You were mocked by other posters on this thread but at the end of the day, these are the numbers that Bob Iger and the studio suits are going to be looking at when deciding on how to move forward. Not anything else, not even the critic reviews (lots of critically acclaimed stuff in fim/TV history got canceled. Trek's own Kovich David Cronenberg sometimes needs help financing his films despite being critically acclaimed. Acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa needed to be financially bailed out by George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola at the end of his career for his last films. And so on).
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Do we know how these numbers compare to the other shows on there? Even if the numbers are dropping, they could still be the most popular things on there. Over how much time did these numbers cover? There's a big difference between that much time spent watching in a week or a month.
Thing is, given it was FC Borg we saw in that Enterprise episode, the fact they don't say "we are the Borg" is odd.
Newton's Third Law of Plot Convenience.
We shall see. We have yet to hear about any new streaming projects after Andor season 2, though some have said Ahsoka got greenlit for a second season.
Right now it is just Skeleton Crew and Andor season 2. We know of nothing else in the pipeline production wise (to my knowledge).
Right now it is just Skeleton Crew and Andor season 2. We know of nothing else in the pipeline production wise (to my knowledge).
Ahsoka better have a second season.
Baylan goes looking for a mysterious presence that calls to him… The End.
Thrawn buys time to load mysterious cargo onto his ship… The End.
We still don’t know the point of either of those storylines.
If that is the end, it sucks. It’s not a complete story at all.
I want season two. There was a lot to like here. Stenberg, Henderson, and Jacinto were outstanding.
I don’t see how Henderson was “outstanding.” I don’t think she deserves the hate being directed at her from some quarters, but it was a monotone performance for a monotone character. Not exactly Emmy bait.
And more importantly who cares?
And?
Is it your millions going in to these projects?
Henderson played her part excellently, and I enjoyed every second of it. Her duplicity makes her anything but a "monotone character". She's someone who could go either way, continue to slide towards the dark side or redeem herself. I can't wait to hear her conversation with Yoda. What's going on beneath Rwoh's outer demeanor is a pretty big mystery. Protecting the Jedi order seems part of it, but is that all?
Uh, no they will not be looking at *these* numbers. These are Nielsen Numbers, and as such are rather notorious for being not terribly accurate. They don't even need Nielsen Numbers since they own the platform and have access to actual accurate viewing numbers, which they tend not to disclose . . . or even by what metric they even measure "success". Total minutes watched? Percentage of completed episode viewings vs incomplete? Average rate of re-subscriptions during the initial release window? Tie-in merchandise sales? Who knows!?
This is all just armchair quarterbacking. We have no clue which way Disney will jump; all we know is that they'll spend less money than they were overall, because what they were spending (especially on the Marvel side) was unsustainable. Luckily, Star Wars and Lucasfilm seems to have always been way more cost effective than Marvel Studios, so they're less likely to feel as much of a pinch.
So at the end of they day; people can speculate all the live-long day, but only The Mouse really knows what The Mouse is going to do, or why. Just wait and see.
If by "some" you mean Lucasfilm, then sure; "some".
Aside from that and Andor's final season, there's a few more projects known to be on the books after 'Skeleton Crew'. The status of Mando Season 4 is a little unclear given the movie announcement (some say they're separate, some are less certain), but is probably on the way in one form or another. Plus of course 'Lando' is still apparently floating around in development somewhere between "series" and "movie", but who knows if that'll even materialise.
Beyond that; who knows? I'd be surprised if they don't announce something new show-wise before the end of the year, if only to keep the shareholders happy. A new animated show in the vein of TCW/Rebels/Bad Batch seems inevitable, and I think there's been enough new job postings at Lucasfilm Animation to indicate that they've been gearing up for something.
Personally I wouldn't take a lack of an announcement for Acolyte season 2 anytime soon as anything more than business as usual. It took them about half a year to announce Ahsoka's second season after all, which could mean they were looking at the numbers over a longer term, waiting for the dust to settle from the strike, or something else entierly.
Indeed, it does seem as though they generally like to announce renewals around January or February, and whole new projects either in May at celebration, or in the quarterly earnings calls. Either way I'm not holding my breath for any new information materialising anytime soon.
Yeah, I expect 'Andor' to drop either very late Q1 or sometime in Q2 next year. Probably some announcements for new things in Jan/Feb, with perhaps a title reveal or even a teaser for something or other at Celebration.
Either way I can't imagine they'll have very much of substance to show off in Japan. The Mando/Grogu movie doesn't start shooting until later this year, Ahsoka probably not until early next, the Rey movie *may* be close to production by then, but I wouldn't put money on it. Either way there won't be a lot to show off on the live action front.
'Skeleton Crew' and 'Andor' would already be out/very close to release by that point so expect retrospective panels for those (and Acolyte). They may show off a little bit of footage from the movie, but it'll likely be behind closed doors given recent trends.
So I suspect animation may be the main attraction for that particular celebration. Likely a third volume of 'Visions', maybe an early tease for a new "Tales" season, and one would hope something about a new ongoing series.
looking back at this series, the story does resemble the development of relationship btwn. Obi-Wan vs. Anakin Skywalker.
They officially confirmed season 2 of Ahsoka in January already.
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