Disney's Star Wars Is Embarrassing

Star Wars. Got the lightsabers, the space wizards, pretty cool stuff. Honestly, I think most people kinda “get” Star Wars. Except for the people that own Star Wars, they have no idea what they’re doing. Over the past decade this brand, that was at one point pretty much the biggest “thing” on the planet, has now become an embarrassing disaster.

It takes a special level of incompetence to achieve this, and while I’m not the first to tackle this topic (and certainly won’t be the last), I feel like 2024 has been a uniquely awful year for Star Wars.

A big budget show, the acolyte got canceled before a second season amongst awful user reviews and low ratings.

Star Wars Outlaws was a flop, to a degree where it’s caused some investors to question whether the game’s publisher Ubisoft should even stay as a public company.

And I just kinda wanted to talk about all of this.

[MoffMuppet]

The worst part? As Andor shows, you don't even need to make a show feel particularly like Star Wars for people to see it. You don't need the Force. Or jedi. Or lightsabers. Or Tatooine. Or The Millenium Falcon. Or Han Solo. You can make a Star Wars show that lacks all of that, and people will still want to watch it. All you need is for it to be... good.

[vortigern]

Putting a chunk of The Mandalorian plot in the impressively terrible Boba Fett show was something it never bounced back from. I still don't understand why they did that.

[Marconius]

I'd argue they killed it by letting a trio of directors create a trilogy of movies without them apparently ever even talking to each other, much less figuring out a coherent plan for how their movies would fit together... So basically, The Last Jedi killed Star Wars, and Rise of Skywalker was the coffin it was buried in.

[justtheaverageone]

to quote some hack frauds: "how does it feel to see all your favorite franchises crash down and burn?"

[darken]

The problem with Solo wasn't lacking Ford. Fans simply wanted something authentic which Disney is incapable of doing. Getting an actor that looks like young Ford would have helped (there was one guy that people wanted) but the main issue is that it didn't feel like Star Wars. This is the problem with all of Disney's stuff. It simply doesn't feel like Star Wars.
It feels less like Star Wars than fan films. This goes deeper than a lack of soul.

[cosmosofinfinity]

The only thing Disney knows how to do is overexpose something until we get sick of it. They are like Sid in Toy Story breaking their toys

[CinnamonGrrlErin]

It's more than embarrassing, it's depressing that out of all the ways they could have gone, with all the resources and lore at their disposal, they just threw it out. At least it's easy to ignore Disney SW, I kept my books and comics.

[no]

Mfw the best piece of Star Wars media from Disney (Andor) has no mention of the Force in it,
Its almost as if the Jedi and Sith shouldn't be the main focus of everything.

[WBWhiting]

Star Wars died when they didn't give the entire franchise over to Genndy Tartakovsky.

[monarchblue]

Star Wars died when disney started viewing it as a means for furthering their profit margins and not as a story held dear to people since childhood. So basically, it died when they bought it.

[nagaserpentico]

The Last Jedi's reception was very split among fans, but somehow Disney managed to follow it up with a movie that *everyone* hated.

[Sound]

When did Star Wars die? When Disney decided to make the trilogy without a plan.

[Anon_Spartan]

I will never forgive Star Wars for taking an excellent non-Jedi story and ruining it with annoying Jedi. It was so nice to see an average guy (as average as you can be in such a dangerous universe).

[trygveplaustrum]

*Reject Disney canon.*
*Embrace the Star Wars Expanded Universe.*
So much more detail, so much more passion, so much more effort and talent.

[playlistenthusiast]

Apathetic is correct. I logged out of D+ last month and I wasn't even the one paying for it. It's not just Star Wars but Disney content in general.

[Mistashiba]

The core problem of Disneys star wars is that they are a risk averse company, and as such run and write their stories and brand that way. The best example is the Boba Fett show, where a gruff merc who has no allegiances to anyone gets retconned into a bumbling nice guy, destroying his character and broke the story before it had even started. Star Wars as a franchise was built off of risks, and now its safe, predictable and boring. It's everything it shouldn't be.

[MacUser-ilcx]

The one profitable thing that Disney did with Star Wars is Grogu AKA Baby Yoda. Since there's a Mandalorian movie coming up soon, that also means Grogu returns too and there will be tons and tons of ads, food products, clothes, toys, and other merchandise. You thought there was a lot of Baby Yoda stuff before? Buddy you ain't seen nothing yet!

[RampagingChipmunk]

Don’t think so much, Husk. Just consume the ever flowing stream of content and acquire endless piles of plushies and LEGOs and ignore the entire concept of quality.

[trygveplaustrum]

*The Last Jedi should have made more than The Force Awakens.*
*The Han Solo movie should have broken even.*
*The Rise of Skywalker should have made two billion dollars.*
*The Boba Fett show should have been a major success.*
*Yet here we are.*

[zocanrinie]

Honestly, it's offensive how they took audiences for granted thinking anything with the star wars name would sell. Not saying general audiences are smart, but they shouldn't be understimated either.