They're already remaking Moana. It's not even 10 years old yet. They really are out of ideas.

"They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity." - Mr Incredible.

The funniest thing is KK saying we had no source material after being criticised about the sequels 😅

When disney said the force is female, we knew it was time to bail.

I always thought Star Wars was supposed to be a "make three movies and then let it sit for twenty years" franchise, not a "three new shows and a movie every year" franchise. I don't think the quality is the only thing killing the appeal, it's also the excessive quantity. It feels like Disney purchased Star Wars thinking that anything with the Star Wars name would print money, and that demand would always keep up with supply.

From my own limited experience of the film/TV industry, one thing I found time and again was that talent was not the deciding factor for who was in the room and who wasn't. It's very much an elitist club for those who are privileged enough to have access. I've worked with so many people over the years who believed they were special enough to be in the room but had little to no creative ability. It's pretty much The Dunning Kruger Effect, the confidence of those who know little and don't realise they don't know much, and those around them (or hired them) who know even less. It's a very bizarre industry.

A bunch of kids with their 80s Star Wars toys could have come up with better storylines than what Lucasfilm under Disney crapped out.

Frank Oz said that he believes negotiating with Disney is what killed Jim Henson - “The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick." And that’s all I have to say about that.

Well, it's actually 3 teenage girl super-genius prodigies if you count Shuri. It's beyond the bounds of plausibility. And they definitely made it a point during Infinity War to imply that Shuri is smarter than the combined intellect of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, which is really a stretch.

For a second I couldn't tell if you were talking about "Rise of Skywalker" or a lovecraftian eldritch abomination.

0:50 that rendition of the soviet anthem has more cultural value that Disney Star Wars/Marvel combined.

Disney downfall creatively was a long time coming. Mediocre work with ideological elements that are trying to tell others how to think rather than letting the audience think will do that. Really it’s for that reason why I’ve drifted to anime, manga and books( audiobooks specifically), and video games. All in all, Disney is stubbornly going down this path of meh and I just sigh. You used to be so good.

I did some ocassional work with Disney in the 1990s. Even then, it was a mindless machine full of imposed standards and bloated. Disney would produce one good thing, then murder it with countless sequels... many directly to home video. Disney is just doing Disney. They will fail. It was pre-ordained.

Disney is the best example of why the boss shouldn't surround himself with psychophants.

Remember how good Avengers 1, Winter Solider and Iron Man 1 was?

Hilarious. I couldn’t have said it better myself. The decline of both franchises has been sickening to watch. Alas, there is always John Wick 4….

If I was Walt Disney himself and somehow came back from the dead, I would be extremely livid with the woke hacks that have defiled the company I created. I would go full Gordon Ramsey on Bob Iger and everyone else involved in the wokeness.

Nailing it. KK = Sarlacc is especially on point.

Sometimes I wonder if Walt Disney were still here, would he fix his company, or ignore it because he owns the world now?

I know giant corporations are slow moving ships but Marvel & especially Star Wars failures have been going on long enough for them to have course corrected by now. They’ve been slamming into icebergs & think the answer is to slow down instead of going around

the Mandalorian season 3 made me give up on star wars and doctor strange 2 made me give up on marvel. its a wreckage at this point.

That Star Wars storyboard "war room" told me everything I needed to know. Too many cooks in the kitchen and they are focus-testing their content. Writing is an individual endeavor.

I like the ball analogy.

When you started out the video with Bosch, I knew it would be epic. I wasn’t disappointed. 👏

I like seeing longer videos like this analyzing things. Keep up the good work.

I think there is an inherent flaw in a corporation making creative projects that they don’t actually care about.

George Lucas has to take half of the responsibility for the decline of Star Wars (assuming you think the SW franchise is at rock bottom. Not every fan will agree on that). Lucas didn't have to sell SW/Lucasfilm/Industrial Light And Magic to Disney. He could have approached Disney to co produce a third trilogy with 20th Century Fox distributing. A shared profit deal. Lucas agrees to give up some of his profit to co produce the films with Disney. Lucas could have agreed a story advising role on the third trilogy but allowed Disney to adapt his story treatments. That way Lucas doesn't have to write the screenplays nor direct the trilogy. He never did that. He just sold his beloved franchise and didn't care if future SW content was great or average or terrible. The business mindset within Lucas got the better of his creativity and judgement.

So what networks or studios will still allow full freedom of creativity for series or movies? Is it just HBO?

