George Lucas Calls Out Disney For Ruining Star Wars | They "Lost" His Ideas

A clip examining George Lucas's comments about Disney losing his ideas for Star Wars and Kathleen Kennedy's apparent contempt for his mythos.
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[@Cornerboy73]

They didn't lose his ideas, they didn't want them. Disney/Lucasfilm have their own agenda to push and Star Wars is just one of many vehicles they are using to do just that.

[@dhones23]

100% accurate.

[@TKGentryArt]

Yep. They ditched his ideas on purpose. They thought they could do whatever they want because they that it was a money machine. It was….. then. Not so much now.

[@terryrocks2j]

George speaks out and you still get those that will defend Disney Wars and call you an incel, women hater, or racist. Its sad we got some lost people in this world.

[@SodaiGoku]

It's really sad what's happened to Star Wars. It used to be an incredible adventure. Now, it feels like some sort of poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted, flashed-up B-grade show

[@chichiboypumpi]

"That's the plan George" kathleen cackled "You told me I'm so dumb to not even get your coffee right, so I ruin your legacy!" insert maniacal laughter.

[@icykid]

Could be as simple as that

[@privatecaboose250]

Well he sold it to Disney, so he can complain all he wants, Lucas gave up control.

[@Banzai51]

@@icykid It absolutely is. It is a personal, spiteful, FU to Lucas.

[@celeswylder748]

@@Banzai51 That someone has so much control they can continue to torture a beloved franchise and keep people on board with that idea is amazing.

[@Chilling_Chilling]

KUNTleen Kennedy, LesDHAYKE HeadLAMP, and Nepobaby Mulattaberg: the new darkside trifecta 😅

[@charliebigbear1630]

Hell yeah, Princess Leia is one of my favorite characters, so when they said that there weren't enough women in Star Wars, I was absolutely appalled, and clearly, she has another agenda.

[@martinjrgensen8234]

Star Wars has had fantastic representation when it comes to women. Leia was decades ahead of its time

[@privatecaboose250]

​@@martinjrgensen8234what 1 woman and how many men? is enough for you?

[@zerolegacy7821]

​​​@@privatecaboose250One woman IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING! How many were needed? I'd argue that Star Wars shows ONE WOMAN bringing together a rebellion that NO MAN was able to put together. And what about Mon Mothra, Padme Amidala, Ashoka Tano. Every time a women stepped into the pre-KK Star Wars, the OWNED IT. AND did it without having to belittle, ridicule or diminish any of the men in the stories. All of KKs stories just destroy men and make it like the only intelligent people in the universe are women and that's NOT STAR WARS.

[@Icemario87]

​@@privatecaboose250what men? you mean cannon fodder? or canon fodder?? dead men are the norm. stormtroopers are all men.

[@sphere117gaming]

@@zerolegacy7821pretty much, all these wackos don’t realize it’s not about quantity it’s quality. Things aren’t meant to be equal. Life ain’t and now you want all movies and games to be equal in all senses? Like lmao none of them can think logically.

[@name-vi6fs]

People also forget about Mon Mothma. She is the literal leader of the rebellion.

[@robguitarwizard]

That's right - and they didn't even feature her in the Sequels. They should have made it about the New Republic and New Jedi Order (like the early 90s novels).

[@aaronmoore536]

@@robguitarwizard They should have made HIER TO THE EMPIRE.

[@behavior852]

Star Wars had become a victim of our times.

[@yonghominale8884]

Star Wars is a victim of George Lucas ego. No one forced him to sell to Disney.

[@ArthurX-eg8bc]

The studio got into fan-feedback over just making their movies, so ....maybe?

[@m1a1hm]

I agree!! As someone who was there in 1977 and saw Star Wars when it first came out it's sad to see what it has become.

[@TheToekutter]

I absolutely despise what entertainment has become: tv, film, games, music. It's just so sh!t, nearly across the board.

[@kapitankapital6580]

Maybe the problem is you?

[@SigfridSWE]

​@@kapitankapital6580 😂 its you thats the problem. Another troll.

[@mattburke5491]

@@SigfridSWEoh look another “inclusive” liberal trying to exclude another person.

