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Could be a case of people rooting against Kathleen Kennedy loudly celebrating the movie's failure.

I'm not losing sleep over the possibility of her getting fired (lord knows Lucasfilm could use fresh new leadership), but the kind of hate she gets online is disgusting even though she is the individual most responsible for the state of Lucasfilm. I'll also admit I got into Star Wars through Indy and so I detest when people bring up the sequel trilogy in coverage of Dial of Destiny as if just the sheer association with Lucasfilm means they have to bring up SW.

And on the topic of Kennedy, like did Lucas have ANY particularly close business associates after the '80s? He basically set up whoever was to follow him up for failure. I'm not sure most Hollywood executives would have done much differently in Kennedy's place and what really disgusts me is when people act like she somehow bent the whole franchise to serve her feminist agenda when she had next-to-no creative input on the films (her one executive mandate was for TLJ to have a scene where Leia uses the Force) and Lucas's initial drafts of the sequel trilogy already had a female lead. Just as likely Kennedy went with it to ride the coattails of The Hunger Games if anything - and oh yeah I like how so many of these online commentators seem to have completely missed that window of time in the early 2010s when new movies starring famous male action icons were flopping left and right while Hunger Games and Divergent were making bank. I'd much rather have Daisy Ridley than someone like Sam Worthington, Jai Courtney, or Taylor Lautner thank you very much. Though Courtney was enjoyable in The Suicide Squad but that's another topic.

On a more relevant note, oh yeah I like how all these attempts to succeed older male heroes with younger female ones get so much pushback online but there was comparatively less of a fuss made about Courtney's Jack McClane being giving the spotlight in the fifth Die Hard over his father. I mean, okay, no one liked the decision, but people didn't get so fired up about it! I detect sexism.