By now you all know about Disney's firing of Gina Carano, the actress who played the interesting and ass kicking former Rebel solider Cara Dune in The Mandalorian.
For a few years now there's been a war at Lucas Film between the Kathleen Kennedy faction which gave us the Woke dumper fire that is the sequel trilogy, and the Favreau faction which gave us the well executed The Mandalorian. Looks like the Kennedy faction went nuclear.
Jesus, that was dumb. As one of our friends so eloquently put it, 'Fuck Disney.' Fuck Disney indeed. After two decades of incompetence, the Star Wars universe was righted by John Favreau's The Mandalorian and a slew of follow-on television series were planned, including one about Cara Dune. Fans were finally enthusiastic about Star Wars.
Then Lucas Film went and fired Gina Carano on the flimsy pretext of some 'offensive' tweets. The backlash has been enormous. Lucas Film needed this like they needed another Woke dumpster fire of a movie. All that goodwill so painstakingly earned tossed away why like a blaster, 'So uncivilized.'
Kathleen Kennedy hates Star Wars, and hates Star Wars fans. Don't believe us? Go back and watch The Last Jedi. Admiral Holdo chews out Po like an angry HR department head or frumpish librarian upset that the jocks are being loud. It's Gamergate all over again.
Most of our fans are probably right leaning. Not all of course, but most. Actually, we know for a fact that a lot of 4-Chan types like our books. Still, We've always worked hard to keep our novels apolitical. Not neutral, just apolitical. You'll never read, 'If only Obama had sufficiently funded the military,' in one of our books. In fact, we usually tweak Republicans. William Kristol becomes ever more sinister. Just wait till you people read Election '92. And the president in the Defend the Earth universe is a liberal. It's okay, really.
You know what's not okay? Attacking your fans and giving them a reason to hate your guts. Thanks Kathleen Kennedy, you're the Liz Cheney of Star Wars.
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