Responsibility for the quality of projects is still her domain, she gave the final thumbs up for multi-million dollar projects like Acolyte that turned out to be less than horse crap. When you're at the top you get the good but also take the bad. Now when you have fans rather than customers it tends to skew to the more emotional and irrational side when it comes to critique but she's been in entertainment long enough to be able to take and handle it.
I liked Carano’s character too, but not so much that I couldn’t have seen her easily replaced. But as to Kennedy—thing is, that’s a matter of opinion, and personally I think most of the projects made under her were fine, and
The Acolyte in particular was excellent in story, execution and vision; fandom’s dumping on it has made no sense to me.
In retrospect, I’ve liked pretty much all of Disney SW except the 2nd half of
The Force Awakens for its “greatest hits” approach,
Resistance for being a bit too kiddie, and the weak structure of
The Book of Boba Fett — and TFA and
Fett both had high points that balanced that out.
Kennedy’s been fine. I guarantee you the hate she’s gotten is the same hate, for the same reasons, that anybody in charge in our era would have gotten.
, Maybe they were worried about the bad Carano publicity to start off a whole new project and didn't want to recast the character as she was popular back in the day ( i liked her character and portrayal too and would have liked to see a Ranger show with her as the or one of the leads). Well that was before she proved she is an idiot of course.
Really bizarre. It was the best thing the franchise had done in quite some time. As someone once said, What can men do against such reckless hate?