Everyone knows how rabidly reactionary and shitheaded the SW fandom became after the Disney acquisition but I’m finally at my breaking point with this latest wave of chud whining. The Acolyte got review bombed before it even aired because the showrunner is a lesbian and the leading actress is a gay enby. Also a clip of Stenberg from like 6 years ago made the rounds where she says the goal of a completely different project she was working on was to make white men cry and chuds who get all their news from youtubers thought she was talking about the Acolyte.
Fast forward to the show’s release, the chuds continue to whine about woke Star Wars despite the show’s first several episodes being pretty bland and mid in every regard. To disguise their actual reasons for hating the show (diverse cast and queer showrunner) they pull out the absolute most ridiculous reasons to bash it, including but not limited to:
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“The writing is awful and the story sucks!” (the dialogue is genuinely quite bad at times but no worse than 95% of star wars projects. The general story is a mystery-thriller that’s compelling enough. Also these same people turn around and say the prequels are incredible so
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“The show contracts and ruins the prequels!” alright time to put on my nerd cap because the media literacy of these fucking shitbags is nonexistent. “Dark side user” =/= Sith, Red-lightsaber-user =/= Sith, there are tons of darkside users in the galaxy but the Sith area very specific order that the jedi warred with for thousands of years before they were almost completely wiped out. Also half the point of the prequels was to show the Jedi are blinded by their hubris and waning connection to the force, the Sith were right under their nose the entire time and they were just too arrogant to see it, silly Darth Teeth man doesn’t ruin shit in your dog ass shit fuck childrens movies.
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“The show RETCONS CANON in an UNACCEPTABLE WAY” this is because a prequel side character’s DOB was retconned and he’s a lot older now and appears in the show. These worthless fucks are sending death threats to Wookiepedia editors who change the character’s DOB and screaming that it’s vile yes that’s right it’s VILE to change a fictional background character’s birthday. Just take a look at the replies on that post, yes I know it’s the bird hellsite filled with ragebait but the responses like “oh well I thought that GATEKEEPING was a BAD THING
” are just so bleak. Art and media mean nothing to these people, their hobby is not watching Star Wars, its watching ragebait youtubers and getting violently angry about mundane things in shows they’ve never watched and aren’t interested in 
Also these screaming manbabies keep referencing non-canon books and shit as “proof” of the show retconning things
The discourse around TLJ was bad but I think I’m finally done engaging with the SW fandom in any way shape or form. My brain has finally been broken by the chuds. I don’t think I’ll even tell people I like SW anymore because these shitbrains have just ruined it. And yes I know I need to 
but if you don’t spend a decent amount of time in these SW fandom circles I promise you don’t know how bad it actually is
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The only genuinely good film was ESB. Everything else is just slop executed with various degrees of competence. Virtually everything people argue about why the prequels or sequels suck could apply to ROTJ as well, but you don’t see people shitting on Death Star 2.0 being creatively bankrupt or Luke being a Mary Sue which he 100% was. Even the very first film could be nitpicked to death.
Why didn’t the Death Star shoot its laser through Yavin, a planet made out of mostly gas, in order to blow up Yavin 4?
What was the point of Obi-Wan dying if it was established in ESB that Jedi can telepathically communicate with Force-sensitive individuals meaning Obi-Wan didn’t have to die in order to tell Luke to “use the Force?”
How was Han able to pilot the Millennium Falcon, a noticeably bigger and more conspicuous ship compared with an X-wing, through the defenses of the Death Star with nary a scratch?
How was Luke able to miraculously survive the Death Star exploding despite having less than 10 seconds to pilot his X-wing out of the explosion radius?
This is why I checked out of Star Wars “discourse.” Ultimately, people nitpick because they have various issues with whatever movie they want to nitpick, but because they can’t say the real reason why they hate that particular movie, they have to come up with some pointless nitpick instead. If they love the movie, suddenly whatever nitpick they apply for the movie they hate is completely irrelevant. This is why some ship ramming at hyperspeed gets nitpicked but the Death Star not shooting through a gas planet gets a pass.
That can be answered by Alec Guinness himself.
He hated working on SW, called it “fairy tale rubbish”. He hated it so much that he asked Lucas to kill off his character. So it’s a case of Real Life Writes The Plot, sort of.
That was honestly what I thought as well. I knew he thought Star Wars was worthless slop.
We don’t know how the Death Star Laser works, and we don’t know how Hyperspace works. It’s entirely reasonable that the laser wouldn’t work on a gas giant, and that a ship traveling through hyperspace can’t fully control where it exits.
When Obi Wan says “if you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine”, he’s referring to how his memory will drive Luke to get stronger and fight the Empire. That’s why he lets Vader kill him.
The rebel fighters had cleared away most of the Death Star’s point defenses around the trench that they needed to fly through. That’s why they’re blowing shit up on the Death Star for a while before they go into the trench instead of just bombing straight down it at top speed.
Cinematic time dilation. This is a pretty standard across all action films, because you have to show all of the actions that the characters are doing clearly so that the audience understands what they’re looking at, but showing them all in this way makes it take much longer than it should actually take “in universe” for the events to occur.