[@kapitankapital6580]

@@SigfridSWE always easier to blame someone else, but at the end of the day you're the one whose unhappy

[@johnord684]

@@kapitankapital6580 You're to blame and your sad generation

[@Ivan-xk4uy]

Male dominated since when??? I’m black and a male, I first watched Star Wars because my MOM was a fan of the franchise….stop lying PLEASE 🙏🏾

[@truthisparamount8992]

Male dominated doesn't mean exclusively males watched it. The vast majority of the fans were male. There are obviously also some females who like it. Nobody is "lying".

[@Ivan-xk4uy]

@@truthisparamount8992 yes they are because they act like at least half of the fanbase is female, that’s lying

[@SombreroBeanieHat]

Star Wars 1-6 will never die as a legacy. but the franchise itself is surely dead.

[@howardwarren7683]

I've said this before and I'll keep saying it, nothing that Disney has produced should be considered as canon. The dreaded Star Wars Holiday Special has more cred than what they have produced!

[@Ivan-xk4uy]

Never sell your heart and soul to a corporation, they will ruin your legacy.

[@ashaide]

Funny he said that when his support was what probably clinched the boardroom battle for Iger. At a time people were calling for Iger's head given all that's happened to Disney's moneymakers - including Star Wars and Bob's seeming unconditional support for how KK's running the show at Lucasfilm - George came out and said Bob's the best guy to run Disney. I get it he owes Iger. I get it he's looking after his shareholder value and BlackRock backing Bob gives it the best bang-for-buck over profits fans give the various IPs, somehow. But George DID support the man who, in a large measure, is responsible for the continuing deterioration of Star Wars. Imagine if someone else headed the mother company that's Disney and told KK she's out as head of Lucasfilm, and put someone who genuinely loves the IP and the fans in charge?

[@didamnesia3575]

Kathleen kennedy cant change the original stories, especially if i NEVER see her new garbage. Andor i liked, and some of the mandalorian. I guarantee she didnt want luke in that scene

[@mazkeraid4039]

Kennedyfilm's Andor are sadly one of them, while it isn't as offensive, it doesn't change how tokenized Andor can be.

[@borgthepig]

Yeah Andor was incredible, but I feel that that’s almost certainly because Disney executives had little to do with it

[@dereksilva7876]

Jazz music makes a lot of sense if you understand music

[@alastoralex4828]

you guys should watch "How "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" was saved in the edit (sort of, but not really)" that clerify the influence of Marcia Lucas in star wars

[@didamnesia3575]

All of the hate generated is because Kathleen Kennedy chooses to speak, and millions of souls cried out that they wont be silent. Kathleen kennedy is a producer, NOT a creative story teller. Lucas with an editor is golden. Kennedy with anyone is poison. Jazz makes sense if you're a musician. Some musicians are BSing you about how good they are.

[@blindtreeman8052]

George without an editor made the sand dialogue. Clearly he's a genius even on his own. But jokes aside, some of the prequels' dialogue is clunky, but they've at least got soul and the right amount of comedy(intentional or not)

[@didamnesia3575]

@blindtreeman8052 the dialogue is cheesy, the acting stiff due to no physical environment. But... the plot, theme, story arc, lore, history, etc... all of it is perfect. New sequels: horrible story and plot with great visuals... prequels: amazing story and over use of early cgi. I'd rather put the prequels on and watch those. I grew up in the 80s and prefer the OG trilogy, the new jj abrams/kennedy/Johnson trilogy is awful. Rian has done good work, but he tore the rear end open of Star Wars, and that is exactly what Kathleen kennedy wanted. He did what she wanted. I don't even blame Rian at this point, and I enjoy his other work (great themes and acting in his other work)... but they purposely pooped on star wars because Luke has a 🍆

[@celeswylder748]

Producers and Publishers are like crossroads demons in disguise.

[@Jared_Wignall]

George is someone with a vision to tell a story that hopefully people will like. Those at Disney and Lucasfilm aren’t interested in telling stories that people will hopefully like, but shoving agendas that people are tired of having put in their faces. Also, Marcia Lucas herself said if you like the original Star Wars, it’s all thanks to George because he approved of all the cuts and he even edited the film himself before he had to reshoot some things and even Marcia wasn’t around to edit the full film since she did New York New York for Martin Scorsese before editing Star Wars was done and you have Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch editing the film also. So 4 people edited the film, but George decided to not give himself credit probably since he didn’t think people wanted to see his name everywhere in the credits.

