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irstupid on 21 June 2018
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Soundwave said:
shikamaru317 said:

The boycott wasn't the only factor obviously, the high budget due to the director change, poor release window too close to Avengers and Deadpool, as well as fatigue from releasing just 6 months after Episode 8 were all factors as well, but the boycott is definitely a factor for sure.

KK is absolutely responsible for the problems currently facing Star Wars. 

1. She tried to forced too much diversity into a series known for primarily white male leads, which caused some backlash (justified or not).

2. She allowed Rey to be designed as an overpowered Mary Sue character because she wanted Rey to be a feminist role model, because in KK's eyes "the force is female". Rey being a Mary Sue is one of the most hated things about the new trilogy. 

3. She allowed a trilogy to be made that kills off or ignores most of the original main characters to instead focus on new characters which a large percentage of the fanbase don't even like that much

4. She backed up Rian Johnson's stance on Luke as a character instead of listening to Mark Hammil's ideas, which resulted in the Luke in episode 8 that everybody hated, their childhood hero reduced to being a bitter old hermit. 

5. She sided with Rian Johnson instead of Colin Trevorrow in regards to the direction for the trilogy (rumor has it that Colin was unhappy with what Rian was doing to Luke in episode 8 and that Rian planned to kill Luke, same as Mark Hamill, among other creative differences)

6. She continues to support Rian Johnson in spite of extreme fan backlash to episode 8 and Rian's unwillingness to admit that he made mistakes while developing it. 

7. She initially picked a comedy duo of directors to direct Solo originally and expected them to make a serious movie, and somehow didn't expect there to be creative differences. That decision led to expensive re-shoots for Solo which lead to a huge budget for the movie which is part of the reason why it flopped.  

8. She gave the go-ahead to release Solo in the crowded May window instead of in the December window that it would have practically had to itself.

She also delivered the highest grossing Star Wars film since the original. 

And the lowest grossing one is the one with a white male lead, the three other ones with a female lead have all crossed 1 billion WW. If anything an arguement can be made that they have short changed Rey and Finn to force feed in an old fart Luke Skywalker in TLJ which led to unsatisfying story arcs in TLJ for both of what should be your main characters. 

Disney has the final say on release dates too, no producer just tells the studio when they can release a film, a producers role is to make sure the production gets finished on time/schedule/budget mainly. 

She was given a goose that lays golden eggs and has decided to eat it.

I've never seen a franchise's brand take such a hit so quickly. It went from a 2 billion dollar film and everyone excited for the future to now the only articles/discussion I see about how they want to boycott it or get her fired.

People bring up Star Wars fatigue, yet Marvel releases like 3 films a year and people scream for more. You don't get fatigue if people are satisfied with what you're releasing.

Imagine if the Last Jedi was well received and they removed the weird droid from Solo. Star Wars fans would be loving the world and demaning more and more spinoffs, tv shows, movies, ect.