Thrawn is a perfect example of a character only being as smart as the person writing him. He should have been a combination of Grant and Napoleon, instead we got Forrest Gump meets George McClellan.

Rogue One, Jedi Fallen Order and Andor is the only Star Wars I'm still invested in because it takes the universe it is in seriously, expands on it, introduces new and compelling characters, keeps nostalgia to an absolute minimum and the writing is superb. I will happily wait for Andor season 2 and ignore the rest of Star Wars till then. Like Marvel, I just want a break from it

StarWars isn't totally dead. I'm in several groups that don't recognize anything after 2015 and it's great in there. Very pure.

I've become apathetic towards Disney Star Wars. And we all know that apathy is death.

I was so disappointed with Sabine. An idea of a non-force user Jedi who manage to represent the Jedi order through their ideas rather than just being a force user, it's such an interesting idea. You had no idea how much I was praying for Sabine to not be a Jedi and all of what she does is red herring....but no this is Disney and they just go to the easy route.

I've only read Timothy Zahn's books, and when I saw the Ah Soka series, I saw that Davi Filloni did a terrible job with Thrawn and,the public wouldn't understand why Thrawn is such a cool and good character.

Disney really hurt themselves and the viewers experience by severely limiting the runtime of each episode and the series. They are in such a rush to produce content and move onto the next season they sacrifice the story.

The mistake happening with Star Wars is happening with lots of other fandoms. Show runners have adopted an INCREDIBLY annoying method of keeping some people hooked. They scatter the plot of a given universe through several different shows. I don't want to have to watch Ahsoka to know what's happening on The Mandalorian. STOP THIS.

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Eh, I'd wager Star Lord's actions are different from Sabine's because he was caught in the moment. Everything got dumped on him all at once and he basically went insane in 2 seconds flat. To me, that makes sense. Sabine on the other hand knew what the mission was, all the details of it, it wasn't all shoved in her face in 2 seconds. So, ironically, she actually comes off as truly insane as opposed to Star Lord. She had time to understand the ramifications of her actions and she still did it.

Naming of the top of my head: Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Transformers(It has coherent story problems but the first 3 are special to me), DC( I dont really count it as being great but it was still in blast radius.), various disney classics, basically anything considered being a franchise that was part of my childhood hasnt been untouched. They are even doing a remake live action of How To Train Your Dragon, they arent even leaving that alone. I dont watch movies anymore and its so sad cause movies were a massive part of growing up for me, that back in the day when there was a cool star wars character i use to think: yes please give me more of Dooku, or Grievous. Now i just want them to leave them the hell alone, cause i know they will ruin it. Im happy with the little i have thank you very much.

The best star wars stories i've seen in the last decade were from Jedi Order video games, fallen order and survivor. The two stories are honest stories of redemption and hope. Nothing quite as powerful and overwhelming as Red Dead 2, Ghost of Tshushima or The last of US, as far as video games are concerned. But it really felt good to have star wars stories that makes sense, that you feel invested in, and that doesn't end up being a dysfunctional family reunion story.

I think most Star Wars fans could have written a more interesting plot given time. So I'm troubled why Filoni couldn't, maybe he is burned out.

As a huge rebels fan and loved Sabine in rebels I hated how they made her force sensitive. She was a bad ass mandalorian in her own right they didn’t need to made her force sensitive. That plus the meh finale is what did not make ahsoka great for me. I am interested in skeleton crew more then acolyte

For me, the constant elephant in the room that I feel the sequel and these shows are ignoring is the question of where does this leave the prophecy of the chosen one? The sequels undid the Anakin arc and there will never be a resolution with a satisfactory answer and I just can’t get over that fact.

You are far FAR more kind to the Ahsoka show than it deserves. Robothead's latest video shows all the RETARDED things in the finale and by God... It's incredible

So what lesson did Ahsoka and learn and why did she need to learn it? She already had her moment with Anakin when she decided to stay with Vader after coming to terms with learning that Anakin is Vader. She should still remember that moment because Ezra saved her the moment before her probable death.