[@Banzai51]

You're exactly the fan Kathleen Kennedy counts on. KK doesn't care about pushing the agenda, she uses diversity as a shield against criticism. Her goal is to tank Star Wars as an FU to Lucas. She wants maximum disgust in Lucas. KK knows fans like you will take the bait and attack the trap. Then she is protected by the whole thing. "Oh no Disney power structure, you can't fire me because our fans are racist, misogynistic, and homophobic!!!" It buys her time. Time YOU provide.

[@privatecaboose250]

Yet he sold it to Disney in 2012 losing all control of it. Even Lucas retconns Star Wars for his own agenda.

[@FailedTheTuringTest]

OMG! George Lucas doesn't like Disney Star Wars? He's racist!!!

[@BlueCore2010]

Then you are WOKE if you’re calling him Racist. Also not just being WOKE but you are drinking the Virgin Juices of the Space Lesbian Witches Cult. The Power of One (Virgin), The Power of Two (Virgins), The Power of MMMMMMMMAAAAAAAANNNNNNNYYYYY(Virgins) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PinkstonFilms]

And a bigot too, can’t forget that either… 😎😎

[@FailedTheTuringTest]

@@PinkstonFilms Yaaaaaaaaaaaaas

[@esbam2002]

WTF did George think Disney would do? I knew as soon as the deal with signed Disney was just going to run that franchise into the ground for profit.

[@mightydigebuge]

They were probably the only one who could give him that much money for it, and I don't blame him.

[@Vespyr_]

He should have kept Star Wars and just lead in a ceo like position and just hired directors and producers to make his visions without having to do everything. He would have made so much more money than Disney could have possibly offered. To be honest he shortchanged himself as a creative and now he and his estate will never have his life's work ever again and it's such a shame.

[@ordetschmordet9227]

2:02 Kathleen Kennedy's grudge against Lucas can be explained as follows: Steven Spielberg respects George Lucas as a filmmaker and Steven Spielberg respects Kathleen Kennedy as coffeemaker.

[@rizon72]

The problem is with modern writing. They learn to push ideologies over storylines and character development and the more boxes you check the better the movie/TV show is in their minds.

[@adehughes3260]

I don't count anything Disney does with Star Wars as Canon

[@cognophile]

They seem to be working in a bubble, and have established a pattern of insulting their audience.

[@reglerdude]

I respect canon. But I don’t actually care about it either, if that makes sense. I want good, compelling story telling. Canon, or a “what if” concept - if the story/characters are compelling that’s what matters the most. I also don’t believe anything happening right now can be tied to Filoni. The guy who did clone wars and rebels obviously understands story telling and character development. He didn’t suddenly forget those things moving into live action. More to the story, I suspect!

[@mr.timebombman2230]

Disney just buys up these companies and these popular franchises, and just put their same narratives into every project. Heaven forbid they just come up with a whole new name and project instead of the shit they're doing with these films. They're spiteful and resort to name calling fans if they don't like it. Grow tf up.

[@LezArtist5iG]

They didn't lose the vision of Lucas, they appropriated it.

[@duncanmcneill7088]

Didn't George SELL it to them?

[@GreatGreebo]

I am subbed to both your channels but have NO idea how I’ve missed so many uploads on this one for so long. Personally, I no longer have hope for any decent, modern re-telling of stories from our various beloved Fandoms. When they came for Tolkien that was the LAST straw for me and I tapped out. I’m enjoying Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE movies but they can’t possibly fill the hole in my heart over what Hollywood has done to ruin so many previously magnificent Fantasy & Sci-Fi universes/legendariums/canons. Call me melodramatic but I feel sad for kids today who have to sift through so much badly written, non-canon garbage. Thank you *NERD COOKIES*

[@Raycheetah]

I would love for someone who gives a womp-rat's ass about Star Wars to get control of the IP. However, let us not forget where Lucas said he was going with the story next. Remember the Force, that mysterious energy field “[C]reated by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together?” Lucas said he was gonna to elaborate on midi-chlorians and the "whills" in subsequent stories, demystifying the Force in favor of his pet biological analogy: "The only microscopic entities that can go into the human cells are the midi-chlorians. They are born in cells. The midi-chlorians provide the energy for human cells to split and create life. The Whills are single-celled animals that feed on the Force. The more the Force there is, the better they are." Sometimes you have to wonder if things ended just when they needed to, and any further steps Lucas might have taken could just have muddled things up. ='[.]'= *The subtitle of the original novelization of Star Wars: "The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, as Recorded in the Journals of the Whills." Single-celled animals don't keep diaries. ='[.]'=

[@PuissantPeacock]

It's like finding a big turd and exclaiming, "Oh look, there's a nutritious kernal of corn!" You nailed the issues perfectly. It is malicious and she obviously had a chip on her shoulder taking over Lucas' franchise. The reason I think she did it is because she got tired of producing Star Wars in Lucas' shadow. Unwarranted ambition and pursuit of undeserved notoriety was her downfall.

