Agreed. I haven’t even watched it, but the graphics look like they came from a discount video game (like seriously, they had decent models for the show, but the movie looks like it’s in Quake). I don’t really care about the show either, but I like all the clone trooper variants in it.
BTW, my previous comment wasn’t an inappropriate comment, I just didn’t want to start a tired argument about the Star Wars franchise, so I deleted it.
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Bro if you want to hear inappropriate comments about star wars check out the knights of melvin channel on youtube.
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I would also say Attack of the Clones is also the worst of the prequels. I personally still enjoy rewatching it but it’s my least favorite purely because of the romance scenes in it.
After rewatching these movies I think I raised my personal rating for all of them but AoTC had the smallest rating bump.
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Here. Something light to chew on and discuss around the dinner table.
What are your personal head-cannons regarding the construction of the Death Star? Do you reconcile between the Expanded Universe and Current Cannon storylines? To which do you prefer?
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Yeah, I’m sure there are a reallly toxic Star Wars fans out there as I’ve come across them and I may have come across that channel’s videos because I’ve read a lot of toxic comments from Prequel bashers AND Prequel gushers.
But, I mostly try to steer clear of the hardcore Star Wars community these days because it’s just so divided and toxic, but I guess that’s what happens when your franchise has so much freaking content to enjoy-and not to enjoy.
It doesn’t help that there are Prequel-loving bots all over YouTube that give Prequel fans like me a bad name that will comment on your posts that criticize the Prequels in any way and harass you about how the Prequels are “untouchable masterpieces.”
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The Death Star was constructed out of lego bricks by Peter Parker’s friend Ned. It was destroyed when Ned found out that Peter was Spider-Man and dropped it on the floor.
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I tend to go with it having started construction sometime around the end of Revenge of the Sith, with the prototype being quickly built due to a thorough lack of necessary personnel to test a giant laser surrounded by black holes. Once that proved to the Empire that such a weapon could be built, the Empire earmarked a large portion of its military budget into accelerating its material production capabilities, resulting in the need to keep the population working harder than ever and providing more excuses for the Rebellion to gain traction among everyone. This allowed for the first Death Star to be nearly complete (aside from the main cannon) by the time of Rogue One. The need for a material that nearly violates the laws of physics to be used in the focusing dish led to the Empire investigating numerous exotic materials, incidentally allowing for the creation of stealth ships and smaller superweapons. Eventually, they realized that they were literally making a giant lightsaber, so they built the focusing apparatus out of “requisitioned” Kyber crystals, and then everything went just like in the movies.
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Goodness. a re-release of Star Wars for the 50th.
I do indeed look forward to the sights that shall be seen of multiple generations together in a theater in 2027.
Unless, of course, I’m too busy grabbing a couple of power converters…
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I’m so excited to see Greedo shoot first on the big screen, just as George intended.
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted on the boards, let alone in this thread, but there’s something I want to get off my chest. I’m kind of worried about the next couple movies. Specifically, Mandalorian And Grogu and Starfighter. Not that I think they’ll be bad movies, necessarily. As a guy who likes all the Star Wars movies (yes, even Phantom Menace, yes, even Rise Of Skywalker), I’m sure I’ll find at least some enjoyment in them. Rather, I’m worried they might not be a commercial success.
My concern comes down to several reasons, but the main one is that most of the content Star Wars has been putting out in recent years hasn’t been the best. We’ve had, like, ten Disney+ shows since the streaming platform first launched, and a lot of them have been really, REALLY mid. I’ll admit Skeleton Crew was kind of fun, and while I didn’t get into Andor as much as everyone else did, I can’t call it a bad show. Plus, the first 2 seasons of The Mandalorian became somewhat iconic in their own way. But, of course, Mando Season 3 really dropped the ball on its quality. Then we had Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka, both of which I wanted to like, but they were ultimately fell short of greatness. Book Of Boba Fett was pretty forgettable, but the Acolyte? Ugh. That show was SO boring! Some of this could be chalked up to me personally preferring movies over TV shows, but looking around, it’s clear I’m not the only one who feels this way.
