i am not sure how else to describe this, so i am sorry for using such terrible terms, but i feel like there are both "smarter’ and “stupidier” people on both sides of the TLJ spectrum - putting it in black and white - people that HATE it and people that LOVE it.
with stupidier, i mean people that are going to act like little kids and basically “yell” at you for your opinion and name call you etc. with “smarter” i usually mean mature adults with fair and well structured arguments.
and while i feel that the stupidier, dumber part of the people that hated TLJ have still been very vocal recently, with “remake TLJ!” projects and everything, it seems to me that the calmer and smarter part of the fandom that didn’t like it hasn’t been as vocal recently. around a week ago discussions here “begun again”, but before that we were on a hiatus for some good 4-5 months. and during that time period, comments criticizing the film were pretty rare, not only here at OT.com, but also out there on the internet.
and during these 4-5 months, it appears to me that those that LOVED TLJ kept talking about how much they loved it. and while that’s great and i’m happy people are spreading happiness and positivity, it seems that several of those comments were written simply to tease us that didn’t like it. for example, every other day i see a tweet from one of those smart people on twitter saying that they LOVED TLJ. but they don’t say it just for saying it - at least that’s not what it appears to be - like i said, they seem to be saying it to piss those that didn’t like it off.
their tweets aren’t things like “I loved The Last Jedi!”, they tend to be stuff like “The Last Jedi is one of the best Star Wars movies ever.” and stuff like that. they seem to be stating that as fact. and more often than not, some people respectfully disagree on the comments for one of those tweets, only to be attacked or told never anymore to return to the fanbase, that we’re better off without them.
it gets pretty annoying, and i think that this type of attitude from people that loved TLJ only inspire those stupidier fans to spread hate. because it IS absolutely annoying and irritating to read that you’re wrong all the time simply for not liking a movie, and then be associated with sexists and white supremacists simply because you share the people on those groups’ opinions on one bloody movie.
i’m far from a SJW, but i consider myself almost an alt-leftist. and i’ve been treated before as an alt-right guy simply because i hate Rey’s character, for example. they claim i hate women. how stupid is that?
this is just to show that TLJ lovers are also very, very toxic. and that they apparently love to tease us, and that that sort of stuff sparks hate that makes things like what happened to Kelly Marie Tran happen.