I'm asking this with 100% sincerity:

Who is still following this series? It's like it has an anti-fanbase that hates everything about it yet it still has toys and games that sell well. It's not even like the haters are a vocal minority either. Who is this appealing to if so many people don't like it? Is it purely nostalgia that drives it now?

>>211478631 (OP)
its pure nostalgia
with almost no exception its gone downhill in at least the last 10 years and by some metrics the last 30

>>211478631 (OP)
I haven't watched any of these since the prequels

>>211478631 (OP)
>it still has toys and games that sell well
I have bad news for you

>>211479025
What? They don't sell well either? I thought those EA games did well?

>>211478631 (OP)
I like Lucas' 6 movie saga. I like Genndy Wars. I like some of the EU and some of the games. Most of what Disney has done with it is very embarrassing. People view it as a cultural symbol and there's truth to it. The utter sloppification of Star Wars is comparable to the downfall of le West, as are the perpetrators. I don't waste much energy on hating the Disney slop though. My main concern with the brand is the cultural relevance of the Prequels, which in my opinion are the pinnacle of the story.

>>211479493
>My main concern with the brand is the cultural relevance of the Prequels, which in my opinion are the pinnacle of the story.
You are in the minority, my friend.

>>211479059
It depends. I think the Jedi games did okay but remember the second one having terrible performance, which may have impacted sales. Battlefront should have done well but EA got so greedy that there was literal laws being made over its abusive monetization scheme. No idea about the dogfight game. I don't think anyone even remembers it exists. Disney's opened up the license and Ubisoft took a massive shit on it recently. That's about how things stand right now.

>>211479625
I usually am and sadly it's not even contrarianism on my end most of the time.

>>211479493
no matter how much I like anything I'll never like a single part of Europe.

>>211478631 (OP)
Obviously less people now, but the main movies are incredible in their drop off in quality, still it’s one of the better series of films to date

Give it a few years and you'll see one of the strangest fucking mainstream gimmicks for fiction everywhere that makes multiverse crap look sane and Star Wars will be a big, bright target for it.
>what if we take X
>but Z happens instead of Y?

>>211479798
If you don't fuck with Italy, France, Germany and Spain, you're a total philistine.

>>211478631 (OP)
I still love the work ILM did with the first three, other than that the franchise is dead to me.

>>211479493
based take

It's a series for children. What Disney has done to it is hideous except Andor and rogue one but only because those are interesting to connect the prequels to the OT. The Xwing games were great. The force and Jedi, are faggy. But in the end it's for children and that's okay. Millenials we're supposed to grow out of it and secretly let their kids find it and enjoy it, and when they become just a little older it helps to bond kids and parents during those weird teenage years. If you're a childless adult and your house is filled with Star wars stuff, gas yourself.

>>211480772
Yeah but even kids today don't like it. They think it's just as terrible as the adults do.

>>211481249
Yes. What Disney did is hideous. But it's still for children.

>>211478631 (OP)
It's a franchise with 3 big eras
>The Original trilogy era
>The Prequel era
>The Disney era

I like the OT and Prequel era but loathe everything Disney has done with the franchise and haven't watched any of it since The Rise of Skywalker

>>211478631 (OP)
>Who is still following this series?
The young males in their mid 20s to early 30s that grew up with the prequels.

>>211480070
Comics already did that. It's called Star Wars Infinities.

>>211478631 (OP)
I never did. This franchise is hot garbage through and through. But Andor was some actually good TV so I’ll check out if they do something similar again.

>>211482844
Comics are not mainstream though.

>>211482576
>The young males in their mid 20s to early 30s that grew up with the prequels.
I don't think they are. There's not really this revisionist history that the prequels are somehow good just because later movies are terrible. That said the cartoons were alright.

It has like 3 good movies, a couple ok movies and the Genndy short animations. That ratio is ever worse than the Jurassic Park franchise.

>>211478631 (OP)
I love what lucas did(six movies and clone wars) and that's it
Everything else is not 'really' star wars anyway

>>211485880
The prequels are good Star Wars content.
YWNBAW

>>211478631 (OP)
It still has a large fan base. Unlike the MCU.

>>211486337
>The prequels are good Star Wars content.
This is not the high praise you think it seems to be.

>>211480772
its a series for people to understand how media was before it was dominated by jews. the whole series is about the politics of ww1, ww2, korea/vietnam, ect. Its not a 'series for children'. It's a series for white people about white history and your brain rejects it when you see it filled with nonwhites and nonwhite ideas.

>>211478631 (OP)
idk. lots of retards these days that love to fight for the underdog

>>211478631 (OP)
I feel like we've come full circle. Star Wars was meant to be be for dorks but became a global mainstream phenomenon, remained a normie mainstay for decades, and now the only people who have actually watched most Star Wars contents are fucking dorks