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?
The prequels are not awful. There are some fantastic things about them and in some ways they took Star Wars to new heights. The problem is that there are also some glaring flaws that you can't overlook.
It's definitely a mixed bag but prequel stuff like Jedi robes, the crazy lightsaber fights*, Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan, Hayden Christensen as Anakin, Coruscant, and Yoda's combat prowess are truly part of Star Wars.
*lightsabers are not swords and the Disney attempt to appeal to Mike Stoklasa is partly responsible for Disney SW fights being bad