The Politicization of Star Wars

You don't get more on the nose than Anakin's "you're either with me or you're my enemy". But times are different. In 2005, that warranted maybe a couple of threads out of hundreds. Nowadays people base their entire identities around the politics of movies and tv shows. And unlike Machiavellian geopolitical machinations, you don't have to be very knowledgeable to notice a black guy.

I would agree with the both points, though they (Disney and Lucasfilm/Star Wars by extension) are clearly trying to score political points with gay posts and such.

They don’t care about the characters or actual story.

They post a comic with a pride flag on it and then dunk on some random user just to appeal to a certain crowd. That seems political to me.

People are far to obsessed with space movies' made for children.

 Unless they're releasing the movie in China. 

China seems to have more or less banned Disney movies anyway. 

Sexuality has become very politicized in recent years. 

Star Wars and comic books have always been political and always been "woke", I don't know if there were conservative crab apples in previous times whining about it constantly or if its just the over-saturation of pop culture in our day to day lives and the amplification of those voices through social media, or maybe it was Reagan that brought that culture war stuff to the forefront of the country. 

Yes, exactly. George Lucas said he made Star Wars for "young people" and so people assumed that meant he only wanted children in the theater.

When in actuality, the intention with Star Wars and any other "blockbuster" (as the lines for the movies back in the 70's-90's could stretch back for street blocks) is to target as many demographics as possible. To say otherwise is just plain silly.

It's like insisting children can't watch/read The Lord of the Rings because Tolkien wrote those books with adults in mind, so children must stick only to The Hobbit which was written with children in mind. They can't enjoy The Lord of the Rings. Nor can they talk about them/criticize them. They can only talk about The Hobbit. Adults can't talk about The Hobbit and must stick only to The Lord of the Rings as it was written with them in mind...don't even think about opening a copy of The Hobbit to read OR turn on the Hobbit movies if you're an adult! Only the main targeted audience can enjoy something...see how ridiculous it gets? 

I would say Star Wars are family movies. It's something you can watch in mixed company and everyone can have a good time from grandparents, to young adults, to children. It's why the franchise grew as big as it did. It captured audiences' imagination, and that has no age limit.

I would say, the politicized things, in the first two trilogies were so subtle you didn't notice them...
Unless it was actually explained, I would never have thought of it myself.
And, it doesn't take away from enjoying them at all.

Then we got the politicization from the sequel trilogy which isn't subtle, and it sticks out too much. It's too obvious. They didn't do it right, I suppose.

That one part anakin said, that was a quote from george w bush. I never would have noticed that at all.
I'm totally fine with that personally.
But the politicization of the new star wars is just, Ugh.

Not tastefully done at all. It sucks I suppose that everything has to be too politicized now. As opposed to the prequels, which only had politicized stuff in it because the director actually wanted to do that.

Now we have things that are politicized and the directors have no say in them. I t reminds of one film that came out last year.

Ya most of that probably didn't make much sense.