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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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Star Wars is a long cycle of really really really cool concepts and really really really shit execution of putting those concepts on screen. People have disliked pretty much every iteration of SW for some reason or another, and it's usually defensible. Boils down to suspension of disbelief and 'to each their own'
I grew up kinda between the originals and prequels, and often found the originals were paced too slow and the whole ewok thing stood out as stupid as fuck even to my 8-ish year old brain; but there was more to like than dislike, so I was fan overall.
Then the prequels come out. Jar Jar used to be what killed it for me, but then the 'darth' Jar Jar fan theory came out, and if you watch his character through that lens it's not quite as bad. I'm 100% sold on that being the original intent with Jar Jar, but then they backed off after so many people fucking hated him in Ep1, and just left him alone as a bumbling idiot and nothing more.
Then the sequels came out and the writing was absolute shit. SW followed that trend for a while, kinda felt like the franchise was dead in the water, existing only as a cash grab... until Rogue One came out, and then Andor, which are both fucking masterpieces.
George Lucas is a genius merchandiser and fun-maker, and things like “cohesion” and “plot” are left for everyone else to figure out.
He was good at overarching plots which is why the prequels are solid in that regard, they got planned in advance. He falters when it comes to smaller plot moments that drive the characters and the audience to follow the overarching plot, the stunted dialog etc.
It used to be movies were movies and not treated like political causes. So saying something like "I though the Leia and Han scenes in the early parts of ESB were a little awkward" (my actual opinion) didn't mean you were choosing to take a side against people that like ESB. I actually love ESB, but yeah there were some scenes are a bit awkward, and that's fine, because it's an action adventure move, so who cares?
So there was a distinction between criticizing parts of a movie and hating a movie. But now in the social media age, everything is either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever, and you group up with people with the same opinion as you.
Star Wars being a hugely popular thing attracts all kinds of algorithm brained people so there's endless content about whatever thing being the best/worst thing ever about everything in Star Wars.
But in the end they're just action adventure movies some are really good, some are terrible, and most of it is in between.