J0E said:
I probably would’ve been fine with a fan edit of TLJ if they would’ve stuck the landing on ROS.This is what I think is lost in the hate of the ST in general and the sentiment that they were doomed from the beginning; a good end would have forgiven all ills. Star Wars fans are indeed quick to condemn the new, but they are equally willing to contort any content to fit their canon if it takes even the smallest effort to keep with the spirit of what came before, as this community illustrates.
Pretty much a /thread
I don’t really watch any of those cringy fandom menace youtubers or whatever and I don’t interact with any Star Wars communities online other than this one. Even still I know people I play games with and saw posters around here that were almost (if not outright) rooting for the movies to fail. When TLJ came out it was like some lame “fuck you I was right” thing. Even I was pretty toxic posting around here about it.
It’s like the prequels. TPM isn’t too bad, shift some dialogue around, trim the Coruscant stuff and Jar Jar then the movie is alright (though tbh I don’t really mind the theatrical cut). Yeah Clones is pretty bad, but the two Clone Wars shows and a decent edit of Sith more than makes up for it. The prequels weren’t doomed from the start. They just needed some refinement. The sequels weren’t doomed, ROS just needed to follow up on TLJ and be a little more tight than it.