If you think fandom is "toxic" you need to re-evaluate your life. The opioid epidemic is toxic. Gang violence is toxic. You know, real life stuff that can actually affect lives and mean something.
it is pure projection. here they are, spreading divisive narratives, calling people idiots, and recently shaming actors & the people who work on these things, in order to support the narrative. they have massive audiences and spend all day spreading gossip about people through legitimate establishment media channels, dominating the narrative. yet they always play the victim, they have to point to some kind of toxic fan for everything.
they spread the idea that the country of Russia is manipulating popular opinion on these movies, based on a study that found a total of 16 Russian Twitter accounts. they were willing to provoke international tensions in order to defend a movie. this is psychopathic behavior.
TLJ just flattered the intelligence of reviewers too much. "those idiot peasant normies don't understand the themes as you do, that's why they dislike it" "it's too new!" it makes me so sick to see this myth perpetuated, as if TLJ didn't consist of a solid hour of ripping off entire sequences from
Empire and
Jedi.
i did want something new, and by killing Snoke, they took that away from me. they said he "wasn't a Sith", promising something non-Sith, maybe it is a galactic evil that pre-dates the Sith, maybe it is a rival, who knows? "all these theories suck" is what i was told. the truth is, he is nothing, he means nothing, was pointless, the filmmakers wasted a good 15-20 minutes of my time.
they complained that i didn't want anything new, while killing off the only new character they had introduced. the constant downplaying of Snoke is bewildering to me. Andy Serkis is a national treasure, one of the few remaining links to the lineage of monster movie & creature design filmmaking. his performances were wonderful, the hints at some deeper, unknown lore, were tantalizing. he himself described this creature hundreds of years old. with Serkis as the big bag of the finale, i think they might have a chance at pulling it off.
the decision to get rid of that, to ignore it, and then to say it was always pointless, to say that the films you are selling is pointless, that is the most bizarre decision ever. why on Earth was it greenlit? is this some kind of tax dodge? what is going on?
