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redrocket posted...

Han Solo getting murdered in cold blood by his own son and an entire star system getting wiped out = optimistic fun?

Lots of movies where terrible stuff happens are still fun. TFA had a kind of fresh, infectious enthusiasm to it that I like. Such as right after Rey and Finn win that dogfight on Jakku and they're like "that was so great" and all hyped about it. It was likeable.

For what it's worth, even New Hope has been described as "fresh, light, fun" - by Alec Guiness, among others - even though it also features the destruction of a planet. Destroying a planet/solar system is obviously horrific but it's so unreal, almost impersonal, that you can get away with it and still have a light tone because that's how humans' minds work.

Killing the old characters isn't some crazy move or something when TFA literally just followed the New Hope blueprint of having would-be Vader killing the old mentor character. And that's if we're arguing on your terms, in the weird and stupid world where "edgy" is a fucking criticism when actually to be edgy means to try and stay ahead of the curve and break new ground. "Edgy" as a mocking term is just the result of people who saw the term "edgelord" and completely missed the point of it, and it's super dumb.

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