Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
Who is complaining about making money? Not me. I simply pointed out that its disingenuous to keep harping on that D&K doesn't care about SW and are all about "making money "when the primary reason many of those channels promote an anti Disney/Lucasfilm/Kennedy agenda is to do exactly that.
And yes ,unfortunately I spent a couple of weeks extensively researching threads, the subscriber numbers for certain youtube channels ,their links (and they are all starting to complain about "stealing" the same new content from eachother because that affects their hit rates) who posted in the comments sections (often, like the threads here, and for example you inparticular ,the same people multiple times in different channels).
And I also looked outside at the SJW community for attacking SW fans and other areas of entertainment and found, no spoilers here, that its exactly the same tactic employed by everyone everywhere. They select a quote, a misquote, a casual comment, an opinion ,a news item ,a video clip, a downright lie, you just name it and promote it as evidence that that community is being actively vilified and discriminated unfairly against , be that the case or not.
Its all in order to get the hits rolling in to keep earning money from advertising streams, but to do it successfully and maintain earnings they MUST KEEP pushing their agendas. They are utterly trapped by their own "political" bias because the moment they do anything that causes their core supporters to disagree with them and unsubscribe, the hits drop off (and so does all that handy extra dosh they so love).
So the biggest single issue for any customer/media sensitive company is how to deal with it and be seen to be doing it fairly that also disproves the agenda topics.
So far the best tactic I have seen is employed has been the way Marvel have been making use of their comic division. They've allowed " SJWs" to produce new characters and stories in line with their own expectations and the often stated belief that a large market existed for this within the comic industry if only they were given a chance,even allowing some of the old established characters mythologies to be used by gender reversing them.
And guess what.
Those titles have bombed, Marvel comic sales have declined and the bulk of these lines have now been cancelled, very much to the annoyance of those that produced them, who have then predictably reacted by saying they were not given a fair chance to build the readership.
But the real truth is they failed ,and Marvel have simply proved that ( surprise, surprise) there simply aren't the numbers of people who read comics who were at all interested or liked what was written (many titles could barely scrape over a thousand per release) and they certainly didn't create any massive new readership, because (again surrpise, surprise) it doesn't actually exist.
And in that sense TLJ proved to me, and hopefully Disney and Lucasfilm that its dangerous and rather self destructive to take an established set of heros and villians and destroy their mythologies with their core fan base. Its a needlesly wasteful exercise that cost profit. And ,whats worse , they have so far not well used that loss to create a new set of characters popular enough to replace them in that emotional void left to many in the fandom.
Marvel absolutely understand this and are trying to manage this transition with great care and alot of foresight. "Infinity War" is a plank they have just willingly walked off to to plunge headfirst into the potentially very dangerous ocean of fandom and general audience expectation. If they get it wrong there is going to be hell to pay, but I believe (no lets be honest here I'm praying daily) that they will get it right absolutely right.
For the record I liked "Solo" I've watched it twice, it was very good, if not totally great. Personally I have been more interested in all the claims about why its performed so below expectations and wanted to cut through alot of the disinformation thats claimed about it and have done so to my satisfaction at least (go read the posts).
Within TLJ I'm sorry that they've made the mistakes they have, but it still works well for some and there are other quality movies and TV series I actually enjoy more than SW ,so I'm over my disappointment.
Thats the problem for D,L&KK to solve, they've got so much competition these days, so many critics to please . If they can't be bothered to listen to whats being said then thats their choice, but then it is becoming harder to pull anything meaningful out of all this endless ,often mindlessly repeatitive commentary.
I'm going to take a longish break from it all. I've done it before and felt better for it . Reading and listening to alot of the rubbish thats out there has left me with a sense that some people could do with some time in solitary confinement but as regarding RPFers and this forum its bloody head and shoulders above 90% of the utter garbage thats out there ,believe me.
So perhaps thats why Kathleen Kennedy is wise enough not to have bothered responding to all the constant jibes about being silent, its far easier to ignore them and get on with her work.
After all absolutely none of us have to watch these films if we don't want to and ultimately ,if thats the case, I'm sorry that she and Lucasfilm have made just two out of four new SW films I quite like. If she gets me to like just one then she at the very least will have equalled George Lucas.
