Imagine a world where the owners of an IP actually appealed to the fans of the IP. I know sometimes you can expand your customer base with certain products but certainly not when you try to do it at the expense of loyal customers.
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Yea I didn’t like it. Granted after reading the EU stuff for years I didn’t care for the direction they took but the fact they couldn’t reunite the big three and have them pass the torch is crazy. Han and Leia can’t be together, Luke’s Jedi school doesn’t make it in the show and they couldn’t show him being at least a little heroic.
The character assassination of the original three is unforgivable and indicative of the post-modern rot that has infected the “creatives”. I know everyone says left wingers make the best art, but I feel that tide has already changed. Deconstruction of tropes and subversion of expectations are now the expectation. In the same way it was revolutionary and surprising for trump to pick a white dude VP, it is surprising for a film to have a white guy BE THE HERO.
Jesus save us, modernity has failed us.
I loved Han and Leia’s relationship in the EU but looking back it seems like modern writers despise regular hetero relationships. Good point about Vance. I was surprised. I thought it would be Scott or Gabbard.
Many did, which is why he was such a “subversion of expectations”. Which is wild because prior to Obama, tokenism for THE LITERAL MOST POWERFUL OFFICE IN THE WORLD was treated how it rightfully should have been: like it was a stupid idea.
One day we will progress beyond this, but it requires action I fear many have no taste for.