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   On 2017-08-19 22:36:32 +0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy said:   
   > Your Name  wrote in   
   > news:onadcr$1g8e$1@gioia.aioe.org:   
   >> On 2017-08-19 21:48:43 +0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy   
   >> said:   
   >>> Your Name  wrote in news:on8ap3$do2$1   
   >>> @gioia.aioe.org:   
   >>>> On 2017-08-18 23:06:02 +0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy   
   >>>> said:   
   >>>>> Your Name  wrote in   
   >>>>> news:on7r1a$1snq$2@gioia.aioe.org:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> After the (rumoured) stupidity of pointlessly shovelling the   
   >>>>>> Death Star in the Han Solo movie, I don't hold much hope for   
   >>>>>> any of these new Diseny-made Star Wars movies.   :-(   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It really took you that long to realize it's all going to be   
   >>>>> crap?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The first clue was "Disney now owns Star Wars." The absolute   
   >>>>> proof was their announcement that they're going to be   
   >>>>> releasing 87 new titles per month for the next five thousand   
   >>>>> years, with everything single one coming with a complete line   
   >>>>> of toys and other (non-) collectible.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Seriously, dude, what the hell did you expect?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yep. It was a given as soon as the buy-out was rumoured.  :-(   
   >>>>   
   >>>> George Lucas should have kept it all and perhaps given over   
   >>>> the day-to-day running to Rick McCallum.   
   >>>   
   >>> Only if he cared more about the franchise than he did about $4   
   >>> *billion* dollars. Which he clearly didn't. Nor would you or I.   
   >>   
   >> He would easily have made far more money simply by keeping   
   >> control of the franchise ... in fact franchise*s*, since the   
   >> sale included Indiana Jones, LucasArts, ILM, etc.   
   >   
   > So now you're as world famous an economist at Shawn Wilson? Is that   
   > it? Maybe he could have, but not all at once.   
      
   Like he really needed the money "all at once". Supposedly he sold   
   everything so that his kids would have something for their future ...   
   their future would likely have been even better without selling out   
   thanks to all the income the franchise(s) generate, even without George   
   Lucas ever doing anything at all.   
      
   The reality is more likely that either he's going senile, and / or his   
   gold-digger young wife pushed him into selling out.   
      
      
      
   > And he'd clearly lost whatever mojo he ever had for Star Wars, after the   
   > shitstorm that was the prequels, so it was clealy time to get out. He   
   > obviously did the fans a favor by making a very bold public statement that   
   > Star Wars was finished, and anything ever done under that name in   
   > the future would be shit. Not more illusions, no more fantasies, no   
   > more fanwank pretending Lucas was the brains behind it all.   
      
   George Lucas *is* the brains behind it all ... without him there would   
   never have been "Star Wars" at all.   
      
   Without him, we're getting horrible rubbish (both on-screen and the off   
   "merchandise") masquerading as "Star Wars" as Disney simply greedily   
   tries to rake in as much money as they can.   
      
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