So now its a bad thing to make a little profit out of something that a large amount of people are interested in, what a joke. Do you even watch any of these channels or just make assumptions about their content? We have seen how foolish it can be to comment on the content of the product without even watching the video recently.
Who is complaining about making money? Not me. I simply pointed out that its disingenuous to keep harping on that D&K doesn't care about SW and are all about "making money "when the primary reason many of those channels promote an anti Disney/Lucasfilm/Kennedy agenda is to do exactly that.
And yes ,unfortunately I spent a couple of weeks extensively researching threads, the subscriber numbers for certain youtube channels ,their links (and they are all starting to complain about "stealing" the same new content from eachother because that affects their hit rates) who posted in the comments sections (often, like the threads here, and for example you inparticular ,the same people multiple times in different channels).
And I also looked outside at the SJW community for attacking SW fans and other areas of entertainment and found, no spoilers here, that its exactly the same tactic employed by everyone everywhere. They select a quote, a misquote, a casual comment, an opinion ,a news item ,a video clip, a downright lie, you just name it and promote it as evidence that that community is being actively vilified and discriminated unfairly against , be that the case or not.
Its all in order to get the hits rolling in to keep earning money from advertising streams, but to do it successfully and maintain earnings they MUST KEEP pushing their agendas. They are utterly trapped by their own "political" bias because the moment they do anything that causes their core supporters to disagree with them and unsubscribe, the hits drop off (and so does all that handy extra dosh they so love).
So the biggest single issue for any customer/media sensitive company is how to deal with it and be seen to be doing it fairly that also disproves the agenda topics.
So far the best tactic I have seen is employed has been the way Marvel have been making use of their comic division. They've allowed " SJWs" to produce new characters and stories in line with their own expectations and the often stated belief that a large market existed for this within the comic industry if only they were given a chance,even allowing some of the old established characters mythologies to be used by gender reversing them.
And guess what.
Those titles have bombed, Marvel comic sales have declined and the bulk of these lines have now been cancelled, very much to the annoyance of those that produced them, who have then predictably reacted by saying they were not given a fair chance to build the readership.
But the real truth is they failed ,and Marvel have simply proved that ( surprise, surprise) there simply aren't the numbers of people who read comics who were at all interested or liked what was written (many titles could barely scrape over a thousand per release) and they certainly didn't create any massive new readership, because (again surrpise, surprise) it doesn't actually exist.
And in that sense TLJ proved to me, and hopefully Disney and Lucasfilm that its dangerous and rather self destructive to take an established set of heros and villians and destroy their mythologies with their core fan base. Its a needlesly wasteful exercise that cost profit. And ,whats worse , they have so far not well used that loss to create a new set of characters popular enough to replace them in that emotional void left to many in the fandom.
Marvel absolutely understand this and are trying to manage this transition with great care and alot of foresight. "Infinity War" is a plank they have just willingly walked off to to plunge headfirst into the potentially very dangerous ocean of fandom and general audience expectation. If they get it wrong there is going to be hell to pay, but I believe (no lets be honest here I'm praying daily) that they will get it right absolutely right.
For the record I liked "Solo" I've watched it twice, it was very good, if not totally great. Personally I have been more interested in all the claims about why its performed so below expectations and wanted to cut through alot of the disinformation thats claimed about it and have done so to my satisfaction at least (go read the posts).
Within TLJ I'm sorry that they've made the mistakes they have, but it still works well for some and there are other quality movies and TV series I actually enjoy more than SW ,so I'm over my disappointment.
Thats the problem for D,L&KK to solve, they've got so much competition these days, so many critics to please . If they can't be bothered to listen to whats being said then thats their choice, but then it is becoming harder to pull anything meaningful out of all this endless ,often mindlessly repeatitive commentary.
I'm going to take a longish break from it all. I've done it before and felt better for it . Reading and listening to alot of the rubbish thats out there has left me with a sense that some people could do with some time in solitary confinement but as regarding RPFers and this forum its bloody head and shoulders above 90% of the utter garbage thats out there ,believe me.
So perhaps thats why Kathleen Kennedy is wise enough not to have bothered responding to all the constant jibes about being silent, its far easier to ignore them and get on with her work.
After all absolutely none of us have to watch these films if we don't want to and ultimately ,if thats the case, I'm sorry that she and Lucasfilm have made just two out of four new SW films I quite like. If she gets me to like just one then she at the very least will have equalled George Lucas.