#this rant brought to you by seeing someone literally say we can't complain about sw writing because of i hate sand

[aduck8myshoes]

you know with all the disk horses surrounding modern Star Wars I think one of the takes that pisses me off the most is people excusing mediocre writing and production design by saying Star Wars has always been bad/cringey and that it's never been high art, it's meant to just be dumb entertainment

A New Hope was nominated for Best Picture along with 10 other categories at the 1978 Oscars

Empire is on most review sites' top movies of all time lists

yeah there is the prequel dialogue. the holiday special and a bunch of wacky eu stuff exists. there is plenty of legitimate criticism to be made across the spectrum of SW content, and any real fan will admit that (and probably have their own essays ready to go)

but people fell in love with Star Wars in the first place because it was really fucking good

stop excusing the painfully mid, disorganized, and just plain lazy quality of a lot of the new stuff just because of previous flaws in the franchise!