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⌈ Secret Post #5127 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't love all of SW equally, but tbh I think fandom gets in its own way sometimes.

Something I just read on tumblr, and I'm paraphrasing, is that the best way to enjoy SW is with a 'childlike sense of wonder' and an 'adult's understanding that it's all a bit ridiculous'.

SW was always intended to be a space fairy tale for kids. It was never all that deep imo. But lightsabers are cool and Baby Yoda is adorable, so who cares?

[(Anonymous)]

This annoys me a little bit, even though I think the takeaway attitude is correct

Star Wars isn't really a kids' franchise. It has aspects that are oriented towards kids (and Phantom Menace in particular could reasonably be called a kids' movie) but for the most part, it's an all-ages space opera adventure serial. If I had to guess, the target demo is probably "adolescent boys", although obviously it has pretty much universal appeal.

And I think it's an important distinction to draw, because like... you can have fun dumb ridiculous snse-of-wonder cool adorable storytelling without it being for kids. It still ends up with the same conclusion: adventure serials aren't that serious, so you shouldn't take them that seriously. The fact that it's an adventure serial franchise rather than a kids' franchise doesn't make it better or more serious. It's just that is what it is. It's really just a pet peeve of mine, I guess.

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ayrt

I agree that it isn't really 'for kids' anymore. But that's how George Lucas intended it, he says so in several interviews. It's how he approached the PT, and apparently that's carried over to people like Filoni. Now, they do have a broad definition of kids in that it includes teenagers.

This is the first article google found, but there's more: https://www.polygon.com/2017/4/13/15288998/george-lucas-star-wars-celebration

[(Anonymous)]

If "children" means like 12 to 16, then I'm fine with it! Like I said, adolescent boys.

(after all, they say the golden age of science fiction is 12 years old)

[sparklywalls]

I bailed on any involvement with the fandom (apart from talking to friends on Twitter and the odd comment on this comm) ages ago and it has made experiencing Star Wars so much better.

I don't particularly care for the sequels Vs the originals but they're not the worst thing ever to exist. I have a whole rant about people I KNOW did nothing but bitch about the PT who are now pretending they always loved those films because they're using it as a proxy tear-down of more recent things they don't like. It's exhausting.

S2 of The Mandalorian was uneven but tbh I still had fun. And that's all I want out of Star Wars these days. I just want to feel the same way I did when I was a child and the only things that existed were the OT films. I loved those and wasn't really thinking much beyond "this is so cool" - so I try to NOT be that deep about anything in this universe that I watch as an adult.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I really do think there's this bizarre element of adults expecting these silly space-wizard movies intended for kids primarily(in the same way Disney movies are made mainly for kids) to be these amazing, deep stories and... that's not what they are, or what they ever were. They're fun action movies with a teeny bit of world-building and that's it.

Things don't have to be High Art to be enjoyable, and Star Wars is so far away from that yet the fandom never seems to realize this.

Like and dislike the aspects of them at your own discretion, but the notion that the Star Wars franchise is somehow 'betraying' it's origins is confusing at best to me because the origins are: silly space-wizard movies.