There’s only two ways to fix Star Wars. You either reimagine the entire 9 part Skywalker SAGA with new actors sticking close to Lucas vision with creative liberties to make SW far more serious and dramatic like LOTR. Or you create a whole new SAGA about the ancient Jedi and Sith with a list of new heroes and a new “Luke” type hero we follow over several trilogies. That’s it

Kenobi was the last straw for me, literally canceled D+ immediately after that finale.

The whole Ahsoka Anakin “arc” thing was a fever dream. Still can’t believe that was made by a billion dollar corporation. He told her to live or die 30 times and then she got a white robe and became enlightened? What was she needing enlightened from? Whatever conflict happened offscreen between her and Sabine? This is what I’m sayin.

As a Star Wars fan the only thing I want is for Disney to Stop. Please cancel all the upcoming shows and movies, donate the money to charity and let’s just try to forget any of this ever happened.

It's gonna be an uphill battle to regain the interest of fans and casual viewers. To problem is whether Disney even recognises what put them here in the first place.

There are so many very popular star wars channels with large audiences listening to their content. Yet you are the only one I have seen who hit the nail on the head with every single aspect of each point you covered. Well done at simplifying the issues from the perspective of who watched the cartoons and who didn't. And the major flaws in the handling of the IP.

Peter Quill was also in love with Gamora. You can understand why he did what he did. Sabine and Ezra are supposed to be really good friends but even when they finally reunite after years they don’t even seem that excited to see each

What I don’t get about Ahsoka is that in the animated series she has a ton of character and personality. In the live action portrayal she’s has zero personality. All Rosario Dawson does is cross her arm and have a blank stare.

Both my wife and I are avid Star Wars fans, but I’ve seen clone wars and rebels while my wife did not, I thoroughly enjoyed the first few episodes of Ahsoka with its Easter eggs, my wife got completely lost and turned off early on in the show

The problem with Star Wars is it used up all the goodwill. Even if they make something good now, it will probably only do decent at best, like Andor, as casual viewers are kind of tired of it and a lot of fans were burned.

Sadly, Star Wars won't die. But thats actually a good thing for true fans. The best that we can hope for is that it becomes enough of a money sink for Disney that they try to sell it off prior to it losing value.

Comparing Sabine’s arc to Peter Quill is just ridiculous. You FELT Peter’s struggle because the love was established. Sabine’s … “feelings(?)” for Ezra were never established and even landed with an absolute thud when they finally connected in Ahsoka- that scene was ridiculous! All of that just to be like “hey, what’s up guy”. She was willing to risk the galaxy for that guy she used to help in chemistry class!? That’s how it seems.

Accepting Disney Star Wars means accepting their character assassination and accepting that they have free reign to ruin my memories further into the future. It's a choice. They can reboot and try again or I'll accept Star Wars ended after films 1-6.

Really great work on this video man! I really hope Star Wars has its come back soon

her giving the map doesn't work like the star lord scene. in that scene we know star lord, we know gamora and we know their relationship and feelings, here we barely know the girl, let alone the jesus dude, who we haven't even seen before, all we know is that they were friends.

an old repulic trilogy would be in theory great, i dont think modern lucasfilm have the ability to make it anywhere as good as fans of that era think it be

I am still convinced that Ahsoka was not the best choice of a character to base an entire show on. The original Star Wars Rebels and Clone Wars were always niche things even among Star Wars fandom. And if Disney desperately wanted a huge hit, the decision to make a show to continue from the events of those animated series makes no sense at all. Mandalorian worked because that show didn't rely on obscure pieces of Star Wars media. Even Andor, which viewership also was abysmal relied on a better known character and a popular movie, and it still failed to draw attention. Ahsoka was always destined to be a flop in terms of viewership simply because the majority of today's Star Wars audience will not know why they should care. And the worst thing is that it is absolutely not worth it to sit through 200+ episodes of SW Rebels and Clone Wars to catch up so you can watch Ahsoka properly as over a half of those episodes is decidedly mid and that big chunk of your time is better spent elsewhere as you can watch a ton of better shows in time you need to finish these two.

