On May the 4th, which is “May the Fourth Be With You Day,” a celebration embraced by Star Wars fans all over the world, those same Star Wars fans wanted nothing to do with Kathleen Kennedy’s lame-ass, feminized, queered-up, and just plain awful Star Wars sequels.
If you’re a bigtime Star Wars fan, you have no real choice but to subscribe to Disney+ because the Disney Grooming Syndicate has owned all things Star Wars since its $4.05 billion purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012. And yet, not even Disney+ subscribers are interested in those sequels.
See for yourself. This chart is directly from Nielsen. Please note these numbers, while just released, are from last year:
Disney has spent the better part of a decade attacking critics of its mishandling of Star Wars as right-wing bigots, homophobes, transphobes, racists… You name it. The message is always the same: the movies aren’t the problem, the toxic customers and fans are…
What will the groomers say now that their very own subscribers are ignoring this crap?
Andor is number one on the chart, but with caveats. As I mentioned above, these numbers are from last year and just two weeks after the release of Andor’s second season. Further, when you’re ranking success using the number of minutes streamed, it makes sense that 18 hours of content would top two hours of content in the form of number two, which is the very first Star Wars movie, which is currently 49 years old.
Yes, a 49-year-old Star Wars movie beat all of the new crap.
Good heavens, look at that chart. The 27-year-old Phantom Menace came in third. In fact, all six movies created by George Lucas, the newest of which (Revenge of the Sith) is 21-years-old, filled slots two through seven.
Then comes Rogue One, the only Disney Star Wars movie to chart, which also happens to be the only Disney Star Wars movie embraced by the fans, which proves the fans are not toxic sexists and racists, as Rogue One is led by a girl and a gang of non-white heroes.
The final two spots are held by an animated Disney streaming series with six episodes, and that old Clone Wars animated series, which has 133 episodes.
No The Force Awakens.
No The Last Jedi.
No The Return of Skywalker.
No Rey.
What a massive failure.
Now that Kathleen Kennedy is finally out as the president of Lucasfilm, and with the first Star Wars movie in seven years (The Mandalorian and Grogu) looking at a record-low opening weekend for a post-2001 Star Wars movie, rumors abound that Disney is considering what’s known as a retcon that will kick the Kennedy sequels to the curb of another timeline. In other words, the entire New Order/Rey trilogy will be banished into its own isolated storyline so the upcoming streaming and theatrical content can stay focused on the characters, themes, and ideas so beloved in the original trilogy.
According to this report, the Kennedy sequels are already being erased at the Disney theme parks, where the focus on the newer characters no one likes resulted in low attendance:
The evidence that Disney has made a 180 for the franchise internally is everywhere. The “May the Fourth” merchandise? All original trilogy stuff. The Fortnite Star Wars special event? Mostly original trilogy with some Dave Filoni cartoon skins thrown in (and no, nobody is buying a Captain Phasma costume). Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland? The timeline was just shifted, and now the “Sequel Trilogy” basically exists as a single ride while the Original Trilogy characters are everywhere. George Lucas’ Luke, Leia, and Han roam the land. John Williams music finally blasts over speakers. And the chances this comes to Florida’s Disney World version very soon is about as close to 100 percent as you can get.
Keep in mind that Star Wars internet rumors are just that. The idea that a leftist outlet like Disney would disappear a trilogy of sequels sounds too good to be true. Plus, what can anyone do with the original characters? Harrison Ford is in his eighties, Mark Hamill is in his mid-seventies, the great Billy Dee Williams turns 90 next year, and Carrie Fisher is dead.
What is true, though, is that the outright rejection of the Kennedy sequels is very real and even more satisfying.