It seems safe to assume that Mandalorian And Grogu will continue Din Djarin’s story after Mando Season 3-which wouldn’t be a problem for someone who’s watched the first three seasons, but how many average moviegoers would be willing to pay for a Disney+ subscription and sit through 24 episodes-8 of which aren’t even that good? Oh, and there’s also BOBF, which you’d also have to watch to understand how Grogu is back with Din Djarin after going with Luke in Episode 16. Plus, BOBF is one of the weaker Disney+ shows (in my opinion). Not to mention, I’ve heard that they might even be tying in with the Ahsoka show-which Dave Filoni has described as Rebels Season 5. In other words, you’d get more out of THAT show if you’ve watched a whole other show before that. (I, for one, haven’t seen a single lick of Rebels.) Is your brain starting to hurt yet from all the homework you have to do just to properly understand ONE movie?
Of course, if the story is relatively self-contained, then this might be less of a problem. But even then, Mando and Grogu arguably don’t quite have the iron grip on pop culture that they had a few years ago. I’m not sure how many average moviegoers would go out to see their movie.
And then there’s Starfighter. This one’s said to be an entirely new story with new characters, in a new storyline set five years after Rise Of Skywalker. But from what I’ve seen, it being set after the sequel trilogy is already turning off a lot of people (read: sequel haters). Which I honestly think is kind of ridiculous. For one, a lot of these people come off as pretty close-minded. For another, we don’t even know if it’ll have any strong connections to the characters or plotlines from the sequels. I mean, some cameos seem inevitable, but they haven’t divulged any plot details. It seems a little too early to judge, no?
But I could be wrong. The main character of the movie might be, like, Finn’s hidden cousin on his long-lost dad’s side or something, and therefore he has to set out on a quest to rescue Finn from a gang of pirates. I dunno. Such a premise would obviously alienate people who didn’t like the sequels-which, like I said, seems to be the majority of the current fandom.
(The reason I say “current fandom” is because the Star Wars fanbase does seem to be pretty fickle. For years, they were bashing the prequels just as hard as they are currently bashing the sequels now, yet now they’re venerating the prequels. Likewise, when Force Awakens was released, I remember people hailing it as having saved Star Wars. Now people act like it was the start of the franchise’s downfall.)
At any rate, I can’t be sure what the ratio is between the hardcore SW fans who despise the sequels and the average moviegoers who honestly don’t care. Despite the backlash, every sequel movie made a billion dollars at the box office. I’ve seen people swear that Rise Of Skywalker lost money, but….a billion dollar box office gross? I don’t buy it. I know movies have to make back at least their production budget and then some to not be a flop, but even then, ROS only cost $416 million to make. Obviously that’s WAY more than what a loser like me makes in a year, but it’s not even half a billion.
To my knowledge, the budget for Starfighter (or Mando And Grogu, for that matter) hasn’t been publicly disclosed. If it’s lower than $400 million, then it doesn’t necessarily need to make a billion dollars to be considered a hit. But WOULD it make enough money? At this point in time, it’s hard to say.
I should probably feel lucky we’re even getting new movies at all. They’ve got a lot, and I mean A LOT, of movies in development hell right now. If these two movies flop, then it might put a huge damper on any more movies being made. Which sucks, because while some of the movie concept might not be good, there is still potential for good stories set in the Star Wars universe. We’ve already seen how successful Andor has been, so there’s that. This is an unpopular opinions, but I am genuinely interested in Rey’s New Jedi Order movie. It’s gone through a very troubled production, sure, but I always liked Rey’s character in the sequels, and I’d be on board to see what she’s up to after TROS. I just hope it doesn’t end up in the dustbin with Rogue Squadron…
It would be better received if the main characters weren’t some of the worst-written ones in the whole Star Wars universe. Poe Dameron should be considered a war criminal and traitor in-universe as he leads two attempted military coups in one movie alone, as well as somehow convincing command that using tactics designed for destroying ground bases against a massive warship is a good idea (it cost all the A-wings you see for the rest of the trilogy in the opening scene alone, along with 90% of the Resistance’s heavy bombers).
Rey could be literally anyone, as half the time she’s a direct clone of Luke Skywalker while accomplishing less than half the stuff he did (no Death Star kill shots, no actively leading a military unit, no becoming someone publicly recognized as a hero until the third movie of the trilogy), and the fact she’d rather end the series using a falsified name for the glory of the Skywalker reputation rather than anything else…
The overall plot and writing of those movies are also a sincere drop in quality compared to the prequels and shows. The prequels tried something new: a story exploring the build-up to the Empire, something that was vaguely hinted at throughout the originals, but rarely expanded upon beyond Vader having once been a Jedi hero. The sequels, though… The Force Awakens starts off strong with multiple scenes blatantly copied from A New Hope (specifically, many sequences with the Millennium Falcon), as well as having the majority of the plot being the third “kill a Death Star” plot, playing out as essentially a second A New Hope with less fanfare for the heroes.