To paraphrase a Jack Nicholson character: "Dave, how do you write [Sabine] so well?" "I think of a man, then I take away reason and accountability."

The only thing I got from this show was. You know who could have used an Anakin lesson of "Live or Die" Luke from the Last Jedi considering "Why do you think I went to some far away planet away from everyone (even thou there was a map). I came here to die" Also I don't quite get why Ahsoka needed that lesson considering the empire had fallen. If anything she should want to live more than any other time.

4:18 i saw somewhere that the actual decline for the mandalorian season 3 was somewhere over 90%. Imagine that.. 😅😅

In my opinion, the only way to truly save Star Wars at this point is to completely up-end nearly everything Disney has done with it from 2015-present. Start from scratch. Make a new trilogy with direct input from George, based on his original ideas and the pre-existing canon before 2012. Make more movies instead of shows, relegating them to side stories just like before. I heavily doubt anything will get back to the way it was before Disney with Star Wars in its current state. There's nothing that can truly save this new canon.

I’m gonna be real… after Indy 5 bombed - that James Mangold movie ain’t gonna happen.

I get what you explained about Sabine's decision but that only works if there is some deep emotional attachment to the person she is committing that act for. If Sabine was in love with Ezra (AND SHOWED IT) then sure that works. When Anakin forsook everything he knew and loved for Padme, it was already set up as such. That depth of personal attachment wasn't evident especially after they are reunited and both have about the same reaction as two close co-workers who haven't seen each other in a month or so. Yes I attribute much of this to crap writing and Disney/Lucasfilm wanting aesexual characters who have as much depth as a puddle of water. But in the end Sabine's motivation to give up the testicle for Ezra holds no weight given near emotionless reunion that was depicted for the audience.

My faith in disney was shattered with episode 7. Man, the excitement to finally see a star wars movie in theaters and instead I got a carbon copy of the original. There was not one new or exciting thing about it except Han's death, which was already spoiled for me. I still saw the next two hoping they'd be better, but it seems like people didn't see the early warning signs.

Dont feel bad for us. I'm perfectly happy with my VHS copies of the original films.

“Love is the death of duty“

My main issue with the modern era of SW is that these LA shows don’t have the budget required to make them great. Ahsoka and Obi-Wan being the worst offender. If they put down the same amount of money that they put down for andor, these shows would’ve been at least worthy of the brand despite the writing. I’m of the opinion that all of the stuff tying into the “heir to the empire” stuff should be animated, because of this. Disney shouldn’t half ass a SW show because SW is that sci-if fantasy franchise.

IMHO Start Wars can not be "Star Wars" until the Skywalker timeline is remedied.

I haven't paid much attention to anything Star Wars since the sequels but I keep tabs on the state of the franchise every now and then. It never seems to get any better. It's bewildering how they managed to sink such a titan of a franchise.

Sabine giving the map to Baylan and suffering no consequences makes her a HORRIBLE person. Sabine called Hera, Zeb, Chopper, and Jacen family in Rebels as she called the whole Ghost crew family. ALL four of these are on the front line of the New Republic fleet and will be in the cross hairs of Thrawn. Mandalore (her home world that Din and Bo are trying to rebuild) is right next to Dathomir where Thrawn ended up. She KNEW that Thrawn would be released upon giving the map to Baylan. She thought Ahsoka was dead. Her best outcome at that point would be living the rest of her life on Peridia with Ezra IF she even found Ezra and he was even alive. Unless she had a tortured love of Ezra her actions make no sense. She literally sacrificed the safety of her galaxy and people she called family for the CHANCE to be WITH Ezra. She also undid Ezra's sacrifice. All this and she wasn't in love WITH Ezra? In any case, her stupidity lost the map the first time and then lost the map again. Ezra was treated as a McGuffin, and she did not even display any emotion over him. Everyone that dies due to Thrawn is partially on Sabine. Sabine was a liar, a thief, untrustworthy, unreliable, petulant, childish, unremorseful, and a general asshole. She could not even tell Ezra things he had a right to know. Ezra who is a powerful and seasoned Jedi Knight gets saved by the little shit Sabine a few times. Ezra was neutered down to a wimpy McGuffin riding bitch with Sabine. After all this shit she gets forgiven instantly by Ahsoka and sends Ezra on his way without a tear or an emotion shown. SHE GETS CALLED A JEDI AFTER ALL THIS SHIT AND SUFFERING NO CONSEQUENCES. Being called a Jedi has no meaning anymore. Her character went down by about 30 to 40 character slots in KZfaq polls. She is down by Jar Jar Binks who was mostly canned by Lucas after episode I because he was so unpopular. Ahsoka went from being in the top ten most favorite Star Wars characters in polls to about the 40th character slot.

