Star Wars... New Hope?

Interesting take.  I agree that the Resistance show feels a lot more like the idiotic #Resist movement than anything else.  Plus, much more kiddie oriented than I'd have hoped.  Although the animation style is nice.

This is all a bit thin and speculative.  But one thing is clear.  Star Wars is bombing.  Disney knows it, and is pissed off.  Do they have a plan that will actually fix it?  I dunno; they're still Disney themselves, right?  But Disney isn't doubling down, at least not exactly.  They may be fumbling around unable to figure out (or to admit) that they know what the problem is, but they know that there's a problem.

Honestly, although I think Dave Filoni "gets" Star Wars more than most, I'm not so clear that he's got the leadership chops to really do what needs to be done either.  And I'm not always confident in his "getting it" either.  Filoni did a pretty good job as creative director of The Clone Wars (under a lot of direction from Lucas as Executive Producer, who told him what to do and challenged him in lots of ways) but The Clone Wars has its share of duds. I don't know that Filoni can be blamed for those, but I don't know how much he can be credited with its moments of brilliance, either—some of the best episodes were the ones he didn't think he could (or should) do. Filoni was also the guy in charge of Rebels, which was saddled with... less SJW overt preaching, but more a background SJW worldview that shows through all of the time; as if the canvas and paints used to create the art were just SJW canvas and SJW paints, making SJWisms inevitable.  In spite of that, they did probably as best as they could given the mandate to create SJW friendly (so... inhuman and unlikable) characters, and spending more time on inclusiveness and diversity than good storytelling about characters that I want to see (read here, if you want, characters that I can relate to because they are clearly part of my own culture and reflect my own values.  Say what you want, but a big part of the reason Star Wars was so successful is because who was cast as Ben Kenobi, Luke, Han, Leia, etc.  Without those principles, or making them a "diverse" cast of principles, and you get, at best, Rogue One, not Star Wars.)

Not that guys like Jeremy from Geeks + Gamers are ready to say that.  They'd probably be offended by the notion.  They're still too steeped in the need to virtue-signal their "anti-racist" credentials.  But it's true whether they admit it or not.

And that's why I don't think Star Wars is really going to improve all that much.  Hollywood itself is to blame.  They hardly ever put out anything that's very entertaining anymore, honestly, because they are so caught up in the need to constantly slam their target audience; Heritage American movie-goers.

What we are witnessing, although few have the insight to perceive it, or to admit it even if they do, is a rapidly accelerating preference cascade where the neo-liberal world order and the delusional, wishful thinking, anti-European, anti-American, anti-White bigotry that allows it to exist are falling out of favor with remarkable rapidity.

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling (sorta)

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

And, let we forget...  Yeah.  Filoni was in charge of that show too.