TFA receives an overwhelmingly positive response from fans and everything is cool.
TLJ receives mixed reviews and it’s because of the social media swamp and “toxic fans”.
I’m having trouble buying into this narrative. What happened in the 2 years between these films that turned a chunk of the fanbase rotten?
Nothing. Nothing at all. Star Wars fans are the same fans they’ve always been. TLJ is a divisive movie; it has a strong perspective. If it were as derivative and formulaic as TFA, we wouldn’t be debating the toxicity of the fanbase. We’d be skipping along, arm in arm, on our way to Episode IX, with some of us grumbling along the way, just like we did with TFA.