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I absolutely agree and that's part of my argument, sorry if that wasn't clear.
One of the things that is happening here is that you absolutely get a pass when you providing fun escapist entertainment. Lots of trash (or perhaps less judgmentally pulp) suffers in one dimension or another or has inconsistencies. Star Wars is burdened by meaning something in a lot of people's minds (which makes what it is "supposed" to be somewhat sticky, occasional to its detriment) and it's also moved away from just being fun escapist fiction and some of that is the politics which have been injected into it with avowed intentionality, part of it is the "okay but lets subvert" and other adjacent attitudes.
They decided to play a different game and now they are being judged by different rules. A taut political thriller demands more internal inconsistency than a Roland Emmerich film.
Parallel to this - once you've pissed someone off they aren't going to cut you a lot of slack. There's an entire genre online criticism that is essentially calling out woke entertainment on stuff that would have been fine in a generic Hollywood action script in the 90s. I can see how some would want to paint this as unfair, but frankly stuff written by people who hate you is going to be judged by a higher standard and I'm not sure that's wrong, especially with the way a lot of this involves people who hate their fans reaching for a replacement audience that doesn't exist.
To sum, it's not that it is bad so much as what it represents makes it bad. Woke themes that could be forgivable are another ongoing attack on me. Meaning it gets exactly zero slack.
It is also a deliberate lack of course correction which means that even though it's probably in the same ball park as the other recent SW shows it's worse for it. If someone keeps slapping you in the face and you keep telling them not to it doesn't matter if it's all the same strength, at some point you go ENOUGH. For me this one was the first one I didn't watch (with the last two being relegated to being watched at 1.5-2 speed).
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