re: It's truly amazing how far Disney has managed to cheapen Star Wars.

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What used to make Star Wars cool was how controlled and mysterious it was. Now it’s pure money grab and social justice nonsense.

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To be fair, Lucas cheapened it long before Disney bought the franchise. Prequels were 110% a cash grab from merchandising opportunities and it was reflected in the piss poor narrative and execution of the films. Most of the set pieces and characters they shoved in there had little to do with creating interesting plot and everything to do with creating as many merchandise avenues as possible.

That Disney ran with that motivation and pumped it full of steroids was pretty predictable. They’ve over saturated the market with Star Wars movies and shows and injected modern politics with all the subtlety of a jackhammer almost entirely to draw in new audience members who might not yet have purchased a metric frickton worth of SW merch.

I like when good storytelling mirrors the world in which it was written but there’s creating a subtle allegory and then there’s simply copy/pasting bullet points off a website into character design and dialogue. If they’re going to take a stance, would it kill them to fricking do it well?