Why Star Wars is Falling Apart | Video Essay

Honestly, I'd say the force awakens was the real start to the downfall. Because in episode six the empire was defeated and luke was to build a new jedi order. TFA just hit the reset button and brought back the empire and destroyed the new republic and we didn't see luke's new jedi order. Fans accepted it, because it was the first time in over ten years a new star wars movie came out and it was a nostalgia trip and we fell for it. The last jedi was more of a wake up call if anything.

I remember seeing a full plot leak for the rise of skywalker before it came out, and I thought to myself "wow, this can't be real, this is worse than fan-fiction. if the movie is like this I don't even want to see it." And then I went to the theaters and the leak was accurate word for word, and that's when I gave up on disney star wars

I think the best way to ease people back into Star Wars wouldn't have been to rehash New Hope, but to show us Luke and his new order, the new republic, and Leia and Han as a happy couple. Destroying all of that off screen isn't exactly easing anyone in. Especially with a tagline like "Luke Skywalker has vanished"

I’m so glad I gave Andor a second chance it’s phenomenal

There's absolutely nothing defendable about how Disney treated Star Wars IP. Even J.J. Abrams and some actors admitted there was absolutely no plan for the three movies when they started shooting the sequel trilogy and Disney CEO Bob Iger said the main thing they focused while doing Episode 7 was copying the original movie. There was absolutely no creative vision. They treated the IP as cash cow ready to milk as much as possible.

Please don't let Disney find out the Old Republic even exists. It's the only thing left that they haven't ruined. Let it sit in our hearts forever untarnished by Disney's incompetence.

Im really glad you mentioned Fallen Order. Cal Kestis is pretty interesting but what makes that games story great are the villians. They're so well written into the story with actual legitimate reasons for their existence and their reasoning for fighting Cal

Perfectly encapsulates how I’ve been feeling. I love mando but for some reason I’m just not hyped for the new season. I’m just tired of mediocrity. Also grogu being back with mando so soon is awful.

You nailed it with "couldn't let Boba Fett be Boba Fett in his own show."

As Darth Traya would say: “Apathy is death, worse than death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects.”

The sad fact is that Lucas original plan for the sequel trilogy was having Darth Maul as a terrorist leader, adapting characters from the EU/Legends and Clone Wars, a New Jedi Order and even exploring the origins of the Force and alternate dimensions. The ideas were fucking awesome. The Last Jedi was a franchise killer.

In my mind, there's either two choices who can go down to save Star Wars. Either go down the Old Republic route as you said, or go another route for a new story to follow after ROTJ (essentially a new sequel trilogy, one that builds upon George's work. )

The saddest thing is knowing what this franchise could have been if it was in the right hands.

Kathelen Kennedy has a long resume of successful shows but when you analyze her role in the development of those shows, she was not the show runner . She was an assistant. She didn’t learn anything. But she rose to the top the same way that shit floats up.

I wanted to see Obi working through everything. He went from broken to a wise mentor from 3 to 4. I wanted to see that! And why is he afraid of Vader? He whooped his ass so hard he needed permanent life support for the rest of his life!

When Rey mind controlled a storm trooper when she didn't even fully believe the force was real yet, and then the first time she turned on a light saber beat someone who had trained their whole life, that was when I knew Disney Star Wars was bad. Throw in Fin gunning down his squad mates in glee just a few scenes after being too traumatized by combat to even shoot his blaster, and it's clear as day. TFA was a bad movie, but if you got carried away with the cultural hype it's understandable. It just means you have difficulty independently judging a film and instead use popular opinion in lieu of your own.

I could never begin to put into words how painful it is that the passion I once had for Star Wars has now been replaced with cold indifference; and I hold Disney ENTIRELY responsible.

Whenever they said "we can't do better than Darth Vader, so we might as well turn that aspect into the new villain, not being able to live up to his grandfather", they clearly also said "we can do better than Luke, so we might as well turn that aspect into the new hero, being able to outshine Luke at every opportunity possible".

The description given here is as sharp as a scalpel and I so agree with so many of these thoughts, ''I hate this movie as much as I can'' there are millions of us who think so. When I heard Lucas say ''I sold my children to slavers'' we were already expecting the worst.

whenever the goal of a movie is to propagandize rather than entertain, it falls apart.