We see to eye on the GoT situation, however I feel the same way about the Disney Star Wars haters. "I thought one thing was gonna happen, but something else happened instead. Disney is disrespecting the fans!!!" "Kathleen Kennedy is using Star Wars to push the anti-man agenda!!!" etc.
I have to admit I was never much of a Star Wars fan, so I wasn’t devastated. It was more like me and my brother were sitting in the theater laughing during TFA because it was exactly the same shit as the original Star Wars right on down to shooting the weak point in the Death Star or whatever they called it in TFA. Also, Darth Emo was hilarious.
As for TLJ I had no problem with the Rose character or any of that shit. Could have been a bit more serious in tone, but I tend to like it when a movie shows us things from a “common” character’s perspective.
However I think Luke was wasted. Mark Hammill plays a Templar knight named Master Talus in this season of History’s Knightfall and he is absolutely badass. A salty AF old man who trains the new recruits in swordsmanship and murders his way through knights half his age while yelling at them about how they’re apostates lol. In the season finale he was like “Behold the wrath of God, motherfuckers!” before unleashing whoopass.
If the damn History Channel can get a performance like that out of him but Star Wars didn’t, there was obviously something wrong with Rian Johnson and the script.
Lastly, the one thing that actually annoyed me was Laura Dern’s dumb-as-fuck General SJW, whose entire role seemed to be to prevent anyone from doing anything competent and was more worried about people defying her orders than leading the fleet or doing anything to save the other ships.
They don’t need to beat us over the head with some imagined gender war, especially with a shitty character. They could have made a smart, capable female fleet admiral and I don’t think anyone but a few assholes would have a problem with it.
But ultimately I think the backlash would have largely been avoided if these latest Star Wars movies were good. As a casual fan who will go see it in the theater because of the spectacle, it seems to me that the entire SW universe has produced two pretty good movies, and a whole mountain of shit.
