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I remember in high school our teacher showed us one of your history videos about discrimination during World War 2. It hit me mid-video, "Wait, doesn't this guy make Star Wars videos?" it was so surprising!
It's really sad the star wars channels are somewhat dying, and even sadder that rage bait channels are the ones gaining viewers 😟. I sometimes wonder if this channels increasing hate bait video titles is to tap into that.
It's really sad that Star Wars channels are somewhat dying out. Even sadder that a lot of the ones that are growing are doing so through rage bait. I wonder if this channel's increasing use of rage bait titles is to attract that crowd. (Sorry if this comment posts twice, didn't seem to post the first time)
The most painful thing about this whole situation is how Disney completely squandered the platinum coated golden opportunity to really launch Star Wars back in 2015. They could have done anything but ran the franchise into the ground with a soft reboot that nullified the previous trilogies and ruined the sequel’s chance to have its own story since it was stuck with another rebels vs. empire/light side user vs. dark side order conflict. Then they learned all the wrong lessons from the sequels and now have absolutely no idea what to with Star Wars outside of throwing stuff to the wall and seeing what keeps subs active on Disney+. Now it’s been 10 years since Force Awakens and Star Wars has just never been so apathetic. Even at the heights of the prequel and sequel hate phases, as negative as it was, there was at least engagement and conversation. Now, Star Wars really has become something that people can just ignore and not care about. There’s just nothing special about it anymore and that’s a tragedy.
Well said. They wasted every golden ticket. Such a shame. I don’t any care if this trilogy happens or not. I’m not any sure what would make me happy. I guess a KOTOR story but would need to have someone in charge that loves and understands the story.
Personally I think star wars is in a rut just like after ep3 but at least the prequels had cool stuff happening in the background and there simply was too much too fit into 3 movies, the scale was massive and you wanted to learn more. The sequels well.. nothing really happens without the direct involvement of the 4 main characters and its like all the unique details of the star wars universe was sand blasted off to pave a path for the 4 characters
It’s kids crazy to imagine too, that from episode 1 in 1999 till George sold the right in 2012 that we had ep1 to3, clone wars, the clone wars, all the iconic games from battlefront 1 and 2, empire at war, kotor 1 and 2, Lego starwars, technically the old republic mmo, all the various other games tied to movies on various platforms and all the comic books. And then you have Disney sequels, in almost the same length of time you have rogue one and andor and I guess the first 2 seasons of Mando. Mabye fallen order and Jedi survivor, squadrons and that’s one Lego game? Everything else has been squandered or a bad idea. The sequel trilogy, solo, Mando s3, obiwan, book of boba fett, Asoka, acolyte, battlefront 1 fiasco, battlefront 2 fiasco, outlaws, that one cruise they did (galactic star liner or something), the comics have been inferior too. Just a waste of a decade for starwars, they don’t even touch the sequel trilogy cause there aren’t any worthwhile stories to tell afterwards. Like how did they not see this as a possible issue when they were basically copying everything from the originals? Brain dead decisions Not even mentioning all the other dropped projects and possible trilogies
@@wearsjorge55really it was just 1 character, Poe was just "offscreen immortal" like Johnson(of Halo fame), and Finn was just shit on by the creators after TFA, Rey was literally just a plot device but without her the sequels just didn't happen... It's that pathetic.
i just wish star wars would stop announce a new movie evry 5 min its frankly getting dump same with tv series where is the lando series hmm or rangers of the new republic
@@cipher48Yeah, shit was dumb we really shoulda got that show. It was NOT that big of a deal, and the elements of it they were forced to sprinkle in Mando S3 and Ahsoka too low-key had way more negative affect
@@joshuasatterwhite9520 Bro, she said being a republican is like being a jew in the holocaust. You cant say absolutely brainless shit like that in a function which requires you to be in the spotlight. And instead of at least retracting the statement, she doubled down. She is just a delusional moron.
I personally like seeing so many people in the film industry have the dignity to give up dealing with the company and just walk away from a potentially extremely lucrative or prestigious project. Gets the point across better than any of us trying to reason with execs, or at least I hope it will eventually after enough money is blown on unfinished projects to start affecting that bottom line.
It also means that if somebody wanted to start a totally new space opera of their own it wouldn't be too hard to totally replace star wars and make it a long forgotten part of the past.
switching writers, directors, whatever, ALWAYS kills any project. it's stupid, either pay your creators to see it through or get out. They are killing their franchise and pretty soon it won't turn a profit smh
@ninjalectualx id say it's more sexist for you to think gender is what people don't like about Kathleen. If a man made the same creative decisions he'd get the same amount of vitriol, Rian Johnson didn't get special treatment
@@ninjalectualx You don't think women are equal to men that's why you assumed his take was based on her sex when in reality it's only based on her performance.
Star Wars is one of, if not the biggest franshise to ever exist. There is not a single person on the planet, outside of Amazonian tribes and island cultures, that haven't at least heard of Star Wars. The fact that Disney, Lucusfilms and Kathleen Kennedy managed to continuously make such bad decisions and ruin the franshise is nothing short of infuriating. Let them continue to mess up. Let them continue to make their embarrassing mistakes. Let the humiliation continue. I love Star Wars, I was Obi-wan and then Anakin for 2 Halloweens. But everything that's happened to the franchise over the past ten years is just so... sad. I can't even be bothered to keep up on the new lore. it just makes me angry to think that they did so little with so much.
