One of my many nerd groups I’m is is one for pre-Disney Star Wars fans which is mainly an EU group and we were talking about how all these shill sites have so many good things to say about the EU now when I can remember them talking about how bad it was when Disney took over. Honestly that was my first awareness of the shill media because nerd sites who were pretty positive about the EU all of a sudden started crapping on it once Disney got rid of it.
Some of the guys see this as a positive sign but I guess I’m cynical because I think they just realize that the sequels and a lot of Disney Star Wars isn’t as popular as they want us to believe. Plus I hear the OT toys still sell pretty well.
So what do y’all think? Is this a positive sign or am I right to be cynical?
I don't see what's so hard to understand about the fact that people don't like retcons.
Not one single thing about the OT said, suggested or even vaguely hinted at the fact that the Force was supposed to be a disease. And while we're on the subject of retcons, "Padawan" is one of the stupidest made up terms I've ever heard. They already have knights, all he had to do was say the word "apprentice", the same ass word they had already used in the OT.
Lucas was crushed by the fan response, I absolutely agree. But to be frank the man was high on his own supply, not to mention a Ritalin addiction. What happened with the prequel trilogy was hubris. People wanted a return to form. They got a frog/lizard sambo man species, forty minutes of space politics, and a blond kid who couldn't act if you put puppet strings on him.
Now, they also got John Williams' best score ever(I rate duel of the fates even above the Jurassic Park theme), and an end fight scene that still slaps to this day.
But it was tonal whiplash from scene to scene.
George Lucas is a wonderful world builder, and a genuinely bad director and editor.