Kathleen Kennedy, the long-embattled Lucasfilm exec and mediocre anti-visionary who decimated the Star Wars brand and the intense loyalty of the worldwide community by trying to woke-icze and feminize the nearly 50-year-old galactic franchise…Kennedy, destroyer of worlds, is finally taking a hike!

Kennedy’s just-announced departure is many years overdue, of course…the faith is pretty much gone and the franchise with it. Kennedy turned it into a 21st Century political-cultural anti-machismo, up-with-DEI thing…a progressive/feminist Star Wars crusade dedicated to diminishing and in some cases the outright de-balling of a once-proud mythology…a once-devotional theology gone south.

The only good things that came out of the Kennedy regime were Tony Gilroy‘s Andor and Gareth Edwards‘ Rogue One.. Otherwise, forget it…implosion, dilution, a woke-product-in-the-pipeline mentality.

My favorite Kennedy bonehead move was the ghastly miscasting of the beady-eyed, reedy-voiced, small-shouldered Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo…that in itself was a firehouse alarm. Other Kennedy wrongos include The Acolyte, the chubby Kelly Marie Tran fan revolt, Moses Ingram‘s Baltimore accent in Obi Wan kenobi, multiple director firings (Lord & Miller, Josh Trank, Colin Trevorrow), the Boba Fett movie, the stalled Rian Johnson trilogy…all of it.

Back in ’21 or thereabouts Tatiana and I were about to begin one of our Sulllivan Canyon hikes, and there was Kennedy walking toward us on the same horse trail. I nodded at her but said nothing.