Timothy Birdnow

Here is a good analysis of how Kathleen Kennedy destroyed the Star Wars franchise with her woke feminism, and how she blames the fans for not liking her Karenesque lecturing.

She bemoans the fact that true fans of the Star Wars saga didn't care for much of what she injected into the film and can't understand that "doing something new" as she put it was in fact taking something out - the heart and soul of what made Star Wars such a huge success in the first place.

The appeal of Star Wars was it's return to the roots of American filmmaking. There was a clear demarcation between good and evil. The hero was self-sacrificing and chaste and true. What was right and good was Luke Skywalker's goal. And there was repentence - from Han Solo, from even Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker. Men are men and women are glad of it in the originals. The original franchise celebrated the old virtues.

And this was blended with cutting edge technology, making special effects that were amazing at the time.

There was no sex, no drugs, no sleazy underbelly in the film, no trannies or sexual perverts (except insofar as the bad guys sometimes were seen as such - Jabba the Hut was a human slaver who kept women as sex slaves and killed them as he tired of them, but of course he was a giant slug.)

There was heroism and not all the explosions and other gimmicks used by modern filmmakers to cover up their inability to tell a good story.

Kennedy wanted to overturn this, to "modernize" the franchise. The result was that people lost interest. She tore the soul out of the very thing she claimed to love.

Anyway, read the article; it makes great points.

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