#(he wanted what kotor2 has and failed miserably tbqh)
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#for all that i have some beefs with george lucas i DO think that the uhhhhhh decline of star wars in the disney era#(this is not universal and mostly in reference to the latest trilogy and some of the shows)#is due to a loss of message#the reason rogue one and andor are the BEST examples of new star wars is that they are#like the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy#EXPLICITLY antifascist#the original trilogy was made in a time when the echoes of WW2 were much louder and more recent#and the prequels when a lot of the same problems were beginning to stir in american politics#and it makes me fuckin insane because TFA was a GOOD movie!! people criticized it for being too much like#a new hope but like that was FINE for fuck's sake there's nothing wrong with recycling a narrative#as long as you make it new and interesting#but to then come back post 2016 with TLJ??? the milquetoast of it all#you had the absolute perfect setup with the first order as a new uprising of fascism in the wake of the fall of the empire#the alt-right parallels were very clear. the focus on disaffected young men taking up the banner of an evil fallen empire#in the form of kylo was all right there. the narrative of losing loved ones to hate and conspiracy. AND THEN RIAN FUCKING JOHNSON#*takes a few deep breaths*#i don't hate rian johnson i think he's a very competent filmmaker. but he should never have done star wars bc i simply do not think#he UNDERSTANDS star wars#i think he wanted to come in and have some fun with a lot of the hallmarks of star wars. he wanted to deconstruct#(he wanted what kotor2 has and failed miserably tbqh)#and in so doing completely lost the thread of what these movies are about#and then TRoS was just a fucking mess of trying to tie things up#like im certainly not saying i think jj would have made a wonderful perfect trilogy if he'd been given the whole thing but i DO#think it would have been more coherent than what we got#like they could have given it to anybody just give it to someone who fuckin gets it#anyway i love u space grandpa even though i hate you space grandpa and im glad you were always an anti-fascist
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