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    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      Kind of sucks these movies got rehabilitated through the memes and Disney fucking up early on in it's reboot of the franchise that now SW dorks see the prequels as good.

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      • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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        I hate the rehabilitation bullshit. If you want to enjoy them ironically or rewatch the handful of decent action sequences then that’s fine, but the whole “actually, the sequels weren’t as bad as people said” thing is infuriating. They aren't good. They’re bad. They were bad when they came out, and they’re still bad now. They haven’t “aged well” or “found a place in the current media landscape” or whatever. They suck, we spent two decades analyzing precisely how and why they suck, and the issue is closed.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      I don't know if this comment is serious or not, I don't realy think George was that competent and able to "metagame" like that. He probably just wanted to appeal to kids because he knew the OG fans were too old and likely poor and if SW is to survive in the long term it would need a bigger multimedia platform and a much younger audience. He just failed for many reasons.

      But in case this is serious, this also isn't entirely wrong, perhaps it is true because sadly this is exactly the same attitude from CBS wrt Star Trek. It is known at every opportunity that despite JJ/Kurtzman paying modest lipservice to the old Trek the fact is the writing room and producers all absolutely hate and loathed old Trek and the old fans.

      They constantly pat themselves on the back for being the science show, the rainbow inclusiveness hope BS show etc. All while completely ignoring that old Trek did that 30-50 years ago and they demand you praise them for it. "Oh no people don't like nuTrek? Must be MAGA chuds!". Basicaly r/startrek is how the producers see themselves.

      So yeah, maybe George did have that sort of contempt for old fans, I don't doubt it.

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