#strategery

Everything is slated to air this year (2025).

"Season 2" of With Love, Meghan was filmed alongside "season 1."

Was everything already filmed & ready for release, and Netflix doesn't have to do anything but release these this calendar year?

Show me the contracts if this is really about "new" projects.

Where are the projects happening in 2026 and beyond? I have seen no mention of anything except the supposed adaptation of Meet Me at the Lake, which doesn't appear to be going anywhere.

In repose under the bench with all the food, waiting for the inevitable. 

So, here’s something I’ve been wondering after reflecting a little more on The Force Awakens: what is the First Order’s ultimate strategy or plan? I mean, beyond being EEEVIL or trying to take over the world in a very vague Pinky and the Brain sort of way. What are they really trying to do?

The Empire’s plan was pretty clear from the first movie: control ALL THE THINGS -- destroy those pesky Rebels, crush dissent, seize power, control all the beings and all the resources. (Yes, evilly. But that’s kind of inherent in that level of hunger for power and control.)

From that SpaceNazi rally scene with Hux, it seems that the First Order seems to want something similar. But their actions don’t seem to make a lot of sense to that end, particularly their use of the Starkiller weapon. Starkilller is supposed to be a giant improvement on the Empire’s Death Stars (actually, just bigger), but if the First Order wants the same thing as the Empire, using it over and over is counterproductive to the power and control they seek.

With the Empire and the Death Star, it’s basically the nuclear arms race: you have a powerful enough weapon to blow any planet that disobeys to pieces, you do an effective demonstration on one of the core planets (that just happens to have been a giant thorn in your side and a major funder of the Rebellion) to show you mean business, and everyone else pees their pants so badly that they are more easily controlled. You don’t go around blowing up a bunch of planets in quick succession, because that dilutes the power of your scary weapon.

But that’s exactly what the First Order did with Starkiller: blew up not one planet, but the entire Hosnian System, then targeted another system within a day or so. By destroying the seat of government, they also obliterated all the beings, natural resources, and riches that were on that world -- likely including a lot of wealthy individuals who would bankroll a First Order that catered to their whims. And if they keep doing that for more and more worlds (which seemed to be the intended pattern before Starkiller was destroyed), gaining power and control is pointless, because there are no resources to control. They would control nothing.

It’s not like the Empire would’ve blown up Coruscant, even if there were a secret rebel base somewhere there. They didn’t blow up Corellia, which had a ton of rebel recruits; you think they were going to destroy the planet that built all their ships? Alderaan was never going to bend to their will, so their resources were expendable as far as the Empire was concerned.