Disney has an agenda. I think it's clear what it is. We need to at least acknowledge that if we're going to talk about this honestly.
They allow the media to paint their shows in a certain light. They grant access to allow such questions to be asked.
Others, like Andor, where an agenda can't be found other than 'good Star Wars series that older fans would like', aren't part of that agenda.
They are openly hostile towards the fan base that doesn't just lap up everything they put out. So they let the shill media create a narrative that allows them to blame the show's failure on 'toxic fans.'
We all know that's not true. The numbers show that. But the perception is that these shows are failing because of bad faith arguments made by the 'nazis' I'm sure Xavier loves to hunt.
This accomplishes two goals:
1.) Not take responsibility for their own failures. When was the last time Disney actually admitted that they made a bad call on this stuff?
2.) Commodify the false virtuous intentions of these new efforts even though nobody appointed Disney the moral arbiters of anything. This is not social justice but merely them trying to kill the old sentiment so that they can market the product to a newer, younger audience that will embrace what they do as not only fans but as revolutionaries pushing back against 'the bad old ways'. Let go of the past. Kill it if you have to.
The behavior of tearing down our idols is nothing new. We have done it, as a society, over and over and over. Probably more times than we know. This is promoted as resistance (the 'modern audience' that doesn't exist) but it's really just manipulation. Youth in rebellion. Rebels without a cause. Or a clue. But they all want to think they're the bottle cap and not the piece of glass.
Commercial behavior is a legitimate field of study.