Disney and Kennedy have a problem. How do they make Star Wars a successful franchise while INSISTING on DELIBERATELY making products they KNOW the fans are going to hate. Especially now that the 'modern audience' that they were counting on to replace the REAL Star Wars fans with barely turned up.. They could have built upon George Lucas's legacy in the manner of the Expanded Universe, honouring what came before while evolving the storyline further. Instead they took the approach of degrading and destroying the legacy aspects - including the characters - of Star Wars , while attempting to replace them with something more to their own taste, even if it didn't make sense (also, that last minute substitute of a replacement 'Skywalker' after deliberately killing off the original family was absolutely clunky). Favreau has attempted to return Star Wars to it's roots, but as long as Kathleen Kennedy and her minions are around, he's constantly going to be facing an uphill battle. I think another issue has been that people have joined Lucasfilm with the genuine intention of making things the Star Wars fans will love, only to discover that's exactly what the activists running the place - including the boss - DON'T want..
The fact that they announced this at Celebration and got Daisy Ridley to do it is embarrassing. Not just for Lucasfilm but for Daisy as it now looks in development hell. I don't think a Rey movie should be a priority at all as her character arc looked finished at the end of the sequel trilogy.
But Star Wars always existed within a capitalist system. The original movie was capitalized to oblivion so is it really capitalism? @@kentocogburn4553
Star Wars was a story written & told by George Lucas. It was his vision. His dream. When you sever the connection between a story & its author, it dies. I don't care what people choose to criticize about the Prequels or Return of the Jedi. They are the heart of a narrative. A narrative that disney & execs have refused to give the same kind of love & compassion to. Re-writes, re-directs, gender politics, focus groups, etc. None of those things will fill that hole. Write a story & see it through.
Eckhart, when I think of all the great Star Wars stories that Disney could have brought forth from the wonderful Dark Horse comics and the books, I feel an enormous sense of loss. Not just for the stories that were written, but for all the unwritten stories forever laying dormant in the minds of the talented writers and artists that wisely refused to touch Disney with a ten foot pole. But I also feel the loss of the myriad moments of people like us bonding over those stories. It really hurts, knowing that in the end guys like The Critical Drinker were right about the consequences of Disney's endless mismanagement. Maybe in 40 or 50 years we'll get a small Star Wars revival like with Flash Gordon in the 1980s, and someone will be inspired by it to hold groundbreaking puppet shows in the newly rad-free ruins of today's theatres... Sigh.
I don't understand how Kathleen Kennedy hasn't been fired. Like we all meme about her all the time but in all seriousness no manager could oversee this many dumpster fires and keep their job.
At this point they are too into wanting all people to love their work. Most of what they have put out recently is just hyper-safe fluff. They don't seem to be willing to take any chances on things. Which is probably why we keep seeing writers and directors quit projects. If you aren't willing to let a writer or director explore their vision and be creative. Then what is the point in hiring them. I would quit too if every draft I handed had notes every time I viered off the safe path. Or at least that is what I assume is happening, as they have gotten a bunch of big names, and compitant people who could do a good star wars movie attached to things. Then once they get announced and work on things for a few months they quit or get removed from the project.
Thanks for that perfect book list Eck! I wish I had that when I started gettin into SW audiobooks 4 years ago. Because I just finished I, Jedi and the Thrawn Duology within the last 6 months simply because I didn't really know about them. Unfortunately tho, I've listened to all of those on your list now (except the 2 that aren't unabridged yet.) So time to keep listening to new books and seeing what else is out there!
It would be nice if Disney would stop shooting itself in the foot. I think what would help is if they stop trying to decide everything by the marketing committee
The channel update was nice. I've been here since almost the very beginning, throughout all the Sequels hype (and discussions...) and the EaW campaigns over on EcksToo. Your other channels are not for me but it's great to hear that you're successful with them. My interest in Star Wars has sadly reduced over the past view years from its peak in ~2020 but I'm here for the long ride none the less! :)
speaking of starwars dying i feel like this greatly accelerated by the bandwagon of the ‘culture war’ and controversy between creators we all wish the culture war bs didn’t seep into starwars but it is simply just a symtom of a long running franchise thats in a rutt if you guys dont want starwars to die off support shows like andor, visions, bad batch, the mandalorian etc. to show lucas films what we want
Disney can't stop announcing their projects because they are so bad that if they waited to announce until it was about to come out, it would be absolutely disastrous. Disney has sold its soul to stakeholder investors and had no real exit plan on how to operate without their money. This train only has one stop: Getting Sold.
Ya, it is very demoralizing to see so many movies never happen. I do not care what the reasons were it shows how poorly things are run over at Disney with Star Wars. That they couldn't overcome issues to make at least a few happen. They just poofed into thin air and that was that. When you combine that with the quality of the streaming shows being so sporadic it really makes you just want to jump ship and not wait for them to get their shit together. Also sucks that you are feeling under the weather with the voice. Get better soon mate whatever it is!
Disney has been screwing up a LOT of their franchises and films of late. Marvel is also failing and the Disney animated films have not been hits for a long time. Right now, Disney seems more focused on developing Disney+, and the interest in the franchises are at an all time low. EVen if Skeleton Crew is a hit...I don't think that will be enough to restart things.
