"There's one, set for stun!" comes to mind.
You know what boils my blood? That I know for a fact that Kawaii Leia will turn into Lady Lyanna Mormont by the end of the series because Disney will want to milk that horseshit character's insane popularity.
its even worse when you realize a good chunk of Lyanna's popularity was because of pedos. a femdom loli was quite the turnon for the vitos and daxters of the world. If they really want to chase commer bait, they literally have twileks right there
Might be off-topic but I've been wondering about this lately: how the hell does any of this work? These shows have to cost a minor fortune and they just piss it all away. I know the term 'Hollywood Accounting', but someone has to suck up all the losses down the line.
streaming works more like a gym membership rather than the per ticket style you're thinking of. the reason HBO max could spend $1 billion on movies that won't even be exclusively on their platform is that it will get people to subscribe. its why HBO or STARZ or Showtime might spend $100 million on a tv show adaption of a fantasy series hoping that people will continue subscribing once the season ends.
Disney can spend hundreds of millions on this because hopefully the data backs up the idea that people exclusively sign up to watch this brand of content and will unsubscribe if they don't put it up. its about both the cost of customer acquisition and the cost of retention. it doesn't matter if disney spends $200 million on MCU shows if the data shows that they only spend $1 per person to sign up for their service that costs $11 a month.
Even with this star wars dogshit, of course they could make a quality product but that would be unprofitable, the amount of fairweather fans or fans that deep down don't give a fuck is way more than people think. i know plenty of people who are at 100% completion on the EU back during the legends days that are still fans enough to pay for Disney+, the ability to judge quality and let it effect your purchases is something a much smaller percentage of people have than you think, especially if they are a fanatic about something. i know a jew that demands discounts and freebees from his kids daycare because it snowed on one of the days he was supposed to use their services and they shut down for the day. he also is the type of shithead that orders food at restaurants minutes before closing. He also has yet to complain about star wars downturn in quality, as far as he's concerned everything from empire to now has been top notch.
the other problem is that for companies, its much more profitable to keep the tards spending $11 a month rather than $11 every other year on movie tickets. especially because word of mouth affects films way more than tv shows. look at agents of shield or clone wars or community fans where they have viewing guides because even they admit at least 10% of the content they paid for either by watching commercials or subscribing somewhere, just isn't good. if 10% of a film was shit it would lead to bad word of mouth which would lead to a loss of money. but tv as a medium can convince people to stick with it even if it has a shitty backlog, just the concept of "bad seasons" should be insane, because if it was truely a bad season it would lead to a swift cancellation of the show because people would stop watching. its why we see a fuck load of tv shows and miniseries especially on streaming where its a lot of wheel spinning until the season ends. lots of scripts that were clearly meant to be movies and then stretched out in length to be 4+ hours. people on the whole are much more forgiving about tv shows quality tv vs movies. you think star wars tv shows are cheap look back on old syndicated tv shows, for fucks sake its the same handful of sets and props for years.
even cutting corners or bad writing is only apparent to us because we're intelligent or care. most people don't. its why DIY tv shows can outright lie and have people gloating about awful fashion choices and overly expensive tv stands that rise out of cabinets when you can just make that on your own for a fraction of the cost. the amount of people that truely understand and would enjoy a quality product is much less than you think. even if we bitch about this stuff, there are plenty of retards especially in diverse communities that don't even understand why these products suck.
star trek's tv shows are a great example, one would think CBS would just pander to the huge trekkie fanbase, and collect the money, but its much easier to give them the finger, eat the loss of the handful of fans that won't accept the visual assrape and pander to new fans who don't give a fuck about quality or canon. especially with streaming, actually pandering to fans is a worse scenario than you think. its most likely assumed and is proven right by a significant percentage of the fanbase that these companies can throw up whatever and they'll eat it up so they don't have to care, its the new fans they really need to care about and try to pander to, the veteran fans are an easy grab, its assumed they'll watch because they do. the companies give as little thought to them as people do about the color of their poop, only in the rarest of circumstances will it matter.
by every conventional wisdom what disney is doing is the right thing to do, much like stock buybacks were for the baby formula company that received aid to help them with shortages. it might not be right or fair or good for the layperson but its the best idea for the business and its investors.
