Spoilers What do casual fans get wrong about Star Wars?

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Star Wars (and Trek, but I digress) are space westerns and samurai movies. Or the good stuff mostly is, anyway.

If you think Jar Jar is weird, you should meet Jaxxon the green anthropomorphic rabbit.

 

[Hex08]

I've long believed that there were two big camps of Star Wars fans:

1. The folks who watched the Skywalker movies and maybe one or two others in the theater.
2. The folks who inhale pretty much everything Star Wars.

There is a pretty wide chasm of Star Wars fans that falls between those two camps. I've watched all of the movies, Disney+ shows and most of the cartoons and read a small amount of the early, no longer canon, novels and a very small number of the original Marvel Star Wars comics that started around 1977 and the Dark Empire mini by Dark Horse and that's it. I think I have visited Wookieepedia less than a handful of times and not at all in the last 10ish years. I would be willing to bet that there are a lot of Star Wars fans who fall somewhere between the two camps as you define them.

I've told friends that, from my perspective, it's cool to love all of the secondary stuff you want but if it's not in the movies (and maybe the Disney+ TV shows) it doesn't matter. There is just too much available to keep up with for most people and a lot of it is in formats, like cartoons and comics, that some people just don't care for.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If you think Jar Jar is weird, you should meet Jaxxon the green anthropomorphic rabbit.

Still one of the best Star Wars characters ever.

 

[el-remmen]

I considered myself a hardcore fan until about 1999, while feeling that you didn’t need to know anything outside of the original trilogy to be one (I read one SW novel once and realized i didn’t care about character interiority when it comes to Star Wars. If I can’t tell what a character is thinking by what they are doing I don’t care). I still kinda believe that.

 

[Gradine]

Qui-gon was right all along, the Jedi Order fell for a reason

 

[DrunkonDuty]

That Star Wars is to be enjoyed. It's not to be enjoyed - it's to be argued over. Loudly. Vehemently. Endlessly.

 

[Deset Gled]

Qui-gon was right all along, the Jedi Order fell for a reason

I've been saying the Jedi were an oppressive theocratic regime and the Rebellion was a religious militant terrorist organization since before Disney was involved. But I'll warn you that type of talk won't get you many friends in either the hardcore or casual fandom circles. Best to stick to safer topics like podracing scores or weather on Hoth when you're in mixed company.

"How cold was it on Hoth today?"
"Oh, pretty cold. But my tauntaun kept me luke warm."

 

[trappedslider]

"How cold was it on Hoth today?"
"Oh, pretty cold. But my tauntaun kept me luke warm."

 

[Deset Gled]

Goood, good...

 

[Gradine]

I've been saying the Jedi were an oppressive theocratic regime and the Rebellion was a religious militant terrorist organization since before Disney was involved.

I mean I wouldn't go that far. I did, after all, say Qui-Gon was right, not Palpatine; the latter of which would rightfully get anyone booed off the stage by a younger, smarter Dave Chappelle.

"The Jedi Order's paternalistic approach to galactic politics and dogmatic fear of attachment is what ultimately doomed the Order and the Republic with it" is a far cry from "Actually, the Empire were the good guys", which is the reddest of flags.