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🗓️ 5 September 2022
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0:00.0 | I think there's a certain amount of complaining about the direction of the Star Wars canon under Disney |
0:04.2 | that's fair, not all of these complaints are equal. Disney's acquisition of this series took |
0:08.4 | Star Wars complaints in an entirely new direction, I think, from these older Lucas ones. This is |
0:13.2 | especially because the Lucas directed prequels were released quite a while ago at this point, |
0:17.0 | being the films I grew up on, for instance. And the amount of people wildly nostalgic for Star Wars |
0:21.3 | is now subsequently increased in number and it holds a much larger variety of demands and opinions |
0:26.0 | about the series. I, for instance, really like the prequels while a lot of older Star Wars |
0:30.2 | nostalgic fans hate them. This means that this new trilogy, especially given the fact that it's |
0:34.4 | being produced by Disney, is probably not going to please quite a few people. The particular |
0:39.0 | group of angry nerds obsessed with the sequel series I'll be analyzing today, or I will call |
0:43.3 | the anti-SJW crowd. These group of people are essentially mad that the new Star Wars series |
0:48.5 | made it woke, because of Disney's corporate managing and pandering to political correctness, |
0:53.6 | subsequently rooting the new series and destroying these people's childhood and whichever |
0:59.2 | Freudian imagery of belesting them or whatever, etc. Newturing them, all this. This backlash began, |
1:05.3 | as far as I'm aware, on a large scale following the announcement trailer for Star Wars The Force |
1:10.1 | Awakens, or Episode 7. This was the first major Star Wars movie in a very long time since the |
1:15.6 | prequels, and the first one made under the purview of Disney, with director JJ Abrams coming in |
1:20.1 | to make the film. Notably, George Lucas had a much more limited role in the series than before |
1:25.0 | he sold Lucasfilm to Disney. As we saw before, Star Wars fans are very fragile about their precious |
1:30.0 | franchise, and so these big changes to production made them quite nervous. It also didn't help that |
1:34.6 | this general anxiety is mixed in with the fact that a pretty solid portion of the Star Wars fandom |
1:39.2 | are older white guys. So, anxiety about a changing society where marginalized people are getting more |
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