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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9893733" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Cargo cult is when you try imitate something without actually understanding that thing in the hopes of bringing success/reward, essentially. In the context of Star Wars it would mean using tropes, characters, imagery, music etc that imitated Star Wars but without quite getting why those were beloved to audiences or why they worked. TFA is to me an example of this, whereas the Andor is zero cargo cult. TLJ actively avoids cargo cult too, for better or worse. I wouldn't say TFA was as bad as it gets though - Abrams at least half-grasps some of what makes SW good, whereas in Super 8 he showed he profoundly didn't get what made '80s kids movies great. With TROS it's harder to work out what happened, because it's so clumsy and messy it's not even clear if Abrams was trying to imitate stuff and it's more like it's just doing cheap references to make the audience clap like seals (the audience did not clap like seals because the cheap references mostly sucked).</p></blockquote><p></p>