This is a Disney problem. They do it with all the films they are “making”, but Marvel and Lucasfilm are the worst for it because they are Cinematic Universes, and it’s clear that they aren’t actually doing the work to actually build the universe anymore in a cohesive way. Projects are being announced with no plans other than a star attached (see Blade) or a name. They need to put Star Wars in a box for a few years, fire everyone, and then come back after they’ve made an American Graffiti reboot or something that’s been tepidly accepted as “huh not too bad”. It worked for Star Trek, and regardless of what you think of the individual shows, it’s a good time to be a Trekkie with lots of arguably good stuff coming out, and perhaps that approach can work for Star Wars too. Also Eck, what the heck was that song at the end? That”s not how the videos are supposed to wrap up…i was confused as the poor doggo was being all shook up to some new music! Please reinstate the normal end music. Thank you.
I think part of the problem is intense exec management. Disney doesn't want SW movies to fail after the production problems of Solo, Rogue One (even if that movie turned out well in the end) or the strategic failure of the sequel trilogy. The result is intense micromanagement and focus groups as they try to make it perfect and maximum box office draw. The result is writers and directors get fed up and leave for other projects and the film dies a slow death.
I had no idea about t he other channels. That's awesome man! I'm so happy you get to live your passion. Wish you had our in the name of the marvel channel, would love to check it out
I think their smaller projects have actually been pretty good, mando, andor, visions, bad batch,even that new lego spinoff. When its a smaller less known project they seem to do fairly well. I honestly wouldnt complain if star wars from now on was mostly these smaller projects.
It's going to be the better part of the next five to ten years before star wars reclaims any kind of glory, and that's assuming they make any good content. Based on the plans they had for the Acolyte, they had nothing but garbage planned. I wouldn't place any kind of huge bet on this franchise and things going back to where they were.. Right now it's holding on to Faverau's member berries and even that is getting stale.
I think that much like Star Wars, Marvel stuff has been put out and announced so often that a lot of it is dying in preproduction as well. I mean they just took the new Blade movie off of the release docket. Disney is trying to put out too much too quickly and it's just ending badly.
I think Disney is still absolutely without a plan. I'd love too see Heirs of the Empire in cinema. But I doubt it will ever be made. A bunch of fans could do more creative stuff!
We are truly divided now, unfortunately. I also feel as though TH-cam, with their information checks and community strikes, could very well be trying to divide us as well. Just my two cents.
@@kodyshaw6991 “Your father’s lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.” - Obi-Wan Kenobi Then Luke later threw it off a cliff... drank green milk... taught Rey nothing... and she magically became all powerful.
@Aetoski Yes, I remember the movies. But for all intents and purposes, Anakins lightsaber wasn't "Luke's". He inherited it, sure, but his lightsaber is the one he made in RotJ. By saying Anakins lightsaber is now Luke's because of inheritance, then by that logic it becomes Rey's by the same rules. I dont like that outcome, so I refer to the blue Skywalker lightsaber as Anakins.
#askeks What are your thoughts on SW fan content such as fan stories? Do you think there will be a day that side of SW will be covered/reviewed or is the (water) well for official SW content such as from the movies, TV, games, and books larger than I think it is? I mention this because to me it seems that the content from SW seems to be going in circles when it comes to what content creators of SW talk about.
idk who to believe, cause daisy ridley said she expects an announcement about the rey movie soon and she seemed pretty happy about it so idk, two conflicting reports
Hi ecks #askeks could you you make a video on when how why the vong took over there galaxy and how they got to the main galaxy or if not pls do how the old republic worked
They already said he left due to creative differences. AKA he wanted to do his thing but Disney will never not micromanage everything to ensure is as bland and formulaic as possible, wouldn't want any interesting things to happen in our movies now, would we.
The problem is Kathleen Kennedy is the worst studio head in the history of movies. She has absolutely no idea what she's doing. She took the biggest money making franchise of all time, and made it worth less than Star Trek. That almost takes work. You almost have to do that on purpose.
First off: eck get some rest and get well! Second: honestly u have the voice and verbal skills of a god and would fit perfectly for a top tier news ancor (or any other well payed job focusing on verbal speaking). From what i’ve learned, star wars is alot like the economy: it goes up and down in popularity(especially with disney) but in the long run, it will always pull a good crowd. If you decide to stay with us star wars fans, we would be very happy. But you do have big carrier in front of you, and if star wars is not as big of part of it, you will do great and best of luck to you sir!
It literally would be better if they just stopped promising the community stuff, and work on something people might actually like a bit more. Disney just seems to be fumbling with their bag as of late, and the sequels weren't all bad, but yeah. I say keep their money where their mouth is.
@askeck - Have you seen all the new comics that have recently been announced and began releasing? Are you/ have you been interested in Star Wars comics at all? It doesn’t seem like you talk much about them.
I have some ideas why they don't, and more about why they won't, but I kind of wish that, as they've seen more and more of their modern ideas go down, they'd maybe look back more, and see what used to work, and make us something from them. It's not like Disney is incapable of making good stories, and good films. I don't know if they are just trying to appeal to too many people; to too wide of an audience, or if that audience has even diversified so much? It just seems like there should be plenty of successful content to look back at, and adapt, or even just be inspired by, even if I might prefer that, at this point, they leave that alone, but I think they are tossing a net too broad, and the mesh holes are so wide that it isn't catching stuff, while a lot of us who have been along for the ride for decades don't like the boat out doing the fishing.
What do you think about the technological compatibility in the EU??? I mean like the Lost tribe was able to repair the Omen with “modern” technology even though the Omen was 5000+ years old at that point and the Tribe had no prior knowledge of that technology. And it’s not uncommon to hear about ancient technology being used and modified with new tech. #askeck
Do what the wrestling youtube channels did during the early 2010s dark ages and go back to the elden days, basically finding the best stuff then the wackiest stuff in the old marvel starwars comics.
