Meme - *Hutt*
Ahsoka: "STINKY? MY GOODNESS, YOU'VE GROWN!"
Hutt: "SO HAVE YOU. GROWN MORE BEAUTIFUL. FOR A JEDI, I MEAN."
Ahsoka: "STINKY, YOU'LL ALWAYS BE THAT LITTLE WORM I DROPPED OFF ON TATOOINE."
Meme - "Luke Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker. Rey
Overpowered - no, yes, yes
Unexplained power level - no, no, yes
Perfectly good - yes, no, yes
No personality - yes, no, yes
Instantly liked - no, kinda, yes
Feels like wish fulfillment - no, no, yes
Not embarrassed / fails - no, no, yes"
MaRey Sue strikes again. Of course if you think Rey is a Mary Sue you're a misogynist
Meme - "KNOW THE WORK RULES
APPROPRIATE
Princess Leia: I'm leading a rebellion & fight against a corrupt government.
You're a hero.
INAPPROPRIATE
General Grievous: I'm leading a rebellion & fight against a corrupt government.
Monster! War criminal!"
Meme - "Disney's creative decisions with Star Wars will never cease to baffle me. Choosing from the beginning to have the sequel trilogy swap each movie with the intention of having them all do completely separate things. Creating a release schedule to have a Star Wars film out every holiday season then abandoning it after 3 years to for some reason release a movie 5 months after the last one which also happens to be the same month as what will easily be the biggest film of the year. Then abandon making movies after that one flops, and instead of thinking that audiences might be getting tired of Star Wars they decide to start pumping out constant live action series. Then deciding to rework a movie that's essentially Star Wars Episode 3.5 into a series but take what's essentially a filler episode of their longest running series that's already lost steam and release it as a movie. These mistakes are so obvious it's insane."
Meme - Anakin Skywalker: "You can't! He must stand trial!"
Mace Windu: "Nute Gunray was once tried. He remained Viceroy of the Trade Federation and organized, probably together with this bastard, the assassination attempt on Senator Amidala. Any other objections?"
Meme - ""open minded freedom fighter" *Padme*
her friends: *Qui-Gon Jinn* human *Anakin Skywalker* human *Obi-Wan Kenobi* human *Captain Panaka* human *Bail Organa* human
"racist humanocentrist" *Count Dooku*
his friends: *General Grievous* kaleesh *Nute Gunray* neimoidian *Wat Tambor* skakoan *Admiral Trench* harch *Poggle the Lesser* geonosian *Shu Mai* gossam *Passel Argente?* koorivar"
RUMOR: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy From Timeline to Resume Focus on Original Characters - "The future of Star Wars may be heading toward a massive course correction—and if a new insider report is accurate, Disney could be preparing to split the controversial Star Wars Sequel Trilogy off into its own isolated timeline and remove it from the mainline Star Wars storyline. According to an exclusive report from That Park Place’s WDW Pro, a source close to Lucasfilm claims internal discussions are underway to “branch off” the Star Wars sequel trilogy to effectively remove it from the primary continuity and allow future storytelling to pivot back toward legacy characters from the original films. If true, this would be one of the most dramatic franchise shifts in modern Hollywood history. A recent focus group conducted by Matthew Belloni of Puck News paints a bleak picture of where younger audiences stand with Star Wars. When teens were asked about the franchise, the response wasn’t passionate debate or excitement. It wasn't even hate or anger. It was indifference. “I like the old stuff, but the new stuff… nah. I’m not too excited for The Mandalorian. I never watched it, personally,” one teen said. Another claimed: “Anything that came out after I was born isn’t that great.” The only bright spot mentioned was Andor—and even that came with a shrug before the conversation moved on. That’s the nightmare scenario for Disney. The sequel trilogy wasn’t just meant to revive Star Wars. It was supposed to create a new generation of fans. Instead, that generation appears largely disconnected from it. And the box office outlook isn’t helping. The Mandalorian and Grogu is currently tracking for around an $80 million domestic opening over Memorial Day weekend—a number that would make it the lowest debut in Star Wars theatrical history. Even accounting for a reportedly smaller budget, that’s a glaring warning sign for a franchise that once defined blockbuster dominance... At Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge, cast members portraying Ahsoka have reportedly been giving a very specific, very consistent explanation when guests ask why characters from different eras are appearing together. The answer? The “World Between Worlds” has been "shattered" and disrupted. That concept, introduced in Star Wars Rebels, is essentially a dimension that connects all points in time and space—making it a perfect narrative tool for timeline manipulation. Disney Parks performers don’t improvise lore like this... Even beyond the parks, there are signs Disney has been slowly backing away from the sequel era. Recent merchandising campaigns for May the 4th heavily favored the original trilogy. The Fortnite crossover event leaned in the same direction. Galaxy’s Edge itself has begun shifting its in-universe timeline, allowing characters like Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia to appear more prominently. Meanwhile, sequel-era elements have been noticeably reduced. Rey—once positioned as the future face of the franchise—is increasingly absent from major promotional pushes. Her long-announced standalone film remains stalled, with little visible progress since its reveal. And then there’s the Galactic Starcruiser. The now-defunct hotel was built entirely around the sequel trilogy timeline. It lasted barely a year before shutting down, becoming one of the most high-profile misfires in Disney Parks history... For years, talk of resetting the sequel trilogy has been dismissed as wishful thinking from frustrated fans. But the situation has changed. Between declining engagement, weak box office projections, stalled projects, and failed investments tied directly to the sequel era, the financial incentive to pivot is stronger than ever. This isn’t just about fan complaints anymore. It’s about viability. Disney doesn’t need to erase the sequel trilogy to move on from it. They just need to make it… optional."
