Comments by "StHubbins" (@sthubbins4038) on "Star Wars Is A Dead Franchise" video.

@GobbettTheGamer She’s a woman, and this is a right-wing Culture War channel.
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@jcl5611 The prequels were not just bad, they were spirit-killing-bad. Unwatchable at best. Funny story, though, around 2004 or so, I tried to give Phantom Menace another try, and I rented it from Blockbuster (remember them?). I popped it in the VCR… and realized it was in French. But I kept watching it for 15 minutes, and realized that yes, it still sucked, but it sucked remarkably less when you couldn’t understand a word. 😂
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@GobbettTheGamer Yep, it’s the Eternal Outrage media cycle, mixed with high levels of misogyny, racial hatred and victimhood, for extra addictiveness.
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@delta2372 If Empire Strikes Back came out today, MAGAs would have freaked out about Lucas “bending the knee” and adding a black character, among other things. Empire would’ve had a 10% RottenTomatoes audience score before release, and demands by every right-winger to boycott the entire franchise.😂
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@GobbettTheGamer Yep. As the comments here attest, so much of the Star Wars hate is really just media types rebranding misogyny, and making buckets of money in the process.
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Her movies are better than the prequels. Low bar, I know.
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She was instrumental in Empire Strikes Back and Jedi. Speaking of which, could you imagine if Empire came out today? MAGAs would lose their minds over the “diversity” character of Lando. 😂
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@dartanionbrallk9805 Oh please, you know they would. There’s too much money in it. But it wouldn’t just be the Diversity Hire of Lando… “They f*cking RUINED Luke!!! He was a badass hero, then they turned him into a sniveling simp who gets his hand cut off and tries to kill himself when he finds out his daddy is Darth Vader, which, don’t get me started, is the STUPIDEST plot turn in history, utterly ruining both Luke AND Vader, who WAS the baddest-ass villain in the universe, and is now just a desperate single dad who wants the fuzzy-wuzzies from his boy, even though the dude tried to kill him! Oh! Oh! And how about after Luke Cuckwalker throws himself down a well because his fee-fees are hurt, guess who comes to save the weak, cisgender white man? Shocker, the whamen Leia and her Diversity Hire Lando! THIS WOKE BS has murdered my childhood!!1!” In 1980, people saw it and said “Awesome!”.
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@Hediedforyou191 I’m not bringing politics into anything, this genre of YouTube channel is all about politics. Heck, this guy’s new video starts with the liberal-woman-screaming-at-the-sky meme. It’s just FoxNews politics, with a focus on movies.
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@Hediedforyou191 Padme was “well-written” and “loved”?
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@cozypilgrim8530 How about Luke spending zero time in an x-wing, then flying it expertly and blowing up the Death Star with one shot? 😂 Gee, I wish we’d had 45 minutes of training sequences. Oh right, he’s a dude, those requirements only apply to female characters.
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@Hediedforyou191 You know and I know, this is all Culture War bullshit. It has nothing to do with story or character arcs. Luke knew how to fly an X-wing like a boss without having one second of training, and he blew up the Death Star with one shot. He took all of 30 seconds with a lightsaber and blinder helmet to tap into the Force and blindly block laser bolts. 😂
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@lmoore3567 Define "woke", please.
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@thekombatrealm6082 You know what the best part of the Hunter Biden laptop contents are? The desperate emails from Tucker and Susie Carlson, begging Hunter to help get their kid Buckley into Georgetown. My favorite exchange: Hunter: I’ll do whatever you ask of me. Tucker and Susie: Thank you! We have nothing but the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!” 😂 Read them yourself, they’re all online. Then, wake up.
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@blindlobster Correct, no one cared, because the Culture War Media hadn’t been perfected yet. Nowadays, you make more money hating movies than you do liking them. Especially if you can loop it in with politics, misogyny and racial animus. It’s a gold mine.
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@cozypilgrim8530 Already a pilot? Because he shot womp rats in a tiny plane as a kid? Suddenly he’s literally the best pilot in the rebellion? It’s absurd, and awesome, because I have zero interest in watching Luke/Rey-Learns-The-Starship-Controls training montages. Luke is a massive “Marty Stu”, and no one cares, because why would you?
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@cozypilgrim8530 Sure, will you admit Luke is a "Marty Stu?"
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Most of these people would have despised Empire if it came out today. Apart from the Diversity Hires, you have a woman and a black guy save the suicidal weakling white man, the utter destruction of the ethos of the first film (good vs. evil), the fact that they made Obi-Wan a complete liar, and coward for running away from the war, etc. etc. etc. It would have a 10% audience rating on RottenTomatoes.