I have nothing against Daisy Ridley but Rey represents a complete undermining of Luke and anakins story. We return to the galaxy after 30 years in both real time and in universe time What do we get? Well the empire rises to power again under another Sith Lord and apprentice. The apprentice just happens to be Luke’s nephew whom Luke, himself, corrupted when contemplating killing him(even for a split second). Said apprentice just impales Han and send his corpse into the abyss (a villains death) and he has nothing to show for it. I know fans are obsessed with Rey being a “nobody” but I’d argue that this is nonsensical, specifically the desire for the main character of the Skywalker saga to have no relationship to the Skywalkers (as a pupil, blood relative, etc). However, this is a detriment, I’d argue: again so far we’ve seen everything the characters in the OT achieved totally undone(including their personal growth). At the very least can the OT cast in their golden years pull through and perhaps serve as strong mentors to these young newcomers? The answer of course is “No”: Hans nothing but a dead beat dad to a Sith Lord whos only in this movie as a cameo and then he dies. Leia is literally in a coma for the majority of her screen time and it’s officially because Disney didn’t want her to overshadow their own characters. Luke of course is an asshole who contemplates killing Ben, corrupting him and doing nothing to right his own wrongs: when confronted with Luke’s avatar Ben asks if came to redeem him and Luke says “No”. Luke doesn’t train Rey so her empowerment can’t be his in the process nor will he ever a hand whatsoever in reforming the Jedi order. Rey basically single-handedly achieves everything in this trilogy and thus claims every victory that was supposed to be Luke Han and Leias Finally, back to Rey’s lineage, if Rey was Han’s daughter then at least Han’s existence wouldn’t be on vain . Although his death was terrible at least we know that the daughter the raised and perhaps protected on Jakku lived and became a solid pilot and a Jedi. This is why it frustrates me when people obsess over Rey being a nobody: it’s as if it’s a good thing that Han Leia and Luke’s story was totally undermined and it confirms the fact that this trilogy is to do nothing more than (as Doug walker put it) “wipe the slate clean” of the original saga
Wait? New Jedi Order movie? Based on the Legends books of the same name? Or is it going to go in a new direction? Because as much as I love the Yuuzhan Vong, I dont think they're the kind of thing Disney would want to introduce into their canon.
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I remember in high school our teacher showed us one of your history videos about discrimination during World War 2. It hit me mid-video, "Wait, doesn't this guy make Star Wars videos?" it was so surprising!
It's really sad the star wars channels are somewhat dying, and even sadder that rage bait channels are the ones gaining viewers 😟. I sometimes wonder if this channels increasing hate bait video titles is to tap into that.
It's really sad that Star Wars channels are somewhat dying out. Even sadder that a lot of the ones that are growing are doing so through rage bait. I wonder if this channel's increasing use of rage bait titles is to attract that crowd.
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The most painful thing about this whole situation is how Disney completely squandered the platinum coated golden opportunity to really launch Star Wars back in 2015. They could have done anything but ran the franchise into the ground with a soft reboot that nullified the previous trilogies and ruined the sequel’s chance to have its own story since it was stuck with another rebels vs. empire/light side user vs. dark side order conflict.
Then they learned all the wrong lessons from the sequels and now have absolutely no idea what to with Star Wars outside of throwing stuff to the wall and seeing what keeps subs active on Disney+.
Now it’s been 10 years since Force Awakens and Star Wars has just never been so apathetic. Even at the heights of the prequel and sequel hate phases, as negative as it was, there was at least engagement and conversation.
Now, Star Wars really has become something that people can just ignore and not care about. There’s just nothing special about it anymore and that’s a tragedy.
Well said. They wasted every golden ticket. Such a shame. I don’t any care if this trilogy happens or not. I’m not any sure what would make me happy.
I guess a KOTOR story but would need to have someone in charge that loves and understands the story.
Personally I think star wars is in a rut just like after ep3 but at least the prequels had cool stuff happening in the background and there simply was too much too fit into 3 movies, the scale was massive and you wanted to learn more. The sequels well.. nothing really happens without the direct involvement of the 4 main characters and its like all the unique details of the star wars universe was sand blasted off to pave a path for the 4 characters
It’s kids crazy to imagine too, that from episode 1 in 1999 till George sold the right in 2012 that we had ep1 to3, clone wars, the clone wars, all the iconic games from battlefront 1 and 2, empire at war, kotor 1 and 2, Lego starwars, technically the old republic mmo, all the various other games tied to movies on various platforms and all the comic books.
And then you have Disney sequels, in almost the same length of time you have rogue one and andor and I guess the first 2 seasons of Mando. Mabye fallen order and Jedi survivor, squadrons and that’s one Lego game?
Everything else has been squandered or a bad idea. The sequel trilogy, solo, Mando s3, obiwan, book of boba fett, Asoka, acolyte, battlefront 1 fiasco, battlefront 2 fiasco, outlaws, that one cruise they did (galactic star liner or something), the comics have been inferior too.
Just a waste of a decade for starwars, they don’t even touch the sequel trilogy cause there aren’t any worthwhile stories to tell afterwards. Like how did they not see this as a possible issue when they were basically copying everything from the originals? Brain dead decisions
Not even mentioning all the other dropped projects and possible trilogies
@@wearsjorge55really it was just 1 character, Poe was just "offscreen immortal" like Johnson(of Halo fame), and Finn was just shit on by the creators after TFA, Rey was literally just a plot device but without her the sequels just didn't happen... It's that pathetic.
