Does Disney not get this yet? Or so they simply not care?

People are TIRED of all these Star Wars spinoffs, it's overload and the viewers are voting with their feet:

As it stands, Skeleton Crew appears to be the least-watched Star Wars show ever, below even The Acolyte which set the record

We are in peak Star Wars and superhero-everything burnout. They've diluted and completely ruined Star Wars with all this nonsense. I remember being SO excited about a new SW movie coming and would eagerly go at midnight on opening night to see it.

Now it's like "oh look, yet another Star Wars show...yawn"

Agree PA, as I said in the other thread regarding Disney..I wouldn’t give them a drop of piss. I root for their failure now. More so on the SW front than Marvel as men in tights has been played out for years. Come up with some originality.

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Originally posted by Chowser:
It's done. Definitely geared towards kids.
Ending was meh.

Definitely a kid show. Which should be right up Disney’s alley. Their problem is they’ve turned parents off. I would have watched this show with my kids when they were little. When my kids were 8, 6, and 5, I took them to see The Force Awakens in the theater. That was the end of Star Wars for my kids because I never took them to another Star Wars movie.

It could have been different. We had the Star Wars Xbox 360, with the one Star Wars game that worked with the camera thing. We had the Lego Star Wars game on the computer, plus a ton of Star Wars Lego sets. We took them to Disney and I got great video of my then maybe 6 or 7 year old son doing a great one handed move with the light saber and whacking Darth Vader in the head. He was supposed to keep both hands on it.

I think Harry Potter will be their nostalgia movie series.

If it didn't have lightsabers and x-wings I could have watched the whole thing and not connected that it was a Star Wars show.

One of the things that made Star Wars great was that George Lucas went to great lengths to make it feel like a galaxy far far away. No zippers, no glasses, creatures that new and creative. When you see a planet that has suburban looking houses and pirates that are so close to a Johnny Depp movie, the magic is gone. I mean they had an owl alien and the characters refer to her as an "owl lady".

I think this show had potential and I stuck with it to the bitter end but it was such a disappointment. Not to mention the forced in lesbian moms and the beta males.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Does Disney not get this yet? Or so they simply not care?

We are in peak Star Wars and superhero-everything burnout. They've diluted and completely ruined Star Wars with all this nonsense. I remember being SO excited about a new SW movie coming and would eagerly go at midnight on opening night to see it.

I don't even think it's 'burnout.' Burnout implies we are tired of the genre or the 'brand' (Star Trek, MCU/superheros, Star Wars, etc). I am NOT burned out on these genres; but I AM sick of crap writing and crap woke storylines shoving virtue-signaling down our throats.

If they write good stories, I would GLADLY watch pretty much any new Star Trek show.

And superhero movies? They have ALL sucked (to me, at least) ever since Avengers Endgame. Granted, She-Hulk was ok, but NOTHING else was good. The Marvels was a total mess, which I only watched to see if it was really as bad as everybody said it was (it was). There have been several MCU shows/movies that I don't have the slightest idea what they are about, since they stopped writing good stories. For example, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had potential. Both lead characters were established, likeable, and had good charisma. But, they main villain of the show was made to be the US 'Fake Capt America' who *gasp* killed a terrorist. And, they made the MAIN TERRORIST, who got killed at the end, into some sad, sympathetic martyr (really, she lead a group that killed innocent people, blew up stuff, just so they could keep property that never really belonged to them in the first place).

Over and over and OVER again they produce DEI/Woke CRAP and then blame 'burnout' on their garbage products failing. I mean, if you cater to 1% of the population while demonizing the other 99%, you really shouldn't be surprised that people aren't enthusiastic about your product.

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Originally posted by Peanut71:

One of the things that made Star Wars great was that George Lucas went to great lengths to make it feel like a galaxy far far away. No zippers, no glasses, creatures that new and creative. When you see a planet that has suburban looking houses and pirates that are so close to a Johnny Depp movie, the magic is gone. I mean they had an owl alien and the characters refer to her as an "owl lady".

This is an excellent point. I just looked at the first 5 minutes to see what it was about, and they had two kids getting on a freaking school bus in the subburbs. It IMMEDIATELY turned me off. You are right - this was NOT 'a galaxy far away' - it was mainstreet USA. There was no magic there. There was no wonder.

I mean, the Book of Boba Fett (mostly) sucked, but at least they kept themselves in the original universe, almost as though the people who made it actually watched the movies and knew what the cinematic universe was about.

That, and the fact it was a kiddies' show, pretty much guaranteed I wouldn't watch it.

But it's not because of the 'burnout' bogey man. IF they write good stories and keep the woke crap out, I will gladly watch and enjoy a new show. To switch products, I'm still amazed at how good Star Trek Strange New Worlds is. It is a bit woke (but Trek always has been), but they write excellent stories with excellent characters and excellent character development. I am definitely looking forward to Season 3.

Fuck Disney.