A general breakdown of why this is screwed audience-wise is as follows:
1. The core fanbase is
gone. This may only be a relatively small segment of the moviegoing public, but they're the assholes your franchise is built on. They're the ones who can build word of mouth, they're the ones that get others invested, go to repeat screenings, buy merch, and the ones that will travel to attend a Star Wars event. Those people now actively want the franchise to die, so those aspects of your audience are now gone.
2. China gives zero fucks. Not even seperating Star Wars from the license was enough to make it not shit in China's eyes. So the biggest audience, the one that generally allows trash like the Transformers movies to turn a profit, won't be there for this movie.
3. Average moviegoers have no idea what the fuck this thing is even about, and the trailers have given no indication of it. Enthusiasm is at an all-time low and every delay, every scrap of bad news, and every article pre-emptively dismissing criticism as sexism makes people care less.
4. Wokeshit has been doing worse and worse because people have essentially put together that the more Progressive pandering is in a movie, and the more the mainstream critics love it, the harder it's going to suck.
5. Kids don't care. Period.
The only audience they can count on is casuals and the dipshit how-dare-these-nerds-oppress-this-poor-multibillion-dollar-corporation crowd. One of whom provably won't care and one of which doesn't have the numbers.
I see this movie financially falling on its face at best, and tanking like the Jets at worst.
Even reading that excerpt was like nails on chalkboard. What's with the misuse of dashes and fragmented sentences? Why is the word choice so simplistic and something straight out of grade school? Wedge did not even sound like Wedge. (At least from Rogue Squadron et al).
How is this hack being paid to write such drivel?
Sci-Fi communities as a whole got ideologically captured by Progressives ages ago. Whether you're talking about fandom sites, the Hugo Awards, they're all infested with these assclowns. Once they had control of these communities, they decided they were going to use their authority to first keep out people who didn't agree with them politically, and later, to keep out people more talented than they are. The end result of this has been the writing community in Sci-Fi bleeding talent and not replacing it, ironically causing a race to the bottom, where the most likely candidates to win are the ones who charge the least and believe the right horse-shit.
Wendig does both. He's a constant progressive sperg, he never shuts the fuck up about Trump, he aggressively goes after anyone who dares point out who and what he is, and he works for the economic equivalent of roots and grass.
Chuck is the endgame of the paradigm progressives have established in Sci-Fi; a completely untalented hack who got where he is by kissing the right ass and hating the right people. The perfect blend of outright incompetence and giggling fucking contempt for his critics that comes from the fact that he performed absolutely zero work to get where he is and is using his position to try to hold back the talent of people thousands of times more qualified. The sort of person who will unironically insult Tolkien and claim his own verbal diarrhea is nothing short of the second coming of Christ in literary format.