[@RealRabbit1124]

It was malicious from the beginning and they know it.

[@b_g_c3281]

Kathleen Kennedy is the kind of person [[ Malignant Narcissist... probably with more than a little bit of Sociopathy ]] one _should_ immediately recognize and steer clear of... Unfortunately, it seems that George was an astoundingly poor judge of character.... Edit: Addendum: I'd also suggest that Spielberg wasn't astute enough as well... For if he were, he might've had the perspicacity to have sent KK packing(( back to Massachusetts, or wherever the hell she hailed from )) _DECADES ago..._

[@Bastion83]

Her actions make it very clear that Kennedy has had it out for Lucas and Spielberg for a very long time. She creates nothing of substance, she can only twist and ruin. George is a marvelous world builder, but I don't think he ever really understood people.

[@TrU-STaR--31]

George was not allowed on the Acolyte set. Now we all know why.

[@ralphieboy9596]

George Lucas said it himself! And as the story goes, when you sell your company, things are never the same! So, George Lucas and disney are both to blame here.

[@zillagrilla315]

I actually don't blame George Lucas because the Clone Wars, Rebels, and the Bad Batch were all great shows that captured the meaning of Star Wars. Disney was the one that tried this whole Woke/Political angle in their movies.

[@ralphieboy9596]

@@zillagrilla315 Yes, I agree be woke has gone a little to far as a whole!

[@Concerned502]

LOL, Mr Lucas voted FOR the current Disney board, and encouraged others to do the same, according to press releases, in the proxy war, yes? The board who seems ok with the direction Lucasfilm has set out in , within the company.

[@ralphieboy9596]

@@Concerned502 ok

[@borgthepig]

I don’t blame Lucas. He was getting up there in his years and deserved time with his family.

[@VolkovVelikan]

Rumor says that Kathleen Kennedy used to be basically the coffee girl type assistant to George and Spielberg back in the day. So this whole thing of “women not being recognised” or “push aside” in StarWars seems more like a projection from her part.

[@marsoelflaco5722]

She must have done a whole lot more to become Spielberg's prime "producer" and for Lucas to nominate her to take charge of Lucasfilm.😉

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

George Lucas' worst mistake.

[@Raycheetah]

Let's be fair, here. We ALL thought Disney would be a good steward of Lucas' legacy. We were ALL wrong. =-[.]-=

[@Bloink]

​@@RaycheetahThat is absolute nonsense! There was a heap of us that got disgusted that Disney was going to be the ones to do it. I had little hope at all.

[@Raycheetah]

@@Bloink Fair enough, though I don't recall hearing anybody speak up at the time. ='[.]'=

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

@@Raycheetah I had doubts, but I didn't think it would be this bad.

[@SCOTTEDM]

Why would Disney change everything that made the franchise so insanely successful causing them to want to buy it for 4.05 billion? Now they are pissed their ideas and changes are being mass rejected!? Lunacy 😑 The foundation was set with PLENTY of material left to generate boatloads of cash. The Old Republic alone is a gold mine of material for animated and live action.

[@robguitarwizard]

Women having a hard time in star wars these days - all because Disney either mis-casts them; writes crap dialogue; or if they are popular kills them off or fires them! Rey is a good character with a promising young actor in a stupid recycled story with bad dialogue - and it goes on from there. I thought young Leia was very good. DISNEY is just crap! The top should all be fired and Star Wars should be sild to someone who cares and understands the story!

[@kosmikaonebladeshy]

Yeah, well, you sold your ip. That's what happens. You lose control over it and whatever vision or ideas you had for it can be easily shrugged off.

[@ericb9931]

I'm glad that you and so many other women have been speaking out against Disney Star Wars producing subpar product.

[@MrGadfly772]

Dave Filoni is highly overrated, and always has been. He has risen on the coattails of Lucas and Favreau. When left to his own writing it's juvenile and inconsistent. His background is cartoons and it shows.

[@thedawninglight41]

I have been thinking this as well. They don't seem to truely get the main archetypal ideas.