Damn toxic entitled incel fanboys! Star Wars needs to be further feminised to own the chuds!
Aakash Gupta on X - "Disney is about to delete five years of canon because Rey doesn't move toys. The sequel trilogy did $4.47B at the box office. Force Awakens $2.07B, Last Jedi $1.33B, Rise of Skywalker $1.07B. The merchandise tells a different story. Star Wars merchandise peaked at $700M in 2015 when Force Awakens launched. By 2019, the year Rise of Skywalker shipped with a billion-dollar marketing push as the supposed finale of the Skywalker Saga, Hasbro's Star Wars line was doing roughly $150M. A 70%+ collapse during the trilogy's own theatrical run. Then 2020 happened. No new movies. A streaming show legally unavailable in most international markets. Hasbro's Star Wars revenue grew 70% year-over-year. One character named Grogu outsold three years of sequel-trilogy merchandise. The sequel cast specifically can't move inventory at any price point. Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, Holdo: Walmart clearance for years. Diamond Select's president said sales on TFA and TLJ products "were not too strong." Hasbro silently stopped producing Rise of Skywalker figures mid-line. There is no mass-market action figure for Poe, Finn, Lando, unmasked Kylo, Palpatine, or Leia from that movie. The licensees gave up before the trilogy finished releasing. The Lucasfilm acquisition was a $4.05B bet on the merchandise flywheel that built modern Hollywood toy licensing. Kenner's best year selling Original Trilogy toys, adjusted for inflation, outperformed the entire Disney era combined. That's the asset Disney bought. Galaxy's Edge runs the same play. Over $1B per park to build a Star Wars land set on a sequel-era planet nobody cared about. Both parks underperformed projections. The Mandalorian-themed expansion now under construction is the admission. If the rumor lands, this is the most expensive retcon in entertainment history. Five years of IP development written off because the licensees voted with their order books. Luke, Han, Leia, Vader, Boba, Mando, Grogu, Ahsoka generate revenue. The sequel cast generates returns."
Left wingers still insist that the sequel trilogy was a massive success, because they ignore George Lucas's key insight: it's not about the movie revenue, but the toy sales
Bizlet on X - "What’s hilarious about this whole fiasco is that Disney specifically bought Star Wars because they lacked a brand that appealed to boys. They had tons of merch sales to girls but had almost nothing for boys. So they bought it for billions and the creative dept feminized it defeating the entire purpose of buying it to begin with."
Zcure1 on X - "New footage The Mandalorian and Grogu promo spot . #TheMandalorianandGrogu #StarWars"
Duchess of Darksaber Light on X - ""The Empire will keep coming for us" is a brain-dead line. Just like with the sequel trilogy, the writers can't imagine a world where characters are anything other than Rebels against the Empire. An Empire that has been gone for more than 5 years."