The Last Jedi opens with the heroes getting most of their forces killed in a failed attempt at destroying a Dreadnought due to somehow thinking that the slowest ships yet seen in any Star Wars movie can reach a designated target before getting focused by air defenses far beyond any yet seen. The Resistance, rather than calling Poe Dameron out for his unqualified failure as a high-ranking air commander, act like he’s some kind of hero afterwards, making him come off like a Top Gun ripoff with none of the skill. They then spend the rest of the movie burning gas to get nowhere, while the chain of command disintegrates. Poe leads two attempted coups, for which he is stripped of his rank (both times he receives no support from any ranking officers or other crew members, so in actual fact he should’ve been court-martialed immediately for acts of high treason and assaulting his superiors). Finn and a random deck technician commit vandalism, desertion, property destruction, and grand theft escape pod in order to board a big enemy ship, only to have to be rescued by (deus ex machina in the form of Rey). Meanwhile Luke Skywalker is going insane on a rustic island, and Rey gets hallucinations for 15 minutes. Everyone winds up at Salt Lake City’s salt flats for a confrontation between scrapyard speeders and a ridiculously overwhelming force of First Order troops (including the single biggest laser cannon in the movies -the only time anyone uses an actual laser too). Another deus ex machina as Luke saves the day for the last time as a ghost. Then credits roll.
Third movie hits rock bottom. The Resistance is basically dead. Their only hope lies in finding a lost place Luke found somewhere, that the First Order wants to find as well. Kylo Ren and his commanders, meanwhile, have been progressively losing their minds over the course of the trilogy, with Kylo going from a cool villain in the first movie to a teenage psychotic with a penchant for murdering his own commanders for no reason. General Hux turns out to be a traitor at the last minute, accomplishing nothing with that revelation. Captain Phasma is unceremoniously offed in the second movie after being the only competent villain for 2 straight movies. Snoke is just a Palpatine wannabe with no skill, and gets offed in the second movie after spending his entire career giving deranged speeches.
The heroes spend the whole movie going on progressively dumber side quests to find reinforcements, culminating in Lando Calrissian somehow getting the entire industrial sector to back him for the final battle (somehow no Black Sun or anyone with a genuine interest to protect, just about 15000 freighters with smuggler weapons). Palpatine returns, and gets half his fleet shot down because he now has the power of the Master of Lightning and a giant crane. And a cult. Rey and Kylo Ren kill him with his newfound power. Finn finds a bunch of ex-Stormtroopers and successfully leads a boarding party. Everyone celebrates.
But in all seriousness, these movies are campier than the originals, with little to redeem the camp aside from the visuals, which are pretty good (the only exception being the scenes with the Praetorian Guards, half of whom appear to be flailing at nothing in multiple scenes before getting killed). Multiple new characters contribute little until the final movie, many characters exist just as cameos, and one movie relies heavily on deus ex machina tropes just to move the plot. The third movie barely has a coherent plot, and the overall result is that practically no one who watched prior Star Wars movies liked the sequels. It’s like seeing the newer Marvel shows if one was introduced with Captain America and the Iron Man movies. The quality isn’t there anymore, nor is the spirit. Just dust and echoes.
Is this too long of a reply? Probably. But it’s not ego or anything of the kind that made these movies unpopular, it’s simply that the writing fell off harder than ever before, and barely made a recovery afterwards. This makes the prequels look better, which is why they’re so popular now.
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Ngl you are the first person whom I’ve ever heard whose primary complaint with The Acolyte is that the show is boring. Usually the complaints target the awful writing, the political messaging ham-fisted into the setting, the illogical modifications of existing canon to accommodate the writers’ idas, and generally the writing and plot being so mind-numbingly braindead that it, like DuneToa said, makes the Prequels look good by comparison.