[@jaegerbomb269]

George Lucas had an opportunity to boot Iger out of Disney, but instead he kissed his boots after Iger snubbed him, ruined his franchise, and lied to his face. Too little too late George.

[@privatecaboose250]

What do you mean Lucas had a opportunity to boot him out of Disney? He couldn't cause he isn't in charge of Disney and he is no longer in charge of the Star Wars franchise since he sold it to Disney.

[@Spongemonkey26]

Much easier to push the narrative with an established audience, than to create something original knowing there is no interest in it.

[@FlickCheney2147]

GEORGE LUCAS DOESNT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT STAR WARS OR HE WOULD OF SAID SOMETHING AT SHAREHOLDERS MEETING GIVE IT UP STAR WARS IS DEAD

[@salsal435]

If George Lucas moved on, you should too. There's no more to say!

[@fabricebronori]

Ou comment bousiller un investissement de quatre milliards 🤣🤣🤣

[@donlengel4770]

Should have never sold it. No creative control.

[@ericp1139]

I used to be Team Filoni, but I’ve come to realize he’s just running off George Lucas fumes and lifting EU material.

[@vaina2]

filoni is great at putting me to sleep. i dont remember the second half of ahsoka because i fell asleep.

[@jimbojones247]

you got a nice voice, and great opinions

[@aidanschauer1581]

You have such a good perspective here. Got a sub, just cause I didn’t know about the daily

[@aaronsmithjr.5505]

With a deep and eccentric heart I shall weave a constellation of poetry and crystallize a hard magic system of insolitus fingerprint… Never share your deep ideas to strangers or Hollywood.

[@stormtreeproductions6477]

I think it’s less that the current people working on Star Wars don’t understand it. It’s more that they think it’s simplistic and needs to be complicated by different interpretations. I think KK has less of maliciousness and more an agenda and feeling that she was in the passenger seat and now gets to drive and wants to do it her way.

[@ZUGTFO]

OK just found your second channel! WOOT! Great work again :D AND Subbed!

[@nerdcookiesrants]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@marsoelflaco5722]

Didn't Lucas nominate Kennedy? Her total ineptitude makes me question that decision. It makes me question what she actually did as "producer" for Spielberg? It makes me question why/how is she still employed after flushing a $4 billion franchise down the toilet?

[@scooble]

In Andor, Bix, Dedra, Marva, Mon Mothma, Vel, Sinta.....all fantastic well rounded decisive characters. Even Cyril's mum was terrifying!

[@Chilling_Chilling]

KUNTleen Kennedy, LesDHAYKE HeadLAMP, and Nepobaby Mulattaberg: the new darkside trifecta 😅

[@jamesgreear4247]

I don’t know what the hell is going on with you and the people that disagree with you. Both of you argue about what Star Wars should be and how the Jedi should act and how Luke should act none of that matters as long as it’s well written. or is amazing because it’s well written rogue one is amazing because it’s real well written Jedi fallen order and Jedi Survivor are amazing because they’re pretty Godding well written nothing else they can. They change the rules. Everything‘s fine acolyte would have been fine. the story is OK. Jedi acting bad is fine. There’s nothing wrong with thatbadly, it was written that it

[@pitchpanic2900]

I don’t think they lost them. I think they tossed them in the trash. A part of me can’t help wondering, though, if George knew what he was doing and, to some extent, what Disney would do. Remember, he hand picked Kathleen Kennedy. I wonder if this was a metaphorical middle finger to all those fans who absolutely and vocally hated everything about the prequels. He’s said on more than one occasion that nobody knew how to make Star Wars but him. I personally think that is arrogant of him and I disagree. However, he did make billions selling it to Disney, who he may have figured would make utter garbage with the IP. Probably had no idea just how bad, though. He may have been thinking to himself, “Once these fans see what this corporation and Kathleen Kennedy make of Star Wars they’ll long for the prequel days.” And if any of this is true, would he have been wrong?

[@angelainamarie9656]

George could have just listened to his audience (a bit) and maybe allowed a level-headed critic in the writing room with him. He's acted like a child about this thing for a long time. His RELENTLESS re-editing of every movie in the series has destroyed his legacy. He is the author of his own misery.

[@AJDraws]

Imagine something you worked on your whole professional life and some corporation coming along and ruining it. His criticisms are so incredibly apt.

