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I guess something that just struck me as odd here was how it feels like TLJ is hated way more intensely than Other M, and how that might be because the latter completely botches what it sets out to do while the former mostly succeeds and some SW fans hate that because it isn't remotely what they want. Plus Other M's controversial story elements coming from someone who has been greatly involved in the series from the very beginning probably lends that an air of authority which prevents too much fanbase fracture comparatively speaking, vs. Rian Johnson getting painted as a pretender to George Lucas's throne. What really gets me here is that there's no evidence whatsoever for Johnson having any actively malicious intent behind making TLJ and he at worst seemed to be frustrated at having to meet fan expectations. In contrast to Paul Verhoeven actively making Starship Troopers spit in the face of its source material, while in the process making something considered by many to have held up far better than said source material - maybe if Starship Troopers was as big a deal as Star Wars Verhoeven would be similarly hated for it?

Likewise I'm mystified why Rian Johnson gets more hate for TLJ than Shane Black does for unleashing both Iron Man 3 and The Predator on audiences. And while not really related to TLJ, I still don't get how making a heroine go crazy because of her maternal instincts so that the titular male hero in Multiverse of Madness has to talk sense into her is 'woke' - maybe it has more to do with accusations of Strange being demoted to a "side character" in his own movie? But then the movie has three Doctor Stranges, so how can that be the case?

That's one reason I started realizing how full of crap those people are. Typically I would think "message before plot" would mean message taking priority over plot within a work, but they instead use "message" to mean behind-the-scenes agenda and "plot" to mean what they want. I hate this so much.