The Fandom Menace Volume One - A Fandom Betrayed (The Fandom Menace Volumes Book 1)

by Stephen Walton

The head of the Lucasfilm Story Group in 2012 was Kiri Hart. Her writing credentials were: 1 episode of Crossing Jordan in 2003 and 1 episode of 1-800-Missing also in 2003. She worked as a story editor on 7 episodes of Crossing Jordan in 2003, and 2014 when she earned a credit on a Phineas and Ferb Star Wars special. This was the person Kennedy decided was the best fit to inject identity politics into Star Wars. Ideology over experience. That’s all that was required. Hart was quoted as saying her “first move was the make the story group entirely female, starting with Rayne Roberts and Carrie Beck”. Sexist hiring practices is apparently a foundational tool at Disney Lucasfilm. Agenda over content, ideology over character development and sociopolitical propaganda that rules overall. Rayne Roberts experience was as an assistant to someone on a movie called Life As We Know It and as an associate producer for a 2008 documentary called The Fair Trade. Yes, that’s it. But she had a vagina, and that was all the experience she needed. Carrie Beck’s only experience was as an executive producer for a made for TV movie in 2010 called Ghosts/Aliens. Yes, these were the people being hired to intentionally ruin Star Wars. How else can one see it? A myriad of talented experienced people in the film industry. Some of whom had to love Star Wars but no, agenda over content. Diana Williams, her experience was…. nothing. Absolutely, nothing. Kennedy could have chosen a street bum at random and...