The other day I was driving home and listening to sports radio and I guess they had been talking about a trade a team didn't make and the fans were angry. One of the hosts said that the angry fans reminded him of nerds who get angry and become toxic because their fan theories didn't come true. I couldn't have rolled my eyes any harder.
Just brought back memories of all the moronic critics when The Last Jedi came out. It wasn't enough to simply say they enjoyed the movie, they had to crap on everyone who didn't and Disney being Disney went along with it. I remember hearing the "you're just mad because your fan theories did come true" or "You just wanted to see a heroic Luke" I remember asking someone who said those exact things why it was a bad thing to want to see a heroic Luke. They didn't respond.
This also popped up in Game of Thrones with Arya killing the Night King and people getting called sexist for saying that it should've been Jon.
I guess in hindsight this exposed all the media shills for what they were. Anyone who was actually interested in the IP would know that fan theories have been around in nerdom since the beginning. Anyone who actually cared about the IPs would know this, but this is what happens when a site/channel that was made to cater to fans is bought out by a corporation and gets re-staffed with a bunch of hacks. Sci-Fi Channel and the Star Wars websites I would frequent in the 90s and early 00s come to mind.
But rewriting ripely will call you a Nazi despite the fact that you dismantled that movie using facts. How that movie became a darling for critics I’ll never know
Well I guess I understand now why it is but at the time I was confused about it. Also remember it had much more capable women
There was also the suicide hyperspace jump tactic totally invalidating everything we'd ever seen about space battles in the setting. If that works, why wouldn't you just use droid piloted fighter-sized kamikazes to destroy all of an enemy's capital ships, or put a hyperdrive on an asteroid and smash it into a planet instead of building a gigantic spaceship?
I remember watching the movie and being so confused about the point of Holdo’s character or the point of the casino. Well now I realize the point was to lecture
He wasn't even the right fucking person, either. Just a rando criminal. Yes, let's trust a damn random criminal in jail and tell him our plan instead of trying to find the right person again. Surely, this criminal won't lie just to get out of jail.