Gonna be real pretty much anyone who’s still a fan of Star Wars has some serious suspension of disbelief going on given all that’s happened in the last decade. I’m a sequels hater and I promise you I have only logical reasons to detest the upcoming Starfighter film (with nothing to lose at this point because I stopped caring about Star Wars as a whole a long while ago).
It’s the exact same people and it’s less about the community being fickle as much as it is the whole world wising up. Perhaps Star Wars is responsible for that too.
See, in the 2010s it was pretty much understood that George Lucas was done making new stories outside of side media, like video games and comic books. The end of the story was Episode VI and that was that. Sure, you had novels and the like that continued the story off into the future, but not only were those rarely overseen by George himself, most people really didn’t care. If they liked Star Wars, it was because of the movies and maybe the Clone Wars television show, not because of the deep lore tucked away in multiple books.
(That’s not to say nobody liked the books; several Boards members have very sizeable collections of the books and have shown them off before. It just isn’t the draw for the wider fanbase or the general population of the globe.)
Disney’s purchase of the franchise was at a time where Disney hate was fairly niche and the company had a solid track record in terms of production quality. Thus the fact that Star Wars was coming back, with a new story set in the future of the series, with a return of the ever-popular Harrison Ford reprising his most iconic role, was almost too tantalizing to fully take in. Everyone was hyped for the return of the most successful franchise on the planet.
And then it came out, made two billion dollars globally, and the reactions were fairly mixed. The critiques of it being a worse rehashing of A New Hope were plentiful, the term Mary Sue to describe Rey Palpatine Skywalker was used so frequently it entered the common nomenclature for the first time, and Daisy Ridley being kind of insufferable started to assert itself. You could say TFA saved Star Wars, sure, but the bar it set was much lower than the prior entry (RoTS), and signaled the beginning of a downwards trend in terms of the quality of the stories being told and the public perception of them, no matter how much money they may have made.
This wasn’t a Star Wars exclusive problem, but a Disney one: over in the Marvel front, many of their projects began suffering from the same exact symptoms that Star Wars did. Loads of identity politics forcefully overrode stories, characters felt more and more like lazy self-inserts of the writers’ personal ideologies, the dialogue grew worse, and the quality of the writers being hired seemed - at least to me - to decrease sharply, to the point that the abominable writing of The Acolyte became possible.
Given that Disney has more or less admitted publicly that they are in a tailspin at the moment, I think the gap is far smaller than you might think, and the venn diagram of the two groups has significant overlap. It’s hard to find an average moviegoer with no opinion on the Sequels, and almost impossible to find an average moviegoer with a positive opinion on the television shows (with the exception of Andor, which everyone seemed overjoyed at). Disney has made it abundantly clear that they intend to course-correct to keep the billion-dollar-returns machine churning out more cash, it’s possible that Starfighter might actually be a good movie.
But given that they’re making a new movie set in the future of the franchise to get away from the last time they did exactly that, I don’t think it’ll be enough to save it.
I have so little to comment on with your post because it’s too succinct and says everything too well 
but I will add this:
The reason this scene looks like this is because it was literally that bad. Daisy Ridley was just incapable of following the choreography well enough (or they had a choreography director who was so bad nobody’s seen or heard of him or her since) that the highly-trained and extremely efficient Praetorian Guard stands around waiting for their turn to attack the hero like it’s a samurai movie from the 1960s. There’s even a point in the fight where one of the weapons has to get painted out of the scene because one of them (I think Kylo) would have been dead to rights if it remained.
It’s the Star Wars topic, this is the… way 
(I am going to skin baby yoda alive)
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Just because the movies essentially setting the base for the era are bad, doesn’t necessarily mean stories set in the era will automatically be bad. Case in point: the prequel era. The movies themselves had a lot of flaws, but we still got some good stories set in that era such as the Clone Wars show.
Which makes we wonder if, maybe someday, Disney will put out a trilogy that really is legit awful, and cause people to reevaluate the sequels.
Those things, too. But for me, it mostly just the premise and characters that didn’t really hook me. Pretty much the only things I liked were the concept of a force-sensitive Wookie and Yoda’s surprise cameo at the end of the last episode. Everything else…I did not care one bit.
My point exactly. The fandom really seems to flip-flop on what parts of Star Wars are good and bad.
Honestly…on the contrary, it seems like EVERYONE who’s read the old Legends books has nothing but good things to say about them. I recently met a guy who loves the old EU to the death, and he was pretty disappointed that the new canon didn’t follow the plots of the Thrawn trilogy or the New Jedi Order series.
