Remember when Star Wars was an internationally acclaimed success and not a middling franchise relegated to sub-par streaming service releases? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Of course, that was before the reverse Midas touch of Disney got involved. With its acquisition of Lucasfilm came the appointment of Kathleen Kennedy to take things in a new direction, and she did just that by driving Star Wars off a cliff.
Whatever goodwill still existed after “The Force Awakens” didn’t last long, being snuffed out with the releases of “The Last Jedi” and “The Rise of Skywalker.” Kennedy had decided that “the force was female,” reworking the entire franchise to be one badly written woke lecture after another (aside from “Andor,” which was excellent, but quickly buried).
For many, the breaking point was “Kenobi,” which managed to turn a series ostensibly about one of the most iconic Star Wars…
