I've loved the whole Star Wars franchise across all generations. The entire franchise has been memorable to me, with at least one low point in each of them, but I just don't get the super-ultra massive love for the original trilogy and the super-ultra massive hate for everything that came afterwards.
Like, I really liked 4 and 5, but 6 was an atrocious ending imo (Jabba, the Rancor, and the Ewoks are all I can't say anything even remotely good about them, so I'll keep my mouth shut).
Then I watched the prequels, hated Jar Jar as everyone else, then was mind-blown with 2, and sort of liked 3 as much as everyone else, I guess.
Finally, the new trilogy thrilled me from the start. Rey may just be my favorite Star Wars character of all time. Episode 7 was nice but lacked some depth, Episode 8 is the only moment in the whole franchise where I could grasp the concept of the franchise for what it is: A fight between good and evil on an intergalactic level; it was the only Episode where I could feel that struggle not focused (only) on certain individuals, but the repercussions reflected on a massive scale as well. Episode 9... is weird; it experiments with many things previously unseen (and succeeds on doing so, imo), hits every note right for me, delivers the ending that Episode 6 failed to deliver (even if it needed to recycle the same premise) but that's it. I liked it a lot, but I'm not sure exactly how much, since it lacked some heart, despite doing some extremely impressive things. Even then, was it really necessary to insert their nasty LGBT propaganda at the end?
As for the spin-offs, Rogue One was okay and Clone Wars was an absolute "meh" for me.
When I think about Star Wars fans, I can't help but think about the Smash fanbase, where the "true" Smash fans will always regard Melee as the greatest game there will ever be, the only difference here being that I'd dare to say the whole Star Wars fanbase are Melee purists, favoring the original trilogy above everything else and saying that they ruined everything that came afterwards.
As I said, a huge question mark for me...
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