Solo: A Star Wars Story Tanking - Lucasfilm Will Not Learn Their Lesson

Oh, well, don't mind me. I'm just painting here, painting my rebel trooper miniature for my Star Wars miniature war game called Legion. You know, I'm a Star Wars fan. And one of the things that I've really kind of decided as a rule when it comes to Star Wars movies is I don't want too much Star Wars.

You know, I like when Star Wars is spaced out, you know, maybe at most like a year in between movies. Otherwise, I just get tired of it. You know, I get tired of all the Star Wars stuff, you know. And as you can see, I've got just a little bit of Star Wars stuff.

Lucasfilm and the Problem of Star Wars Fatigue

I don't really like too much Star Wars stuff because, you know, I don't want to suffer the effects of Star Wars fatigue. This is really what Lucasfilm is thinking, that the reason why Han Solo, or sorry, the Solo Star Wars movie isn't doing that great, at least in the first weekend.

Look at this article. This is absolutely ridiculous. It's from the New York Times. It says, Solo sputters at box office, raising worries about Star Wars fatigue. Here's what it says. It says, Solo may have encountered franchise fatigue.

The Last Jedi arrived just five months ago, and the Star Wars movies have always been spaced out a year apart. Star Wars fans have an enormous sense of ownership, which works the benefit of the movie company to the detriment.

You see, you know, there's a growing feeling among fans that the movies are starting to come out a little too frequently. Yeah, that is true, because as I've said, you know, I just don't want Star Wars stuff.

It's just too much. It's just too much Star Wars. I can't take it. My brain can't wrap around too much Star Wars. It looks like, unfortunately, Lucasfilm is not going to learn a lesson. You know, the reason why people are boycotting Star Wars is because we are not happy in general.

Well, I shouldn't say in general, but lots of us are not happy in the direction that Lucasfilm is going. Injecting, in a ham-fisted way, identity politics into it, basically making every character sort of a social justice warrior archetyped.

Identity Politics and Social Justice Warrior Storytelling

It's just out of control ridiculous, and I haven't seen Solo, and I'm not planning on seeing it, but I've heard that all of our suspicions were exactly right. There is a, there was a famous tweet from one of the writers of Solo that said that Lando was a pansexual, and in the movie, apparently, there's jokes about him having a sexual relationship with a droid.

Now, if you don't watch Star Wars, you might not know a droid is a robot. Now, here's the thing about this. You might think, well, that is just so ridiculous. I can't believe that a character in the movie is having a relationship with a robot.

Well, actually, this has been done before. You might not know this, but there was a project that Lucasfilm did in between, they made a movie that was in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

It wasn't a movie, rather. It was a multimedia project, so it was a novel, it was a comic book, and it was a video game, and it told the story of what happened between Empire and the Return of the Jedi, and in that, one of the evil characters, Prince Shizor, had a droid named Guri who looked like a woman.

It looked like a beautiful woman, and it was an assassin droid, so she would get on your good side with her looks, and then she would kill you. Anyway, he had a relationship with Prince Shizor. He was an alien, but he had a relationship with her in the book, and so here's the thing.

This is not new, right? It's not edgy. This has been done before, but it is the first time that we've kind of gotten this hammered into us. Oh, he's a pansexual, and this is a pansexual relationship, and this is how you know it's all about politics.

It's all about the agenda. It's all about social justice warriors. They're not inventing things. They're doing things that have been done before, but then they're saying, well, this is about pansexuality.

Droid Rights, Sentience, and Reprogramming in Star Wars

The other thing is that this droid apparently is a annoying social justice warrior type droid who's into droid rights, which has been done before in sci-fi, you know, android rights and robot rights and things like that, but in Star Wars, droids are programmed things.

They're not sentient. You can reprogram them. You can erase their memory. You can change them. In fact, in the most recent movie, the Rogue One, the Star Wars story, they reprogrammed an imperial droid.

He was no longer imperial anymore. Now he was a rebel because he's just a machine. He's not sentient. Here's the thing. Unfortunately, it looks like Lucasfilm is not gonna learn this lesson. They're gonna blame Star Wars fatigue.

They're gonna blame, you know, Deadpool's coming out. You really think, honestly, another thing I saw being blamed, oh, it's Memorial Day weekend. People are doing picnics and barbecues. Do you really think Star Wars fans are like, you know what, I'm really excited to see this new Star Wars movie, but yeah, you know, I gotta have a barbecue this weekend for four days, and I can't take any of those nights and decide, after the barbecue, I'm gonna go see this movie.

You really think that's how Star Wars fans think? Come on, man. Nope, it's not Star Wars fatigue. It's not that Deadpool's in the theater. It's not Memorial Day. It's not any of those things. It's just that we are sick of the direction you're taking Star Wars.

We don't really care to see any more of it, and the only reason people will go to see Star Wars Episode IX is because they wanna complete the cycle. I don't know if I'm even gonna see that one. I probably will, but the way things are going, we're gonna have all kinds of weird identity politics games being played in that movie, and I don't know if I really care about it.

In any way, hope this is helpful. God bless.