Dre, oh dear. What an awful ad filled bit of clickbait crap!
“Understanding how the new movie went off the rails” Really?!
And then the guy spends the whole article comparing it to Tolkien.
If you really want an insightful deconstruction then listen to the Empire podcast, with Rian Johnson getting much deeper into the decisions, the story and the characters.
If you can get past the initial popup and ignore the few adds as you scroll down (pretty much the majority of sites these days), it is a quality article and articulates very well an opinion and point of view that obviously Dre, myself and others hold on the matters. If you don’t agree with it, fine. That’s got no say on the quality of the piece though.
In regards to listening to RJ try to justify his decisions (as that’s what he’s doing otherwise he wouldn’t feel the need to explain), no thanks. I’ve read enough of his quoted comments in some articles to know that whatever he says on the matters is never going to justify for me the decisions he took with this movie. Many of the comments sound like straight up bullshit anyway, so I’m already not interested in anything else he has to say as I don’t feel I can trust what is coming out of his mouth.
[DrDre said:](It’s certainly more articulate and respectful than your reponse to my post.
Okay, back to your usual ‘passive aggressive’ self.
If anyone is being aggressive here (and definitely not passively) it is yourself. His comment is true - the article articulates very well the author’s issues with TLJ and the ST in general. It is also respectful in it’s tone. Both of these things are lacking in your initial reply that calls into question Dre’s own quality of posting and by insulting an article that Dre supports the view of, you indirectly insult Dre.
Val