Because it kind of did. For years prior, people were endlessly bashing the prequels to no end, much like how they’re roasting the sequels now. When TFA came out, the prequel controversy largely died down in favor of the hype around the new movies, the new characters, and the questions about what was gonna happen next. People spent countless hours speculating the origins of Snoke, Rey’s parents, Finn, etc, because these new characters had hooked them in.
Although, in retrospect, I think that’s a huge contributing factor in the backlash against TLJ and, to a lesser extent, TROS. A lot of the answers to those questions ended up being pretty basic and, for many people, disappointing. This led them to question what was even the point of all that speculation. Even though I’m personally a big fan of the sequels, I understand the frustration. In fact, I actually share the mindset that, had they actually had a plan that they followed through with to the end, the trilogy would’ve had a more consistent narrative.
(I know there are some conflicting reports as to whether they had an existing plan that Rian Johnson simply chose not to follow, or of there was never a plan to begin with, but it doesn’t matter. My point still applies in either case.)
That, and they’re way oversaturating us with content. Which actually brings me back to my earlier point with Mando And Grogu. Just like Star Wars, Marvel is also succumbing to the problem of expecting the average viewer to watch five Disney+ shows-most of which aren’t even that good-to understand one movie.
You monster.
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You misunderstand DuneToa’s point. The people who made The Clone Wars didn’t answer to the same people who made the prequels. The only showrunner who didn’t answer to either Kathleen Kennedy or her subordinate was the one who made Andor.
There’s a reason the sequel trilogy has been hated. There’s a reason the star wars shows have all been hated, with the exception of Andor. We won’t see any new and interesting stories set in this era until we see new people steering the ship.
I wonder if you read any of DuneToa’s post starting roughly here:
He’s not just trashing on it for no good reason. These are legitimate complaints about a level of quality so low it almost doesn’t exist. We don’t need to wait for Disney to make an utterly awful trilogy; they already have.
Not really? I mean yes to a degree, but it has a lot to do with perspective.
Back then the only thing to compare the prequels to was the OT, and of course it didn’t hold water. The hammy acting insisted upon by Lucas was impossible to ignore thanks to everyone involved being a ‘yes man’ whereas the OT (especially Ep 5) was almost as vitriolic as the community itself.
Then TFA came out, and the hype was surreal right up until TLJ came out, and the rose-tinted glasses started to slip. The idea of new star wars was strong enough to blind people to the significant issues the movies had, and the dumpster fire that was TRoS finally pulled back the curtain. Now that we have ‘somehow palpatine returned’, the ‘I don’t like sand’ monologue doesn’t seem so bad.
To put it another way, Bionicle 2010 seems a lot better now that we have Journey to One to compare it to. That doesn’t make 2010 any better than it was, but it’s easier to put things into perspective.
Not nearly in the same way the prequels did. Sure, it reignited the brand, but literally any new star wars film would’ve done that, and the aftermath of their existence is that less people care about star wars than ever before. The prequels also ‘saved’ star wars, in that they were new content that reignited interest in the brand and also made tons of money (smaller numbers, but back when the dollar was worth more).
It’s also important to realize the ways in which the world expanded in the sequels was insignificant compared to the prequels. Every new planet shown in the prequels was legitimately new, unexplored concepts that had not been seen before in star wars digital media. The sequels had almost nothing new to say or even to add, outside of a handful of scenes that looked nice visually. Building off the sequels means assuming pretty much everything whereas building off the prequels means looking at what exists and going from there. As a world, the sequels are dry and dull and dead, and star wars as a result is creatively decomposed.
It’s why the only good story to come out of Disney’s purchase of the brand has been Andor, and it’s also the most hands-off project from Disney’s perspective. Probably a correlation between the two.
Hype is a powerful force. It’s also a tremendous responsibility for the subject matter to live up to. The sequels serve as a precautionary tale that, if you ask too many questions in your creative work, refuse to answer enough of them at a regular pace, and fumble the most important ones, you might just kill the most profitable cash cow the world has ever known.
Needless to say I don’t think JJ Abrams or Rian Johnson are going to enjoy too great a career after this.
From my point of view the Disney are evil 
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Should’ve left it, it would’ve actually been funny at that point.
