I heartily
look forward to seeing what all the crying has been about. As I sat
down to write this post a news story crossed my feed about
disgruntled fans starting a change.org petition begging Disney to
erase The Last Jedi from Star
Wars canon.
No,
seriously, stop laughing at the back.
Of
course this is part of the usual flailing unhappiness of people who
have somehow been Star Wars fans for decades without grasping some
pretty simple concepts about the franchise like the idea that, yes,
social justice definitely has a place in this world. Laura Dern has
purple hair in the film and somehow this is a massive problem for
some people. There are those satanic penguin things which, naturally,
set off that desperate gibbering overreaction that fanboys get when
something aimed at children does anything to appeal to them.
(“These
aren't the Ewoks you're looking for...”)
Really
all I'm going in to this film knowing this afternoon is that there
are two new characters: one of whom is Doctor Ellie Sattler with
purple hair and the other is Kelly Marie Tran who at one point wears
a hat. There are Satanic penguins who exist mainly to ensure puffins
don't interfere with the Star Wars canon (I am not joking about
this). Lando apparently continues to not be present.
And
the sort of entitled fuckboys I find utterly tiresome hate this film
so much they've taken their tantrum to change.org to try and
strongarm a multi-billion dollar corporation into declaring a film
they spent hundreds of millions on pointless.
Yeah,
that'll happen.
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