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20 hours ago, Js1 said:

If you just want to bitch about Disney, you can do it somewhere else

Meanwhile:

 

‘Andor’ Has Pulled in Over $300 Million in Subscriber Revenue for Disney+ | Parrot Analytics’ Streaming Economics system calculates the 'Star Wars' show drives more revenue than 'Ahsoka' & 'The Book of Boba Fett'

My disappointment in Disney is relevant to the topic at hand. If Disney hadn’t destroyed Star Wars then Andor might be performing better and we would have a better chance at more good prestige SW content. I don’t know why mdmost thinks that Disney doesn’t care about making money, they absolutely do, and a $300M loss is not going to be something they will be eager to do again. 
 

Andor is great. Fuck you Disney for insuring we’ll never get anything else like it. 

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

My disappointment in Disney is relevant to the topic at hand. If Disney hadn’t destroyed Star Wars then Andor might be performing better and we would have a better chance at more good prestige SW content. I don’t know why mdmost thinks that Disney doesn’t care about making money, they absolutely do, and a $300M loss is not going to be something they will be eager to do again. 
 

Andor is great. Fuck you Disney for insuring we’ll never get anything else like it. 

Disney doesn't care about THIS series making money. It is reported to have cost more than any of the movies in the entire history of the franchise. I think one report was 650 million since it's like shooting 4 movies in one season. They will never make that investment back and they seem perfectly fine with it. This is no different than a prestige film that isn't going to make it's production back. They absolutely care about the movies making money hence Mandalorian being a theatrical experience now. That's why they switched from TV that will never pay back what they need but filled a hole due to Covid that's now gone.

But let's be honest, Star Wars absolutely does not lend itself to anything like this. It took a special writer with vision to make a series like Andor. And that only happened because he was asked to clean up a flawed movie. Then he was asked to treat a series and fundamentally changed it from a buddy heist series with a robot to what he made it into. It also took Lucasfilm and Disney having the balls to greenlight a 2nd season when they knew it would lose them money to do so. There will be nothing like this again because Star Wars was never designed to be something this deep on a human level. It was laser swords and space wizards. That is what people want to see. That's why the Mandalorian is more popular. It's the traditional Star Wars that all the nostalgia bones tingle for. This is more adult. That's never going to catch on as well as what's come before. It's also a bottle series. It has a definitely beginning and end. It's not open ended like everything else. 

Bitch about Disney all you want but Disney is also who greenlit this. We will never get anything else like again it because this is a black swan. Instead of being a whiny buzzkill, just enjoy what we're getting. 

Edited by mdmost

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