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What are the stupid nerds mad about now?
This is probably old. I think it's the
kiss that happens for a second in Rise of Skywalker.
context
They celebrate the defeat of the bad guys, and there's two women kissing. It quickly cuts to this guySo unbelievably dumb.
I can't remember if there was any dork outrage regarding Bix and Vel in Andor, but I think that show didn't have enough shiny jangling keys
for 
types.
It is absolutely amazing that the first good star wars in 40 years bounced right off supposedly their biggest fans.
The biggest fans with the littlest media literacy lol. Let's be honest, they were never going to be into it, and it's a miracle that it even exists!
They really want a giant galaxy where only 12 people ever did anything important so they can jack off to some published fanfic about Bonti'iib Fucko's adventures in the Nood Thorwok piss mines cause he was some alien in thar bar from episode 2.
They want this but for old Star Wars EU ephemera with 0 room for adaptation.
WHY DIDNT DISNEY MAKE THE THRAWN TRILOGY?! EVERYONE LOVES THE THRAWN TRILOGY! Like, I barely know who that guy is and I'm a nerd who engages in mocking voyeurism of Star Wars fans for fun
In a way I'm glad they didn't, because then I don't feel bad about not caring about star wars anymore and "Oops, how did fascism get in our republic again?" is a good bit.
I haven't watched Rebels or Asohka, but I think he's a main character in those. Dave Filoni's been picking his way through the EU crates, but the worst Star Wars fans just want "Thrown: the Movie" or "KotOR: the Movie."
It is so disrespectful to the craft of those books and that game that people just want them made into movies. Like broadstrokes can be worked into a show like Ahsoka and I am enjoying that, but I have no interest in just adapting the novels or game into film. An RPG is written to be an RPG, a novel written by a professional and accomplished genre author is meant for prose. Sure Thrawn had comics, but those are easier to directly translate and are more to give visuals than to be good sequential art
I want a Monkey's Paw where they literally just use KotOR's script as a screenplay and we have this incomprehensible mess where dialogue trees are just run through straight. It's what the dweebs deserve.
the biggest fans gave up after how atrocious the movies were. what's left are casuals (no shade), "wow cool sword" losers, and traumatized fans who can't look away from the trainwreck.
They had the same outrage over a two second same sex smooch on that Buzz Lightyear movie too. They even claimed that that is why the movie didn't do well, and not because like, people didn't understand why the film to exists in the first place.
no blue lady no sale
putting mira on the poster would've been bank.
Klaud supports gay rights
“stupid nerd” just hit me so hard
like how are these clowns into nerd shir and so fucking dumb?
Star Wars is stupid as hell, which is fine if taken for what it is, but being someone who understands the average wookiepedia article doesn't make you smart, it means you know a lot about something really dumb
They think having an encyclopedic knowledge and having media literacy is the same thing.
But what about Porritch GamGams? The Falloopian from Ventos 12 who tried to sell Luke a handful of chuck peas in 24 ABY in the Karfart Marketplace on Wantoo
I had a co-worker once, a really nice guy who never expressed a single political idea ever. He was a huge Star Wars nerd and would keep Star Wars toys on his desk and one for a costume party he dressed up in a full Darth Vader costume. He had never given it a thought that the movies could be an allegory of something in the real world and he was really surprised to learn about them being an allegory of the Vietnam war.
me dressed head to toe in a darth Vader outfit: wait the veterinarians fought in a war?
My wife doesn't really get subtext, and once showed me an exchange between her and a male friend, about 6 month into us dating.
Male friend was clearly into her and she was oblivious, and male friend kept using euphemisms to avoid saying it outright, and was pissed she was dating someone "while we're talking"
She had no idea that some people use "talking" as code for "not dating officially but super into each other" and she had no idea he was even into her. And based on what I now know of both my wife and this (now former) friend, she was being a normal nice and a decent human being instead of shitty and short with everyone at the factory, and he took that as interest in him.
So this whole time he's going on about them "talking" she's just like "yeah we're talking? Like right now? Are we not? Is this not talking?" as in "yes we are exchanging words" and he wants to hear "I'm into you" so he things she means "of course we're talking silly".
Awkward exchanges after that.
And I've had to explain plenty of movies that are allegories and what sociopolitical influences made a show go a certain direction. She understands once I explain, but she probably wouldn't get there on her own.
Some people do NOT understand subtext. At ALL.
you don't have to be smart or dumb to do X
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I'm sorry but they are kids movies that got out of hands in a era of artistic illteracy.
tell me you don't know star wars history without telling me you don't know star wars history.
The kid direction started in empire, but the studios REALLY swung hard into it, purposefully, in return of the jedi onward. I mean ewoks were literally only introduced to sell toys.
ok...