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I think the text write up Tycho did alongside that PA comic is a really good summation about how I feel about the whole thing.

Here it is:

I think Im gonna end up seeing Rise of Skywalker on an airplane at some point, on the back of the seat in front of me. Thats about my interest level. There were inklings of it in the first movie, if you want to go back that far, but it really seems like the new trilogy wasnt conceived of as a trilogy at all. Its genuinely hard to believe. And not just because of what Disney managed to accomplish with their Marvel project, making an ecosystem of movies in different genres and then somehow crafting a kind of metamovie to conclude it. Obviously, they can do it. That they didnt - and that they expected us to go along with it - is incredible.

Star Wars isnt Holy to me. Like a lot of people who grew up when I did, I do like it. But theres a hard cap on precisely how disappointed I can be in it. Seeing the whole thing transformed into some kind of cultural shibboleth when it can barely hold itself together narratively film to film, its like these movies arent up to the task. It doesnt even matter what task you had in mind. A full-throated defense of these things is either unconscious, freelance PR, corporate ring-kissing, or invertebrate worship of a graven idol. They shouldnt come back to theatres until they can deliver something that isnt such a gruesome indictment of their hegemonic cultural control.

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG