HeartBlade
Sr Member
The Star Wars discourse has gotten so messy and both sides are really to blame now.
We now have Prequel apologists and people rewriting history saying that people LOVED the prequels lol. While it may be looked back on a little more fondly for the memes (Hello there); they were still terrible movies for being so disjointed. This argument is also made for both why the Sequel trilogy will be hated and eventually loved...
There were toxic fans, mostly against the Anakins imo. Lloyd was bullied at school for playing Anakin which is really unfortunate. Christensen was also criticized. I think we can argue that modern actors like Tran suffer more insults thanks to the greater prevalence of social media and how easy it is to send out a tweet andtheir release of these fans do detract from properly critiquing a film or product as bad imo (dont insult or attack actors for doing their job).
But yeah, corporations are now using the excuse of toxic fans to justify their harsh attitudes. On the one hand, it is kind of cool that corporations are going to bat for their employees. But on the other, they are redirecting attention away from making bad products to put the onus on the consumers. Even critiques of "super hero movie fatigue" is a poor excuse for the MCU just releasing bad movies.
We now have Prequel apologists and people rewriting history saying that people LOVED the prequels lol. While it may be looked back on a little more fondly for the memes (Hello there); they were still terrible movies for being so disjointed. This argument is also made for both why the Sequel trilogy will be hated and eventually loved...
There were toxic fans, mostly against the Anakins imo. Lloyd was bullied at school for playing Anakin which is really unfortunate. Christensen was also criticized. I think we can argue that modern actors like Tran suffer more insults thanks to the greater prevalence of social media and how easy it is to send out a tweet andtheir release of these fans do detract from properly critiquing a film or product as bad imo (dont insult or attack actors for doing their job).
But yeah, corporations are now using the excuse of toxic fans to justify their harsh attitudes. On the one hand, it is kind of cool that corporations are going to bat for their employees. But on the other, they are redirecting attention away from making bad products to put the onus on the consumers. Even critiques of "super hero movie fatigue" is a poor excuse for the MCU just releasing bad movies.