'It's felt like homework': Why Star Wars went so wrong - "The Mandalorian & Grogu is released this week and is set for the lowest opening weekend of any Star Wars film ever. With the TV shows also struggling, here's why interest is waning. It's been seven years since the Star Wars franchise visited a galaxy far, far away on the big screen. In December 2019, The Rise of Skywalker, the third and final film in the franchise's sequel trilogy, was released, earning $1.077bn (£806m) worldwide. It pulled in only around half what the first film in the trilogy, 2015's The Force Awakens had made. This disappointing amount reflected the increasingly poor audience and critical response to the three films. A year earlier, in 2018, the standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story had also bombed hard, earning just $393m (£294m) globally. Since then, the film series has been on a lengthy hiatus, while Lucasfilm, bought by Disney for $4.05bn (£3.03bn) in 2012, has been busy expanding the Star Wars universe on TV with a whole host of live-action shows, starting with hit The Mandalorian. However, interest in these has declined as they have proliferated: the most recent new series, 2025's Skeleton Crew, recorded the lowest opening ratings for a Star Wars show yet, while 2024's The Acolyte was cancelled after one season... Prerelease tracking suggests it will score just $80 million domestically during its opening weekend – the lowest opening for a Star Wars film ever. So what exactly has gone wrong with the Star Wars universe?... Clarisse Loughrey, chief film critic for The Independent, agrees, pointing by contrast to Tony Gilroy's critically-acclaimed series Andor, which consistently grew its viewership through its two season run, as a standalone Star Wars show you could enjoy on its own: "That could be your first piece of Star Wars that you've ever seen, and you're not going to feel like you've been thrown in the deep end." Andor also stood out from the other series as a defiantly prescient critique of authoritarianism, offered "in terms you could legibly graft on to the world right outside your door", wrote Vulture's Nicholas Quah. It was a Star Wars saga that didn't require a single lightsaber, Jedi-Sith battle, or an abundance of fan service to entice viewers but instead wielded characters that "felt like flesh-and-blood beings whose lives extended beyond their service to the story", as he put it. Yet where Andor succeeded, others have failed to capture its rejuvenating appeal. The Book of Boba Fett was criticised for being too much of a Mandalorian-linked mini-series, and reducing the beloved eponymous bounty hunter, who appeared in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, from a mysterious antagonist to what critics have described as a "superfluous bystander" in his own story. Meanwhile, critics suggested that Ahsoka, while visually appealing, relied too much on backstory from the two animated series Clone Wars and Rebels, in which its ex-Jedi lead character was a firm fixture. The female-centric Acolyte series, set approximately 100 years before The Phantom Menace and costing $187m (£140m) to make, earned generally favourable reviews from critics, comparing it to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and calling it "bold," "fun", and a "breath of fresh air". However, it was cancelled due to low viewership, according to Lucasfilm, while actress Amandla Stenberg publicly called out the "intolerable racism" she said she'd been subject to in the wake of starring in the show. "Had it been given more time and resource, maybe it would have been more successful," says Harrison. "If it wasn't part of this huge glut of other shows that you're somehow meant to keep up with." Then there was Obi-Wan Kenobi's solo series which was an enjoyable enough return for Ewan McGregor's Jedi Knight. But also one that was indicative of post-George Lucas Star Wars, wrote The Guardian's Stuart Heritage, which "exists almost exclusively to bulk out thin gruel, joining various dots that didn’t need to be joined, for the delight of a quickly ageing fanbase."... the film cost approximately $165m (£123m) to make – the smallest amount spent on any big-screen Star Wars instalment, which certainly puts its box-office prediction in a healthier light. Lucasfilm managed to keep costs low by shooting entirely in California rather than the far-flung locations used on previous, very expensive Star Wars films."
Meme - "FUCK ICE"
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"The attempt on my life has left me in need of a ballroom"
Obi-Wan Kenobi: "You have become the very thing you swore to destroy"
Meme - Cara Dune: "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? DOES THAT HELMET HAVE X-RAY VISION?"
