It's been a few months later, I'd like to touch up on this.
Disney is never going to ditch woke politics because it's made for marketing. Since they're catering to racists and sexists in other countries, my takeaway is that they're throwing in PC themes for their audiences back here in the states hoping that offsets it, they don't want older fans (Ms. Kennedy's offhand comments demonstrate this), but a younger, "more diverse, liberal" crowd, and frankly, that offends me as much as any Millennial, Gen X, or Boomer. Why do you care about pleasing the racists over in China than the ones here?
The problem with DSW's woke politics is they're stealing from the past, ripping off the people who did the actual hard work (perhaps literally if Mr. Foster is to be believed), and acting like they invented it for a cheap buck with the least effort. RO, one of the most highly regarded of the DSWC movies is still part of the woke agenda, yet people who love it won't admit that. If you think it's the best movie ever, that's great! Really. But it's still part of the woke agenda problem.
It's woke because it's creatively ripping off DF and having Jan Ors steal Kyle Katarn's story, and they never mention the EU after they threw it out and began plundering the corpse like grave robbers, they insist there's no source material a month before the butchered Disney iteration of DE hits the screens, they don't let willing authors contribute to SWL, and likely the refusal to mention where they got the source material is so their pants are not sued off, but at the same time, it's also a shield so newcomers, kids, and casuals as well as foreign audiences don't learn that is IS about woke politics.
RO is a gender swap, shoving the man to the side, and having the woman step up in place of that. Same with the DSWST, as Rey is just a hybridized grafting of Luke, Jaina Solo, and the whole "relative of Palpatine" thing from '90s YA series JP. That's woke as you get, and I don't mind having new female leads, but when you're stacking woke alongside pointless rehashes like this and so brazenly propping up women where in place of older lore it was once a man in that same position, you cannot deny you have an agenda, that is about the contents of your pants and not what's in your heart.
The problem with criticizing woke and pop culture decline is you need to be honest with your double standards. Take the FM. The menacers literally cannot handle a little criticism on Mr. Filoni, the whole movement is quite flimsy if pointing out the flaws of a blatant b*********r has it collapsing into civil war.
Example being the people who gush endlessly on TCW, and invoke Ms. Lucas as a holy name to shut down criticism, and yet you can easily point to Mr. Filoni's own words where he himself treats Mr. Lucas and his management as an afterthought to do what he wanted to do.
Challenging woke will require two things.
1) Critical thought, which is beyond most casual consumers as much as nuance is past less informed voters, the bulk of the population.
2) Seizing the power we have as consumers and acting on it, that is, if you don't like something, don't support it. I have the EU as an alternative, so I literally don't need the DSW if symbolically I wanted to boycott for quality control.
These two requirements are why woke won't go away, at least for the foreseeable future. I'd also avoid Overlord DVD. He doesn't know what he's talking about when he says they're going to just rebrand the ST as SWL, which is marketing suicide.
