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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Because it never should’ve been made in the first place.

    Like the Star Wars sequels, it was just yet another example of

    • a mainstream, well-known, toe-the-line corporate Hollywood director who
    • is known for making big bombastic movies that are great eye-candy but shallow stories (“a mile wide but an inch deep”),
    • who aren’t actually fans of the franchise & are thus actually just outsiders to the fandom and thus don’t know what makes actual members of the fandom “tick”, what makes the content great and all that,
    • and because they’re not huge fans of the franchise, rather than spend the time & energy to consume, understand, and get up to speed with all the years of varied lore (good and bad), they just go the lazy route, say “fuck it let’s just do a reboot” so they don’t have to do all the work.

    It’s easy to say that the Kelvinverse is “just an alternative canon”, but that’s only because it largely flopped. If the Kelvinverse had taken off, or if Paramount had been stubborn and kept with it like Disney has with the Star Wars “Disney canon”, it would have undoubtedly been the only officially recognized canon. This is exactly what happened to Star Wars, and as it stands Legends/EU canon have only largely been kept alive by the fans, with very few exceptions (one of them being the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO).
















  • While I agree with everything else you said, I would like to specifically respond to the following part:

    Maybe he is considering not everyone is an adult on the platform.

    God forbid a child hears the words “shit”, “ass”, or “fuck”. 1) That’s not the end of the world, no matter what conservative parents groups would like people to think, and 2) I guarantee you that 99.999% of children have heard at least 2 out of 3 of those words from television, movies, and elsewhere on the Internet. It’s a word, nothing more, and not that big of a deal.

     

    Again, though, I would like to repeat that I agree with what else you said. I just wanted to respond to this particular part.

    Have a great day!