Is Star Wars The High Republic a Wrap?
If true I’m going to miss the High Republic rather badly. It was a source of intense amusement for me.
“I can’t fathom the approval process here.
The navigator is a rock. I loved the tableau with the rock striking a heroic pose with the rest of its intrepid nekama in their action poses.
I mean, the vessel is named; “The Vessel.” I’m sure that Claudia Grey thought that this was vastly more clever than naming the ship, “The Ship,” but I’m not seeing it. Ah well, I’ve long since resigned myself to never being a New York Times best-selling author. Some leaps of ingenuity are just beyond me. I’ll never get through the glass ceiling that keeps me from the kind of burst of creativity that would come up with the good ship Vessel and its stalwart navigator rock.
Yeah, sure this is the same outfit that gave us The Last Jedi but you would think some kind of review process would have been instituted afterward. Clearly, it wasn’t.
It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong and I freely admit it. I am on the record as stating, “there is no way in hell Star Wars the High Republic could ever qualify as entertainment.” I was so, so wrong. I haven’t laughed this much in years.“
I’m especially going to miss Geode, who became something of fan favorite here. Geode was name of the aforementioned “rock” who was the navigator aboard the good ship, “Vessel.” I turned Geode into this very old, stuffy, nose-in-the-air actor who had been around Hollywood forever (literally).
I am going to kill my agent. It’s going to be long, slow, and intensely excruciating. I am going to quantum project him a thousand years into the past with special instructions to my younger self.
How did I, Hollywood legend Geode, end up in something this utterly retarded?!?
I am nearly fourteen billion years old and in all that time I’ve never seen anything quite this stupid.
Star Wars the High Republic now has two new characters:
A pair of Force-wielding Kotab bond-twins, Terec and Ceret were first introduced in the second issue of Marvel Comics’ Star Wars: The High Republic series as members of the High Republic-era Jedi Order.
Though this issue featured an in-universe confirmation of their non-binary gender, wherein Avar Kriss clarifies to fellow Jedi Vernestra Rwoh that the pair’s pronouns are “they” rather than “he”, the social media posts made in honor of the International Transgender Day of Visibility stand as the first official confirmation of the twins’ transgender identity.
Look Hollywood has taken a lot of liberties with the Skywalkeriad in the past. A New Hope was a reasonably accurate (or at least Hollywood-accurate) account of the Battle of the Deathstar. Except, there was no “Han Solo” at all on Captain Chewbacca’s ship. And that thing about Luke and Leia being brother and sister is simply grotesque. They had one of the all-time great love stories in the Virgo super-cluster. They also had eleven children for Glob’s sake. Although two of them were your Adam and Eve, so, I suppose there was little something to it.
I told George about the story over drinks in 1973. He got all hippie-excited and started going on at length over Luke’s “Hero’s Journey.” Then he asked if he could use it.
I told him, “Do what you want with it, at 80,000 years old it’s in the public domain by now.”
Regardless, this virtue-flair being shot into the sky by the LucasFilm story group is nothing short of story-telling incompetence.
I realize this is pedantic of me, but Star Wars is space opera. If a character in this genre wants to change his sex he has options other than just pretend real hard. Like changing his actual sex for example. Not just claim to be another sex and demand that everyone believe that the voices in his head are real.
Although, there is the fundamental problem of it already having been done before and done much better. Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness remains the standard and it’s a standard that the sub-literates at the LucasFilm will never be able to meet. “A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.”
LeGuin went off the rails years ago but back when she had all her marbles she was able to make a point. You humans only have three genders; masculus, foemineus and neuter. Invent something else and you can’t function because you are hardwired into only those three categories.
This is the fundamental problem with Trans in speculative fiction. You have to be an incredibly unimaginative author to come up with a character that was born one biological sex, claims it’s another and refuses to undergo any kind of surgery, procedure or magic spell that will actually reassign its gender. It is utterly pointless to have a character who can only pretend super hard that he is something else in genre that is not at all limited by reality.
Excuse me a moment one of the monks of the Lapis order of Saint Jerome just handed me a message. I created the order a while back to give myself reminders.
Let’s see, “Dear Geode, it’s Geode. You didn’t tell me why I was supposed to torture this guy for a thousand years so I just sat on him. Yours, Geode.”
Oh yes, now I remember. That guy did look a lot like Bernie come to think of it. Damn it. Well, I better get on that before the paradoxes set in.
Alas, poor Geode it would seem. There are very thick smoke signals coming from Burbank that Star Wars: The High Republic is going to be wrapped up at the end of its Phase III. Honestly, I haven’t been covering it enough to know that there were any kind of phases to it.
Quite simply, The High Republic is Star Wars fan fiction put together by the people who attend World Con without fail every year. That’s really what it is. Its writers are the kind of people who honestly think Jodie Whitaker is the greatest Doctor Who of all time. Also, they desperately wanted Jodie for the High Republic and went so far as to build a character around her.
Yeah, good luck with that. Whitaker doesn’t like science fiction at all, and her agent threatened to dump her if she touched another property like that again.
The rumors that Star Wars: High Republic has been ordered to wrap come from WDWPro and not Doomcock. Frankly, I have a lot more confidence in Pro’s sources. He is also one of the very few people out there who is now risking his rep by claiming that Kathleen Kennedy is negotiating an exit package. Possible. Certainly a lot more possible than the claims that Disney has found irregularities in the accounting practices of The Acolyte. Don’t get me wrong I’m sure there was a lot of financial legerdemain going on at Blue Stocking Ltd. But Disney can’t take legal action on that unless their own books are as pure as Caesar’s Wife and Disney is willing to go to a lot of trouble to keep their own books closed. Take from that what you will.
Kennedy had been making a lot of “Star Wars has to move beyond George Lucas” noises right before Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was launched. And crashed at starting line. Clearly, she wanted to move into the High Republic because it didn’t tie her down to the Skywalker family. It was something she could put her own mark on.
But after Indiana Jones V, LucasFilm went completely radio silent. Normally when KK has a Star Wars bomb she announces several different Star Wars projects as camouflage. They never see the light of day but she always does that and this time she did NOT.
She has support from the Iron Wokeites at Disney and some that are pretty high up and she has also had backing from the BOD in the past. But the thing is there was always some kind of success somewhere that she could take or be given credit for. The Rise of Skywalker may have lost money but it still cracked that magic $1 billion mark. She had nothing much at all to do with the first two seasons of The Mandalorian but she was there when it happened which was good enough for the Keep Kathy Great crowd at Disney.
However, for the past couple of years, she has had no wins at all and plenty of failures. All of LucasFilm TV has flopped including the once golden Lone Mando and Cub. The biggest failure is the Star Wars Galactic Cruiser, normally the film division just blames the parks division but the fact of the matter is that LucasFilm was heavily and visibly involved with that disaster. Finally, Indiana Jones is the kind of mega-bomb that requires that someone on high get the boot. However, Disney Doesn’t Do Drama so she won’t be fired she will just be quietly let go with as much loot as she can haul away.
But IF it is officially unofficial that KK is leaving, then shutting down big projects that aren’t underway is something that always happens in Hollywood. This would include The High Republic but might or might not take the Acolyte with it.
On the one hand, if the High Republic is getting shut down it makes sense to take that particular Old Yeller behind the barn and take the tax credit. On the other hand, the writers’ and actors’ strikes have been going on for a while and are going to be going on quite a bit longer. Disney is going to have to go all Koreaboo as it is. If they have a show that is already in the can it may make more sense just to finish it out and put it on D+.
Even if is it part of a dead-end universe like the High Republic.