Very well said. Though, personally, I don't think that the quantity would've been an issue if the quality was up to par. I mean, this is Disney. They could afford to buy out most of the greatest, most talented, and most varied cinematic visionaries and writers in the world today. We SHOULD be getting top tier movies in almost every genre from them... but that couldn't be farther from reality. Since 2019, I've only seen 4 movies in theaters, and no, that's not because of the pandemic. It's because there hasn't been anything worth my time and money. I'm an amateur writer myself. Why would I bother paying and wasting an evening watching some vapid, pandering, 2 hour long time-sink when I could write something better in the span of an afternoon? For free. In the comfort my own home. And I'm NOT saying that because I'm a top notch writer or anything. Not even CLOSE. THAT'S my point. I'm a very, VERY mediocre writer, but the "talent" behind most Hollywood movies these days has sunk far lower than average. It's shameful, honestly. While children have always been more imaginative, it's pathetic that EVEN CHILDREN seem to have a better understanding of basic storytelling techniques. A lack of quality was already a serious issue. A lack of quality COMBINED with that kind of overabundance is a potentially fatal one. I hope that I'm wrong, but I don't see a timeline where Marvel Studios or Lucasfilm manages to bounce back from this. Even if they survive, they've fallen, and they're not coming back.

I disagree about Andor. It showed us a lot of aspects of the galaxy and the Empire that we had never seen before and handled profound sociopolitical themes in arguably the most mature way Star Wars ever has.

On the priority whiteboard, under star wars they say "no single main character"! WHYYYY???

It hasn’t even been three full years since Phase 4 of the MCU began, and yet it feels like it’s been five.

I don’t believe Disney own all the marvel properties ? The Hulk and Spider-Man are two that don’t belong to them. “Hygienically cleaned and manscaped balls” though 😂😂😂👍

I loved the analogy of the train crash, dumpster fire and shit storm to create a hot mess.

“There’s nothing new.” This was my exact reaction to TFA, I said every film had new planets, new ships, new droids, new aliens, new characters, new ideas. It was creative, by design, George pushed himself and his team to always shoot for something beyond what they had done before. “And this movie,” I shouted at my friends, “has absolutely nothing! There is not one original idea in the whole thing! Cowards!!” I’m glad to be vindicated in my first impression by George himself. It must have hurt him far more than it did me, and boy did it hurt me, to see that lost chance. Show us the New Republic! Starting the trilogy after the inexplicable fall of the unexplained New Republic was the worst, most cowardly decision they could possibly have made.

i wouldn't so far as to write andor off but 🤷‍♂️

To be fair, boob armor does have some legitimacy. And the way it was done with the female mandalorians is actually (and probbaly by accident) quite functional.

Disney actually has a shining light of Sci-fi in The Orville & they're wasting it because they know people will feast on the rotting corpses of Star wars & Marvel!

Star Wars used to make well over a BILLION dollars a year in merchandise sales, this is why Disney bought Lucasfilm and in the decade since the purchase that merchandising powerhouse has been decimated and most Star Wars merchandise is either destroyed, then sent to landfill, or it's perpetually on clearance racks unsold. They got a slight uptick when Mandalorian season 1 and 2 were out, but with the state of Star Wars releases on D+ being mediocre to awful that hype has dried up. I would be surprised if they made $50 million a year in merch sales now.

On a meeting of Star Wars, you can see two "diversity" from three columns listed on a white board. Movies today makes me do the thing where I use Lord of the Rings as the base comparison if the show is good or not.

The ball licking analogy was spot on.

Like The Simpsons (now owned by Disney 🤮) said long ago: "Just Don't Look." Other than Avatar, which Disney hasn't managed to drag down yet, I can't remember the last Disney-owned film that I went to. It's been years! Between other studios, international pictures, etc, there is a ton of quality film out there! You just need to look. Some of my recent favorites include RRR, The Wandering Earth 1 & 2, Puss in Boots The Last Wish, Moon Man, Elvis, Marcel the Shell, Emergency Declaration. As Lucas would say: They showed me something new!

I wouldn’t have none extreme roasting could be this aesthetic without encountering this channel.

Found you through drinker's channel. Keep up the good work

For the algorithm 👍

Visions is the only one that broke the bad mold of the rest. It used mostly new characters, mostly new worlds, told its own stories, had beautiful visuals and was overall fun. The issue? It's all too short. It's good, but short. I feel with some of the stories, a short film might have helped flesh out some stuff. It's the only disney work that reminded me of Legends.

