Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

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She blames the alt right

At this point the relationship is so vicarious I don't think either side will let go. Disney churns out nonstop slop. Some of it features all the buzz words and items to appeal to certain demographics while simutaneously enraging another demographic. The end result is that everyone is talking about the show, streaming numbers are often decent to good, and the train keeps moving along. Flip side the engaged people constantly have the ability to make money off this with nonstop youtube/twitch/etc content about such and such being woke. Disney makes money, aggrieved content creators make money, everyone is happy whether they publicly admit it or not.

This play has been run too many times for me not to see it. Like, how many times does the cast of [insert IP slop] come out and do one or more of the following:

-Declare they've never seen the original films/read the book/read the comic
-Declare this will be the first IP iteration that is universal or for all people
-Make fun of original fans
-Laugh about original fans being uncomfortable 

Surely if this was a problem that Disney was concerned about, they would have read the riot act to the cast. Yet that never happens. Why? They understand it's just content and the hate engagement is nearly as good for promo as actual marketing is.

It really happens so often it does start to feel intentional. One of the Acolyte actresses also talked about in a pre-show interview about how great the show is because it's female focused and star wars has been so patriarchal before. This comes after four movies focused on a female main character and Leia and Holdo being basically the leaders of the resistance in those. 
There's always this desire to talk about how groundbreaking their new shit is that just ends up throwing everything that came before under the bus and of course that pisses of fans.
And it also feels pretty cynical as the POC actors just become a shield for a bad show. Amandla Stenberg seems like a totally fine actress but the script was simply garbage.