re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser #2 (Spolierish Discussions)

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The "Jedi sucks" narrative was really born in the last decade. Audiences at the time liked it much more than Empire, as do I.

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you are full of assumptions. I never said Jedi sucked, but looking back it was kind of a canary in the colemine that the main focus wasn't the story as much as selling merch/toys. From well before the reissues were done, Empire was ranked #1 and Jedi 3rd of the OT on most lists i saw, including my own. At the time it was released, we knew that the final battle was supposed to be Wookies instead of Ewoks. Maybe it was a cost issue since then you had to have actors in the suits then and probably easier to find a bunch of midgets/kids than 7' tall dudes, idk but most people i knew over the age of 7 or so thought the Ewoks were lame even then