13:30 I can't help but be reminded of when Family Guy had the women of The View literally clucking like hens at each other.

You remember when they released 2 if not 3 great movies/shows a year that were timeless classics?

I have always maintained how mid The Mandalorian is as a premise. I never believed the episodic "space wes😮tern/Sci Fi Clint Eastwood" thing they were going for would have any lasting power. Why should it? We have many precedents of that exact premise underperforming or bombing, even when it's not bad. Cowboys and Aliens didn't connect. John Carter didn't connect. Serenity didn't connect. Solo didn't connect, and that last one _is also_ Star Wars! We gotta recognize the hints when they're presented to us.

Creativity doesn't come from giant mega corporations, it comes from one or two or three passionate people coming together and deciding to pursue their dreams. Walt Disney was passionate and creative; Disney the company, is not.

Andor was way better than you proclaim. Actually not balls at all, even well manscaped balls.

Subscribed. Been bingeing your content all day. Love your writing and points of view. Top notch. 👍🏾

great video essay. first video ive seen of yours and now i am a subscriber. cant wait to check out the rest of your content.

Just subscribed drawn in by your tonal quality and marvelous handle on the English language, mixing bard with brash, a light touch of dark humor and cynicism. My jam. Thank you.

Watching the Sequel trilogy, was like watching your neighbor's dog Sh*t on your lawn.

Anybody who didn't realize they'd destroy SW the moment they knew who Kylo was, got what they asked for and deserved.

If I was Disney I would be giving a lot more of Star Wars to Tony Gilroy, who was behind the two (Andor and Rogue One) really good things that have come out of Disney SW. In fact I would be saying look Tony we are going to cancel episodes 7-9 episodes and want you to write the replacement 7-9 films instead

Ugh. I'm looking at that whiteboard under "Fiction". Forget "Diversity" - it's ALL bad. Some of it is less bad, such as "Sweeping / epic" or "Humor" (both of which are last on the list, I will note.) But "Feelings"? "Relatable"? Was Han Solo "relatable"? Or was he "bad-ass"? And "Authentically lived in"? Is that really what you're looking for in a Death Star scene, is that it shows the Men's Room? Where is "Gripping Story" or "Tense Action" or "Larger-than-life characters"? You know, the things I *can't* actually find in my own day-to-day. Sheesh. You aren't kidding - the problem with the new SW (and other) stories comes down to the bland, milquetoast "Niceness" of the writers. No wonder they focus on diversity; they don't have anything else to say.

Their failure is complete.

There was no ball sucking in terms of Andor. It was fantastic.

The white board and all those doughy assholes in the writer's room told us everything we need to know.

On that white board with the three lists of "Star Wars Priorities" under "Star Wars Wishes" it says "Dinosaurs!" yeesuz. Disney has no idea what to do with "Muppets" either.

I clicked this because "Echo Chamberlain" is the possibly the best username I've ever seen.

It surprises me that there are a lot of people that just happily gobble up the garbage. I just had a guy come after me saying that I should be happy Disney is making more content and moving the franchises forward, and that's the most important thing. That's right. Some people consciously defend Disney's sludgepipe of endless mediocre content. And LIKE it. And DEFEND it. Blows my mind. He said this after I said it wouldn't be a good idea if Disney made Cal Kestis his own show given their track record. Leave alone the only good Star Wars content left!!! Who else is excited for Jedi Survivor?

Marvel is going through a huge fixing period by firing and replacing a lot of people, so it will change due time. Also everything was delayed to have it all fixed. There were good movies in marvel phase 4, too.

I'm glad to see Echo's viewing figures creeping up, it's richly deserved.

Bob Iger is an M&A expert that doesn’t have a creative bone in his body. He’s run out of franchises and studios to purchase and milked Disneys popular properties dry. Disney is now deteriorating due to the bets it’s made

Excellent piece. Disney will continue shitting on it's golden gooses, and the demise will continue. But the pushback is now in full swing.

Don’t forget Pixar

This video wins the internet today. You had me at Hieronymous Bosch!

The ballsucking bit at 6:00 just got you a sub. Hahahah killed me

This is the kind of commentary I need!

Infinity Saga was top tier tho

I think you should give andor more credit. It has deep world building, intelligent writing, and gets you to think about not just the conflict, but how you would feel about a morally grey Star Wars.

