Let’s be honest. Lola Bunny was created for the wrong reason. If they wanted to add another girl to the cast, this time one of the mains instead of a supporting character like Granny or an antagonist like Witch Hazel, that would have been fine. I wouldn’t have had a problem with it and probably neither would anyone else. I still treat the Tiny Toons characters as Looney Tunes whether it’s official or not, and I haven’t heard either way. Instead, Warner Brothers wanted to prove Bugs Bunny was straight. As the rise of the current extremist perspectives in culture would try to claim every character and the studios were still staffed by people who believed in tradition and honesty, looking at Bugs putting on a dress to escape “certain” death (despite everyone else getting shot and blown up only to be a minor inconvenience via the comedy “gag reflex”) as anything other than a defense mechanism was not something they were willing to let stand.
And so Space Jam introduced Lola. To be fair she was a good character and addition to the team in their fight to protect their homes and freedom from aliens via a basketball game. The problem is what happened after that. It seems like Warner Brothers never really knew what to do with her, and each incarnation of her seems to be different, some more than others if you watched today’s Daily Video I found doing research for this commentary, that unlike the others she can’t seem to find a distinct identity of her own. Bugs is the snarky problem solver out to to protect, get payback, or occasionally mess with someone out of sheer boredom. Daffy himself acknowledged being a “greedy little coward” out for fame and fortune by entertaining others. Porky…had the stutter. By now you know the personalities of everyone from Yosemite Sam to Silvester, Speedy Gonzales to the Road Runner. What about Lola? Think you know who she is? Because there are versions of her that bear no real resemblance to the previous. Let’s look at her various incarnations.
George Lucas Moves On From Star Wars…And I’m Not Surprised
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal (subscription required but here’s the link), George Lucas was showing off his new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, where he mentioned that there is a wing dedicated to Star Wars, but only because people would ask for it. In an article for Bleeding Fool, contributor “The Shark Of Paper” (hey, I’m not one to talk about screennames) lamented how he thought George Lucas could still come in and save his creation. He was disappointed that Lucas would not return and had no further interest in the movie that arguably made him a household name.
The article writer does note the successes that Disney Star Wars did have, but most of them were projects that LucasFilm under Lucas had already started or at least tied to them. Right now we have two different periods of Star Wars, which for the sake of convenience I refer to as LucasFilm and DisneyFilm on this site. All well and good, but George Lucas moving on makes a lot of sense, but while Star Wars was his baby, it turned out to be a bad seed in his life. And it all starts with the prequels.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 22, 2025 in Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight and tagged commentary, Disney, Disney Star Wars, George Lucas, Lucasfilm, movie franchise, Star Wars.
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