Literally what me and my friends said at the time. Like we had been podcasting on star wars stuff intensely at that point, buying all the EU and yet came away from TLJ like "I am excited for what happens next, but I kinda want the entire franchise to end because that was so fitting, so beautiful".......but hey TROS came out and said the force is stored in the balls and made eugenics the premise so yay
Maybe eugenics is too harsh, but flat out rejecting the "everyone is part of the force and who you are doesn't depend on where you come from" for "the galaxy revolves around family lines" was super creepy. JJ made the entire series: "house skywalker vs house Palpatine" and viewed the saga as dependent on the actions of "the important people". which made the "its not a navy, its just people" thing feel so unearned. it was less "look normal people can stand up to evil" and more "look the peasants can die as cannon fodder while those of noble blood do the real conflict".
TLJ literally has Luke with venom say "noble skywalker blood" and then TROS makes that mentality a good thing
Yeah that makes sense. I feel like that mindset is all over the fantasy genre, but after TLJ subverted it with the 'Rey's parents are nobodies' twist it especially sucks that TROS goes right back and doubles down on it.
Literally what me and my friends said at the time. Like we had been podcasting on star wars stuff intensely at that point, buying all the EU and yet came away from TLJ like "I am excited for what happens next, but I kinda want the entire franchise to end because that was so fitting, so beautiful".......but hey TROS came out and said the force is stored in the balls and made eugenics the premise so yay
Wait for real? It was bio-essentialist af (which is still super shitty) but I can't remember it being pro-eugenics aside from that.
Maybe eugenics is too harsh, but flat out rejecting the "everyone is part of the force and who you are doesn't depend on where you come from" for "the galaxy revolves around family lines" was super creepy. JJ made the entire series: "house skywalker vs house Palpatine" and viewed the saga as dependent on the actions of "the important people". which made the "its not a navy, its just people" thing feel so unearned. it was less "look normal people can stand up to evil" and more "look the peasants can die as cannon fodder while those of noble blood do the real conflict".
TLJ literally has Luke with venom say "noble skywalker blood" and then TROS makes that mentality a good thing
Yeah that makes sense. I feel like that mindset is all over the fantasy genre, but after TLJ subverted it with the 'Rey's parents are nobodies' twist it especially sucks that TROS goes right back and doubles down on it.