Remember PJ, you take away reason and accountability, and THEN YOU’VE CAPTURED THE ESSENCE OF FEMININITY.
Ergo, she didn’t fail. The movie was great. It was the MEN WHO WERE HER CUSTOMERS that failed.
Why would you trust something that valuable to someone other than a complete Star Wars fanatic?
Iger did that, I think.
I heard that George Lucas also played a role in the decision to nominate her as the succeeding head of Lucasfilm. If true, that just makes him even MORE contemptible. It’s already bad enough that he pretty much sold Star Wars to buy his way out of taxes (and taxes he practically lobbied for BTW), but deliberately allowing a person who doesn’t even make it a secret that she hated Star Wars?! Seriously, allowing someone who at least has a healthy respect for Star Wars, if not a fanatic, would have been far healthier for the franchise right now than one who truly hated it.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if Iger also played a role in the travesty of hiring her. He’s always been the type to make his decisions purely on political grounds instead of whether it actually makes a profit. He’s even worse than Eisner ever was (as bad as Eisner was, at least HE tried to focus on whether the company was actually making a profit in its decisions instead of trying to turn it into a Liberal SJW factory regardless of what customers think, which is far more than what can be said of Iger or even Katzenberg.).
Not sure I agree with the idea that femininity requires taking away reason and accountability, though. I know plenty of females, who actually ARE feminine I should add, who definitely have a lot of sound reasoning and even accountability. Like, for example, Mallory Millet, or Phyllis Schlafly. Ironically, a lot of the ones who seem to take away reason and accountability seemed more masculine in demeanor than truly feminine, like Betty Friedan, or Gloria Steinem, or Kate Millet, or Simone de Beauvoir.
Don't know Iger from a hole in a wall, but perhaps he had some youthful "indiscretion", or not-so-youthful, and the #METOO crowd was knocking on his door?