re: Mandalorian and Grogu was actually … really good.

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Ryan Gosling has absolutely no business being in a Star Wars film/show

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Why? He’s a really good and charismatic actor with chops for action, comedy, and drama. He has a reputation for playing smarmy but likeable rogues in the Han Solo mode as well as reluctant but plucky protagonists in the vein of Luke. What’s your beef with him?

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Why?

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He’s antithetical to what Star Wars is really about. The actors and actresses in Star Wars shouldn’t be larger than life, the characters should be.

When George Lucas made the first three movies, most of the actors and actresses (with the exception of Alec Guinness) were no-named people and none of them had A-list celebrity status. Yet they played the characters in a way that made them feel larger than life.

Gosling is an A-list celebrity whose stardom and fame will now unfortunately deflect the attention from the roles he’s playing to himself as an actor.

I just want good star wars content, man. Disney has been a real mixed bag for that. Disney took a shotgun approach, and as a result, there’s zero quality consistency. There’s great content, mid content, and absolutely awful content.

I just want them to put out less bad content and more great content. I don’t have any loyalty to Disney. I have affinity for Star Wars, but no qualms about calling out content when it sucks.

There’s no good reason why the Obi Wan series should look so low budget compared to Andor. Andor looks like HBO while Obi Wan looks like the CW 20 years ago. There’s no reason why a studio should green light a trilogy of an existing franchise without a plan and give the director of part 2 absolute freedom to do whatever they want. That’s ludicrously stupid.

I want Star Wars to succeed no matter who owns it. I’m not going to cheer for Disney made projects to suck or flop. I want the franchise to be good. I want it to be successful. I hope they are learning lessons (which should have been common sense). I hope they raise their standards for what they put out so Star Wars can be as close to a “sure-thing” as possible with every release (as if the Clone Wars movie, Caravan of Courage, and Attack of the Clones weren’t all pretty bad before Disney bought the franchise).

The only way to right the ship is to consistently put out good to great content and stop putting out bad content. Stop making movies and shows FOR children and instead make human stories that both children and adults can appreciate without being pandered to. Stop catering to “modern audiences” and just focus on making well-paced, well-acted, well-shot movies with engaging relatable dynamic characters going on heros journeys through interesting settings with proper foreshadowing, character arcs, dramatic tension, setup, and payoff.

The Mandalorian & Grogu wasn’t mind blowing, but it was good. It did all of the things a Star Wars movie should do. If they keep making movies as good or better than it, the ship will be righted and the trust and enthusiasm of the franchise’s fans can be rebuilt over time.

Filoni thinks he’s Stan Lee with the cameos. But he doesn’t get it. Nobody wants to see him no as a pilot with multiple scenes.

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You people who defend the absolute abomination that is Disney couldn’t be any more delusional.

The franchise has lost practically all of its integrity and the magic that once made it special, and yet here you are pretending like that isn’t the case. Just absolutely fricking delusional.

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It's been two years since they've released something down right bad, with a few of the things they've released since being great, and yet this is the type of response that is given. I'm not the delusional one.

Even Stan Lee was a passing cameo in the MCU movies from a franchise he built up for decades. The narcissism and entitlement with modern day Hollywood is off the charts. Peter Jackson sprinkled scenes with him and his kids throughout the LotR movies, but you really don’t see them unless you know where to look. But this is just freaking Dave , plopping himself right in the middle of the movie, stupid cowboy hat and all.

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The franchise has lost practically all of its integrity and the magic that once made it special

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I feel like this is a very "rose-colored glasses" view of Star Wars' history.

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This movie was the final death throes of Kathleen Kennedy, that is a key point to remember

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Filoni and Favreau as well, and they're in charge now...

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This movie was a movie and not a Disney Plus season because it moved the cost to a different cost center while Nelson Peltz was attacking Disney.

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I did read an article somewhere saying they needed to get it off the streaming expenses

It certainly was a season condensed for a movie. That being said, it didn't try to do anything more than what it it is. It didn't try to move the universe along but may have set up a couple things for down the road. Much like Skeleton Crew, it was just something to sit back and have fun with. We don't need to go deep into the lore on this one