Star Wars may exist in a celestial array outside the seen world, but its wokeness is lighting America’s entertainment universe. For proof, look no further than one of its recent path-paving kids’ cartoons.
Across a galaxy far, far away, a spectacular span of cultural space has been traversed; perhaps the trip was aided by lightspeed. In the late ’70s, the sci-fi behemoth blasted off via a story as traditional as it gets — three men set out to rescue a beautiful princess from the clutches of a sinister warlord. With the help of two robots and a towering dog-man, they defeat evil. It was an old-fashioned fairy tale, unspooled against the backdrop of aliens and the starry void.
But a lot has changed since then, thanks to the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney. The Mouse took charge of all things Star Wars, with no plans to repeat the property’s past. Newly-appointed Lucasfilm…
