Kathleen Kennedy fired

''Best reviewed science fiction film of 2017 and a huge box office success'' sure.. according to whom? Box office are financial numbers. If you look at the week-to-week drops, its huge. Which means people arent coming back to the movie and are telling their friends it sucked. It keeps dropping because people dont care anymore. Which means nothing for TLJ, but EVERYTHING for the movies following it.
If people lose interest in SW because they are pissed off at TLJ, they wont be coming in hordes for Solo or episode 9. You can trow me the total box office in my face all you want, but it doesnt matter. What matters is the week-to-week drops that indicate the hype has been killed and people generally dont care anymore. Pair that with the massive backlash (believe me, the backlash is huge, you can tell yourself all you want and live in the happiness bubbel, but its true) and Disney DOES have a huge problem. SW is only as big as its fans. It could suffer the same fate as the Star Trek movies. Where people just don't show up anymore.

If you piss off all the fans (or a huge part of the fans) you will kill SW. The hype is generated by its fans. People that go to conventions, talk about it and advertise it. The fanbase kept SW alive 40 years and counting. So yeah, it made loads of money. But that isnt the problem. Transformers also makes loads of money. But when people stop caring, that money will eventually drop and SW will not be the money maker it once was. We will see this in Solo en Episode 9. So you can call TLJ a succes all you want, but the future of SW has never been this fragile.

Let me break it down for you - real simple. Businesses don't just judge things by how much money they bring in, they judge them by how much they bring in compared to how much they think they *should* bring in.

Star Wars is a cash cow, which is why they paid $4 Billion for it.

Now the sales are down $200M lower than projected, the merchandise isn't shifting, China ignored it and millions of previously loyal customers hate the product. Then we have the constant reshoots, the directors/writers being hired and fired, the lack of ANY promo material for SOLO despite it being due in just a few months, and the admission that there is no plan, not even an attempt to have an overarching story that makes these films make sense to each other.

It is actually quite impressive just how much KK is fucking up Star Wars.

But hey - the blogosphere tells us to like it and I read an article on 'Salon' about how everyone complaining is a rapist so everything is just fine, no problem!

I'm sure you'll be just ecstatic when IX comes out and it's a plot free mess of explosions and lens flair, but some of us hope for something with a little more quality.

Your response is the epitome of the entire TLJ debate. Detractors of the movie write long detailed responses, and supporters such as yourself write curt content-free insults such as "knuckle-dragging crazed lunatics". Makes it really clear who put thought into their statements. Also makes me wonder if you are associated with the studio and are "butthurt", as people such as yourself like to say.

Her Storygroup is a joke. It really is. They cannot make a compelling story if their life depended on it. Just look at the other media. Star Wars Battlefront 2. Started out amazing, with the point of view from the Empire (something fans have been dying for). They even went as far as to promote it like it was going to be this awesome thing from the Empires perspective. Then, 2 missions into the game, the protagonist changes sides and joins the Rebellion. Pissed off all the fans in a major way.
They handled Rogue One pretty well (even though the SJW stuff still shines through in a few scenes) but thats about it. TFA was horrible story wise. The characters were awesome though and some storylines in TFA should have been enough to be expanded on in sequels so it was by no means a failure.

But Rian Johnson took a shit on that with TLJ and the Storygroup allowed and encouraged it. So now we have no story left for episode 9.
And Solo? Well what kind of fcking story would they come up with there? It sounds like a by the numbers story that just exists to tell all the stuff we already know. Kessel run, how he meets Chewy, how he wins the Falcon. By the numbers story that NOBODY asked for. This movie will be even more analysed and people do really expect something amazing to justify the existence of this movie. Because if it sucked, it not only just plain sucked, it also wasted a movie opportunity to actually get a fcking awesome movie (like an Obi Wan standalone). Wasted money to make something people don't care about. And extra damage will be that the character of Han Solo is shat on because its not Harrison Ford anymore.

In short: TLJ en Solo are what could potentially kill Star Wars hype. Something I never thought would be able to happen.

If Solo can do close to a billion (assuming it didn't cost too much) and win back some disgruntled fans then the next Episode could open huge again...

Don't discount the loyalty and wishful thinking of StarWars fans...