re: Rolling Stone: Can the Best of Star Wars Survive the Worst of Its Fans?

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How they were able to frick up Kenobi is beyond me.

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Easy. Insert a fake black female as the main character in an Obi Wan and VADER show

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the Best of Star Wars

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Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi


Fans loved it.

Wrong

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However the low audience scores, angry YouTube rants, and long Reddit threads

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Notice how they specifically leave out X?

It wasn't doing much under George Lucas either. I mean before it sold it to Disney people joked that he was raping the IP. The Prequels were terrible only saved for a scene here or there. There was a ton of terrible decisions that screwed up lore. Thankfully for Lucas, enough time has passed and Disney has screwed up worse.

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CT Jones
Cultural Writer


Likely never watched anything Star Wars before The Fagolyte

I'm a secret Prince of Persia if the person who wrote the article was really a Star Wars fan growing up.

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Before Star Wars can have another successful show, some vocal parts of fandom have to reckon with what they really want out of the franchise

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Honestly people, it's not that fricking hard.

The original trilogy was a huge success. Even after Lucas fricked around with the movies, people continued to generally love them.

Neither Lando (a black man), nor Leia (a woman) were considered any problem by the fanbase.
There was a large base of books set immediately after Return of the Jedi that was immensely popular. Some involved Mara Jade, a Force-using 'bad girl' that eventually married Luke. She was embraced by the community.

The prequel trilogy... gets some grief because the acting and scripts were bad, laughably bad at times. But as for the actual expansion of the property, people loved the insight into the Republic, the Jedi, and some nuggets dropped about the Sith (who previously were just 'bad guy Force users').
I wasn't a huge fan of the brown Jedi robes, having associated Obi-wan's outfit with living on Tatooine, instead of being "a uniform". But that's ok, they were going for some of the Samurai motif, and that worked.

It all worked.

The Mandalorian started out as a basic post-ROTJ tale about a bounty hunter on the Rim, people loved it. Nobody minded that Carl Weathers was there, nobody minded Cara Dune as a female action figure.

It's pretty simple what we, the fanbase, want. We want simple action and entertainment, and if you have to plop a big moral thread into it, stay Good (Jedi) and Evil (Sith). If you want moral ambiguity, go with the smugglers like Han, the bounty hunters like Mando, normal folk trying to get by day-to-day as best they could.

Build up the political stakes if you like, Andor did that and was fantastic.

As a fan, it's not my fault they made some awful decisions with the sequel trilogy, and now are trying to make things fit.

I saw this cut of Kenobi that took out half of Tokena Black’s scenes and removed that terrible chase scene and tightened up some other scenes and it came out a pretty good 2 and half hour movie which is what it was originally suppose to be.