Apathy is death.
i just wish star wars would stop announce a new movie evry 5 min its frankly getting dump same with tv series where is the lando series hmm or rangers of the new republic
Didn't rangers got deleted because of that hole controversy Disney had with Gina Carano?
@@cipher48Yeah, shit was dumb we really shoulda got that show. It was NOT that big of a deal, and the elements of it they were forced to sprinkle in Mando S3 and Ahsoka too low-key had way more negative affect
Proofreading is your friend.
Lando series is now a film
@@joshuasatterwhite9520 Bro, she said being a republican is like being a jew in the holocaust. You cant say absolutely brainless shit like that in a function which requires you to be in the spotlight. And instead of at least retracting the statement, she doubled down. She is just a delusional moron.
I personally like seeing so many people in the film industry have the dignity to give up dealing with the company and just walk away from a potentially extremely lucrative or prestigious project. Gets the point across better than any of us trying to reason with execs, or at least I hope it will eventually after enough money is blown on unfinished projects to start affecting that bottom line.
It also means that if somebody wanted to start a totally new space opera of their own it wouldn't be too hard to totally replace star wars and make it a long forgotten part of the past.
"I have no idea what's going on but it's going to get worse"
Sounds like Disney Star Wars
"I get asked if im that guy and yeah, i am that guy" chad answer
"Hey, are you that guy?"
"Yes."
@@AJadedLizard you're not that guy!
switching writers, directors, whatever, ALWAYS kills any project. it's stupid, either pay your creators to see it through or get out. They are killing their franchise and pretty soon it won't turn a profit smh
It already isn't. They lose a shitton of money on Disney plus
I wish for Star Wars to go independent again and not shackle by disney
No.
Let the embarrassment continue.
Nah, I think sooner rather than later, Lucasfilm will want the embarrassment to end... the fans' embarrassment, that is.
So glad the doggo's back
Feel better soon
May the force be with you❤🇨🇦
Those lore TH-camrs you just mentioned should be in one massive Discord Group where it’s full of Star Wars Lore TH-camrs like yourself
There is a hate between certain youtubers. Almost an ideological dispute
That’s really unfortunate
Justin is one of the most real and genuine content creators I’ve ever watched. Keep up the great work man, long live the Eckpire!
Kathleen Kennedy needs to go. She is the common factor
LMAO get lost with this sexist take. If Star Wars is too woke for you then go watch Lady Ballers or whatever you weirdos are into
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@@ninjalectualx nice trolling, I've almost believed.
@ninjalectualx id say it's more sexist for you to think gender is what people don't like about Kathleen. If a man made the same creative decisions he'd get the same amount of vitriol, Rian Johnson didn't get special treatment
@@ninjalectualx You don't think women are equal to men that's why you assumed his take was based on her sex when in reality it's only based on her performance.
By this point, the only Star Wars content I'm waiting for is one we make in our Star Wars RP group. We start CIS campaign next week, lol.
Star Wars is one of, if not the biggest franshise to ever exist. There is not a single person on the planet, outside of Amazonian tribes and island cultures, that haven't at least heard of Star Wars. The fact that Disney, Lucusfilms and Kathleen Kennedy managed to continuously make such bad decisions and ruin the franshise is nothing short of infuriating. Let them continue to mess up. Let them continue to make their embarrassing mistakes. Let the humiliation continue. I love Star Wars, I was Obi-wan and then Anakin for 2 Halloweens. But everything that's happened to the franchise over the past ten years is just so... sad. I can't even be bothered to keep up on the new lore. it just makes me angry to think that they did so little with so much.
Disney and Kennedy have a problem. How do they make Star Wars a successful franchise while INSISTING on DELIBERATELY making products they KNOW the fans are going to hate.
Especially now that the 'modern audience' that they were counting on to replace the REAL Star Wars fans with barely turned up..
They could have built upon George Lucas's legacy in the manner of the Expanded Universe, honouring what came before while evolving the storyline further.
Instead they took the approach of degrading and destroying the legacy aspects - including the characters - of Star Wars , while attempting to replace them with something more to their own taste, even if it didn't make sense (also, that last minute substitute of a replacement 'Skywalker' after deliberately killing off the original family was absolutely clunky).
Favreau has attempted to return Star Wars to it's roots, but as long as Kathleen Kennedy and her minions are around, he's constantly going to be facing an uphill battle.
I think another issue has been that people have joined Lucasfilm with the genuine intention of making things the Star Wars fans will love, only to discover that's exactly what the activists running the place - including the boss - DON'T want..
The “outro music” outro is sending me 🤣🤣
Hope you feel better soon Eck
Star Wars just feels cursed at this point. It needs a change in leadership if there's any hope for salvaging it.
The fact that they announced this at Celebration and got Daisy Ridley to do it is embarrassing. Not just for Lucasfilm but for Daisy as it now looks in development hell. I don't think a Rey movie should be a priority at all as her character arc looked finished at the end of the sequel trilogy.
Let Star Wars die for a while. Wait for someone who REALLY cares with a good idea to come along. They need to stop forcing content
What has happened to Star Wars
It’s at a low point right now
Fanfiction writers from Tumblr are in charge.
