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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7304484" data-attributes="member: 6785785">The more I see of the negative reaction, the more I’m convinced that a lot of it is really due to false expectations. We fans tend to over obsess about a lot of this stuff. So for the past 2 years, everyone’s been building up certain story elements into a much bigger deal than The Force Awakens ever really justifies.So peoples’ artificially inflated expectations were not met. So they’re mad. Imagine if the original trilogy faced this level of scrutiny. Especially since it’s become very clear that Lucas was changing things along the way and making stuff up on the fly. If the internet existed then, people would have likely been just as harsh on those films as they are on the new ones.But the original trilogy escaped that nonsense. And it also benefitted from being the first....it had no legacy or expectation to live up to. The new films, though? They have an impossible task to make many of these people happy. Impossible. What movie that is escapist fantasy should have to face such insane criticism? At what point do they just accept that they cannot please the 40 year old adults who scrutinize every bit of minutiae about the films? At what point do they say “well the original films were really more for kids...so let’s worry about that demo”?Seriously...I say that as a 43 year old dude who loves Star Wars and all this kind of stuff. But because I’ve chosen to place importance on these movies because of the sentiment they hold for me does not mean that the people who create them must be beholden to me. I would argue that they should not be. If you want to know if this movie, or any Star Wars movie really, is any good, then ask a 10 year old.</blockquote>

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