdead
Random thought of the day: It's all subject to interpretation, but Andor arguably makes the Star Wars sequel trilogy way, way worse. Like, Cassian and all those heroes sacrificed so much, only to bring about a New Republic that…pretty much failed across the board and then promptly got 'sploded.
I still struggle to accept the fact they had SO MUCH creative material to pull from for episode 9 and we still ended up with whatever the fuck rise of skywalker was
I don't see an amred rebellion happening in LA, so they ain't "kicking his ass" Theyre just too cowardly to do what needs to be done
Right now, it's fucking impossible
Not only did Biden encourage militarized police raids against on campuses (impugning pro-Palestine students as antisemitic), but he threw money at cops (including COVID relief funding) and continued the federal crackdown on Portland protests that started under Trump.
No actually. People should see these pictures. No fucking cops or corpos at pride. Ever.
it is ahistorical to consider this moment w/o recognizing dems have been complicit in the narrative that DC crime is out of control, that the district cannot govern itself. they had the opportunity to grant statehood a few years ago and instead voted for (and biden signed) overrides of local laws
7 months and our senile president is deploying armed forces to DC because a guy named Big Balls got beat up by a teenage girl
Ooh but socialism is totalitarian and authoritarian lmao shut the fuck up Trump is sending the military in to pacify cities, grabbing people off the street with no due process, ignoring the courts, openly tampering with the witness to his sex crimes... How're you gonna fucking scare me with UBI?
Man really does suck how the government can use the absurd resources of police departments to enforce unlawful takeovers of cities and infrastructure. If only there was some kind of public push to disarm and defund and ultimately disband this jackbooted private army of the state. Ah well.
Sounds bad!
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
I guess we just still go to work huh
You don’t demand it because he’ll do it, you demand it because normalizing any of this to any degree is ghoulish and brings us no closer to any fucking political victories or great reconciliation with the brainwashed parts of the public. You demand it because they shot up the fucking CDC
RFK Jr. should resign. Any healthy Democratic Party would demand it right now. Any public health apparatus of value would demand it right now. We are leaderless in government and academia. America is a fucking death cult
once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
"No one is illegal on stolen land" Wheat pasteup in Los Angeles
So far, we know that the Americans sent neo-Nazis, Christian Zionists and anti-Muslim Christian Nationalists to Gaza - and it’s those men that have been opening fire on Palestinian civilians along with the IDF.
Remember that whole; "brought to you by viewers like you"? Well right now, it's ONLY brought by viewers like you. Take that money from a subscription you use once every 6 months, and put it to people who need and will use that money better than a mega corp.
has anyone noticed that labour came to power but they have kept doing the same kinds of awful things as the tories. i noticed that
If today's Democrats were around during the 1980s and the AIDS epidemic, they'd be condescending as hell to LGBTQ+ voters about how they should've voted for a second Carter term and how they should sacrifice themselves for "Democracy" so that Mondale (and Dukakis 4 years later) can win.
You can go after trans people, the immunocompromised & Jews and Disney will release a statement about how respected and kind you are.
Cool, now good luck trying to make a cent off her again when the costar that made her work watchable won’t speak to her, and every writer on the LFL shortlist eager to write her the equivalent of “Poochy died on the way back to his home planet.”
Everyone spoil if she shows up in the Mandalorian movie so I know to never watch it
As part of our settlement we have agreed to insert an ancestor of Gina Carano's Cara Dune character into The Acolyte to make sure Abigail Thorn's character is using "the right bathroom"*. *We thought the Sith just go anywhere and use their powers to make it go away. Turns out that's another series.
Okay, now I'll say that Disney destroyed Star Wars.
Assholes have to help assholes, right?
The year is 2046. The 5th season of Mandalorian is finally released. It's 3 episodes long. Gina Carano is the main character now along with her sidekicks: Kevin Sorbo, and an ai deepfake of John Voight. Every episode she hunts down and murders a tr*nny for the bounty money.
"But Mario, Andor-" I genuinely don't fucking care, go read a God damn book or something for Christ's sake.
On the one hand, nothing this woman has been in is worth watching and also nothing Disney makes at this point is of any value. However "This person (or company) sucks so who cares" is a cop out answer, so to be clear: even if you like the shit these people churn out, do not support bigots.
The plot stops dead for a human character to explain that being in the Epstein logs isn't bad. Shouldn't there be more love in the world? Meanwhile we find out the Autobots now work for ICE, as some poorly characterised bots hurl out swears and slurs.
Someone just pointed out the tone of Disney's statement might mean Carano is added to the Mandalorian movie by reshoots.
Carano thanked Musk for funding her lawsuit. Just to be clear here about what's happened.
Trivializing the holocaust is no longer a fireable offense over at Disney variety.com/2025/biz/new...
Did we really expect any better of the company that still lets James Woods play Hades?
Never fucking tell me the Disney buyout made Star Wars progressive. What a load of shit for Lucasfilm to spew.
"You just hate Disney Star Wars because it's the most progressive it's ever been!!" Disney: "Musk threw his money around so we're praising a bigot." I'm so tired of stupid people...
Going forward, I’m stepping back from heated threads, sticking to constructive discussion, and leaving personal insults behind. Actions matter more than words — I’ll show it. I'm not asking you to be my friend. I want to move forward and leave us both in peace. The world's toxic enough as it is
@marthsbars.bsky.social If you don't want to hear it, i complexity understand, but I want to apologize. I want to take responsibility for how I’ve acted in Star Wars discussions here. I crossed the line from criticism into repeated personal attacks, and that’s not okay. I removed the worst posts. 1/
An info-graph regarding this post: #Twitch #VSky #MeltTheICE #NoICE
Cyberpunk if it was good.
“No Undergraduate degree required”
the overwhelming degree of unfettered evil that the past few years has revealed in all institutions of the world has done a real number on me. I never thought any of them were paragons of morality, but I somehow had an idea there were levels they wouldn’t stoop to.
It's a direct line. First, Microsoft's Azure enabled the mass surveillance of a civilian population living in apartheid conditions on the West bank. Then, that same technology was deployed in Gaza to support airstrikes into "densely populated" civillian areas. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
So please, do not move forward as normal. This isn't normal. It's imperative to put pressure on Microsoft to end this. Whether that's by canceling Game Pass, refusing to cover their games with your normal cadence on your platforms, or to pressure them internally as employees. Now is the time.
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
Do not, under any circumstance, give Microsoft money. I'm skipping Ninja Gaiden 4, *despite wanting to play it*, because they're publishing it in all territories.
I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
I'm Morghan, I lived every animation fan’s dream, then it became a nightmare. Disney underpaid me. Nickelodeon abused me until I quit. Titmouse didn't pay me for my internship. I worked on SpongeBob, Big City Greens, Ducktales, etc & now I'm $20K in debt. I need help: gofund.me/e5fc021d