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What could break Star Wars for me is the fans. People have gotten so amazingly toxic, from simple stupidity to misogyny to outright trolling, that I intentionally avoid most discussions about it. When I feel like I have something to add, my voice is mostly lost in a sea of poison. It's mostly my kids keeping it alive for me right now, because I can have a more intelligent discussion about Stars Wars with a 5 year old than most of the internet.
Does that include yourself?This. This right here. This is what is breaking Star Wars for me. The unbelievably viciousness of "fans" is just mindblowing. The level of politicization that fans have dragged into things is ... well... @Deset Gled said it right - sea of poison.
Y'know what? I LIKED Solo. Saw it with my girls and THEY liked it. You want to know why we liked it? Because we live in Japan and we don't have to get constantly bombarded by all the garbage spewing by inbred navel gazing trolls. We got to watch the movie fresh. And it was a fun movie. Greatest ever? Nope. It was a fun couple of hours.
But, from what I've seen leaking out of various "fans" festering cakeholes,, you'd think that the movie had just taken a chainsaw to a box full of kittens.
Love Star Wars. Wish the fans would just shut their festering gobs.
Y'know what? I LIKED Solo. Saw it with my girls and THEY liked it.
Does that include yourself?
Currently it really feels like you are spreading hate. That isn't really... helpful.
Do you know what people did before Twitter and they could post death and rape threats to actors?Sorry. You're right. It's just so incredibly frustrating though. The bile that gets tossed out makes it so hard to have any real sympathy and it tends to drown out any actual criticisms. Constant comparisons to "New Coke" or typical edition warring garbage like "it's like 4e" just makes me see red and I have a difficult time separating things out.
When people are driving actors off their twitter accounts with death and rape threats, never minding how that kid that played Anakin was treated by "fans", I'm just so sick of the poisonous element of the fandom that tries to pretend that they are "protecting" Star Wars when all they are doing is spewing hate. I would rather lose those fans, to be honest. Those fans aren't welcome in my view of what fandom should be.
This. This right here. This is what is breaking Star Wars for me. The unbelievably viciousness of "fans" is just mindblowing. The level of politicization that fans have dragged into things is ... well... @Deset Gled said it right - sea of poison.
Y'know what? I LIKED Solo. Saw it with my girls and THEY liked it. You want to know why we liked it? Because we live in Japan and we don't have to get constantly bombarded by all the garbage spewing by inbred navel gazing trolls. We got to watch the movie fresh. And it was a fun movie. Greatest ever? Nope. It was a fun couple of hours.
But, from what I've seen leaking out of various "fans" festering cakeholes,, you'd think that the movie had just taken a chainsaw to a box full of kittens.
Love Star Wars. Wish the fans would just shut their festering gobs.
Traitor is one of my favourite Star Wars books.NJO almost broke it for me. 20 book series, only 3 were good, religious war theme and then 9/11 happened.