**SPOILERS AHEAD**
When it comes to super diehard fans of any franchise, there’s no pleasing them unless the movie or TV show delivers the exact narrative they wanted. Thus, here we are with “Star Wars,” with some Force sensitive folks complaining that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was too much like the original trilogy, and others chastising “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” from moving too far away from the sacred texts.
As it seems to go with any popular series these days, a small segment of very hurt fans are putting their names to a petition calling for Disney to remove “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” from the official canon, which is hilarious. The film has been widely well received by critics and already nearly halfway to a billion dollars globally after a single weekend, but sure, I’m sure Disney will listen very carefully to these demands:
Star Wars has long been a story about two things, the Jedi and Luke Skywalker. After over 260 novels where we could follow the adventures of that great hero you, the Walt Disney Company decided to strike all of that from the official canon and wiped out three decades of lore. We were excited to see Episode VII to see how our heroes lives turned out since you took away what we knew. We saw the death of Han Solo, we saw less than a minute of Luke Skywalker.
Episode VIII was a travesty. It completely destroyed the legacy of Luke Skywalker and the Jedi. It destroyed the very reasons most of us, as fans, liked Star Wars. This can be fixed. Just as you wiped out 30 years of stories, we ask you to wipe out one more, the Last Jedi. Remove it from canon, push back Episode IX and re-make Episode VIII properly to redeem Luke Skywalker’s legacy, integrity, and character.
We stuck by you when you did things that hurt us before, so we ask you now, please don’t let this film stand. Don’t do this to us. Don’t take something so many of us loved so much and destroy it like this. Let us keep our heroes.
With this storm of supposed controversy around the picture, director Rian Johnson is taking the slings and arrows on Twitter, where many other filmmakers likely would’ve logged off. But as he emphasizes to Business Insider, the dissent for ‘The Last Jedi’ is coming from a very small fraction of fans. Moreover, he’s pretty understanding and gracious about it all.
“Having been a ‘Star Wars’ fan my whole life, and having spent most of my life on the other side of the curb and in that fandom, it softens the blow a little bit. I’m aware through my own experience that, first of all, the fans are so passionate, they care so deeply — sometimes they care very violently at me on Twitter. But it’s because they care about these things, and it hurts when you’re expecting something specific and you don’t get it from something that you love,” he said. “It always hurts, so I don’t take it personally if a fan reacts negatively and lashes out on me on Twitter. That’s fine. It’s my job to be there for that. Like you said, every fan has a list of stuff they want a ‘Star Wars’ movie to be and they don’t want a ‘Star Wars’ movie to be. You’re going to find very few fans out there whose lists line up.
“And I also know the same way the original movies were personal for [George] Lucas. Lucas never made a ‘Star Wars’ movie by sitting down and thinking, ‘What do the fans want to see?’ And I knew if I wrote wondering what the fans would want, as tempting as that is, it wouldn’t work, because people would still be shouting at me, ‘F— you, you ruined ‘Star Wars,’ ‘ and I would make a bad movie. And ultimately, that’s the one thing nobody wants,” Johnson continued. “And let me just add that 80-90% of the reaction I’ve gotten from Twitter has been really lovely. There’s been a lot of joy and love from fans. When I talk about the negative stuff, that’s not the full picture of the fans at all.”
Like it or not, “Star Wars” is moving on, and it’s no longer just Luke Skywalker’s story. For those who only have a single-minded view of what the franchise can be, they years ahead are going to be filled with ongoing disappointment.
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You people need to get lives! Mr. Johnson, but for a few little mistakes, I think you made a fantastic Star Wars movie. I even liked the Canto Bight stuff for the most part, as it showed us that worlds like ones we saw in the prequels still exist and that you guys aren’t ignoring it. Well done!
There’s a problem with the petition…it says “VIII” and not “I”, “II”, or “III”.