As someone who considers Ahsoka to be one of the best Star Wars characters of all-time, I was not in the least bit excited about her own show. Turns out I was mostly right for having those expectations. I am a hardcore Star Wars fan, so right now I'm holding onto the few good shows left to invest in including season 2 of Andor, the final season of The Bad Batch (while inconsistent in quality when it hits it REALLY hits trust me) and season 2 of Tales of the Jedi. I really couldn't care less about Skeleton Crew or any of the upcoming films. I'm not sure how I feel about The Acolyte but I have low expectations for that show as well.

My problem with Star Wars right now is that everything just looks so bleak. The alien designs don’t have the uniqueness of the prequels, the visual flare is so grey, and the planets are just so basic - gone is the creativity. I love Ahsoka - she is my favourite Star Wars character! I promise if Ashley Eckstein was to return to the universe, I would watch it, I did when she returned in Tales of the Jedi, but Rosario Dawson is just so low energy. Ahsoka is and has always been light on her feet, quick and witty. Yes she matured, but she never become dull. Actually unwatchable. It’s really sad actually.

The series is so downtrodden that their hope was to release a spim off show of the spin off cartoon to the spin off prequel movies. Ouch. When you mine your past content and ideas instead of building something new you end up with something hollow. Excavated. With a foundation full of so many holes that you can't build anything upon it. That is Star Wars right now.

RIP Star Wars. We will likely NEVER see a Star Wars film in theaters again. And if we do, it will fail so miserably that they will never try it again.

Star Wars is like Disney's bad tooth. They can't stop playing with it no matter how pointless.

I don’t want them to touch old republic considering how bad they’ve handled the franchise. I honestly don’t think Disney can do anything with Star Wars because they don’t fundamentally understand what Star Wars is. I think they should sell it at this point because it just feels soulless and unnecessary just about everything they’ve done feels like it was better off not being made I could see Rogue One being the exception.

Great vid man, when are we getting some vids in the ozzy Jedi KZfaq feed?

All Disney needed was to not be greedy. They could have made new NUMBERED trilogies forever as long as they spaced them out by 5-10 years each time, and every single one would’ve netted a cool billy minimum. But no.

The dependence on existing worldbuilding and stories is surely whats moving people away. Andor is a masterpiece of a television series that happens to be set in the star wars universe, creating a good story and compelling characters is so much more important than writing a star war before injecting cardboard characters to be no more than lenses for viewers to witness the events. The level of detail in the sets and characterisation in Andor did wonders for worldbuilding by showing the lives of regular people living in the galaxy far far away. It is made far more immersive and relatable not by explicitly cramming in lines of political commentary but by showing how ordinary people can become part of such an evil system without realising it along with, showing the inner workings of the empire in such a way also makes them more menacing and omnipresent than ive ever seen them portrayed in the past. Just the fact that someone getting punched in the face actually hurts them is so refreshing. Making the galaxy far far away feel like its actually out there somewhere in our universe is the best experience star wars has to offer

I'd say it died once George signed that document. The final horrific nail in the coffin was The Last Jedi. At this point it's just beating a dead corpse lol

10:33 As someone who watched the entire Rebels show, I did not know that Thrawn was a threat. They tried to make him one, but in the end he was just like the other imperials from that show. As for Sabine, I always found her annoying and not likeable. She had no flaws, was perfect at everything and they tried to make her this edgy emancipated cool girl that always acted like she was better than everyone else. She was a bigger Mary Sue than Rey and that was perfectly carried over to the Ahsoka show.