Din Djarin: "UMM. UHH. OF COURSE NOT"
Cara Dune: "OK MANDO. I FEEL I CAN TRUST YOU." *X-ray view of guns behind walls and Cara Dune with nipple stickers and frilly underwear*
Hail the Empire | Facebook - "The Hosnian system getting wiped out in The Force Awakens is a good example of how bigger stakes don’t always hit harder. In A New Hope, Alderaan’s destruction worked because the story made it personal. Tarkin didn’t just blow up a planet; he forced Leia to watch her home disappear, with around two billion people gone in one brutal display of Imperial power. Decades later, Starkiller Base tried to top that by destroying five New Republic planets at once, with the death toll pushed to an almost impossible scale of about 155 billion lives. The problem is that the larger number somehow made the moment feel smaller. Alderaan had Leia as the emotional anchor, so the audience understood the loss through someone who actually belonged to that world. Hosnian Prime and the other planets barely had that kind of connection. We mostly see strangers looking up as the red beam tears through the sky, which is horrifying in concept but strangely distant on screen. As some critics pointed out, the sequel trilogy looked at the original planet-destruction scene and “decided to multiply it by five,” turning what should have been devastating into something more like “distressing stuff.” That’s the trap of trying to raise the stakes by simply making the disaster bigger. When a whole capital system can vanish in seconds but the story barely stops to feel it, the tragedy becomes harder to process, not more powerful. Instead of landing like Alderaan, the Hosnian Cataclysm ends up feeling more like a massive plot button being pressed. By PDA01"
Box Office: 'Backrooms' $81M U.S, $118MWW Opening Is An A24 Record - "Disney/Lucasfilm’s Mandalorian and Grogu is taking a big fall, -69%, maybe steeper, with $25M in weekend 2. That’s a bigger crash than Solo: A Star Wars Story which -65% in weekend 2, likely the worst drop for a Star Wars movie. The argument per distribution sources is that the Jon Favreau movie didn’t lose audiences to Backrooms and Obsession, it’s just that the core Star Wars subset fandom for this IP is finite. One distribution source says, “Six weeks from now, it will be interesting to see the following: Mandalorian and Grogu will be at $180M, and Obsession and Backrooms not too far behind, if not ahead.”... Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, despite the force of Imax, is eyeing third with a second weekend of $24M after a $6.5M Friday at 4,300. If those numbers stick, that’s a 69% second-weekend drop, steeper than Solo: A Star Wars Story‘s second weekend, which was down by 65% with $29.3M."
One cope is people don't watch movies anymore, but that is contradicted by data
Kevin Winslow's answer to Why have the Star Wars prequels aged well and the sequels aged worse? - Quora - "Well, the Prequels had a lot going for them and a ton of great ideas, it just could have used a little more editing. The “Sequel” trilogy is made by an entirely different group of people with no coherent vision: it’s mostly bad ideas strung together. Even though the Prequel trilogy didn’t measure up well against the Original Trilogy when they came out, they look like Rembrandts compared to the incoherent, depressing, pointless mess that is the “Fan Fiction Trilogy” Disney put together.
The Prequel Trilogy continued George Lucas’ tradition of making each Star Wars entry a slightly different type of film. Star Wars (A New Hope) was a throwback to serials he grew up with. The Empire Strikes Back is more of a space opera. The Return of the Jedi is a heroic war movie. So the Prequel Trilogy starts with The Phantom Menace, which is basically one long prologue in a big novel. The Attack of the Clones is an attempt at a political thriller, and The Revenge of the Sith is basically a Greek tragedy where the hero is given a prediction of a horrible event and becomes the mechanism that fulfills it through his lack of patience and character. Each movie actually has a great set of bones in terms of plot, setting, and character. The problem was the pacing and the direction: Lucas made some bold choices that ended up hurting the overall work. He overexplained the Force (midichlorians), he tried to foreshadow with a prophecy that only muddied up the story, and he chose to cast Anakin as a really young boy which created production issues. Still: the Phantom Menace (with some cleanup) is a solid prologue that hits a lot of the right plot beats but needed a central protagonist and a better character arc for that protagonist. The Attack of the Clones needed less heavy handed direction and better dialogue. The Revenge of the Sith is the best of the three, but could have used some clean up with the acting direction and story.
The “Sequel Trilogy”, (and I use that term loosely), is visually stunning, but has zero heart and terrible, terrible bones: “Plot, setting, and character” are our tripod of a good story. The people putting these films together didn’t really know where they wanted the story to go even in a loose outline (so the plot is a mess), they didn’t care about the older characters and didn’t make firm decisions on character relationships, (so there goes character), and ran rampant over all aspects of the setting in favor of meeting immediate plot needs, so it has no consistency with Lucas’ work.
I’ve written a lot about these films, but what it really boils down to is…
1) There was no plan
2) There was no united vision
Say what you will about Lucas, but he has a plan and a vision. Whether you agree with it or not is usually up for debate, but there’s no question he had big goals in mind and had at least worked out some of the major story beats in advance. Not all of them… but some of them. Enough that “Return of the Jedi” is a damn-fine trilogy conclusion and “Revenge of the Sith” does manage to bring the prequels to about the right spot to set up the Original Trilogy. The “Sequel Trilogy” is more of loose collection of competing ideas. The Force Awakens shows our old heroes broken and tries to introduce new, inferior replacements. The Last Jedi tries to further piss on EVERYTHING: the old characters like Luke and Yoda are torn apart completely and the new characters like Finn and Poe get hit with the reset button or changed completely. The plot went nowhere, and things were in such bad shape by “The Rise of Skywalker”, villains were resurrected with no warning and the entire film is basically, “get the _______ to get to the _______” over and over again.