[@alexhenderson1312]

Just as Ron Moore and Syfy deliberately 'lost' and bastardized Glen A Larson's Original Galactica lore and concepts in 2002, and soon afterwards in 2005 RTD (then followed on by Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall) 'losing' and bastardizing of Doctor Who! 😕🤔😤👎👎

[@davidmiddleton7958]

Now, George Lucas had some pretty definitive ideas about Star Wars. Now, the Star Wars books did diverge from George Lucas' vision. But, they were books, not films. I remember a You Tube clip of an assistant mistakenly mention Mara Jade was his creation. The assistant wasn't an assistant very long after that. Now, that is not to say material from the book EU wouldn't have been used. But, the original films were there to guide. The Star Wars books from the EU would easily provided material for films and series to be made! But no, a POLITICALLY WOKE AGENDA OF INDOCTRINATION forced on young children! Disney is not responsible for how children are brought up. Parents of these children are in charge, responsible for the upbringing of those children! Dismal Disney & Lucas Fluffs up can go and flush their WOKE down the toilet!

[@ZUGTFO]

WOMEN IN STAR WARS. The very first film was SAVED by the MASTERFUL EDITING of Marshal Lucas. If it was NOT for HER, STAR WARS would have died day one. . ;)

[@Martyr217]

😂😂😂😂 I'm glad I stopped following Star Wars when DISNEY bought it. Suck it Jacob. 😝

[@danzielinski5036]

I hate this. The conclusion of the SKYWALKER story ended with a FEMINIST movement. Makes me sick.

[@Kaoshunter13-o1w]

Princess Leia for the role of CEO of Disney! Replace Bob Iger and vote for Queen Leia! R.I.P Carrie Fisher. I wish I met you. So I can shake your hand and request an autograph. You are missed. ❤

[@MeltonECartes]

Only an idiot would think Jazz doesn't make sense. It's a truism that some musicians can play jazz, but jazz musicians can play all music... Filoni just embarrassed himself by making that analogy. What he meant to say is that "Star Was canon is whatever I say it is...because no one else in Hollywood wants to admit to caring so much as to risk being called a nerd..." even though it makes BILLIONS of dollars. So gross.

[@ReactionBoost-BreakingIddy]

Unfortunately Star Wars these days isn’t the Star Wars we grew up loving as a kid, the George Lucas Star Wars is dead.

[@SciHeartJourney]

I hope some fans create an ALL MALE parody of A New Hope. "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope", played by a DUDE dressed like Princess Leia. 🤣

[@HanSime]

I recognize what is happening at Disney as something typical for inexperienced writers with a massive Dunning-Kruger issue. They are absolutely convinced they are superior artists, hence critique is waved away as some sort of malicious agenda. It is so easy to try to hide your failings to yourself by scapegoating and use superficial deflections than face the critique. I’m personally more tied to another fanbase (TransFormers) and more a fan of the cartoon (more science sci-fi) than comics (the biggest comic writer for Marvel TF, Simon Furman, draws way too much inspiration from religious texts like the catholic apocalypse themes imo). But at least he knows how to write characters consistently. RiBFiR etc. So anyway, I used to run fanforums as a moderator and we had fanart and fanfic sections, some of which was “world building” stories, where people could write fics that tied into one another (with permission). Given my preference for the cartoon, I preferred reading TransFormers fanfics claiming to use cartoon canon. Regardless of male or female writers, where underused and more likely own characters were fleshed out more, but where established and popular characters like Optimus Prime, Shockwave and Megatron have pre-set characters and motives. There would be interaction with these characters, but they would adhere to their behaviour from specific canon media. However, some of these fanfic writers had similar issues to the current Disney writers (both for fanboys and “fangrrls” alike. Typically fangrrls had more romance centered stories and boys a high Rambo level). So often own characters that were male or female Mary Sue types that could beat Megatron without breaking a sweat, or worse “transforming bad guys like Starscream to good guys by the power of love”. And actively do romances in general despite them being robots (gender is questionable). But that could get very bad: let’s not get into specifics, but some people rewrote characters (sometimes without warning involving their NSFW phantasies about their or established characters… Aside from it being a children’s franchise and unsolicited, it was always written with a complete disregard for canon and when critiqued for not following canon, forum posting rules on NSFW content or simply bad or lazy writing as these forums were meant for constructive critique, these (often teen fan writers), would get extremely defensive and quickly throw petty insults and general prejudice at anyone critiquing them, claiming all constructive critique was just bashing or personal. They only wanted to hear praise and likeminded sounds simply due to being immature and inexperienced writers. The Acolyte seems like that exaggerated romance kind of “fangrrl” fic that aims to rewrite main characters to their own pet peeve phantasies with utter disregard for established canon, timelines and lore and immaturely can’t handle any critique, because they’ve always written their stuff in their own save space and never learned to appreciate critique or write for a wider audience than themselves.

