looking at the tlj critical crowd’s blogs is like reading the diaries of a celebrity stalker from before they commit some kind of shockingly depraved, vaguely culty crime
It’s not that deep we don’t like the movie 😂 and get this crap out of the #tlj critical tag.
I can’t believe after all my hard work I didn’t make this photoset. Dammit.
You just don’t sound depraved and culty enough, not everyone has what it takes 😘
Same goes for me I suppose. Better get my deranged, cultish game on then
- I didn’t even like the movie myself but the criticism from your corner (all of you) is just awful. It’s so bad. You have zero critical thinking skills. You’re just petty, immature and mad that the movie didn’t serve up the same plot points as your fan fiction instead. Disjointed plot threads? Incoherent storytelling? A thematic/emotional letdown? Who cares about that? Certainly not you guys, when you can apparently rend your clothes and gnash your teeth over three seconds of bare chest and the idea of a bad guy (Hux, in this case) being shown being cruel and disrespectful to the heroes. You are genuinely making it difficult to actually give this movie proper criticism BECAUSE PEOPLE ASSUME IT’S ALL LIKE YOURS.
- Tumblr is a hotbed of people pulling weird, culty, depraved nonsense, so pardon me if a bunch of people obsessively hateblogging about one, occasionally two celebrities gives me pause. “X die bitch” over and over and over and over for people you feel ruined your favorite fictional franchise is not healthy. It’s not normal. Forming an entire identity around what you love is bad enough, but forming it around what you hate is toxic, and I really, really worry about what’s going to happen in the future. And for God’s sake, if being disappointed in a Star Wars movie is making you suicidal, GET SOME GODDAMNED HELP. I have a boatload of mental illnesses myself and I know not everybody has access to therapy, but if you can, please go. If you don’t, at least try to find another hobby. This is not safe, it’s not normal, and I’m not backing down from my assessment that the whole thing comes off kind of like a mass version of a stalker’s diary. If you feel obligated to run a blog dedicated to how much you hate something, please try to find another outlet. This is for your safety as well as everybody else’s.
- On a more concrete note, the blame for what happened with TLJ doesn’t rest with Rian Johnson, or at least not entirely. The fact is, this is what Lucasfilm wanted. I can’t imagine them hiring a guy famous for what is considered one of the best/most shocking episodes of Breaking Bad and not hoping he’d pack it with BIG SWERVES or whatever you want to call what happened in this script. Johnson was doing his job as a standalone filmmaker brought onto the project. There are people whose full time jobs at Lucasfilm are to keep the arcs and continuity between movies intact. They were either not brought in, by people higher than Johnson, or gave a pass. The whole story arm of the company has decided to enforce an auteur approach where it doesn’t fit, and they had the clout to rein it in, but they didn’t, because they approved of what Johnson created. They asked him to write the script while TFA was in post production instead of the logical situation, writing it afterward, because they wanted it to end up like this. He was doing his job as a screenwriter and director, and any blame he holds for not doing a great job with Star Wars needs to be shared with the people whose actual ongoing jobs involve making sure Star Wars stays a unified concept, and weighted more toward them. This includes not only Kathleen Kennedy, but Bob Iger and #tlj-critical beloved JJ Abrams.
- For that matter, and I have been saying this over and over again, JJ Abrams had the actors who tried out for Kylo read Mr. Darcy’s first proposal from Pride and Prejudice (the one where he insults Elizabeth’s family and basically tells her even though she comes from trash, he can overlook that because he’s into her- familiar?). JJ Abrams compared Kylo and Rey to the prince and princess in a fairy tale. JJ Abrams cast a white man as an Indian character over in his Star Trek reboot and lied about it in the press for months and months. He’s probably not the savior you’re looking for in Star Wars fandom, and if this is how you guys are reacting after a director you already didn’t trust doesn’t do what you wanted, it actually scares me to think of what will happen when someone you’re actively pinning your hopes on fails them too.
tl;dr get a new hobby and stop centering your entire lives, or at least your online identities, around a director and a movie you don’t like, FOR GOD’S SAKE
You know what, I was planning on responding to all of your bs right up until you pulled your Antisemitic shit on JJ.
I don’t say you have to love his, or even like him or anything he’s done with Star Wars or anything else he’s made. But when you start pulling Antisemitic conspiracy bs out of your arse you’re getting blocked bitch. I’m tired a passive aggressive Antisemitic like you in fandom and having to deal with your kind of bs constantly.
How about you employ some of that critical thinking skill you seem to think you have and start unlearning some of that Antisemitism you schmuck.
May you step on a Lego every day of your life.
With all due respect I fail to see how suggesting a man who, as an individual, has a long history of being called out for dudebro-y fandom decisions (including whitewashing an Indian character originally played by a Latino actor), who helps oversee the Star Wars franchise, and who commented that he thought TLJ was so good he wished he’d written it himself, has *a share of* (not all of, but a share of) the blame for TLJ being a really uneven, messy film and might not have plans to undo that messiness, is holding his being Jewish against him, especially when he, as a writer/producer, is also known for often valuing shocking plot twists over coherent storytelling (which was one of the biggest complaints against Lost) and that’s one of the biggest issues with TLJ.
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