I agree “I”, “II” and “III” were bad movies, but they could still be considered Canon. This movie is good to raise some animal rights, anti-racism, feminism power etc. They only missed a gay figure to complete the picture. It is just like a long TV movie with many unrelated histories.
This is the one of the worst SW movies I have ever seen. The other one was Canon once upon a time, then it was removed. Was called something like “SW Christmas special”.
So I have hope that this will also be removed from Canon. Too bad it cannot be done with Leia again
Using Fanboy to denounce opposing view point is a Trump move. Instead of FAKE NEWS insert FANBOY or BUTTHURT. Its an attempt to belittle different POV.
Funny thing is you can move away from the Skywalkers without destroying them…ooops too late, already done. And You are rewarded with an all new trilogy, bravo!
Still doesnt fix the fact you got Luke wrong. Obi-wan saw Anakin destroy the Jedi order and he still had hope. Luke’s failure with Kylo..due to Snoke should have been treated the same.
All you had to due was link Snoke to Empire when Yoda said there was another he could have been referring to Snoke. Hence while the lightside concentrated on Luke, Snoke was running parallel with the Darkside. Have Luke and Snoke run the Jedi temple..then Snoke betrays Luke and converts Ben Solo.
Obi-Wan went into exile for 20 years after his failure. He didn’t go help the Rebellion until Luke and the droids tracked him down. Luke went into exile after his failure. It took Yoda instead of Rey to finally pull him out of exile. This talk of destroying the Skywalker name is overly dramatic.
Agree – Luke ultimately redeems himself and offers “new hope”, if you will. Half of me really wanted to see him go in full Jedi attack mode against Kylo/First Order, but at the same time I thought it was a great way for him to leave, in physical form at least.
Read “Make the movie I WANT, or else!!!”
what happens when you go to a restaurant and order a steak and they give you cheetos? Are you the problem..or the chef?
If you ordered steak and got cheetos I’d assume the chef just wanted you out of his restaurant. More like you go to a restaurant, order rib-eye, but they only have filet mignon, so you throw a tantrum because you can’t get what you want so you go online and b*tch about it.
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I don’t doubt there’s a lot of trolls out there purposefully tanking the scores of the movie, but i’m also seeing a dishonest framing of the backlash againnst this movie as “buthurt fanboys”. That’s objectively not true. It’s not a “small portion of fans”. There’s a LOT of people with legitimate criticisms and concerns regarding The Last Jedi and this trilogy as whole. The way this article is written is disrespectful and arrogant, and doesn’r represent the thousands of people that aren’t 4chan idiots. But I guess I should expect nothing less from the Film Twitter crew, a toxic and insufferable enviroment of people telling others to go fuck themselves because they don’t agree with their hot takes. Shame on you.
This is right. TFA wasn’t only bad because it was a rehash of A New Hope, it was also very poorly written. The Last Jedi isn’t mediocre only because of how Luke Skywalker represented, if anything, that is only a very small issue relative to the rest of my issues with the movie.- Tonely the new trilogy has more in common with a Transformers movie than it does a OT Star Wars film. It wouldn’t be that big of a stretch to interchange Sam Witwicky and Finn in either movie. Finn is basically doing a Shia Labeouf impersonation in TFA. In the sequel trilogy, often times the characters and their motivations feel like people that exist in our galaxy and not people that exist in the Star Wars Galaxy. “you got a boyfriend, cute boyfriend”
I mean what the f***ing f***?
Haven’t seen it yet, but really -who cares if Skywalker dies. Time to move on
The petition is silly, but the movie was objectively TERRIBLE. Possibly the worst outing yet, and that includes Attack of the Clones. Save your money and just re-watch Rogue One.
What garbage clickbait article… i dont understand why articles about the fan backlash blame russian hackers or trolls when the ceo of rotten tomatoes already said the audience score is legitimate.
The movie ruins the character of Luke Skywalker AND Mark Hamill AGREES they destroyed his character…
You cannot hide or deny that