Capitalism
But Star Wars always existed within a capitalist system. The original movie was capitalized to oblivion so is it really capitalism? @@kentocogburn4553
Star Wars was a story written & told by George Lucas. It was his vision. His dream. When you sever the connection between a story & its author, it dies. I don't care what people choose to criticize about the Prequels or Return of the Jedi. They are the heart of a narrative. A narrative that disney & execs have refused to give the same kind of love & compassion to. Re-writes, re-directs, gender politics, focus groups, etc. None of those things will fill that hole. Write a story & see it through.
Eckhart, when I think of all the great Star Wars stories that Disney could have brought forth from the wonderful Dark Horse comics and the books, I feel an enormous sense of loss. Not just for the stories that were written, but for all the unwritten stories forever laying dormant in the minds of the talented writers and artists that wisely refused to touch Disney with a ten foot pole.
But I also feel the loss of the myriad moments of people like us bonding over those stories. It really hurts, knowing that in the end guys like The Critical Drinker were right about the consequences of Disney's endless mismanagement. Maybe in 40 or 50 years we'll get a small Star Wars revival like with Flash Gordon in the 1980s, and someone will be inspired by it to hold groundbreaking puppet shows in the newly rad-free ruins of today's theatres...
Sigh.
Just gonna ignore the World Devastators going full hog in the background?
Someone should tell them its ment to be "under promise and over deliver" and not the other way round🤷
I love this channel because you still talk about legends
If Disney made every SW movie they announced, we'd have one in the cinemas every six months 😂
I don't understand how Kathleen Kennedy hasn't been fired. Like we all meme about her all the time but in all seriousness no manager could oversee this many dumpster fires and keep their job.
At this point they are too into wanting all people to love their work. Most of what they have put out recently is just hyper-safe fluff. They don't seem to be willing to take any chances on things. Which is probably why we keep seeing writers and directors quit projects. If you aren't willing to let a writer or director explore their vision and be creative. Then what is the point in hiring them. I would quit too if every draft I handed had notes every time I viered off the safe path. Or at least that is what I assume is happening, as they have gotten a bunch of big names, and compitant people who could do a good star wars movie attached to things. Then once they get announced and work on things for a few months they quit or get removed from the project.
Thanks for that perfect book list Eck! I wish I had that when I started gettin into SW audiobooks 4 years ago. Because I just finished I, Jedi and the Thrawn Duology within the last 6 months simply because I didn't really know about them. Unfortunately tho, I've listened to all of those on your list now (except the 2 that aren't unabridged yet.) So time to keep listening to new books and seeing what else is out there!
I have a second list of general sci-fi recommendations if you're looking for more :)
It would be nice if Disney would stop shooting itself in the foot. I think what would help is if they stop trying to decide everything by the marketing committee
The channel update was nice. I've been here since almost the very beginning, throughout all the Sequels hype (and discussions...) and the EaW campaigns over on EcksToo. Your other channels are not for me but it's great to hear that you're successful with them.
My interest in Star Wars has sadly reduced over the past view years from its peak in ~2020 but I'm here for the long ride none the less! :)
Yeah studios announcing a film, show, game, etc. Before work has even begun needs to stop
speaking of starwars dying
i feel like this greatly accelerated by the bandwagon of the ‘culture war’ and controversy between creators
we all wish the culture war bs didn’t seep into starwars but it is simply just a symtom of a long running franchise thats in a rutt
if you guys dont want starwars to die off support shows like andor, visions, bad batch, the mandalorian etc. to show lucas films what we want
"the Eck Empire" just hit with Obi screaming "your new empire" ahh good memes :D
Disney can't stop announcing their projects because they are so bad that if they waited to announce until it was about to come out, it would be absolutely disastrous. Disney has sold its soul to stakeholder investors and had no real exit plan on how to operate without their money. This train only has one stop: Getting Sold.
Ya, it is very demoralizing to see so many movies never happen. I do not care what the reasons were it shows how poorly things are run over at Disney with Star Wars. That they couldn't overcome issues to make at least a few happen. They just poofed into thin air and that was that. When you combine that with the quality of the streaming shows being so sporadic it really makes you just want to jump ship and not wait for them to get their shit together.
Also sucks that you are feeling under the weather with the voice. Get better soon mate whatever it is!
Disney has been screwing up a LOT of their franchises and films of late. Marvel is also failing and the Disney animated films have not been hits for a long time. Right now, Disney seems more focused on developing Disney+, and the interest in the franchises are at an all time low. EVen if Skeleton Crew is a hit...I don't think that will be enough to restart things.
I always wait for the end because of the doggy ❤ 😂
This is a Disney problem. They do it with all the films they are “making”, but Marvel and Lucasfilm are the worst for it because they are Cinematic Universes, and it’s clear that they aren’t actually doing the work to actually build the universe anymore in a cohesive way. Projects are being announced with no plans other than a star attached (see Blade) or a name. They need to put Star Wars in a box for a few years, fire everyone, and then come back after they’ve made an American Graffiti reboot or something that’s been tepidly accepted as “huh not too bad”. It worked for Star Trek, and regardless of what you think of the individual shows, it’s a good time to be a Trekkie with lots of arguably good stuff coming out, and perhaps that approach can work for Star Wars too.
Also Eck, what the heck was that song at the end? That”s not how the videos are supposed to wrap up…i was confused as the poor doggo was being all shook up to some new music! Please reinstate the normal end music. Thank you.
"Disney is embarrassing itself."
"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
I let Star Wars die in my life during the sickening acolyte.
