# Disney Wants to Pretend The Sequels Never Happened

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- **Канал:** Thinking Critical
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ttsEV2vFVY
- **Дата:** 07.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 13:49
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/50249

## Описание

Disney might not say it out loud—but everything they’re doing points to one thing: the sequel trilogy is being quietly pushed aside.

In this video, we break down the growing evidence that Disney and Lucasfilm are shifting away from the sequel trilogy era, including new reports that executives are discussing a “splinter timeline” approach that would allow them to move forward without being locked into those films. From changes inside Galaxy’s Edge to how characters and timelines are being repositioned, the direction of Star Wars is clearly changing—and not in a subtle way.

We also dig into the hard data behind the fan reaction. Streaming numbers show a near total collapse in engagement with the sequel trilogy, with The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker failing to generate meaningful rewatch numbers on Disney+. Instead, audiences are going back to the original trilogy, the prequels, and shows like The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian. When you break it down by gener

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Aaron Sparrow himself has said there is only one way he will ever return to Star Wars, and that's if they excise the entire sequel trilogy and everything associated with it. Sounds like we might be a little bit closer to that today than we were before. — I think that this is been a rumor that's been going around forever, and I think it's just been resurrected just because they've kind of like shied away from the sequels as far as like merchandise goes and forcing it into like retrospectives and things like that. But they still ran some stuff this week and made sure that Ray was in there and you know, so they're not abandoning it. They're not going to admit they made a mistake. that they screwed the pooch. WW Pro is reporting that Disney executives are discussing a major restructuring of the Star Wars franchise that could involve shifting the sequel trilogy into a secondary splinter timeline. This strategy would allow the company to develop new content featuring younger versions of the original trilogy characters, specifically Luke Skywalker, Princess Le, and Han Solo, without being constrained by the sequel chilogies. The initiative coincides with recent changes at Disney parks, where the story line of Galaxy's Edge was retconed to allow characters from multiple eras to coexist, moving away from its original fixed setting in the sequel era. While the rumored reset has not been confirmed by Lucasfilm, the report suggests that the splintering would categorize the sequels as just one possible outcome within a broader multiverse or world between worlds framework. — Oh god. — You have said that this is the only way they can get you back. And according to WWE Pro, they're absolutely considering it. — This is the only way that they could get anybody back. I don't think that it gets me back anymore. I because it just it's still going to be in the hands of the same clowns, you know? It's not Kathleen Kennedy and it's not Jar Abrams, but it's uh it's still Dave Fona. I don't want him crafting the future of Luke, Leia, and Han. I've already got It's called the expanded universe. I'm happy with it. I don't need any more, you know, and I certainly don't need any more from these hacks. So, no, I don't care. I mean, if they do this, it's desperation, but this is the last step of desperation before the final act of desperation, which is just reboot episodes four, five, and six. — They should be very desperate. But what if we got Heir of the Empire and they got the guy that plays, you know, uh, Bucky to go play Luke and kind of recasted characters and everything and actually did the story lines that we wanted. We got characters like Mara Jade and Kyle Catard and all the really cool stuff like Plaggus in there and did it the right way. I mean, if they way, but that's, you know, that's a very uh that's a very loaded statement. Do you think that there's any chance of them doing it the right way? They don't do things that way. They would still find a way to, you know, race swap this character and do that with this character and still cram in the message. They're not moving away from it. And, you know, the fact that we're going to talk about some comics that they're doing shortly, uh, you know, that also suggests they're not moving away from this. — But they did get it right with Andor. That's a really good series. And I think even the most hardcore Star Wars fans will admit that that's kind of the Star Wars that they're looking for. — The first season was good. The second season was just way too drawn out and boring. Um, and then it had some good moments, but uh, you know, it wasn't great. It didn't hold me all that much. Uh, I don't know, man. I just don't know that they know what to do with Star Wars. I just don't think that they have any vision for it and uh, I'm not interested in it. I don't care. Now, we do hear this rumor every once in a while, almost like the Kathleen Kennedy has actually been fired, but has been announced yet rumor that has gone on for six or seven years. And obviously, that one actually happened eventually. But I don't truthfully believe that they're going to just go and wipe out the sequel trilogy that they spent, you know, probably well over a billion dollars to produce and is basically the major thing that Disney has created since acquiring Lucasfilm. Although it would be 1,000% the right move based on the information that they have. — It would ex it would entirely be the right move. I mean, we're seeing the reports coming out from Disney Plus that like there's no watch minutes for the sequels. Nobody's interested in them. They don't move merch. You know, the same toys that came out for The Last Jedi are still sitting at allies with a thick layer of dust on them. You know, you can still go find all the Ray figures you want. When I was uh when I was visiting Indiana, Drew and I hit a couple of Ali's and there were the figures right there still on the shelf. You know, Ray, Finn, Po. Nobody wants these characters and uh you know, they're on heavy discount and people still don't want them. You can't sell figures for like two bucks. — Now, me personally, I haven't completely closed off my heart to Star Wars like you have. I'm definitely going to go check out uh the last Star Fighter or Star Wars Starf Fighter, whatever it's called with Ryan Gosling and hope that it's good because it's kind of bypassed the sequel era and gone past it. Just go somewhere else. I don't want to ever be in this area ever again. But there are far more fans, I think, out there, these hardcore Star Wars fans, that think if anything ever leads to that, that is the

