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.
It had a “diverse” cast of main characters, and shat all over beloved white characters and the world those characters lived in.
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
Well… Rey aside, the women are another case where what the movie tells us about them being right and competent is at odds with what actually happens.
Holdo’s lack of communication nearly gets everyone killed, and her plan hinges on the First Order forgetting that they can just push a button to reveal cloaked ships. The fact that they do is just dumb, not her genius.
Leia and Holdo both unfairly castigate Poe for destroying the dreadnought, despite the fact that the bombers could not have been recalled safely, the dreadnought would have destroyed the whole fleet, and the very scene prior, Leia was talking about how they needed a galvanizing victory like the one over the first Death Star. The destruction of the first Death Star saw a massively powerful weapon defeated by a group of underdogs at the cost of nearly every ship sent against it being destroyed. The destruction of the dreadnought should fulfill this criteria, but the movie ignores that. (This line is actually doubly retarded, since they destroyed Starkiller Base about 12 hours ago in-universe, but unfortunately, the line is in the movie).
Rose effectively dooms the resistance when she stops Finn from destroying the cannon. It’s dumb luck that this doesn’t result in everyone’s death, and physically confusing, given where she strands them, that she and Finn aren’t immediately killed by the First Order. Everything else she does is net neutral. (Except for her complete lack of comms discipline leading to DJ exposing the escape plan to the First Order, but in fairness, Finn is equally to blame here).
Arguably, even Rey gets handed a massive failure in the form of an idiot moment when the movie confirms that she woke up before Kylo after the explosion in the throne room and left in Snoke’s shuttle, but apparently didn’t do anything like attempt to capture, kill, or even inconvenience Kylo while she was standing over his unconscious body.
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.