Disney's been doing that for years
I think part of the problem is intense exec management. Disney doesn't want SW movies to fail after the production problems of Solo, Rogue One (even if that movie turned out well in the end) or the strategic failure of the sequel trilogy. The result is intense micromanagement and focus groups as they try to make it perfect and maximum box office draw. The result is writers and directors get fed up and leave for other projects and the film dies a slow death.
I had no idea about t he other channels. That's awesome man! I'm so happy you get to live your passion. Wish you had our in the name of the marvel channel, would love to check it out
N64 Rogue Squadron! *Happy memories*
I think their smaller projects have actually been pretty good, mando, andor, visions, bad batch,even that new lego spinoff. When its a smaller less known project they seem to do fairly well. I honestly wouldnt complain if star wars from now on was mostly these smaller projects.
It's going to be the better part of the next five to ten years before star wars reclaims any kind of glory, and that's assuming they make any good content.
Based on the plans they had for the Acolyte, they had nothing but garbage planned.
I wouldn't place any kind of huge bet on this franchise and things going back to where they were.. Right now it's holding on to Faverau's member berries and even that is getting stale.
I think that much like Star Wars, Marvel stuff has been put out and announced so often that a lot of it is dying in preproduction as well. I mean they just took the new Blade movie off of the release docket. Disney is trying to put out too much too quickly and it's just ending badly.
My kid loves your hockey channel. I enjoy the Star Wars ones. Eck is a household name👍
I knew it was you on those random football videos!
I think Disney is still absolutely without a plan. I'd love too see Heirs of the Empire in cinema. But I doubt it will ever be made. A bunch of fans could do more creative stuff!
At least Timothy Zahn is keeping my hope alive with both Thrawn trilogies
"We are working tirelessly, around the clock, for a ceas--the Rey movie."
I remember seeing one of your earlier videos way back, I think it was the top 5 city planets but then the vs series came along and I was hooked
We are truly divided now, unfortunately. I also feel as though TH-cam, with their information checks and community strikes, could very well be trying to divide us as well. Just my two cents.
once again I feel bad for Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.
Rey movie needs to be burried... Like she burried Luke's Saber
Didn't she bury Anakin's saber?
@@kodyshaw6991 It was originally Anakin Skywalker's. then it became Luke Skywalker's. then it became Rey Palpatine's
@@kodyshaw6991 “Your father’s lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.” - Obi-Wan Kenobi
Then Luke later threw it off a cliff... drank green milk... taught Rey nothing... and she magically became all powerful.
@Aetoski Yes, I remember the movies. But for all intents and purposes, Anakins lightsaber wasn't "Luke's". He inherited it, sure, but his lightsaber is the one he made in RotJ.
By saying Anakins lightsaber is now Luke's because of inheritance, then by that logic it becomes Rey's by the same rules.
I dont like that outcome, so I refer to the blue Skywalker lightsaber as Anakins.
@@kodyshaw6991 If you inherit something it is yours now.
I see your point though. I don't like the sequels either lol
Don’t worry my man Justin. You still got the voice of the goat👊
I've got the voice of A goat right now 😂
"Disney is rushing out low quality films" - everyone gets angry
"Disney is not rushing out films" - everyone gets angry
I want Disney to release Star Wars shows/films in the video game animation style seen in the KoTOR trailers.
I appreciate the Dark Forces gameplay.
It was driving me crazy. I knew that football channel was you yet I never heard of any official confirmation until now.
Outtro music is a banger
Yo didn't know Robert F Kennedy Jr was a member of the eck team
Where did you think we got the giant decorative rotting whale head 🤔
@@EckhartsLadder I didn't even know that was a thing, just looked it up, what in the actual fuck lmao
#askeks
What are your thoughts on SW fan content such as fan stories? Do you think there will be a day that side of SW will be covered/reviewed or is the (water) well for official SW content such as from the movies, TV, games, and books larger than I think it is?
I mention this because to me it seems that the content from SW seems to be going in circles when it comes to what content creators of SW talk about.
Dang you weren't lying about the voice 😅 hope you get to feeling better:)
Outro is poggers!
I’m losing my mind.
I was in Halifax a couple weeks ago. You got the East Coast Cough. Everyone out there sounded like you do. Get well bud.
Yeah, it's really nasty out here right now! Maybe we should stop greeting people with open mouth kisses.
The character we’re the strongest bits? Most if not all were unbearable
idk who to believe, cause daisy ridley said she expects an announcement about the rey movie soon and she seemed pretty happy about it so idk, two conflicting reports
Hi ecks
#askeks could you you make a video on when how why the vong took over there galaxy and how they got to the main galaxy or if not pls do how the old republic worked
I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing. He might have left the project to finish the Peeky Blinders movie, Rogue Heroes, and A Thousand Blows.
They already said he left due to creative differences.
AKA he wanted to do his thing but Disney will never not micromanage everything to ensure is as bland and formulaic as possible, wouldn't want any interesting things to happen in our movies now, would we.
The problem is Kathleen Kennedy is the worst studio head in the history of movies. She has absolutely no idea what she's doing.
She took the biggest money making franchise of all time, and made it worth less than Star Trek. That almost takes work. You almost have to do that on purpose.
First off: eck get some rest and get well!
Second: honestly u have the voice and verbal skills of a god and would fit perfectly for a top tier news ancor (or any other well payed job focusing on verbal speaking).
