Part of the reason why I’m still involved with Star Wars is simply that I’m reading through the EU, so that keeps Star Wars on my mind. Also, my sister really wanted to watch Mando, so we binged it together and had a lot of thoughts on it, both positive and negative, and discussed and theorized a lot.

And Star Wars is just fascinating to me, both because it’s a great potential fantasy setting and because it’s a case study in franchise mismanagement. (I’m not just talking about post-2012 Star Wars. The problems started in 1997.)