[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Gothmogxx

New trailer looks amazing. Unfortunately after taking a look at the comments section on Youtube, a lot of people seem to have already made their mind up about it. It reminds me very much of what happened with Last Jedi.

When I rewatched The Last Jedi, I just couldn’t help but feel sorry for some hardcore Star Wars fans who claim it's a disgrace to the series.

I mean it’s fine to just naturally dislike it. On that note as much as I like it, I’ve got issues with it: The entire Casino sequence was wasted and either should have been drastically changed or removed altogether, Rose and Finn felt forced, some of the humour is off and Phasma was wasted again (aside from all that I loved everything else in it a lot). But to claim that it somehow isn’t a "true" Star Wars film is nonsense. I’ve tried looking at it from every conceivable angle and I just cannot get what these people desire. Star Wars is a titan of a franchise that isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but it can’t just keep dishing out same old same old: it has to evolve and update itself. The Last Jedi was very smart to change up the lore/mythos in the Star Wars universe than almost any other film in the series, perhaps in fact more so than even Empire Strikes Back. I mean what is the alternative? Would people really want to see them just remaking Attack of the Clones again and again (being the lenient fan that I am, I can see even good things in that film, but they are few and it’s the weakest one for me)?

This is a big problem and it isn’t limited to just Star Wars. Fans have impossible expectations nowadays for everything and unless each and every single one of those expectations are ticked off, no matter how big or small, then they leave the cinema/theatre and argue about it (especially online) and just ruin it for everyone. As mentioned above, please hate it by all means if you genuinely don’t like it, but denouncing it as not being a “true” Star Wars film is totally absurd. If people like Attack of the Clones or even think it’s the best one in the franchise then all power to them. It may be my least favourite, but it’s still a Star Wars film at the end of the day like every other single one, including Last Jedi. The fans, quite simply, must embrace change when it inevitably keeps coming. It’s either that or just bashing everything else that comes out, which isn’t good.

I hope this isn't replicated with Episode IX when it comes out.

The Last Jedi didn't feel like a Star Wars movie to me. Rogue One did, The Force Awakens did, but not The Last Jedi, it's difficult to explain, similarly, huge swathes of the last series of Doctor Who didn't feel like Doctor Who to me either.

It felt like a film made by people with no real love or knowledge of the subject matter.