I keep asking every time someone raves about what an amazing character Baylan is, and have yet to get an answer. Why? The actor brings a sense of gravitas to his time on screen, but on the page, what is that character? Who is he? Dont know. What does he want? Something. What exactly is his relationship with Femur Hottie? Unclear. Why is he allied with the nightsisters? Ehhh.....big statue right at the end...which...will...do something? The planet he ends up on isnt Mortis, so if you insist on gifting Baylan with a motive of "eh, something to do with Father Sister and Brother?", why did he need to end up there? Theres just nothing there outside of the actor's natural screen presence.

They should’ve went all in on Kylo ren I’m my opinion and hire one person to write the trilogy

At this point I don't care about star wars as a brand anymore but I do care about some individual projects like Andor or the videogames

It’s ironic that the guy saying Star Wars is dead still defends this show

It make me depressed see a franchise that I love and held close to my heart be destroyed by disney and is the one thing that I will never forgive the house of mouse for. 😔

I would argue that the sequels were about content, not art, either. Hence why they stupidly even switched directors each episode, by design not mistake! It was not persons one vision, just factory produced like on a conveyor belt.

By far, Star Wars was the biggest franchise in cinema and arguably a modern mythology. Every upcoming new movie was a huge event. Even though the prequels disliked by some, nobody can ignore that prequel trilogy had iconic moments and added so much into the SW lore that launched animations like Clone Wars and books that further explore that era. Disney treated Star Wars as a content to be exploited rather than a major franchise. Disney failed the IP at cinema, after that used it as a streaming platform advertisement and failed the IP again. Yeah we got some good ones like Rogue One and Andor, but so many bad movies and streaming shows damaged the IP so much. Star Wars doesn't feel special anymore.

My main issue with sabine giving away the only thing that can stop Thrawn from returning and unleashing a genocidal war against the galaxy is that nobody seems to care that she just risked the fate of the entire galaxy just to save one person she cares about. She legit just doomed the entire galaxy and everyone seems to brush it off. No one calls her out on her selfish bullshit because we can't have any tension between our main characters can we? What a joke.

It's a win-win 🏆 🙌! I tried a shot at making the crossover figures months ago, and I'm looking forward to these 😅 .. I can't wait to see shredder in figure form

StarWars might be the most inconsistent franchise I ever seen. Quality jumps up and down so much

I had to Google a bunch during Ashoka. I watched like the first 2 seasons of Rebels years ago and dropped it because it seemed more for younger kids. It was definitely killing the immersion for me, and my wife hadn't even seen most of Clone Wars or any Rebels.

I am pretty sure that if Disney decided to go back to the old republic era, they will find a way to screw that up as well. Disney has shown a remarkable ability to tank every single franchise they touch…

The rumors say that Kathleen Kennedy will be leaving before the end of the year. If this turns out to be true, great! I will only believe Star Wars is unrecoverable if whoever replaces her can't create any good content.

The premise “Star Wars is dead” is good for clicks but also self defeating.

Nothing will change until Kennedy and crew are gone and replaced with talent that understands and loves the brand. And that will never happen.

I watched the whole season without ever noticing there was an owl in it lmao

Exactly my every thought about this era of Star Wars which is even worse than when the prequel hate was at its prime... Thanks for the video, Movie Overload!

I'll believe the Rey movie is happening when I see a trailer... So many projects have fallen through and Disney is not having a great time right now.

It would need to go back to the theaters, but also be good. Whats going to happen if it comes back and we get another Ep 8 or Ep 9?