What does this all mean? Well, the Disney Trilogy is pretty much a, “I watched it once and never felt like watching it again” type of film. The Prequel Trilogy, even if you didn’t love it like the Original Trilogy, still had stand out music, fights, visuals, and plot elements that make it worth coming back to. Watching this fight with this music in trailers and the big screen? It’s a highlight of my Star Wars fandom. I loved this soundtrack and I used to work out and run to “Duel of the Fates” and “Across the Stars”. I still have those plus all the entire prequel and sequel soundtracks on my phone, and “Sail Barge Assault” (renamed “Return of the Jedi” in later album versions on streaming platforms), is still my favorite Star Wars track of all time and I’ve listened to it more times than I’ll ever be able to count. THAT is the power Lucas’ work. The attention to detail, the emotional punch of what we’re watching, the investment into the characters, and even if his direction of the actors and his written dialogue weren’t always on point, he had a unified story that was cohesive and very enjoyable. The Sequel Trilogy, even with John Williams doing the score again, is completely lifeless because nothing is really happening on screen. There is no romance. There is no true tension. There are no true stakes. There are no true consequences. That’s why the “Sequel Trilogy” soundtrack doesn’t have nearly the impact of tracks like, “The Asteroid Field”, “Princess Leia’s Theme”, “Yoda’s Theme”, or “The Imperial March”. Even if a piece is good, (like, “The March of the Resistance” or “Rey’s Theme”) it doesn’t hit nearly as hard because we don’t really care about the Resistance and Rey is poorly written. We’ve been given no real reason to care about what happens to these characters because they’re floating through the story. The Sequels have already aged terribly because they’re not really re-watchable. You don’t go in and feel tingly when you leave. You don’t hum the tunes, imagine being those characters, you don’t daydream about fighting alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi as a stand-in brother or friend, or kissing Padme, and you don’t imagine yourself as a Jedi Knight in the Clone Wars or as a dashing pilot. The Sequels were very lifeless and even their heroes didn’t really get a chance to do, (or be) very much. And with that… what’s really the point of rewatching them? Visually, they look great, but they’ve aged like bad milk: they leave a terribly sour after taste and it’s not something anyone really enjoys in the moment or wants to think about going back to."
Jake Lloyd's Personal Saga: New Focus Is Helping Determine His Current Reality - "Jake Lloyd wants his fans to know something. Years into dealing with a schizophrenia diagnosis that has largely hijacked his post-Star Wars acting life— he’s finally feeling “pretty good”."
Mother of 'Star Wars' child actor details his mental health struggles - "his mother, Lisa Lloyd, provided a glimpse into Jake’s personal saga in the years since appearing in that galaxy far, far away — sharing her son’s turbulent struggle with mental illness, family tragedy and the reasons she’s more hopeful today than she’s been in years. She also wanted to set the record straight about what her son really thinks about "Star Wars." Lisa noted that her son is aware that she is speaking out to tell his story. “Jake started having some trouble in high school,” Lisa said, recalling the time she first noticed her son’s personality changing. “He started talking about ‘realities.’ He didn't know if he was in this reality, or a different reality. I didn't really know exactly what to say to that.”... Lisa is also eager to dispel what she says is a common misconception: that an avalanche of negative reaction to "The Phantom Menace" drove Jake to quit acting and contributed to his mental illness. “It would have happened anyway,” Lisa insists, pointing to a history of schizophrenia on his biological father’s side of the family. “I believe that it was genetic. And his psychiatrist also agrees that Jake was going to become schizophrenic.” She also insists that in 1999, Jake was largely shielded from the toxic vitriol swirling around the prequel film. “I protected him from the backlash. He was just riding his bike outside, playing with his friends. He didn't know. He didn't care,” Lisa said. “Everybody makes such a big deal about that. And it's rather annoying to me because Jake was a little kid when that came out, and he didn't really feel all that stuff because I didn't let him online.”"
Damn toxic fans bullying him! The cope is going to be that the bullying caused the schizophrenia, even though it's highly heritable
