- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
Trust, once lost, is not easily regained. This is why even releases in franchises that aren't as bad as what came before them (like Skeleton Crew for Star Wars) aren't doing so well, because these idiotic studios already beat the golden goose to death in front of the fans. It doesn't really matter if something turns out to be alright or even good, most former fans simply don't trust the studios to make something worth watching and aren't willing to give them the benefit of the doubt anymore. It would take years of actually producing things that were of good quality to undo the damage of torching the franchise entirely, and even then there would still be that nagging doubt in the back of your mind that it could all go south again, because we've already seen it happen.Honestly I just think a lot of the old fans just decided to be done for one reason or another. I checked out of Marvel after Endgame, and I hated the second new Star Wars movie so I shrugged and was done there too. I'm not the only one. There's an ocean of nerd crap I can retreat too when things get too normified. When the normies get bored and walk away the bloated corpses of the old franchises will finally be taken off life support and they'll find a new hobby to shit up. Tale as old as time.
I also got off the Marvel boat post-Endgame, and I wouldn't even have seen anything after TLJ if not for my dad refusing to totally let go of Star Wars (although he doesn't give a shit about the TV shows and doesn't seem to have much interest in any modern Disney Wars bullshit at all anymore). Despite being just a casual fan of the MCU, only watching it for something to do with my friend, I could tell that Marvel was going to get worse, and Star Wars burned me too many times. While I don't care what happens to capeshit, I do not trust Disney to create anything good from Star Wars again, not without completely cleaning house and starting fresh, which they won't do. As long as Kathleen Kennedy has her claws in the franchise, they will continue producing soulless dreck that shits all over George's legacy. And even if they did manage to course correct and make Star Wars worth watching again, it would take many years before I was finally willing to trust them with something sight unseen.