I really like your point regarding shows that should have been movies. Mando was episodic from the beginning, so it works better as a show (even if some episodes admittedly wasted time) Andor is perfectly structured, with its 3 episode arcs developing individual stories while having an orerarching narrative. The various characters justified a long runtime. But with BOBF, Kenobi, and Ahsoka, its clear that the story was stretched more that necessary. They would have been better as movies or much shorter TV events. So it's not just the amount of SW content that's the problem, it's that these stories are being told through the wrong format.

Ahsoka as a character has always existed on the very cusp of greatness IMO, if it weren't for Filoni wanting his very special girl to be both his mouthpiece and the future. S7 TCW really killed any chance I'd truly love her when his negative opinions of the Jedi were spoken through her mouth over and over despite the previous six seasons of his own show demonstrating that the Jedi were unequivocally the good guys forced into an impossible situation they had no chance of winning, then blaming them for it. I'm also never getting over Ahsoka's sudden revelation that she was a child soldier in this series. That was wild, considering she was also a child diplomat and a child instructor over the course of TCW and more.

They said it was dead 15 years ago but it was thriving without a new TV show every year

I absolutely agree about the event thing: a star wars event is about booking tickets for the premiere and showing up to a room full of nerds ready to geek it out watching the movie. Getting hyped every time a lightsaber drawn or a corny oneliner is delivered. You don't get that watching alone at home which makes you feel like the experience was underwhelming. Disney + only worked for Mangalorian season 1 because that show was a classic western set in the star wars universe. It featured very low stakes in terms of galactic peace and battle of good vs evil. The other example that worked well was Andor. That one was a masterpiece for many reasons but mainly it didn't follow the classic star wars formula of the hero's journey. That's why it worked. I don't think Disney will ever look beyond their bottom line and push for quality content as long as this model is breaking even and occasionally creating a cash cow hit

Congradulations Disney! You have achieved a foal I'd never thought possible. You have made me sick and tired of Star Wars.

You have a very interesting and mostly valid take. But let’s be honest. Just making a big cinematic movie isn’t enough…..it has to actually be well written.

You know what's funny? Transformers Cyberverse did the whole "Thrawn" aspect better with a character from comics, Tarn. In the comics, Tarn is practically a monster, near unstoppable and is smart. In the show, it has to be toned down and different iteration (alternate Cybertron timeline), but it showed his strategy how he nearly conquered Cybertron and almost wiped out all the Autobots in one fell swoop. Also, only a psychopath would actually believe Joel was wrong in saving Ellie...it's literally just TLOU fantards that think saving someone from a forced sacrifice to be noble.

Just found your channel, this was a good video

BOBF, Kenobi we’re both a let down for me and Ahsoka is just god awful to a fan who’s followed Ahsoka story since I was a child lol

The goat is back. Was waiting for your review and like your points.

I think in more simple terms Disney doesn't know how to handle legacy characters. They made every previous hero into a degenerate shell of their former selves. Luke's suckling off apace walruses and doesn't care, Han Solo has given up and quit, Obi-Wan is chopping meat and can't use the force or a lightsaber, and Ahsoka grew up fight a galaxy wide war for her whole life and she uses a lightsaber and the force like a 1st year padawan. The mandalorian season 2 finale had Luke like a damn raid boss and everyone loves it. The answer is RIGHT THERE!

Yea I had no idea who thrawn was and what his deal is. he just seems like another normal imperial officer to me.

You've nailed it! btw it's annoying me, this must be your second channel right as I know your voice but can't think. Gaming channel right?

They have been sending all Star Wars content to Disney Plus because of how badly received Rise of Skywalker was. There hasn’t been anything from the brand lately worthy of the Theater experience.

Andor & Rogué One have been the only good Disney Star Wars

I share your feelings towards the franchise and your analysis of the current state of the Star Wars is correct. I do think your solution doesnt quite get to the root issues though. Putting Star Wars back in theatres wont fix things or inherently make those movies good. There are terrible movies released in theatres and fantastic series released on television/streaming services. The issue is that Disney has decided to only play things safe and not tell any quality stories with interesting characters in new settings. The Mandalorian started out well because it felt fresh and different, then Disney played it safe and leaned on cameos in the latest season with no sense of narrative direction. They could put out good Star Wars shows on Disney plus if they could put create something original, which would mean new characters, which isnt safe for them.

