I don't care about an internet challenge from a retarded incel like you or what you think. You are dead wrong, and you're a dumbfuck to boot. I'm not going to spend an incredible amount of time on an idiot like you. Have a good evening.
I believe that falls under "Well, I don't really care anyway." I'm prepared to debate and listen to your arguments (my "true fans" statement was imprecise and certainly deserves an explanation, see below). It's puzzling you would love the original trilogy and then love the film that tells you you're an idiot for doing so (if you cared about Luke as a character). But your response is pretty much the same as the current filmmakers give when faced with criticism, and this is not my first internet scuffle regarding this topic, so I've heard worse.
Dude, first... put down the Cheetos before you hurt yourself.
It's not a religion. It's not a philosophy. George Lucas isn't the Second Coming or some genius with deep insight into the human spirit. It's a series of movies that follow a very, very formulaic and safe 3-act structure that's been done a million times, and Lucas isn't even especially good at it.
Some are better than others. But I am as much a fan as anyone, and I have enjoyed all the movies to one degree or another. Hating one of them doesn't make you some golden child of fandom. It just makes you a fan who likes things differently. You're not special. You have no special exclusive claim to the title of "fan" of the series.
Disney saved a floundering IP. Get over it.
Well there's certainly something there given all of the comparisons to Joseph Campbell and The Hero's Journey, and occasionally Buddhism. You are correct that Lucas has certainly not been the best at showing it or explaining it, and many parts of why Star Wars "is great" has far more to do with the people around him than Lucas himself. For whatever reason, it became bigger than what Lucas himself could describe, with many other people taking parts and expanding on them, but it definitely was his intention.
"I see Star Wars as taking all the issues that religion represents and trying to distill them down into a more modern and easily accessible construct […] I put the Force into the movie in order to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people – more a belief in God than a belief in any particular religious system. I wanted to make it so that young people would begin to ask questions about the mystery." ---George Lucas, Time Magazine, 1999.
The Sith/Jedi Master/Slave Morality dynamic is a pretty big key too, but it's not delved into very much in the films, as they focus more on Luke's "coming of age" journey. There's also Technology vs. Nature (Luke trusting in the Force vs. the Targeting Computer, Ewoks vs. Imperials, etc.). The films absolutely made me ask a lot of questions as a kid, and my worldview has been challenged many times by various Star Wars-related media and what those questions made me seek out in philosophy (most recently Kreia in KOTOR2). So when I say "true fans", I'm talking about fans that are constantly thinking about Star Wars, what it means, what can be learned from it, where are the arguments on both sides, how the lessons therein might apply in real life, etc., fans who actually have some stake in the themes and meanings behind the films. TLJ was a very, very deep kind of insult with how much it threw away (how they changed Luke, the beliefs of the Jedi or Sith, the total lack of ideologies for the Resistance or First Order, everything set up in TFA, etc.), along with being a very boring and bad film in general with the number of immersion-breaking illogical plot decisions. I also understand that the casual movie-goer may not recognize or care about the ideological struggle going on (which is a whole other rabbit hole).
"Saved" is an interesting word. Certainly video game fans wouldn't agree, given how EA has treated the license (though we'll see how Jedi Fallen Order turns out). Lots of cool ideas were still being brought into Star Wars in other media. I could've easily lived without any of the Disney films, but I'm not 100% against the idea of "someone" making more films.
