adywan said:
Outside of this site the reaction towards TROS has been overwhelmingly positive.
I can’t say I’m seeing the same. I don’t see it overwhelmingly either way, just a very mixed bag of reactions with the reactions themselves usually very mixed on the movie.
adywan said:
But what i can’t believe is just what this site has now become. Fans openly wishing for these films to fail? Seriously? This place has now become everything it had always been accused of. It was bad enough when TLJ came out , but now it’s become a place i no longer enjoy visiting.
When the films leave you feeling insulted to be a Star Wars fan and your opinion is that these movies are destroying the legacy of what you’ve loved for up to 40+ years, then I can definitely understand people wanting the new films to fail.
Going into TLJ I was honestly excited from a generally enjoyable TFA (that needed a lot of questions answered and plot threads expanded upon) and some very good trailers. I wanted nothing but TLJ and the 3rd movie to massively succeed, to become part of the saga I loved and something I could revisit time and again and Disney would have made a bucket load of money as a result.
Sitting in the cinema only 15min in, what I ended up feeling was simple disbelief that I was watching a so called “Star Wars” movie? Was this real, did I accidentally walk into a new spoof movie of Star Wars screening at the same time? There were many times I felt I could almost see Rian Johnson’s hand with his middle finger raised facing me through the cinema screen, directed right at me and this ever more so when Luke flippantly tossed his lightsaber over his shoulder and proceeded to assassinate his own character. This is just how I felt sitting in the cinema, it was heartbreaking for me and I feel like I have been under a constant cloud of “Star Wars depression” ever since with it only starting to properly lift and be replaced with good new Star Wars memories again thanks to Jedi Fallen Order and The Mandalorian.
In saying all that, I didn’t want TROS and the DT to fail simply out of spite but at this point in events maybe it needs to fail spectacularly in order for future movies to do a complete reassess and present something truly deserving of the fandom, the world and Star Wars itself in respect to George and Lucasfilm’s 40+ year legacy. If you simply accept whatever is thrown your way then how can you expect them to ever aspire to greater things? For Star Wars to truly be great again in the current age, they need to exceed or at least be as good as the original and best Star Wars.
Bladerunner 2049 showed that this is possible with the right people and a passionate visionary behind them, focusing and driving for that exceedingly high but still attainable achievement and this same formula was necessary in the first place to set the bar that high. The DT certainly doesn’t feel like it has passionate Star Wars fans with a clear vision and plan running things which is clearly evident by the way it turned out with a very obvious tug of war over the trilogy narrative playing out on screen.
If you feel OT.com has become what some people say of the Star Wars fandom then I think you are completely missing all of the good things that IMHO far outweigh the bad and wherever you have a large group of people you will always have this mixture with everything in between. I hope you don’t decide to just leave, as your projects and input are part of what makes me enjoy visiting here. If the TROS and DT criticism in general frustrates you then I’d advise to just ignore it and focus on the areas that you do enjoy.