4 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:Yeah, well, when they made everything Legends and started "deconstructing" the myth, I guess I didn't figure that Star Wars might stop looking like Star Wars.
Here's the thing. TLJ looks as Star Wars as an of the eight other movies do.
What it doesn't look like, is the utterly bizarre and overexplained jargon that was the EU, that Star Wars posessed as a sub-identity. But here's the issue, that became Star Wars for a lot of fans. The thing is, that was never Star Wars for the average, movies-only fan.
You have got to remember, most fans are not like us. Most fans didn't know who Thrawn was before Rebels, what a Kyber crystal was (and that it was actually a Kaiburr crystal, which was WHOLLY separate from anything to do with Lightsabers at all. Bit of an odd alteration but serves great narrative purposes so I'll take it.) Most fans had no clue what a TIE Defender even was, save an Imperial Gunboat! My goodness, how could they ever even hope to know such things?
But The Last Jedi doesn't not resemble the Star Wars everybody but us has known for decades. It just isn't familiar to very diehard fans, which of course has its drawbacks. But as somebody who always supported eliminating the bad parts of the EU, of having free reign to make their own content. They needed that freedom more than even diehard fans can hope to realize. Imagine being tied to making cinematic versions of the Thrawn Trilogy, truncating it to 2hrs, and making it interesting to people who've never even heard of stuff in there, then having to make an audience suffer through the concept of, ugh, Luuke.
3 hours ago, lazycomet said:I don't understand the hate over the WWII Bombing scene IN SPACE. There's no resistance (hehe) in space so even just a moderate PUSH as the bombs/bomblets are released would give the illusion of free-fall.
You can't tell Star Wars fans how space works. It never goes over well.
