‘Star Wars’ fans petition to have ‘Last Jedi’ removed from franchise
From Global News
“Let the hate flow through you,” a quote from Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars movie Return of the Jedi, has never been more apt.Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/3924696/star-wars-fans-petition-the-last-jedi/Anger is certainly erupting among purported Star Wars fans, who’ve started up a petition to get the latest movie in the franchise, The Last Jedi, stricken from the canon. Perturbed by what they interpret as inadequacies with character development and plot, the petition creators are upset with director Rian Johnson and production companies Disney and Lucasfilm.
The petition, titled “Have Disney strike Star Wars Episode VIII from the official canon,” is composed by Last Jedi hater Henry Walsh. It has nearly reached its 15,000-signature goal.
“Star Wars has long been a story about two things, the Jedi and Luke Skywalker,” wrote Walsh, a native of Georgia. “After over 260 novels where we could follow the adventures of that great hero you, the Walt Disney Company decided to strike all of that from the official canon and wiped out three decades of lore. We were excited to see Episode VII to see how our heroes’ lives turned out since you took away what we knew. We saw the death of Han Solo, we saw less than a minute of Luke Skywalker.”
“Episode VIII was a travesty,” the petition continues. “It completely destroyed the legacy of Luke Skywalker and the Jedi. It destroyed the very reasons most of us, as fans, liked Star Wars. This can be fixed. Just as you wiped out 30 years of stories, we ask you to wipe out one more, ‘The Last Jedi.’ Remove it from canon, push back Episode IX and re-make Episode VIII properly to redeem Luke Skywalker’s legacy, integrity, and character.”
This director should never be allowed to make another Star Wars movie. Disney was off to a great start with their first two movies in the Star Wars universe and then they really shit the bed with this one. The production quality, action and effects are still amazing but their character development and answers to burning fan questions were bogus.
It felt like Rian Johnson was rebelling against the great job JJ Abrams did with The Force Awakens and purposefully made a mockery of where it was taking the story.
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The Last Jedi was awesome, people are complaining because unimportant questions weren't answered the way they want. This article has a great take on why this was exactly what the franchise needed: http://www.slashfilm.com/the-last-jedi-defense/
I feel that those questions were important and the previous movie made them so. It felt as though Rian Johnson was rebelling against the ground work JJ Abrams laid for him. In doing so he shit all over the investment the audience had in continuing that story.
I'm glad JJ is back at the helm for the next one.
How did the last movie make Snoke's identity important? He just showed up as a hologram and everyone went wild with fan theories... But compare that to Emporor Palpatine who, oh wait... Also didn't receive any explanation until the prequels.
Or the identity of Rey's parents? It was only important as Rey's motivation, it was the fanboys who decided she must be from some important family and now they aren't happy they were (possibly) wrong.
As the other article states I think it really is better that Rey has no famous lineage, making the Star Wars universe actually bigger because anyone can become important. Without that it's just the store of one or two families.
Snoke:
He's the one that turned Kylo and reformed the Empire. How is his identity or history not important? Maybe they will go more into how Snoke first lured and turned Kylo in the next movie. The Palpatine reference is appropriate because it left the fans wanting to know so much more that they made the expanded universe and the prequels.
Rey's parents:
TFA setup the tone that the identity of her parents once revealed would be of some importance. As in the exact opposite of nobodies. Kylo could be lying. JJ can fix this.
Skywalkers:
It seemed like a generational hand off and a continuation of the lineage that resounded so well with fans of the last movie. They decided to go against that and many fans are unhappy. All the main Star Wars movies have revolved around the Skywalker lineage and it's a reasonable expectation.
It's not like they aren't doing completely independent story lines every other year as well.
Right, but somehow it's now "bad" that the character was handled exactly the same way. Hell, maybe they're saving the revelations for his own movie in the future!
I don't remember this. I remember Rey constantly wanting to know, and being told no one was coming back but someone might be out there waiting. Maybe people took that to mean her parents were waiting, but it could just as easily have meant Luke or another mentor we have yet to meet.
Fans hated the last movie. :P I know guys who say The Force Awakens killed the Star Wars fan in them forever...
Which means those same fans would be just as butt hurt if Obi Wan had been her dad.
And yes, they are doing completely independent story lines... which is why this needed to keep the universe opened up. You can't build a universe around one family.
I think this review encapsulates my position that the expectations were set in the previous movie.
Yeah his little rant pretty much cemented my opinion that it's fanboys pissed off they didn't get their way. :p
The only thing that movie was missing was a transgender.
Wait till Episode IX...
Always waiting for your post, great to see this. thanks for sharing
Thanks for the discouragement. I intend to see it tonight. I did watch the trailer and thought it might be leaning toward a human interest theme, which would take it away from the action packed thrill ride we are all used to. But I will make my own assessment. I just hope I don't waste three hour of my life.
If you are strictly looking for a lot of action and a visual spectacle then you will enjoy it.
I watched episode VIII last night. Yes I enjoyed it very much. Even more than VII. I did not like Rogue I as I felt it was a complete waste of time remembering supposed heroes who all died in the end. They should have left it as a planet of innocents that were massacred. That would go more to evilness of the empire. Star Wars was started as an action packed adventure story. Now it's become just another soap opera. But I see no harm introducing new characters and heroes. That's how life is. I did however find it bizarre how Luke Skywalker ceased to be, but Leah continues to be. How are they going to pull that one off in light of Carrie Fisher"s death. It is not the end of the Jedi as this post purports. Only the beginning of a new generation.
Sadly I wasn't a fan of both of the last 2 films. The Force Awakens was just A New Hope retold again.
"The main character lives on a desert planet and dreams of bigger things. Has a chance encounter with a droid that is carrying plans for a super weapon that we seen blow up a planet at the start of the film. The rebels are trying to get these plans back to their base to take out the weapon and the bad guys are after them. They find a weakness and blow it up"
That could be the synopsis of either A New hope or The Force Awakens (or both)
As for The Last Jedi. Kylo Ren has to be the worse bad guy in the Star Wars universe (skill wise).
This petition is ludicrous. Most of the people who sign it are fans who are disappointed because they had false expectations. They were expecting Rey to be the daughter of a famous character, they expected Kylo Ren to go back to the "good" side, they expected Rey to turn to the Dark Side, and they were expecting Luke to be a human Yoda...
If the movie was done like the fans expected, it would contain no surprise, no novelty, and everybody would be bashing Johnson for that...
Come to the darkside. Sign the petition. Let the hate flow through you.
"There is no petition, there is peace."
First phrase of the (new) Jedi Code. xD
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