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ultimate poison pill for the entire franchise and the fan base at large. And we do have plenty of proof of that. Streaming data indicates a near total collapse in engagement with the Star Wars sequel trilogy, which currently sits at the bottom of the franchise's hierarchy in terms of rewatchability in streaming minutes. While Disney position these films as a modern face of the franchise, they have failed to maintain any long-term momentum. Instead, audiences are overwhelmingly returning to the original trilogy and the prequels with the Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith seeing massive surges in popularity. Even Andor, which is widely praised as the highest quality project of the Disney era, highlights the divide in audience interest. While it resonates strongly with the fans of prestige storytelling, it has not yet translated into that broad multigenerational rewatch numbers seen with the older foundational films. It's never going to happen. Remember, we were told that, well, when it hits the 10 year anniversary, people come around and like really start to appreciate it as the Force Awakens, you know, for what it is, just like it happened, just like happened with the prequels. And it has not happened because at least the prequels, for all of their flaws, had a story and had characters that you were interested in and that you cared about. The sequels have none of that. The prequels did kind of go against story elements that were part of canon, you know, established in the original trilogy, but it didn't break the foundational elements of the universe, which I think is the ultimate uh, you know, sin of the sequel trilogy. The sins committed by the sequel trilogy are far greater than anything perpetrated in the prequels. — Not only that, but they're the stories are just stupid. They're nonsensical. They don't go anywhere. uh you know the character motivations don't make sense. The uh the universe makes no sense. We're given no world building to understand what has happened or why it's happening. It's just uh you know your typical JJ Abrams just hurry just do things quick. Do things quick and make them fast so you think that you've seen something cool and as long as you don't think about it you know you're invested and then when you get out of the theater and you spend two seconds thinking about it you're like wait a minute that sucked. — Absolutely. And I do think on a 10-year anniversary, people feel far more negative about The Force Awakens today than they did when they saw it the first time because of the crimes mostly of The Last Jedi, but certainly uh the Last Skywalker, whatever it is. — When I came out of The Force Awakens, I was like, "Okay, I didn't like this. I don't like where they're taking the universe. I didn't like the execution of it. Um, I I don't like what I just saw, but I at least understood it. I was like, "Okay, they just spent four billion on this. They're basically doing a soft rebo reboot. I don't like it, but maybe they're trying to build something, you know, and this is just the like the foundation from which they're going to like try to build something really great. " Yeah. Ray seems like a Mary Sue, but you know what? In the second one, we're going to get an explanation as to why. Oh, so naive, Wes. I thought in the second one we're going to get an explanation of like why she uh is this powerful and what's going on and you know she'll lose something in that one that's you know she'll make a mistake and you know she'll have her down moment where you know she's not the bestest ever and uh and she'll have to come back in the third one just you know as a typical threetory structure instead we got little imp Ryan Johnson in there going I'm going to subvert everyone's expectations you know you expected a good story I'm going to subvert that you expected character motivations that made sense I'm going to subvert that. You thought you were going to get answers to questions? No way. Can you imagine being that guy? I've said it before, but the guy that like was front and center in all the marketing that was uh this balding guy in his Jedi robes, you know, standing there going, "Oh, they the movie was amazing. They totally redeemed the prequels, blah, blah. " You know, this is great. Can you imagine being that guy now? — I don't think the prequel trilogy needed to be redeemed. While The Phantom Menace is a bit of a mess, and I think they made Anakin far too young, and Attack of the Clones is an objectively kind of bad film, especially with the chemistry between Padme and Anakin in that one. Revenge of the Sith is a very, very good Star Wars film and ended on a high note. And I think when you get to the end of it, it tells a comprehensive, really good Star Wars story, even if there are down moments in it. So, it never really needed to be redeemed. What needs to be redeemed or probably can't be redeemed is a sequel trilogy itself. No, it just has to be scrapped. There's nothing redeemable in that trilogy. There's nothing good. There's nothing worth salvaging. It just all needs to be it scrapped. And if they're doing that, which I don't believe that they are, but you know, if they're at least like moving away from it narratively, that's probably the most that you can hope for. But they'll never decanonize it completely and admit that they screwed up the trilogy. I mean, that's very unlikely. And if you say this stuff online, they'll be like, "Oh, you're just an old man yelling at clouds or whatever kind of thing. " It turns out that is not the case. Analysis of different age demographics reveals a

