New "female centric" Star Wars TV show in development

[oldmanwinters]

I don't understand this article about the show retcon-ing Luke & Leia as the "first twins" of the franchise:
https://cosmicbook.news/star-wars-ac...lain-explained

Has anyone ever claimed the Skywalkers were the first known set of twins in that galaxy?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

I don't understand this article about the show retcon-ing Luke & Leia as the "first twins" of the franchise:
https://cosmicbook.news/star-wars-ac...lain-explained

Has anyone ever claimed the Skywalkers were the first known set of twins in that galaxy?

I think Matt is just being snarky about the villain being a "They." Which is understandable on the count of that being a really, really stupid thing.

[Autbot_Benz]

I know nobody on here watched this garbage. But the showrunner brought up Benign Sexism

Explaining that Sol's desire to protect Osha stems from "benign sexism," Headland elaborates on that point by saying, "Ultimately, what happens is — again, this is a father-daughter relationship — as women evolve in their lives and develop their own personalities separate from their fathers, at some point, they have to reject that protectionism."

"When he says, 'I did everything because I love-' He's going to say, 'I love you,' and not only is that a level of attachment that an unbalanced Jedi would have — he very clearly is losing it in the last half of the season — but that's also the justification for that kind of behavior between the father and the daughter."

"The daughter has to surpass him in some way," she continues. "She cannot stay a little girl or an adolescent or young adult. She has to, at some point, say, 'I reject what you have told me I need to do to make you proud, to follow in your footsteps.' She has to do that."

https://comicbookmovie.com/tv/star-w...2200#gs.bwb8bu

[Andrew NDB]

It's over. Cancelled.

https://deadline.com/2024/08/the-aco...5Ry3VRK_eqW3aQ

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

It's over. Cancelled.

https://deadline.com/2024/08/the-aco...5Ry3VRK_eqW3aQ

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

It's over. Cancelled.

https://deadline.com/2024/08/the-aco...5Ry3VRK_eqW3aQ

Wonderful News. has anyone checked on KK

[Andrew NDB]

You know it had to be bad, too. It's been years and we haven't even gotten a Boba Fett season 2, but it has never been cancelled. The Acolyte gets cancelled right out of the gate, lol

[Autbot_Benz]

watching all the die hard Acolyte fans upset over this is giving me strength

They alienated real star wars fans with this show what did they expect to happen.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

watching all the die hard Acolyte fans upset over this is giving me strength

They alienated real star wars fans with this show what did they expect to happen.

It's a much bigger win than that. This show represented the magnum opus of Kathleen Kennedy. Everything she's done with forcing out the "High Republic" publishing initiative, all of that all culminated with this show. And it fell flat on its face, widely and publicly.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

It's a much bigger win than that. This show represented the magnum opus of Kathleen Kennedy. Everything she's done with forcing out the "High Republic" publishing initiative, all of that all culminated with this show. And it fell flat on its face, widely and publicly.

now the question is how much more crap Star Wars before Iger finally fires Kennedy

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

now the question is how much more crap Star Wars before Iger finally fires Kennedy

Ahsoka Season 2 is happening. Skeleton Crew will probably be 1 and done. Andor has a Season 2 but we know that's the last season. Mandalorian is over since Season 4 was changed into a movie.

So star wars TV shows are pretty much done. Ahsoka Season 2 will likely setup the Thrawn movie they have planned.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Ahsoka Season 2 is happening. Skeleton Crew will probably be 1 and done. Andor has a Season 2 but we know that's the last season. Mandalorian is over since Season 4 was changed into a movie.

So star wars TV shows are pretty much done. Ahsoka Season 2 will likely setup the Thrawn movie they have planned.

We're seeing the creation of the Star Wars cinematic universe. Both Mandalorian & Grogu and Ahsoka season 2 will dive head-first into "the Thrawn thing." Which may encompass even more movies. They'll probably go right back to Mandalorian season 4 (which we know is already written and is not the story of Mandalorian & Grogu) and Ahsoka season 3 afterward, and hopefully eventually a Boba Fett redemption. Beyond that, big Star Wars movies going on in the background every couple of years, simultaneous with the TV shows but showing us the "big" events and CGIed Luke, Leia and Han and so on... I guess we could do a lot worse than that.

[Andrew NDB]

[Autbot_Benz]

low viewership that got Acolyte canned

"Insiders explain that The Acolyte was canceled because viewership was bad, and that there’s really nothing more to it than that even though at least one cast member said they were surprised by the decision. I’m told that The Acolyte’s viewership collapsed following the first two episodes, whereas with Andor, viewership steadily climbed throughout the season, so the show was renewed for Season 2. Andor also drew exceptional reviews, whereas The Acolyte’s reviews were more mixed.

https://comicbookmovie.com/tv/star-w...2809#gs.dj49e7

[CyberCubed]

I watched it all on the illegal streaming websites and I imagine many did the same, so all that "viewership/ratings" is lost when Disney+ doesn't get that. It's kind of funny because I imagine all these streaming shows actually have double or triple times the ratings they should of, it's just that many people are watching them for free illegally so the ratings seem lower than they would be.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

low viewership that got Acolyte canned



https://comicbookmovie.com/tv/star-w...2809#gs.dj49e7

But how low is "low"? I kind of want to know more concretely so we have a baseline for what Disney considers a failure. Keep in mind here, they are not trying to pretend this was always meant to be a mini-series or something to keep face, this was apparently so bad that they didn't even bother hiding their failure and just flat-out admitted they cancelled it. I want to know how bad the viewership had to be for this to happen.

[Andrew NDB]

I wonder if the show really will get memory holed like Willow on Disney+? That would be poetic justice.

[neatoman]

So what are the odds of this show actually getting stricken from canon? If cluttering up the continuity was considered a problem for "creative freedom" back in 2014, wouldn't there eventually be a need for another canonicity purge?

[sdp]

The filoni cinematic universe is not a hypothetical, they literally announced i movie as the culmination "End Game" to the Star wars shows. Disney also basically said they were getting rid of all their shows since they wanted to focus on movies, which is why moana the tv show became a movie, mandalorian S4 became a movie and why they're cancelling most Marvel and star wars shows.
Boba Fett's show left a bad taste in disney's eye so apparently he's not getting anything new or even appearing in new projects. I'm guessing Ashoka S2 was just too far along but will likely be the end of that show. Andor is already ending in S2 and acolites cancelled.
It'd be neat if there were actual shows to help build up that that final movie but instead htey cancelled everything

I think we might still get another show or two before the filoni "End Game" movie comes out but i think a lot depends on the Mandalorian movie. If it's a huge success then we might get another movie or two in the universe if it underperforms then we might just try to set up the "end game" movie with a show.

who knows how the mandalorian movie will really do, the show had a huge following a while back but it seems viewership and interst waned after season 2 as boba fett/ashoka/s3 got less viewers. So perhaps it was more of a pandemic bump the shows had. It'll also be difficult to make an engaging movie that basicaly has to explain the whole lore to new audiences who haven't watched any of the shows while keeping the ones who did watch them interested as well. But who knows perhaps baby yoda being in a movie will get casuals who never watched the show to check it out to see what the fuzz is all about. It's been more than half a decade since the last star wars movie came out so interst in a new movie might be there.

[CyberCubed]

I do think the casual interest in "baby Yoda" has subsided. This isn't 2-3 years ago. I do wonder if the Mandalorian movie will do well, and season 3 was also the weakest season of the show. It honestly feels like the movie should have come out a few years ago when there was still hype/meme interest for "baby Yoda."