Apparently, there is a
new rumor floating around the Internet, that that the Disney Star Wars Trilogy is going to be stripped of its canon status and relegated to an Elseworlds/Infinities-style AU.
Thoughts?
Not going to lie, I'd love for that to happen. But considering in the current socio-political environment and how Hollywood, Lucasfilm, and Disney all work, I really doubt it's going to happen. They'll hold on to their shitty Star Wars since "
It's all fake anyway" They don't give a shit about making it good or having it make sense, as evidenced by their less than stellar "attempts" at maintaining a coherent timeline, story, and worldbuilding. They only care about being seen as "right" and since Disney canon allows for them to
be "right" unlike Lucas-era canon, they won't backtrack because that'd be admitting that they were
wrong, that they
severely fucked up, and that their moralizing/speechifying/whatever about modern issues in a space opera movie that has absolutely nothing to do with any of it was unwise and unwelcome.
...the sequel trilogy grossed an estimated $4.5 billion , at a cost of $837 million. There is no universe in which Disney is not ecstatic about those numbers.
Net is what matters though? They lost money after having to pay for marketing (Both here and in China), the constant hires and fires, reshoots, the failed toy sales (Major, major fucking blow), paying back the theaters after forcing them to keep open for Star Wars for longer than necessary, etc...
Really, both Last Jedi and Force Awakens did incredibly well, and Rise did comparatively poorly mostly because it wasn't a very good film.
It's not like TLJ was any better a movie. TFA has many issues like resetting the universe and undoing a lot of the OG trio's accomplishments but it had potential (Also, friendly reminder that Luke was only established as a cranky, depressive hermit who gave up on life and preferred to drink alien titty milk in TLJ, not TFA, so TFA is not to blame for the Luuke we got) and was the most "Star Wars-y" of the three Disney era main movies (Which is not saying much, I know).
Rise had to retcon everything about TLJ because TLJ literally left the series with nowhere to go after "subverting expectations" (For example, remember that stupid twitter post "Your Snoke theory sucks"? Yeah, it sucks because RJ didn't bother to even answer the question of who Snoke was. RJ: *Jazz hands* "Subversion!: *Jazz hands*) by throwing out every lingering thread/"mystery box" from TFA. So Rise had to try to smoosh two movies worth into one since there wouldn't and couldn't be a fourth movie since each "act" of Star Wars was done in trilogies. Rise did poorly because of that. In addition, all the critics and fans that sucked RJ's dick about the "deep THEMES" and "new ways of thinking" (Lol, he stole/recreated as much shit from the originals as JJ) were butthurt about Rise retconning everything they sucked dick for.
Rise only sucks because RJ's ego got in the way of an actual story and his job of continuing the trilogy, instead dead-ending it in the middle of its act, so Rise had to try and do something,
anything at all to save a series beyond saving. Had we gotten a middle act that actually answered questions from the first while bringing up new ones and had an actual story and action besides a slow ass space chase that amounted to fuck all beyond the "Resistance" being brought down to just about nothing (I think there were 20-30 people on that ship before the end credits?), Rise or whatever the third movie could've become would've likely been so much better.
Remember this: without TLJ and its shitty "story", moralizing, etc... there would be no Rise. Rise only occurred because TLJ was a
shitshow in terms of storytelling and an utter masterclass in "What Not To Do." The world would be a much better place had TLJ never happened.
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