First: No, my take on Star Wars is not a sign of superiority. If I could love it the way you clearly love it I'd see no reason not to. The more things that bring us happiness the better.
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And I enjoy it in the way I enjoy some gorgeous graphic novels that ultimately have nothing to say. I enjoy it as a dad who knows it will dazzle my son when he's old enough to see it. It's consummate, uncomplicated children's entertainment.
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The new shows seems content slicing the originals into a handful of scenes to recreate, riff on, and and shuffle into a new configuration. This is as true as TLJ as it was for TFA. The cantina is here. Luke's trip to Degobah and trip into the tree. The Hoth Battle.
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RotJ's throne room battle returns, too. While the outcomes are altered, I don't see TLJ as to Star Wars what The Watchmen was to superhero comics.
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In fact I was confused as to why fans considered TLJ "risky" until I read
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Aside from the fact that Yoda, Snokes, Obi Wan, Palpatine, etc are not part of a dynastic bloodline that began with the son of a slave; aside from the part where the movie concludes with another Skywalker on the galactic throne; TLJ's alleged middle finger at the Skywalkers...
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To be fair, he was born space jesus
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