From what i’ve learned, star wars is alot like the economy: it goes up and down in popularity(especially with disney) but in the long run, it will always pull a good crowd. If you decide to stay with us star wars fans, we would be very happy. But you do have big carrier in front of you, and if star wars is not as big of part of it, you will do great and best of luck to you sir!
It literally would be better if they just stopped promising the community stuff, and work on something people might actually like a bit more. Disney just seems to be fumbling with their bag as of late, and the sequels weren't all bad, but yeah. I say keep their money where their mouth is.
We love you Eck! Been here for years, watching your football stuff now too!
Hey man just wanted to say I hope u feel better, im a big fan but your health is more important and so dont feel pressured if you need to take a break
I wish Star Wars would go away and never come back and be replaced by something better than it was.....Not fucking WH40K
Cool idea with the store
#askecks I've heard people talk about how the Empire would have handled the Vong, but what about the Old Republic?
WOAH Bane 1 being only a 4/6? :sus:
I know a lot of people have thrown hate on KK, some of it undeserving, but she really is a horrible studio head.
Get feelin better bud!
@askeck - Have you seen all the new comics that have recently been announced and began releasing? Are you/ have you been interested in Star Wars comics at all? It doesn’t seem like you talk much about them.
Not really, I talked a bit about the new Jakku one on my clips channel.
I have some ideas why they don't, and more about why they won't, but I kind of wish that, as they've seen more and more of their modern ideas go down, they'd maybe look back more, and see what used to work, and make us something from them. It's not like Disney is incapable of making good stories, and good films. I don't know if they are just trying to appeal to too many people; to too wide of an audience, or if that audience has even diversified so much? It just seems like there should be plenty of successful content to look back at, and adapt, or even just be inspired by, even if I might prefer that, at this point, they leave that alone, but I think they are tossing a net too broad, and the mesh holes are so wide that it isn't catching stuff, while a lot of us who have been along for the ride for decades don't like the boat out doing the fishing.
What do you think about the technological compatibility in the EU??? I mean like the Lost tribe was able to repair the Omen with “modern” technology even though the Omen was 5000+ years old at that point and the Tribe had no prior knowledge of that technology. And it’s not uncommon to hear about ancient technology being used and modified with new tech. #askeck
Do what the wrestling youtube channels did during the early 2010s dark ages and go back to the elden days, basically finding the best stuff then the wackiest stuff in the old marvel starwars comics.
He kinda does that already. Most of his lore is from stuff that wasn't ever published with a Disney sticker on it.
When is it not embarrassing itself
I have nothing against Daisy Ridley but Rey represents a complete undermining of Luke and anakins story. We return to the galaxy after 30 years in both real time and in universe time
What do we get? Well the empire rises to power again under another Sith Lord and apprentice. The apprentice just happens to be Luke’s nephew whom Luke, himself, corrupted when contemplating killing him(even for a split second).
Said apprentice just impales Han and send his corpse into the abyss (a villains death) and he has nothing to show for it.
I know fans are obsessed with Rey being a “nobody” but I’d argue that this is nonsensical, specifically the desire for the main character of the Skywalker saga to have no relationship to the Skywalkers (as a pupil, blood relative, etc). However, this is a detriment, I’d argue: again so far we’ve seen everything the characters in the OT achieved totally undone(including their personal growth). At the very least can the OT cast in their golden years pull through and perhaps serve as strong mentors to these young newcomers?
The answer of course is “No”: Hans nothing but a dead beat dad to a Sith Lord whos only in this movie as a cameo and then he dies. Leia is literally in a coma for the majority of her screen time and it’s officially because Disney didn’t want her to overshadow their own characters. Luke of course is an asshole who contemplates killing Ben, corrupting him and doing nothing to right his own wrongs: when confronted with Luke’s avatar Ben asks if came to redeem him and Luke says “No”. Luke doesn’t train Rey so her empowerment can’t be his in the process nor will he ever a hand whatsoever in reforming the Jedi order. Rey basically single-handedly achieves everything in this trilogy and thus claims every victory that was supposed to be Luke Han and Leias
Finally, back to Rey’s lineage, if Rey was Han’s daughter then at least Han’s existence wouldn’t be on vain . Although his death was terrible at least we know that the daughter the raised and perhaps protected on Jakku lived and became a solid pilot and a Jedi.
This is why it frustrates me when people obsess over Rey being a nobody: it’s as if it’s a good thing that Han Leia and Luke’s story was totally undermined and it confirms the fact that this trilogy is to do nothing more than (as Doug walker put it) “wipe the slate clean” of the original saga
Wait? New Jedi Order movie? Based on the Legends books of the same name? Or is it going to go in a new direction? Because as much as I love the Yuuzhan Vong, I dont think they're the kind of thing Disney would want to introduce into their canon.
It’s the new era after the sequels. It’s to be set 15 years after TROS, so 50 ABY. It would be about Rey and the new Jedi order she founds.
@@chewy99. Gotcha. Thanks.
Thw title should have been: Kathleen Kennedy needs to stop embarrassing Star Wars
No. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@@ninjalectualx way to make the alphabet people look worse
I've got a thing about buying EU books that don't have that stupid Legends banner on them. I buy used.
As I tell Meg, its you and her and nothing else, get better bud.
Have I been gone a while or is that new outtro music..?
Factions compared idea sci fi insect swarm. Such as Tyranids, Arachnids, Zerg, Rachni, Terminids.
Yes it absolutely does
Naw, Lucasfilm is embarrassing itself