I kind of monitor Star Wars and might or might not watch new shows, but pretty much I don't care much aside from game properties because they have typically pulled through for me the way that the movies and shows have not in general.
Like, parts of The Last Jedi, pretty much the whole experience of TROS, and the shows in general have just deadened my feeling towards the franchise. Andor was decent but it can't win over all the goodwill I lost because I have to view it as a one-off -- an anomaly not indicative of their typical programming. (I'm pretty much feeling this way about MCU as well, in general, although I'm curious about what the Echo and Daredevil revisions will amount to. I am very enthusiastic about Spider-Verse, though.)
Pretty much it's Disney. Their quality has gone down all around. Wish tanked in November too and probably won't recover the way Elemental did. Blame it all on Disney. They bombed after Endgame and most of their principal directors and writers left, and they tanked on Star Wars -- TFA was basically a solid foundation to start but its long-term value would be determined by what followed and the second two films bombed. Disney is too risk-adverse to make anything good anymore, and they don't know how to screen and oversee their directing/writing talents. Maybe their casting has typically been decent, but that can't save a film or show.
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Getting back to Rey. I've always liked Rey and Daisy Ridley, even with a bit of the Mary Sue thing in TFA. But Disney just really left such a bad taste after TLJ and TROS that I honestly feel ill whenever I consider her character and I can't possibly imagine them making a show about Rey that will crawl out from that hole they left Star Wars in. Never say never... but freaking unlikely fer sher.
Which is a shame. Despite the weirdness of killing off Snoke (and then ruining him in TROS after his death, lol), I will always wonder what might have happened if Disney had cajones and Rey had at least temporarily taken Ren's hand when he told her she had value to him there in the throne room. That's the kind of daring shit that would have put Disney back on the map if they could then tell a compelling story from that (even if she ends up with the Light, in the end). That's what I mean: Disney just refuses to take risks, I think killing off Han was the biggest risk they did in the final trilogy, and it wasn't really a surprise since Ford had wanted out so many times in the past and we all knew the SW cast was aging and moving out of the center.
I also want to see those deleted scenes with Jyn. Remember in the trailer they talked about a criminal record? I want to see that version/side of Jyn, out of sheer curiosity.
That would have been pretty interesting, lol. I bet she was quite the scallywag, trained by terrorists, living off her wits and skill and speed. She didn't seem to have a vendetta, she just wanted to be left alone and take care of herself.
