Today in milking the bantha:

In other attempts to talk about literally anything else, have you seen this thing about a new Star Wars Trilogy? Huh? No, not the Rogue Squadron thing, it's a--huh? No, it's not New Jedi Order. This is something--ok, yeah, no, it's not the--look, I'll just get to the point: it's another other Star Wars thing.

Pictured: Lucas Film President Kathleen Kennedy, seen here four years ago
announcing a bunch of new projects. A few never happened, but some turned out to
be pretty good, while others turned out to be Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

I gather he's the film industry's
equivalent of the cursed frogurt. 

Still with me? Super. So this is something Simon Kinberg is writing and producing. You might remember him (I didn't, but that's what IMDB is for) as the writer and/or producer behind some of the best and the worst movies in the X-Men/Deadpool/non-Disney Marvel-verse. So X-Men 3: The Last Stand and X-Men Apocalypse were his fault, but then so are X-Men Days of Future Past, and Logan. He created Star Wars Rebels, but on the whole, he doesn't have perhaps the highest success rate.

You heard me: Last Jedi was the best of the
sequel trilogy and I am eager to explain why.

But then that's Star Wars, right? For every Andor a Book of Boba Fett. For every The Last Jedi, a Rise of Skywalker. If we're being honest, everything after the original trilogy is a mixed bag, and that's fine. If you didn't like the Obi-Wan series, watch The Bad Batch. Asoka not your cup of tea? Watch Solo. If you didn't like The Acolyte it's because you're a fragile snowflake man-baby winging on about how Star Wars is woke now. My point is there's a lot of Star Wars. A lot. And if Disney wants to hand Simon Kinberg the keys, what's three more movies?

Banthas. Blue milk comes from banthas.
I looked it up, so you're welcome.

Or not. Who even knows? Disney had been really good about announcing new entries in the Star Wars series, but not so great on the follow through. Sometimes there're creative differences with the writers or directors, and sometimes Gina Carano decides she'd rather make shitty jokes about trans folks than work. I'm always up for a new Star Wars thing, but I think we've all learned to temper expectations. And besides, there is the inescapable feeling that this is just another attempt to squeeze the yet more blue space milk out of the--uh--whatever blue space milk comes from. 

Is more Star Wars a good thing? I don't know, I'm kind of torn on that point, but I suppose it doesn't matter. Disney didn't buy Star Wars to sit on it, they bought it to exploit it until it ceases to create value for share holders. It's a business first, and one based on leveraging our nostalgia for previous entires in the series. We can roll our eyes all we want at another announcement, but if Kinberg's films do make it to theaters, we're going to go see them. If nothing else, it'll be an escape from the unrelenting horror of the next four years. 

It's just gotten so commercial. Not like the good old days
when George Lucas was just making art for art's sake.