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Honestly, most of what he said is stuff I’ve read/seen so many times over the years, it’s gotten kind of redundant. Like, yes, we KNOW the sequels suffered from a lack of planning. And even some of his other points, I don’t necessarily agree with. For instance:
He did NOT convince command. The whole point was that Leia was mad at him and had him demoted for, as pointed out, wasting a lot of resources on something that, in the long run, wasn’t really worth it.
You call Rey out for being a “Luke Skywalker clone,” then talk about things he did that she didn’t do? If anything, I’d say that kind of sets her apart from him. That, and the fact that her character arc was quite different from Luke’s. While Luke’s arc in the OT was about turning his father back from the Dark Side, Rey’s was about letting go of her past and learning that her origins do not have to define her. She does learn things from Luke, Han, and Leia, yes, but by the end of the trilogy, she’s more than ready to forge a new path into the future.
Zzzzzzzz……..like I said, it gets tiring hearing the same arguments being made over and over all these years.
Again, did we even watch the same movie? Poe DID NOT get commended for his attack on the Dreadnought! He was DEMOTED! Since when did that equate to acting like he’s some kind of hero? If anything, Holdo’s behavior towards Poe was the complete opposite of treating him like a hero.
[sigh] They were not trying to “get nowhere.” First of all, they didn’t even know the FO was tracking them at first. Second off, Holdo revealed that she did have a plan to get to an outpost on a nearby planet. She just didn’t share it at first because 1.) she already didn’t trust Poe, and 2.) there could very well have been a FO mole on board that could’ve relayed that information. Seriously, I feel like people WAY overreacted to Holdo keeping her plan under wraps.
It wasn’t an escape pod they flew, it was a standard transport pod meant for small missions like the one they went on (albeit unauthorized, like you pointed out).
Which was the WHOLE POINT of his arc/redemption. After rejecting the notion of going back to help the Resistance, Luke realized that saving them would be the right thing to do, and so he did.
Yeah, because allowing our heroes to escape with their lives is “nothing.”
And even then, Dune Toa did admit that the sequels did have some good things in them. When I think “truly awful” movies, I think of movies that legit have no redeeming qualities. Like, say…
It’s definitely for the best that BTTF was wrong about that series getting up to 19.
Honestly, all the memes have made those lines kind of funny to me.
Which just makes me even more grateful I haven’t watched JTO
While it’s true that there was a lot of hype leading up to TPM as well, things ultimately played out differently with the prequels vs the sequels. Like you said, it took time for people to start turning on the sequels, whereas with the prequels, people were trashing them much sooner than the release of the second movie.
at this point I don’t understand why yall are still starwars fans or even still talking about it?
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They’re treated the same way in each trilogy. They’re both 19, they’re both the orphaned kid who suddenly finds out they’re the hero everyone is looking for, they both are Jedi who supposedly are more powerful than any yet seen (debatable for both, as more of their feats can be attributed to luck/skill than just Force usage), they both learn about their parentage at the end of their respective trilogies, they both have villains as close relatives, they both blow up a planet-sized superweapon as the final set piece of their introductory movies, they both use blue lightsabers, they both gain ace-level piloting skills despite never having operated any starfighter before, they both suck at aiming with turrets, they both end up with midlife crises at the end of their movie appearances, and they both come from a godforsaken desert planet that has nothing going for it (except Jakku has cooler aesthetics due to having actual scenery).
Rey is basically a failed Luke Skywalker. She attempts to live up to his legacy throughout the sequels, and only finds that the legacy doesn’t exist.
It’s very much a “make your own legacy” narrative, except at the end when Rey co-opts Luke’s name because her actual parentage is the exact opposite of his (despite the fact that technically anyone should be sorry for a Palpatine, since the Emperor murdered most of his family before becoming a Senator). She never gets close to his legacy because of this, but since the filmmakers wanted desperately to continue the “Skywalker” story without having Mara Jade exist, they had to settle for forcing the end scene of Episode 9.
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I never really thought about it that way before, but…I actually agree with you for both of these points.
Which, again, I’m completely fine with. The main thing that’s resonated with me from the sequels is the theme of how yes, the heroes of the past can and should inspire you, but ultimately, it’s you who has to forge your own path.
Too bad Kathleen Kennedy keeps firing directors and writers for upcoming SW projects. Because this way, we probably won’t see what that new path will be.
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