GOTG director suggests therapy for toxic Star Wars fans.

How can you demonstrably prove that the presence of diversity had a direct correlation with a lack of quality storytelling? Isn't it possible that the storytelling was poor in spite of the diversity and not because of it? No matter how you frame this, to the general public, it just looks like traditionalist fans are against diversity in Star Wars films.

It's true, I'm not as close to Star Wars as some. I do respect the need for tradition in beloved franchises. I also recognize when modern audiences aren't connecting with something. I have many friends who are casual Star Wars fans that cite the same issues with the franchise repeatedly. Star Wars doesn't really live up to the Wars part of its name. It's more like Star Skirmishes or Star Disagreements.

The next notable comment is that the Star Wars universe feels small despite it being a galaxy-spanning saga because of its reliance on a few principal characters.

Don't shoot the messenger, Lord Akbar. I have great respect for the original trilogy, and Episode III is one of my favorite films. Rouge One is my new favorite Star Wars film because, in my opinion, it balanced a modern vision of the franchise with classical storytelling - the stakes couldn't be hire and victory came at the ultimate price.

I think Lucas screwed Star Wars' future with Return of the Jedi.
If he really intended to do sequels, it probably would have been better to follow the plan that Kurtz said was the original one-since it would have ensured a suspenseful run of three more movies.
So Vader dies at the end of Jedi, Han dies, Luke is off on his own with new characters for 7-9. The Empire is not finally defeated until Episode 9 when the Emperor is killed (presumably with help from the mysterious Other he had to seek out).
It would have also followed a traditional serial pattern since the main bad guy is not finally dealt with until the very end.

His decision to shift the story to a family conflict shrank the plot dimensions, and also the universe.

I appologize for coming across as too harsh in that last post. I just get passionate about my Star Wars. 

Just to circle back to my original point though- I feel like Disney was approaching this thing purely as a commodity. I am okay with creative decisions that I disagree with, but in this case I view it more as a larger symptom of modern Hollywood: Basically just steal a beloved franchise and remake, reboot and rake in the cash. I really hated seeing that done to Star Wars. And I hate when people label everyone who feels this way as "toxic"

Of course we will all have our own opinions on what they should've done.... But I just can't get over how soulless the whole endeavor seemed to be.

I actually don't like the prequels all that much. But at least they were (mostly) done in the interest of telling a story and not purely to make money.

It's annoying when everyone who disliked TLJ gets lumped together and referred to as toxic; especially when those people don't understand what I'm complaining about.  Look, I can go on at length about everything I hated about TLJ, but that doesn't make me toxic.  There's a difference between hating on the film when the conversation arises, and hounding actors on twitter, etc.  Every fan is within their rights to complain about creative decisions and of course some people are going to take it too far.

However, labeling every negative opinion as 'toxic' is the lazy way of dealing with criticism.  Makes sense considering everything about TLJ was done in a half ass manner.  Why blame yourself for your failures; it's the audience of 40 years who "doesn't get it."    

I have more of a Problem with TLJ, that anytime you thought you were going to get a continuation or answer to something brought up in The Force Awakens you either get a slap in the face or a complete and total let down. It seems that Rian Johnson went out of his way to do this every time.

I don't agree with the agenda pushing bit. I can see where people believe that, I just personally don't agree with it. TLJ was very divisive without throwing a conspiracy to shove sjw themes in your face. I am a conservative on a lot of issues, but when I see the new movies I don't see the SJW thing.

I see Force Awakens as a blatant retelling of A New Hope (for good and bad reasons) with a few new threads that were interesting. The Mary Sue nature of Rey is over blown. Especially the final fight. If you re-watch it you see that Kylo has a severe stomach wound from a bow caster. A weapon that you've seen more than a couple of times in the movie blow armored Storm Troopers and normal people flying when hit. (So massively powerful and Kylo got hit directly) Yet minutes after Kylo is hit he is fighting. Not only is he fighting with it he is hitting it to get more angry. Which would make him more powerful but less controlled. You can see this with the brief fight with Finn. Finn gets a shoulder hit with a weapon he's only tried to use one other time. So either Kylo's fighting training was kind of shitty. (He was trained by a Master who never finished his training and took up Light Sabre way older than most) or the Blast fucked him up more the people realize. (Kylo also isn't fighting to kill her. He wants to turn her. He even tells her he wants to teach her) Also Rey's fight with Kylo is a cluster fuck until she calms down and does what Maz tells her to do and let the force flow in her. After that her style is still horrible. That last part of the fight is against an Injured Sith, who just killed his father and still conflicted. (He says it will help him complete his turn but you see this isn't so in TLJ when he doesn't fire on his mom) vs a untrained Force User with a stronger connection to the force at that time (because of his conflicted nature). That's it. As for her being a Mary Sue with tech she does make one mistake on the Falcon hitting the wrong breaker. If you think about it her being a tech genius is explained. She was left on a hostile planet with hostile people at a young age. If she wasn't a tech guru she would've died young. And with her being able to fly and fix the falcon she has some problems with this at the beginning. Also you know from expository dialogue she was familiar with the Falcon because she disagreed with what was done to it. The compressor. I think people wanted to hate Rey from the beginning and found reasons too.

I see 1 good side story Rogue One. Rogue One had problems too. Honestly those problems are glossed over with people liking K-2SO and the last 15 minutes of a movie. The Darth Vader scene gave him his balls back after the prequels kind of neutered him.

The other side story, Solo, feels nothing like Star Wars movie. Honestly Solo could've been any random generic sci-fantasy movie if you changed the characters names and settings.

The Last Jedi, honestly feels like a big fuck you to fans, but not because of a Diversity push. It feels like to be edgy and new type of Star Wars story, every decision was to feint or misdirect. It starts off with Luke tossing the light sabre. This was a misdirect from TFA. It was built up to that meeting and then when we finally get to see it, it goes the opposite what we thought. Hell every scene with Luke and Rey felt like a lets do the opposite of what everyone expects. In all the other Star Wars the cocky guy is trashed talked to, by a woman, but in the end his cockiness saves the day. I don't think this was done to make the Guy look stupid but to misdirect. You have another charming scoundrel in Del Torro, but this time DJ double crosses another misdirect. You have Poe's mutiny against a woman not to show him as a bumbling idiot, but to have the reveal that there was a plan. Another misdirect. You have the Force Projection of Luke again as another misdirect. If you believe Rey's feelings and Kylo's reading of them her parents were no one special another misdirect. Kylo's remembering of what Luke did another misdirect. I don't have a problem with Luke having 3 secs of doubt btw. Finn and Rose failing at their mission with the betrayal of DJ another misdirect. Snoke dying so easily by Kylo another misdirect. Kylo not turning is the only time that a misdirect would've worked but nope everyone knew he would go farther in the Dark side. I also don't have a problem with Rey being a nobody if true. Snoke gave a decent enough explanation of her massive connection to the force. When a dark side power rises (Snoke and Kylo) the force brings a Light Side power up... Rey. He thought it would be Skywalker but it wasn't. In the end I think people want to blame the use of diversity (or see an agenda) as the reason TLJ failed. I think it failed because it tried to be so edgy and go this way when other SW movies went the other way. To me it was like Rian Johnson summoned his inner Shyamalan. And not the Shyamalan from The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Split. The Shayamalan from when he felt crushed by the reputation of having good twists and turns.

Dude, Disney could literally fund the experiment that came up with the cure for cancer, and you'd find fault.

Simple: If you don't like what Star Wars has become, just quit and ignore it... and perhaps wait for Dune to show how it's done. Long live the fighters.