#good reasons!!! (Leia is this too and I'm so excited we're getting more Leia content!!)

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LUKE SKYWALKER FOR BLORBO BINGO

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BLORBO BINGO: LUKE SKYWALKER

Luke Skywalker!!! Luke is so much to me. In the same way that these are the movies ever, (literally they changed the course of history indelibly), Luke Skywalker is the most main character to ever main character. He's the embodiment of hope for so many generations and is a superb example of a chivalric hero, acting out of hope and love, but he's also reckless as hell and insanely durable and makes morbid comments mostly to himself and goes through a character arc so intensely that it nearly makes him unrecognizable from how we knew him and changed the galaxy forever.

Changed the galaxy forever for good. Luke Skywalker bore witness to the truest dark, he saw the darkest parts of the universe and waded knee-deep in them, and then stepped out. He said, "I choose my friends and what I believe in. I'd rather die before I let myself become you."

When told his fate by two opposing advisors, he chose neither, and wrote his own fate according to what he felt was most true. In doing so, he saved the galaxy, and arguably more important to Luke, his father's soul. SUCH A GUY!!!!

Luke is so peculiar to me. <- referring here to my star wars hyperfixation. Because I was born at a time where I have never not had Star Wars in my life. I can't recall a time not knowing Star Wars in some way shape or form. It's a large portion of my childhood, which is something that can be said by so many people-- I feel that that's just a statement that displays how impactful Star Wars, and Luke Skywalker the Guy of All Time, was to children, and even adults, as a hero, and how he/SW endures.

It's peculiar to me because there are two Lukes in my mind. One is the fandom one I brush shoulders with every once in a while, and one is the one from my childhood. That Luke Skywalker lives with me, representative of every childhood hope and ideal. Luke Skywalker, truly, feels like an old friend.

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I ask myself the same question as to why I'm always complaining about (usually just to myself lol) TLJ. I think what it boils down to is that I LOVE Star Wars. I'm 22 now and I've been a fan since I was 8 years old. And I think the issue with TLJ is that it isn't just a minor blip in the saga but a massive failure that has fundamentally changed Star Wars moving forwards. TROS had to course correct after TLJ derailed TFA (although I admit there were a lot of bad choices made in TROS that can't be blamed on RJ). Luke, Leia, and Han's characters were basically destroyed and any of the possibilities that exist in prequel stories are gone knowing that their lives will eventually turn to shit. Yes the old EU Legends still exist but that part of Star Wars is never going to be built on again so that's limited. I want to see more of the trio's adventures of ROTJ but it's all going to be bittersweet because it can never end well. The poor reception to TLJ completely split the fandom and has made most online Star Wars spaces completely toxic. The "feminist" angle touted by many fans of TLJ have meant that any valid criticisms regarding sexism and especially racism get lumped into the same camp of bad actors that drove KMT off twitter. The backlash bled into Solo which performed so badly that it cancelled the anthology films for a few years. And while a lot of new media has been ignoring the ST as a whole, ultimately all paths lead there such as with the Mandalorian. Where things go with Mando and Grogu and even Ahsoka and Ezra are limited because where are they in the ST? It's hard to be excited for future Star Wars content because moving forward you've basically created the OT twice with the ST and now any future progress has to build on Rey, Poe, and Finn whose actors are probably never going to come back and their stories left untouched for years probably. I think the biggest reason they're focusing so much on the High Republic era is so they can completely ignore the mess they've made to the capstone of their multi-billion dollar saga. Every time stories come out about the incompetency of the handling of the ST I just feel my hope for future good Star Wars content fade if we're always going to be limited by favouritism and the bad taste TLJ has left. In a way that the PT made people hate "politics" in Star Wars, something that the ST badly needed to explain what the hell the New Republic was doing, I feel like the ST has made people hate a lot of the fundamental things that make Star Wars "Star Wars" and I'm worried it is going to be a while before we get films like that again, especially when so many of the creators linked to current and future projects have disappointed in so many other ways, like Dave Filoni or Patty Jenkins with WW84. Sorry this is really long but I think the reason that you, myself, and countless others still discuss TLJ in a negative light is that since that film came out the Star Wars fandom, and Star Wars itself as a creative entity, have been fundamentally changed, and NOT in a good way. I remember before Rogue One came out there was so much joy in the fandom and creativity and discussion and theorising and since TLJ that has basically vanished. It's quite incredible really, in a sad way. I hope that Star Wars can feel the same way it did a few years ago, but at the same time I think that's gone and it's always just going to be a minefield of angry fans forever. Again I apologise for the novel!!! I love you blog btw :)

i really agree with you here. tlj definitely left a sour taste in my mouth and until people can start acknowledging how damaging it was not only the sw franchise but to the marginalized fans who now get lumped in with their oppressors, that sour taste wont go away. i enjoy the mandalorian a lot, but im also very worried that as time goes on, it will be run into the ground. with all those titles released on investors day, im scared they're doing too much, thinking they struck gold again only for it to be a bust.

and now its impossible to interact with fandom unless you've got a nice little corner on the internet and even then the assholes still find you.