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stark generational divide with the sequel trilogy failing to capture the younger audience it was specifically created for. Younger viewers Gen Alpha and Zoomers are spending their time on the Clone Wars in the Mandalorian while millennials are leaning toward Andor and revisiting the original trilogy. Gen X and Boomers remain overwhelmingly focused on the original films with some secondary engagement in the prequels. Across all age groups, the same pattern emerges. The sequel trilogy is completely absent from the top viewing categories. Every group is choosing something else. Most of it pre-D Disney or outside the sequel era when they watch Star Wars. — Yeah, it's just it's the old stuff that matters. It's the Luca stuff that matters. And uh I'm glad to see that even uh you know even the younger generations have enough taste to know that uh you know this these sequels are not it. — Just because we're different or we have different things that we like than our younger counterparts doesn't mean that you can just throw out the rules of engaging storytelling or competent storytelling. You know throw them out the window and just expect somebody to watch something because you claim you made it for them. Everyone told us we didn't make the sequel trilogy for you. It's for a new generation of Star Wars fans. It's not for them either. It's literally for nobody because it is a giant pile of crap. — It's just for the weirdo freak shows that you see in the uh in the ad that they just dropped where they're like fans are raving about Star Wars and it's a bunch of people that like if they sat next to you in the theater you would move. It's just a bunch of shill, you know, freak show influencers that you're just like, "Oh yeah, no, I wouldn't sit next to them. " Uh that's who it's for. It's for, you know, a bunch of going into debt Disney adults and that's it, you know, who just clap for anything that they're given. — And it's had a huge negative impact on Disney Plus. As somebody that had Disney Plus for a while and mostly it's for my kids, you know, they're watching the Pixar movies, at least the older ones and some of the old, you know, animated films. I should have been there for the Star Wars stuff. And I would watch the original trilogy every once in a while. And I did watch Andor, but once season 2 was over, and there wasn't going to be another season. There was no reason to keep Disney Plus around anymore because the overwhelming majority of everything Star Wars that Disney has created has been garbage. Maybe not the Last Jedi levels of garbage, but pretty darn close. — They're pretty close. I mean, I would say that the Acolyte uh reaches the Last Jedi level of garbage. I would say that uh The Book of Boba Fett reaches that level of garbage. Um it's uh it's just a bunch of uh I mean I can't even really call it stories. Disney Star Wars has just become about itself and not really about anything else. It's just about even this Mandalorian movie. It looks like hey look it's Zeb from the cartoon you liked. You like Zeb, right? Hey look it's Embo from the cartoon you liked. You like Embo, right? Well, they kind of are forced to do that because the Clone Wars is one of the few things that's still people are still watching even on Disney Plus. Oh, — look. Baby Grou, he's doing dumb things. He's a 50 or 5year-old Look at him. He doesn't know it. He doesn't know what buttons to push. Let just let it die. They can't just have to keep dragging out the corpse and having another go at it. And it's like I wish that they would just let it die. — Well, is that a necroilia like analogy? — Yes, absolutely. — Oh, man. Aaron, that's rough, dude. We don't normally get that here on the podcast or even on the YouTube videos. But if you'd like the full conversation about the changing tide of Star Wars and it feels like Disney's about to admit that they made enormous mistakes and move in a different direction and some of the other pop culture stuff, you do need to head over to Think Critical Patreon channel memberships, the Geekpix podcast because we're gonna go for about two and a half hours is dead.