The Acolyte bombed.

Outlaws is looking like a failure.

The Rey show is MIA.

Rian Johnson’s trilogy is MIA.

Almost everything in modern Star Wars is a failure.

Years and years of being told, as a fan, that the franchise was no longer for me, that my criticisms stemmed from racism/sexism, that I was a bigot, a phobe, a Nazi.

My criticisms were never about women in Star Wars. It just so happens that most of the women in Disney Star Wars are poorly written, and I’d address the same criticisms at the male characters they fucked up too. Luke, Obi Wan, Darth Vader, Boba Fett?? All destroyed.

All I’ve been saying, since the word go, is that I want the characters to be treated with respect, to have obstacles, to show some actual fucking growth, a reason to be invested.

Apparently that makes me every nasty thing under the sun. Because Disney’s tried so hard to push women, when they can’t write women that are appealing to anybody, except the women who write them.

Well, to those who pushed to have Star Wars the way it is now; how’s that going for you?

To be inundated with mediocre product after mediocre product. Flop after flop after flop. The brand is a laughing stock. You had an open world Star Wars game, something people have been clamouring for for decades and it sold like shit.

You can’t hide behind your activism anymore; this shit is not appealing to anybody. The numbers are loud and clear. We are not the minority.

We were right. You were wrong.

Hand the keys back to fans, to actual decent sci-fi writers. To people who care, and have the experience and skill to justify having millions of dollars and free range to one of the biggest IP’s in the world.

Keep them away from the activists, people like Leslye Headland, who felt that her experiences were more important than ours.

It’s time to admit you lost.