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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 28, 2021 22:42:46 GMT
So you've gone from No True Scotsman, to lying about it, to doubling down on No True Scotsman. Do you realize how childish you sound? My, it looks like I have hurt someone's feelings. First you accuse me of generalizing everyone who liked The Last Jedi into a singular clique(Which I did not), then you accuse me of neglecting your fanaticism to Star Wars as a whole (How the heck was I supposed to know you wrote an article about it that was published? You never shared that information before in prior discussion). I will clarify - You can still be a fan of Star Wars but give or take how it goes about its mythology, which appears to be the case with regard to some of those that I have seen show strong appreciation towards The Last Jedi. The film pretty much takes a leak on Luke Skywalker's character and the force and the mental gymnastics it takes to accept all as organic and welcoming is no easy feat for a hardcore fan of the brand, one who is more willing to let whatever slide by will be satisfied as long as it feels well-done on a filmmaking standpoint. The fact that you didn't know that I wrote one is why you shouldn't do what you've been doing in this thread up until your little clarification there - which is still you treating your personal view of what SW should be as the one true objective, but hey, at least it's slightly less gatekeep-y. Fun fact: the article I wrote was a defense of certain elements of the SW prequels, one of which was the non-accidental portrayal of the Jedi as a rather shitty dogma that fell in part due to its own hubris. This was three years before TLJ came out, mind you. Isn't it confirmed that Lucas wanted to do basically the same thing with Luke as TLJ did? This would appear to give people who liked TLJ the upper hand in a pissing match over who's a bigger SW fan and understands the mythology better, yet if someone hears out my "mental gymnastics" and still doesn't like Luke's portrayal, I tend to just accept that.
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