AndorDisney PlusI do not usually do full-on follow-ups to articles, but my last one, Disneys $645 Million Andor Budget Shows How Its Lost Control Of Star Wars, was so badly misread (or not read at all) and misrepresented my position and point, I feel the need to step in and go over this again, perhaps more clearly.The main argument here is somewhere along the lines of This is stupid, Andor is the best thing Disney Star Wars has ever done, why do you care if Disney spends money? along with a string of insults about me being beholden to corporations or something along those lines.That is correct, I have no personal stake in what Disney spends money on and I am glad that Andor exists. The idea that I think Disney should have never made Andor is ridiculous and not an argument I made.But at the same time, yes, it does matter when a company like Disney overspends on projects like this, and keeps overspending, because that can result in less of the things you like if these costs are not managed in relation to potential viewership. And I wrote this article because this has now happened with a number of Disney Star Wars shows in particular. Though you can see examples of this elsewhere, of course.To start with Andor, it is almost impossible that Andor would have gotten a second season with its initial budget well over $200 million if it did not secure its two-season deal ahead of time. If that hadnt happened, it would have almost certainly been a case of a beloved show being cancelled too soon.MORE FOR YOUAndorDisney PlusWhy? Because unlike some other big-budgeted productions, at the time, Andor was the lowest-viewed Star Wars series Disney had done. Of course that was not because it was bad, but because it started at baseline with no known Star Wars characters except a co-star of Rogue One. This may have been a what could have been situation, given that we are getting the second season, but its easy to see how this may not have happened at all, and a massive budget would have been among the chief things to blame.We can move on to The Acolyte, a series that no, is clearly not as good as Andor, but it was a very important project for Disney given that it was a major attempt to expand their Star Wars universe past the Skywalker era, heading into the High Republic which they have devoted an incredible amount of other media to. It failed miserably in that regard. It had lower viewership than Andor, and cost again, over $200 million. And unlike Andor, it seemed pretty clear a series like this did not need to spend money like that, where the most compelling parts of that series was a single lightsaber fight or some people talking in a cave. The Acolyte did have its fans and was important for Disney, but that huge budget made it impossible to continue, ending the show on a series of cliffhangers.Skeleton CrewDisneyNow this is again happening as we speak. The latest show facing this same fate is Skeleton Crew, probably the actual best Star Wars Disney Plus series besides Andor. It initially sounded like it could be a grounded, cheaper production and while it was cheaper, cheaper than insanely expensive is still expensive, and the series cost $136 million. It is, again, likely going to be the least-watched Star Wars series Disney has made, if early data is correct. A series that seems like it could have and would deserve a season 2 may not get one because again, the budget is not matching the potential viewership. Id argue none of these shows could have produced results to justify those huge budgets in terms of viewership. And yes, all of this adds up to what I would call Disney losing control of Star Wars, in more ways than one.For fans, luckily, for series like Andor we got something extremely high quality out of all this, but its clear we are going to miss out on other projects, be they more seasons of good shows or cancelled ideas we never even know about, if Disney does not figure out how to stop pairing huge budgets with projects that are never going to get the viewership to match. I am not looking out for Disneys balance sheets, I am looking out for the could-have-been projects that suffer as a result of these sky-high figures.Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram.Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.