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@martindixon54 Dude. Watch the ILM Documentary. There’s Kathleen Kennedy, at Lucas’ side in all the pre-production of Empire.
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@dartanionbrallk9805 A bit too close to home, eh? ;)
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@mrmr2488 Yes, yes I am. Right-wing media was almost nonexistent back then. Now, there’s billions to be made redirecting social frustrations and hatreds into “Outrage!!!” It’s a massive business model, and this channel all the way up to FoxNews profit beautifully from it.
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@mrmr2488 And yes, Lando was specifically created to put a black person into Star Wars, after Lucas was stung by criticism after the first film.
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@Pino Bluevogel Yes, there was. Read "Skywalking", the now 40-year old book about the making of Star Wars and Empire. Lucas added Lando specifically to add diversity to the Star Wars universe. DId you think the concept of racial diversity in entertainment was just invented last year?
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Disney didn’t make the prequels, which remain some of the most laughably incompetent major movies to ever see release.
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@iowa_lot_to_travel9471 If Lando had been introduced today, MAGA Media would lose their freaking minds, demand boycotts, ratio the online reviews, and Tucker Carlson would have endless stories about white people being attacked, blah blah blah blah
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@fredstriker2042 You’ve been watching too much Tucker Carlson.
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@caleb brown Almost died? Rey almost died many times. That's kind of integral to every sci-fi hero in history.
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@tjhooker824 How was Luke “established as a great pilot?”One line of dialogue?
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@randomobserver8168 Were you upset with Luke’s paper-thin backstory in A New Hope? Were you thinking during the Death Star trench run “How the hell is this guy suddenly the best X-wing pilot in the whole rebellion?!” If not, why not?
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@pensandshakers Was that “clever writing”?
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Tell that to Pixar.
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@captainpep3 2 and 3 are less bad, true. But TFA and Last Jedi were even less bad. High praise, I know. 😂
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@captainpep3 I actually think 8 is equal to Sith. 8 is the only one of the sequels not made explicitly to cash in with generic storytelling. The “humorous” moments were garbage, but I liked Luke’s heroic arc. I never understood why people wanted Luke to be completely void of conflict. His storyline is actually very reminiscent of Obi-Wan’s, and true to the Joseph Campbell Hero’s Journey that Lucas loved, from Rejection of the Call to Action, through to Sacrifice. I’m not saying the film is good, but I think it’s at least got a soul and perspective to it, whereas the other two are loud cash grabs.
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@captainpep3 How could you have a dramatic arc for Luke without him being disillusioned? And why would he have stayed out of the fight for so long? Did people just want him trapped under a rock? And no, Obi Wan in the original trilogy basically ran away from the fight. They tried to retcon that in the prequels, but it made no sense. He was waiting for Luke to buy some droids and have one of them run away, and then have Jawas kidnap R2D2, then he’d come in and save Luke? No, and the attempt to recast that plot point was flat out embarrassing. Both Luke and Obi-Wan ran from the fight, and needed an unjaded young person to pull them back in, rejoin the fight and sacrifice themselves to save the day. Nowadays, viewers don’t want to be challenged, they want lazy fan service. That’s what TFA was, then they tried to make an actual film with Last Jedi (to varying degrees of success), and people freaked out, so they just went back to generic fan service with the last one, to pick up the final cash on the table. The fan reaction to the Last Jedi killed the Star Wars movies, for a long time. The studio realized they couldn’t tell new stories in the film series without massive fan backlash, so they just pivoted to TV.
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@captainpep3 I don’t understand this idea of “spitting on the fans”. Huh? Why are any plot points or storylines “spitting on the fans”? Why would any writer ever even think of doing such a thing? That’s the first cue that the reaction was just emotional. Rian Johnson is a massive Star Wars fan, and Disney isn’t in the business of intentionally losing money. You may not like a certain plot twist, or character arc, but no one is spitting on you. Fandom has truly become toxic, because there’s tons of money in it. You know the drill, “They hate men!!” “Whites are being replaced!!” “It’s a War on Traditional Values!!” blah blah blah, rinse and repeat. There’s no money in saying a movie is good, and plenty of money in saying “They are spitting on you!!1!”. It’s a Grift.
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@captainpep3 And if you think Obi-Wan’s presence on Tatooine wasn’t retconned, give me one line or moment from the original trilogy that points to Kenobi being there to “keep an eye on Luke”.
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@captainpep3 Really? You’d rather have empty fan service than trying something new and (arguably) failing? THAT reaction is why Disney’s given up on films continuing the Skywalker storyline. And why they made Episode 9 pure, empty fan service.
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@captainpep3 You just said Jar Jar is better than another character. That’s a thing that you typed. Let me ask, what don’t you like about the Rose Tico character?
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