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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2023-05-20 02:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #5979 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5979 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair/charitable to a very grumpy fandom, the Star Wars Brand under Disney does very much court this kind of reaction with a lot of projects running on hype machines and super aggressive callbacks/fanservice/etc. Ever since TFA the majority of SW stuff seems to be trying to squeeze every drop of joy (money) out 'HEY! IT'S THAT THING YOU LOVE! WE BOUGHT THE RIGHTS TO THING YOU LOVE!!!' and...people who love it want it to be good, and give it a chance, and let themselves get excited. But ultimately end up soured on a lot of things where less effort was put into writing something of substance that could stand up as a show or movie or whatever without the Star Wars Clout, and more effort was put into marketing and pizzaz and yanking the nostalgia heartstrings. So the longer you sit and think about it, the less you like it, because the substance isn't there.

I'm not saying theyre all bad, or even mostly? But the overall trend is to be flimsier than they present themselves as on first blush. It makes sense to me that a lot of SW fans are stuck in that hype-disappointment cycle.

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The SW fandom isn't a monolith but it is full of loud and angry bad faith actors that just love to hate things because that gets them more views. They love using one SW property as a stick to beat others with and that's why their views change.

TFA was used as a stick to beat the prequels with. Then the Mandalorian was used to beat the sequels, and now Andor is the new favorite that's beating down the Mandalorian. It's all so see-through.

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
same (ish) anon!
I used to go to the cinema once a week (on the day the ticket costs like 5/6€) before the plague. and then, pouf, nothing. Been to 2 showings this year - Demon Slayer and Dungeons&Dragons.

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww hello Jonathan!

Taylor Swift vs. BTS

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
might be late to the party but...

i find it absolutely entertaining to see that the unnamed title which swifties were convinced it MUST be TS's biography turn out to be BTS's biography XD

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
There are a lot of edgy wannabe film snobs in SW fandom, is my answer. They are constantly terrified that people are not taking this campy fun throwback to the old serials seriously as great works of fiction.

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The fans panned the Prequels hard when they came out. Even the shippers just focused on the shipping and ignored the hell out of the rest of it. But fandom loved The Clone Wars, and that's when the Prequels started getting some retroactive love, well before TFA. And even most fans are more than willing to admit that the Prequels have flaws.

It's possible that something similar could salvage the Sequels someday, but it's less likely precisely because they are sequels. The Prequels were limited in how much they could fuck around with Star Wars because they had to stay at least somewhat within the lines of the established canon. The Sequels couldn't even stay consistent with their own canon and by the end, almost no one was happy with how anyone's stories played out.

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And now I'm recalling how NBC managed to tie Empty Nest, The Golden Girls, Nurses and one other sitcom (I think; can't remember the name) all together with a megaplot about an incoming hurricane. It worked on child me because I grew up in Florida and was excited to see my state represented in such a way. WHy that's the thing I remember is a mystery.

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That's really, really, really not what's going on with prequel fans. Like the fans you're talking about definitely exist but they're generally different people from prequel defenders.

(Anonymous) 2023-05-20 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Prequel fans absolutely have a huge chip on their shoulder about admitting the prequels have flaws.

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