Kathleen Kennedy to Fans: I hate your guts

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.

Wednesday Russian et al

Good Morning! Our latest bit of Russian collusion with Inforos is out:  'A wave of leftist rioting and looting followed the police murder of George Floyd. The Establishment and the media stoked the riots, encouraged them, and made excuses. Biden campaign staffers contributed to rioter bail funds. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler tried to de-escalate the situation there, only to see Antifa in the streets every night. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry tried to address a BLM rally and was turned away by a crowd shouting ‘shame’ after him. They’re not gonna let up and they should not,’ Vice President-Elect Kamal Harris said of the George Floyd rioters. They were ‘mostly peaceful’, the Dems and the media said. On January 6th, the day Congress met to certify the Electoral College vote, more than 200,000 Trump supporters gathered on the Washington Mall....' There's nothing quite like turning in an article before bed and seeing it published upon waking.

The Critical Drinker is always right. Here's a great vid on the war at Lucas Films between John Favreau and Kathleen Kennedy. May the Force be with you, Star Wars is so simple. A restless young man on the farm, a rogue, a princess, a villain who serves an evil god...Whoever wrote The Epic of Gilgamesh would totally get it. Walk into Shakespeare's office with this outline, he'd look it over, make a note and say, 'Come back on Thursday.' It's so simple.

Did we mention that The Critical Drinker is always right? Here's his review of The Expanse. Season-1 was the best season of TV scifi since season-4 of TNG. Speaking of, The Expanse's season-4 just sucked balls, but we're halfway through season-5 and it's almost all the way back.

Gab is slow as heck with all the refugees from Twitter. Be patient. Parler has found a new hosting service, the same folks who host Gab. This blog is wondering when it will get cancelled and how far it will go. A few friends have left FB, and to be honest, we'd leave it as well were it not for the familial, personal and professional contacts we've made.  

Apropos of having just popped by the Times of Israel, here's the latest polling data for March's elections: 'The Channel 12 survey gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party the most seats (29), followed by Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope (16), Naftali Bennett’s Yamina (13), Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid (13), the Joint List (10), Shas (8), United Torah Judaism (8), Yisrael Beytenu (7), Ron Huldai’s The Israelis (6), Meretz (5), and Blue and White (5).' That's three rightwing parties at the top followed by a centrist party. Labour doesn't even make the top ten. Were the top three parties to combine with Yisrael Beytenu they'd have a government. But at this point Israeli elections are about one thing, Bibi and they all hate his guts.

Star Wars: Kennedy Awakens

Over at Ace of Spades, a fascinating post on the Star Wars franchise and what's going on and what's going wrong. Spoiler, the answer to those questions is Kathleen Kennedy.

According to the report sighted by Ace, Kathleen Kennedy doesn't actually like Star Wars, it appeals to much to boys. This is why she gave us Rey, and that stupid quasi-lesbian character in The Last Jedi.

Kennedy et al hate Star Wars fans.

One is reminded of Robert Moses, NYC city planner in the 1950's and 60's who re-designed much of the city. He built stack-the-poor public housing with vast community spaces owned by no one, split the Bronx in two with the Cross-Bronx Expressway, built cookie cutter ballparks like Shea Stadium, demolished the beautiful Art-Deco Penn Station and replaced it with an underground terminal that smells like rotten tomatoes and cardboard boxes. The result of Moses' work was the New York of the 70's. Robert Moses hated cities.

This is what Kennedy and her spawn have done to Star Wars. 

Solo gets Kennedy'd

As noted before we saw Solo again this weekend* and we still like it.

For that matter we liked it a bit more than we did the first time. This movie is far from perfect. It's far from Rogue One**.

We think the war on Solo is a rebellion against Kathleen Kennedy, who is running the Star Wars franchise for Disney. Kennedy royally screwed up The Last Jedi, so much so that it makes one realize that The Force Awakens is not that good.***

Kathleen Kennedy is a Social Justice Warrior, just Google 'The force is female'. This is why we have those stupid female characters in The Last Jedi, that horrible 2nd act in same, and the annoying feminist droid, L-3**** in Solo. 

Solo is getting panned becuase Star Wars fandom is revolting against the schoolmarmish Kennedy who keeps scolding, 'Don't do that! Boys! You have to let the girls participate too!'

*Our nieces are visiting for a while and we had them while our own girls were at dance show rehearsal.
**Which is just friggin awesome.
***Say it with us, people: soft reboot
****We keep wanting to type L-7