[@deckard5pegasus673]

George Lucas was ostracized from hollywood since the 1970's, and wasn't even allowed to direct his own films, most likely because he isn't jewish. It's the only explication that makes sense. That is why George went off by himself and created his own visual effects studio, his own video game studio, and financed his own films far away from hollywood.

[@snorrimcguffin2282]

Not trying to defend anything that Disney did with the franchise (I mean Rogue One, Andor and some Mandalorian Episodes were great, the rest was mediocre or even substandard) and I definitely dislike their way of communicating with the fanbase, but GL lost his own ideas of the franchise when he did that godawful prequel trilogy. I can not understand why people would think those movies are suddently good and GL is a saint, because Disney made bad decisions. GL has gotten lazy. That's why he sold Star Wars. Now he regrets it. End of story.

[@3mpt7]

Religion, charity, and The Force is hard for rich corporations to understand--other than the fact that poor people seem to love it, and are willing to pay for it. No, I can confidently say that the Force is not female. King Solomon was surrounded by 1000 women. Work it out.

[@nhlcbj]

Someone, I won’t say who, just put out a remastered version of the original, pre updated, trilogy online. Watching them again made me feel like a kid again. I loved Andor and Rogue One (despite some flaws with the latter) and everything else Disney has done with this IP feels unrecognizable at best and spitefully sabotaged at worst

[@hamiltoncox7651]

This is a personal vendetta by Kennedy. The psychology is fascinating and warrants its own video. Kennedy was always subservient to Lucas, Spielberg and her own meal ticket Frank Marshall. She resented the "boys club" and has such an inflated sense of herself that she thought her contributions were denigrated because she was a woman, not because she lacked any creative talent. When Lucas gave her the keys to Lucasfilm expecting her to continue to do his bidding, she saw her chance and plunged the knife in his back. She is intentionally destroying Lucas's legacy and Spielberg's most popular accomplishment, demolishing their work and replacing it with her agenda -which is to prove that she was the real power behind their success. She is on a mission to bring down the "patriarchy" that slighted her. Everyone in Hollywood knows it except Bob Iger for some reason.

[@rolon-will3362]

The Disney plan is simple. They don’t like the current fan base. Old school fans want George, they’re attentive, detail oriented and dedicated. They don’t want to buy an Acolyte handbag or a Rey Skywalker plushie. Disney want these real fans to go away and be replaced by normies who’ll buy all the tat in the Disney stores without question. Star Wars is dead. New Star Wars is a gift shop for the mindless.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

Only KK hates George. Everyone else needs to fall in line behind that. As a coffee getter for greater creatives ( in her mind , a patriarchy and nothing more) her silly additions in story meetings were laff ably dismissed. So as a good Palpatine she bided her time patiently puting wheels into motion so she could one day like a baby say “ see! It’s my ball now!!! “ like Finn mocking captain Phasma in Force Awakens. KK rode the coat tailed of , YES , great men while not absorbing any creativity at all.

[@csav1551]

I don't understand what do you guys have against Dave Filoni..he is doing the best from what is given to him and he the apprentice to George Lucas he himself gave the blessing and he trust Filoni...but Filoni can't do whatever he wants obviously he's being held back by KK.

[@Supernautiloid]

To be fair, this is George’s fault. He sold Star Wars to people who hate Star Wars. Nobody to blame but himself really. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

Everyone’s entitled to a mistake and this was differently one those and Im very sure G Lucas has much regret seeing his beloved STAR WARS being rip to shreds

[@acesw6124]

I did not watch Kenobi and after learning of the original script that was not put into work I am a bit more angry at all the missed opportunities that are part of the Disney Star Wars experience. Mandalorian S1&S2, Rogue One, TCW last 4 episodes and Andor are so far the only good products while the rest breaks immersion, is a cheap copy or downright insulting to the legacy of great Star Wars characters.

