cashead wrote:In the case of Star Wars, it's the fact that they're lashing out at Rey because she's got a vagina and apparently that fucking BITCH needs to sit down because it's ruining my precious incel boy movie, and shit like some whiny bitchcake doing a petition to make Episode VIII non-canon because "it's nert muh Ster Wers!"
I'd imagine it'd because we frequent different parts of the internet, but most of the criticisms I've seen, and largely agree with, are because she's a Mary Sue, not because she has boobs. Her Mary Sue-ness was established in TFA (active mind tricks shortly after learning she's force sensitive) and continued in TLJ (clearing landslides at a relatively similar time to when Luke was struggling to life pebbles).
cashead wrote:As I said, Episode VIII was fucking great, and easily the most self-reflexive of them. A lot of it was about defying fan expectations...
That's all well and good, except it went so far into trying to subvert expectations that it turns the plot -- both within TLJ and between it and TFA -- into a mess.
cashead wrote:...like the fact that whom Snoke is or where he came from doesn't matter much (just some Force-adept Sith dickhead)...
Based on TFA it was supposed to matter as he's clearly not meant to be a Sith given that he goes on about balance between the light and dark sides (and maybe even berates the Sith, I can't quire recall), whereas the Sith are just flat out dark side practitioners. While it would've been cool had he been Palpatine's master who somehow survived, it looks like he's, instead,
supposed to be the First Jedi. This works with how he's presented in TFA, but not how he's presented in TLJ. As with numerous other plots set up in TFA, and abandoned in TLJ, there seems to be a hell of a disconnect between the stories Abrams and Johnson were aiming to tell. Guess this is what happens when you have intend to have each part of a trilogy directed by different people.
cashead wrote:Rey's parentage is completely irrelevant (just some drunken fucks that are probably dead in a ditch somewhere, to the dismay of no one).
Assuming it's true, this is actually one of the better bits of trolling, for mine.
I don't really care about fancy pants self-reflexive critical media analysis and what not, but there's also a bunch of other in-universe plots/events that make no sense, which is what I do care about. They are what really f*ck up the sequels for me, and many others I think.
EDIT: Having thought about it more, and perhaps related to what MB said before about TLJ being produced by a committee, all the constant attempts at humour gives it the feel of a film that belongs in the Avengers franchise, not Star Wars.