Disney needs to sell marvel and Lucasfilm to a company that can handle it better.

Ya know people talk about this franchise as if a close relative recently died or their second dog has passed away. I think way too many fans expect Star Wars to be Peak Fiction or the Pinnacle of Sci-Fi. Ya know I remember the years when Disney's most failed Genre was "Science Fiction". The Original Tron, Tron Legacy, and Tommarow Land were box office failures. The Buzz Lightyear cartoon in 2000 and Meet the Robinsons were decent from what I remembered. Star Wars and Halo started to became Fandom Homework for me, the more they expanded. The entry point of getting my friends and family to experience these Space Adventures with me became a chore. During Pre-Covid 90% of my Movie Theater/Local Cinema Experience is watching Rated G Animated Movies from Disney/Pixar, Dreamworks, and the occasional MCU Movie. The thing is a lot of those movies have Happy Endings. Rouge One and Solo being the most recent Star Wars films yeah some folks I love just dismissed Star Wars as a waste of fucken time. My situation may seem childish but now that I think about it yeah even my AAA Videogames usually never have a joyful conclusion either. I can see why so many people ditch the M Rated titles and exclusively play Nintendo even when they are a 40+ years old. Normies really do not want to invest hours of time on media that ruins their escapism with crap that will bum them out. Well may the Force guide us to through these hard times my friends.

The biggest con they have pulled is convincing you that continuous output is a desireable goal. It's just product. Even the PT was dubious at best. The OT was a great little story that brought a McFukBucket of innovation to the industry and changed movies forever. I'd not begrudge the tie-in merch, they're take it or leave it, but the story was told, it was done. The PT added nothing of any merit whatsoever, (and no, not even more Palpatine. You could put Ian McDiarmid in a cloak and have him recite LinkedIn profiles and a large number of people would watch in awe) and actually removed some of the quality of the OT in doing so: how Vader fell to the Dark Side was a compelling mystery, finding out it was basically just a career option is fardookin' dumb. You say it's going to get worse before it gets better? Addict. You can make Star Wars great again by simply taking everything but the OT and junking it. Do not watch any more of the filth. Take all those hours and put them into baking. No one has ever said that Jaws needs a TV series. Or the Godfather. Or ET. Or The Third Man. No one thinks of Casablanca and dreams of franchise, that is how you best see Star Wars.

Very good video😊

All I have to say after seeing Ahsoka is: thank goodness Andor Season 2 is still coming so we'll get some actual GOOD Star Wars again...if only for a short time. Also, Disney+ isn't the problem. It's a convenient scapegoat, but a turd is a turd no matter how it's presented. The problem is with the creative powers-that-be at Lucasfilm, including Kathleen Kennedy. Honestly, that whole group needs a gutting-out. Send Kathleen packing, because her epic botching of the last Indiana Jones movie was the last straw for me, and it's clear to me now she no longer gets it. I don't care what successes she's had in the past; it's time for her to go. Get the uber-fanboys like Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau out of there too, because all they're doing is pandering to people who can't see past their favorite SW action figures and only want the ham-fisted legacy cameos and references. We need creative, intelligent, open-minded people who care about Star Wars, but aren't going to kiss fanboy ass while creating it, or think so far outside the box that they lose their way. And, OH MY GOOD GOD, did you ever hit the nail on the head about Thrawn. Nothing he did in Ahsoka made him seem like anything more than a B-grade Bond villain, and not even one of the unintentionally entertaining ones. He's supposed to be this cunning strategist, but he kept making rookie mistakes and only escaped because he had a head start. A misplaced, over-inflated self-confidence and a markedly calm demeanor doesn't make you a great villain.

After Andor season 2 finishes up, I really don’t know if I’m going to sick around.

People should watch Andor. There is hope in Star Wars still.