Thread:Mesektet/@comment-24469175-20180305001935/@comment-3581997-20180831042909

You know what, good. "Star Wars is Dead!" Now I can share my interests with one less entitled twat that is going to moan about how they didn't make exactly the right movie he wanted." What I am afraid of is that the people writing it might give into the whinny "Not my Star Wars" crowd and ruin the story's origins by pandering. As long as the core characters and story remain true to themselves, I really don't mind what new turns things take. As long as what comes next is not an anathema to where the story has been previously, which it isn't so far, they can do what they like for story.

Could I see Luke Skywalker was basically a magic space-hippie. He became a jaded burn-out... well yeah, hippie, that actually makes an alarming amount of sense and yet I didn't see it coming. The Han Solo of the group suspects treachery in his allies and stages a coup... which turned out to be rampant paranoia and both of his space moms smacked some sense into him. Works for me, it is nice when the paranoid one who rants about how no one sees the truth actually turns out to be wrong and not the only sane person, bonus points to him for actually seeing that towards the end and learning from it. And Rei... I honestly have no idea what people dislike about her... Maybe that she isn't a special little snowflake and did just wind-up with force powers out of shear chance instead of some cosmic plan?

Anyway, even if I didn't like the plot turns, none of the story beats or character elements are a betrayal of what came before, so I dearly hope these people either clean the sand out from between their legs or get out of Star Wars and stay out so I can just enjoy the story as it unfolds.