[@goffe2282]

This guy has no say. He is responsible for the awful prequels and the reason we cannot cannot get the original trilogy without cartoon animals superimposed over it. He has no business complaining. Just imagine the damage he could have done to the originals if he had full control back then? Disney's Star Wars stuff is nearly universally crap (first two seasons of Mandalorian and Andor, and maybe Rogue One not withstanding) but that does not absolve Lucas from any of the damage he has done.

[@Zanderguard]

George had enough money. He sold it and now it's despised worse than the prequels. He could have just remade the prequels to not suck (ep 3 gets a pass). I have no sympathy for George Lucas.

[@michaelnextdoor8726]

Disney has really flopped, but George Lucas doesn't have clean record either. Attack of the clones is pretty badly written.

[@samcooper2474]

Sorry George, but if you had any respect for your franchise to begin with then you would never have even considered selling out to Disney. Now we know you're just another money man. No big loss on my part. Star Wars is overrated af anyway imo.

[@Honda-wf6qj]

Little late in the day to be bitching about how your franchise that you sold for 4 billion dollars is now being spun by the new owners. Your ideas didnt get lost,,, you sold them. And now they are doing what they want with their product. Its like Hasbro telling kids they cant play with their Gi joes toys with any other toys...sorry you lost that right when you sold the toy. Disney has ruined it...but George ruined it first by selling it.😮 One couldnt happen with out the other. And if George had so many ideas why did he sell it? I think he too ran out of ideas. Most the books werent his ideas. Thrawn wasnt his idea. He just allowed what was put in the universe...bc he owned it. But to call them out when its all his fault... c'mon...did he really need the money?😮

[@zeusapollo6504]

Decades of bad culture produce bad movies. The OT was made in 70ies and 80ies, this is one of the many reasions why it was legendary. The other reasions with beeing George writing the story and hundreds of great artists supporting him.

[@zakdivers8153]

I mean, who in their right mind thought, oh yes, im going to take a franchise, whose fan base is 70-80% white guy's over the age of 30, and turn it into a black lesbian power fantasy, and then complain about none of the fans liking it, lol.

[@yonghominale8884]

"His" Star Wars. George seem to forget all the people that helped him like Kurtz, Kasdan and his own wiife who was the main editor. Honestly the Prequels were bad that's why the fan wanted you out so you help "ruin" Star Wars

[@kenparnell4297]

I said that when I heard Lucas sold it to Disney. Disney always thinks they know what's what and the fact is they are crazy hit or miss at best any more. They gave JJ Abrams Carte Blanc and he messed it up so badly then this new thing The Acolyte, Jesus H. Christ I could have eaten a couple video tapes and shit a better movie.

[@RogueKT21]

Not only does KK want to destroy all that came before in terms of physical media she wants to destroy the lore by making content that comes before in the timeline to make the classic stories less impactful. Always watch in order of release! Not only does Lucasfilm have to stop tinkering with timelines, but all media it’s such lazy uninspiring and non-creative. You are not making anything if it means destroying and replacing!

[@RobinJohnstonphotography]

Saying something as crass as ‘the force is female’ showed up something, you may as well say gravity or wind is female. KK is a hack with no ideas, and she keeps hiring more hacks. We need good female characters like Leia, with wit intelligence and strength but not an agenda.

[@johnpoulton9446]

i think her and many others at LF are insecure and know they dont have the talent of the group that came before them at LF. So they deconstruct, break down, and try to lower what pre disney LF accomplished so they can feel better about themselves and THEIR stories as opposed to actual Star Wars stories.

[@cholst1]

Not saying Lucas ain't right, but .. Midichlorians tho, like, why

[@jonbutcher5593]

Amen Cookies, original Star Wars is eternal, modern Disney trash is already a rotting corpse, Ruled by an Empire of Dust.

[@syrinxcors1975]

The dude sold his ideas - If I sell a car to someone, then go to their house a year or so after and admonish them for adding a spoiler, or a new stereo or something else .. well, you sold your property .. case closed. Don't get me wrong - I don't like what the House of Mouse has done to Star Wars .. but Lucas can't really piss and moan now after selling his IP for a fat stack now can he?

[@rawnchydeard4669]

I’m completely done with SW. Not sure what fans they plan on replacing me with, but best of luck all that.

[@ericb9931]

Palpitine returned, Anakin did nothing and Luke ended up a failure. Anakin wasn't special, anyone can create life from nothing. Disney rendered watching the entire franchise literally pointless.