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Post #1477770

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thebluefrog
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What do you think of the Sequel Trilogy? - a general discussion thread
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Date created
28-Mar-2022, 8:36 PM

Anchorhead said:

thebluefrog said:
…in 10 years people will have forgotten the sequel characters.
And that’s the real tragedy.

Tragedy?
Natural disasters, genocide, terrorist attacks, global pandemics - those are tragedies. Fictional movies are entertainment. Star Wars isn’t a series of documentaries.
I’ve been waiting 40 years to see Star Wars the way I watched in the theater the summer of 1977. It’s unfortunate that I never will again, but it’s hardly a tragedy.

Well, obviously, but this is a Star Wars forum talking about Star Wars, so context matters. That kind of reduction to absurdity makes any discussion pointless. Obviously there’s always worse things going on in the world when discussing ANY topic, but it’s kind of distasteful to inject that into the conversation–why discuss feeling strongly about anything if there’s always a bigger, more important issue? And vice versa, it’d be distasteful and tonedeaf to go onto a forum discussing current worldwide events and go “Yeah, but you know what’s a bigger tragedy? This other issue I feel more strongly about.”

I could go into every single forum discussing any media, be it Star Wars, Marvel, Final Fantasy, Lord of the Rings, etc., and say “Yeah, it’s great you are sad/mad about X, but you know what’s worse? The war where people died.”

I’d be technically correct in saying that, but would hardly foster conversation and honestly I’d come across tonedeaf and kind of rude.