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News came early yesterday that Kathleen Kennedy would be stepping down as president of Disney-owned LucasFilm. This is after years of rumors that she would be fired or her power diminished because some how Bob Iger, who has his own history of legacy destroying, were proven false in the past. Of course, the people you’d expect to celebrate threw a celebration…but I found this time a few more people tempering their celebratory natures by realizing something I’ve been noting for a few years now: it’s not the victory you think it is…if this indeed comes to pass this time.

To say that Kennedy’s reign over Star Wars and other properties created or signed off by George Lucas, LucasFilm, the video game arm LucasArts, and the various tie-in novels, comics, audio dramas has been controversial is a huge understatement. Her “Sequel Trilogy” is still used as examples of bad filmmaking. The Acolyte is one of the biggest jokes in Star Wars discussion. The “High Republic” only had one interesting story and it was the preschool show that actually taught kids how to be a good person in a show about kids who can fly through space in their own starships and fighters despite not even hitting puberty yet. It certainly wasn’t the book about a creature that looked like a rock and followed Weeping Angels rules when it came to moving, “The Force is female”, or any of the other errors during Kennedy’s time.

So now that she’s gone all fans’ problems are over, right? The lady parodied by South Park with “put a chick in it, make her lame and gay” is finally going away. This will make up for everything done to Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow. Oh wait, this doesn’t solve anything. It might not even stop things from getting worse. Have we learned nothing?

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