Rangers of the New Republic

[JD]

Well Bette Middler has said a shed load worse yet she's in hocus pocus 2.. Owell..

I don't really know enough about the full context of all of what was going on around Bette Middler's posts to comment either way.

@Turtletrekker
found this while looking
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/disney-cancel-bette-midler-hocus-pocus-2/

Never heard of the site, so I don't know how trustworthy it is, and I don't know the full context of the events surrounding the posts, so I really don't feel comfortable.

 

[valkyrie013]

@CorporalClegg
You believe what you want to believe.

The "word salad" I posted was taken from Newsweek and other "reputable" sites. So Bette did say them.

I'm not asking to fire bette, just that some "equal" standards apply. I believe what Gina said wasn't as bad as what Bette said. Yet Gina was fired and Bette has a job.

Either way, done talking. It's like political threads. Useless.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

 

[lightspeedbear]

Really hoping this show is still happening. It's probably one of the series I'm most excited about. I can't believe the entire show would be cancelled just because of what happened with Gina Carano. The show will probably be improved without her frankly, much as I wanted to like her character, Carano's acting was...

 

[Turtletrekker]

Really hoping this show is still happening. It's probably one of the series I'm most excited about. I can't believe the entire show would be cancelled just because of what happened with Gina Carano. The show will probably be improved without her frankly, much as I wanted to like her character, Carano's acting was...

I'm not sure that I'd buy into the notion that the show was cancelled solely because of what happened to Gina Carano. As you said, her acting skills were less than stellar and I can't see them putting an entire show on her shoulders. Personally, I think this would have been "Gina Carano's show" just as much as Deep Space Nine was going to be "Colm Meaney's show", which a lot of us considered it during the run-up. Cara Dune would have been a supporting player at best.

 

[Reverend]

I'm not sure that I'd buy into the notion that the show was cancelled solely because of what happened to Gina Carano. As you said, her acting skills were less than stellar and I can't see them putting an entire show on her shoulders. Personally, I think this would have been "Gina Carano's show" just as much as Deep Space Nine was going to be "Colm Meaney's show", which a lot of us considered it during the run-up. Cara Dune would have been a supporting player at best.

I don't necessarily disagree with any particular point, but on the other hand the timing of everything certainly makes it seem like Carano's little drama was at least a significant factor, if not the only one. I mean they'd just barely announced the show before it was cancelled, that's a not insignificant heel-turn for the marketing juggernaut that is The Mouse. You'd think if the project was already in trouble and there was any serious questions about it going forward, then they'd have held off on the announcement.

The only thing that makes sense to me based on what we know is that Carano's character would have been the lynchpin if not necessarily the "star", and replacing her would have meant a top to bottom restructuring of the whole show, rewriting most of the scripts to some degree or another and most likely developing a NEW lynchpin character that can still work with whatever else they have planned for this mini-universe they're creating between these shows. So rather than rush and fumble to get it going again, they just opted to nix the whole thing and (hopefully) start over, or redivert resources to the other shows instead.

 

[fireproof78]

They've got enough projects going on to make starting over worth while.

There's no hurting for SW content at the moment.

 

[Moist_Cake]

Think I'm lookong forward to this more than any of the other shows coming out.

 

[The Wormhole]

Think I'm lookong forward to this more than any of the other shows coming out.

You do know it's already cancelled, right?

 

[Moist_Cake]

You do know it's already cancelled, right?

No I did not.

 

[The Wormhole]

Details on Page 3 of this very thread.

 

[Moist_Cake]

Details on Page 3 of this very thread.

Ah thanks.

 

[Skywalker]

Who knows, maybe they'll revisit the idea after they figure out a new way to go about it, since they were pretty clearly setting up Cara Dune to feature in it.

 

[fireproof78]

Eh, they just turned it in to the Buzz Lightyear project...

 

[Tuskin38]

This screen cap is allegedly from an interview with her for Empire magazine.

 

[Jayson1]

Time to replace it with a show about Bill Burr's character. Team him up with a Wookie and make him a cop in some backward town in space.

 

[Reverend]

I think you can stretch the "how about Star Wars, but with Bill Burr?" gag only so far.

If they need a replacement character for Cara, getting Janina Gavankar back as Iden Versio still seems like the obvious and most interesting choice.

 

[Jayson1]

I think you can stretch the "how about Star Wars, but with Bill Burr?" gag only so far.

If they need a replacement character for Cara, getting Janina Gavankar back as Iden Versio still seems like the obvious and most interesting choice.

The fact that he isn't a typical SW character is what makes the character work. Plus this in away would be the franchise's first attempt into doing a comedy show. It would be nice change of pace to come off something serious like a show about Darth Plagueis then after that go do the action adventure stuff with The Mandalorian and so forth. One smart thing about the MCU shows on Disney Plus is how each show tends to be a change of pace from the previous one it's followed.

 

[fireproof78]

Mayfield was hard to stomach.

 

[Reverend]

Mayfield was a fine enough addition to the show . . . but that's it. You really can't (or shouldn't) build a show around that particular character.

 

[Jayson1]

Why not? We have had tv shows build around darker people than him before. Mando was a bounty hunter. I guess Anakin in the Clone Wars you could also say since he grew up to be Vadar. Star Wars does have a Western feel that runs through much of it. Life is sometimes cheap in SW which is one of the themes that separates it from Trek.