A Female Fan's Honest Opinion on The Star Wars of Today

Link to my original "Why I Stopped Caring About Star Wars" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvulJi_J_c

This might shock Disney but women enjoyed Star Wars as it was.

"Just miserable to be around" sums it up perfectly.

“Star Wars made people happy before, now its just arguing and misery” Nailed it.

Disney didn't make Star Wars for women. Disney made Star Wars for modern activists--mainly feminists--who prioritize pushing a message to an audience. The story is secondary. Personally, I think activists just make terrible writers. Because if you don't like their stories, you must have a problem with their message, so you're just a sexist, racist, or whatever. And because they won't accept criticism, they never improve at writing.

This girl really is a savage! Don’t bend the knee honey! Keep being honest!!!!!

That "The Last Jedi" moment really resonates. I remember walking out of the theater in silence, then standing at my car for a long time. I was slowly being crushed under the realization that I no longer felt any need to consume Star Wars media. As someone old enough to have watched the originals in theaters, that was a horrifying realization. It would be like staring into your chest and finding that your heart was gone.

I know exactly what you're saying with the Last Jedi. That felt like a funeral. Instead of opening up a new saga with a wise, older Luke, he was just a bitter old dude that keeled over after projecting a million light years away.

Star Wars was bought because Disney wanted a “boys brand” to counter its “girls brand” (basically Disney itself) with all its princess stuff, but I grew up on Disney it never felt like a girls brand to me just a family brand.

Disney spent billions of dollars aquiring both Marvel and Star Wars because, for decades, they struggled to hold adolescent boys as an audience. Like, once boys aged out of liking the Cars movies, they lost them as audience memebers. Eventually they stopped trying, so they bought the boys market. And within ten years they'd ruined both brands and turned them both into homogenous slop designed by HR departments and committees. Make it make sense for me, please.

Everyone at Disney should be Clockwork Oranged into their seats to watch this.

This was a very fair and respectful opinion. When Disney says the force is female and they make these movies for female fans, they should at least listen to real female fans. This woman let them know exactly what the issues were and did so with none of the toxic traits Disney claims their critics all have.

As a long-time Star Wars fan. And a black female.l never felt left out, l loved the storyline and characters from the original to the prequels. The only Disney Star Wars l liked was Rouge One. Also The Lucas Star Wars was for boys and girls because of Princess Leia and Padme. I still have both of the dolls. Also I have the old StarWars comic books from the late 70s to early 90s, and it had a lot of strong female characters. There was a black female character in Dark Empire comic book her name was Val who was Han Solo's fake wife. The same character that was in the Solo movie. Some of Disney's StarWars characters were poorly written in my opinion.

You summarized it perfectly: it’s currently being made by people who don’t understand what Star Wars meant to people, nor do they care to know; they don’t treat it with respect because they consider it a “nerd” thing, and it’s just “nerds” who are mad. No. It was something very special to millions of people; it resonated across cultures and generations; and it inspired countless dreams. The destruction of the franchise, as you said, has had the reverse, crushing effect; it took away something from our collective hearts, and the deeply personal, individual relationship each of us used to have with this material, this fantasy, mythic universe. And they don’t care that they took it away; I hate them.

Funny, back in 1977 Star Wars was a universally loved phenomenon. Young, old, male and female loved it. The new Star Wars, seeking be inclusive... is polarizing.

The true Star Wars will always be the 40 years of content before Disney

"Just miserable to be apart of." Wow. Said what I was feeling exactly. I miss good Star Wars...

They keep saying the force is female, but I'd say the female is what's being forced.

she's right... the Last Jedi was badly written and that toxic Message of "the force is EXCLUSIVELY FEMINIST now" really Pulled everything down... we all walked out after Luke vanished, and we didn't care anymore

Imagine being a huge fan of Star Wars, you’re walking out of the Last Jedi and thinking “what was that?” You go online to vent about how bad the film was and see the media attacking critics calling them man-babies. Then social media started calling fans racist and sexist for not liking a film with “diversity” and “strong female” characters and the director of the film seemed to find pleasure in gaslighting fans. Star Wars is being used to push politics and modern feminism.