Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
JHC….its Star Wars, not teenage mutant ninja turtles or the fast and the furious…The toxicity is that they can't just let stuff go.
Studios literally live on low batting averages... they know not every film is going to be a hit... and they don't go on forever when a film doesn't land.
Yet many star wars 'fans' obsess over the failures more than they do the things they actually do like. They chastise others as not being 'real' fans if they don't share the same voracity for wanting to tear something down and keep stomping on it until everyone in the room tells them they are 100% right. In the social media era people spend so much time trying to get people to listen to them they end up spending all this energy on preaching instead of just having a discussion and then moving on until something new comes along to spark some new angle.
And this is not a defense of 'only sunshine' people... far from it. It's just a call out of 'we get it, you don't have to keep repeating yourself' nor does your voracity for tearing something apart define your aptitude nor credibility.
Too many 'fans' measure their fandom by their level of critical output and it's really not that interesting to others who aren't addicted the same way.
I'm not here still complaining about how kenner ruined star wars toys by refusing to update the vinyl figures to have articulating elbows, etc in the face of competition from GI Joe... just like I won't be trying to convince everyone how bad a show is unless it's part of discussion of merit. There are no trophies for converting people...
Use an appropriate measuring stick
Or more simply: stop making excuses for your mouse lord and just admit they have done an Inexcusable job of tanking the most bankable franchise in Hollywood history