I think the bad numbers are a combination of bad timing (right on the heels of two big summer blockbusters), bad marketing (shorter period than other SW movies and a trailer that didn’t play up how well the star did in the part), the director controversy, and then a lot of little things. It has good reviews and the people who didn’t like TLJ know this is by a different production team so I don’t think it was protest. I doubt that had anything to do with it. The other aspects seem more likely. If they had moved it out 6 weeks it would have done better. If they’d nailed the trailer it would have done better. They didn’t really have enough time to hype it up properly, to build the expectation. And part of it might just be that while many of us die-hard fans wanted a Solo movie, that the general public didn’t. I don’t think you can read anything into the numbers about Star Wars fandom. I think 9 will do very well at the box office. Probably one reason they went with Abrams again. I just hope he is not the one who came up with the ending. If he did it will suck.