Start a campaign to cancel Disney + subscriptions, and that would get there attention

Wanna know something hilarious? Before the Force Awakens came out, I thought to myself, "Star Wars is in good hands - Disney cares about quality." Luhmow

Love your videos man🎉

Actually I would like disney to raise the ticket price at their theme parks, it would make it less crowded.

Since the person who had the vision and determination to make what is now a multi billion dollar behemoth (Walt Disney) died,the company has been rotting from the inside...but as we know, no company is "too big to fail" and that is why the whole world is starting to see the rot for themselves.....Disney has had many,many opportunities to stay as the pre-eminent Hollywood (now world) leading company they were once,and with the right leadership could still be...but maybe people like Walt Disney come around once in a lifetime- so Disney going forward would do well to remember what got them this far.... You know what they say "How do you know where you're going- if you don't know where you came from!?

Couldn’t have said it better myself. No. Really. I couldn’t. Excellent analysis. Thank you.

In a weird parasitic way, commentary channels need these franchises to be lurching creatively bankrupt disappointments. There's nothing like the sting of buyer's remorse that causes the critic, fuelled by childhood memories screaming out in terror then suddenly silenced, to go on a rampage.

"It's almost as bad as up to 40% of you failing to hit the subscribe button..." Ouch! 🙃

It really hurts to see franchises like Marvel, Star Wars and DC just crumble and become less than they were. I mean I grew up with these franchises, these characters that I idolised, that I looked up to. I remember wanting to be a Jedi like Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker or a superhero like Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, The Hulk, Iron-Man ect. I remember watching and reading hours and hours of movies and stories that helped me escape. I remember putting glue on my hands, dressed up as Spider-Man and tried to climb up a wall in my backyard, yes I actually did that 😂. I remember owning all the toys and games and those costumes. I remember playing with my brother having a lightsaber fight or idk fighting with those toys. I miss that, I miss when these franchises inspired, inspired my generation and it’s sad because these future generations will only know what is now instead of what came before. I missed what these franchises used to stand for. Telling coherent stories while simultaneously teaching important lessons.

I literally can’t tell if this is a robotic monotone voice or a robot text to speech.

If Disney would fire Kennedy and hire the people who make fan StarWar films, they would make watchable stories and it would be StarWar.

I really enjoyed this analysis of various developments at Disney over the past few years. Very interesting and sophisticated. I also found many of my opinions in it. Thanks. Liked and subscribed.

Comparing Kathleen Kennedy to the pit of Sarlacc is the most apt comparison anyone has made about that woman.

Andor is the best thing to come from Star Wars universe since Disney purchased it.

That nicely sums it all up.

It is a no win situation. There is really no way to please the older fans anyway. You can't go back to the past. The younger generation has grown up playing video games that have better sfx than any movie made before 2000. Today's teenagers have travelled the world and aren't impressed by dressed up streets of Tunesia.

Good review. I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels this way.

Your channel is grossly undersubbed.great vid

10:22 , couldn't put it better....perfect summary!

Excellent work. Thank you

That's not true about the Sarlacc Pitt anymore, since Disney screwed it up in Book of Boba Fett, there's no oxygen in the Sarlacc Pitt and if you fall in your dead in 5 minutes. No longer feeling the pain of digestion. Way to go Disney, making Jabba look dumb.

9:32 they should start releasing the white boards for all TV shows or movies in advance so I can decide if I'm going to watch it or not.

I’m reminded of something from lucky star, failure after failure coming from a lack of “love” (ironic considering the politics) but these things are loved and celebrated by many yet are being manufactured by people who feel no love the product they want others to consume, while at the same time discouraging love so they can have what they see as better control over the narrative both in the story and outside production.

I agree with EVERYTHING but your Andor comment. That show was objectively ONE of the best Star Wars projects ever made

To be fair, I agree with everything said, including all the parts about sucking balls, with one exception: SW-Andor. The series is the only Disney Star Wars product that was made by somebody who truly understands about the importance of good screenwriting. The result is a series which is at least on par in places to the best there is in television entertainment imho. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. As far as I know, 5 seasons were originally planned. However, it seems that Disney has a pronounced aversion against quality and that is why the series has been shortened to 2 seasons. Let's just hope that the company at least releases this second one, after that I don't mind if they go broke like they honestly deserve.

I’d argue that since Lucas sold it’s all been fan fiction. At least that’s what I’m chalking it up as.