Actually let me fix that for you.

A Jedi Academy trilogy is what the sequel trilogy should’ve been IMO 

This may make me a loon, but I’m always so happy to see a Judoon. On the moon, by a lagoon, at high noon, as a hired goon, with a raccoon, singing a tune...their appearance is always a boon and I hope to see them again soon.

Yeah, I’m done... with the movies.

This.

The more I think about all of this the more I just hate it all. Star Wars has been playing fast and loose with timelines around when things occurred and ages forever though, but it’s all such a jumbled up mess that it’s incredibly annoying.  

Bran the wheely deally legs no feely.

I think I would have had WAY less problem with Bran being the King (after all, he made about as much sense as anyone else did at that point), if they’d just not had Tyrion be like “Who has a more interesting story than Bran the Broken?” Literally everyone in the show, dude. Ros, the sex worker who went from Winterfell…

Is it considered “toxic fandom” if I just don’t like the movie? I am actually genuinely asking here. I am not a die hard EU person by any means, but have been essentially a lifelong casual fan, and it’s more the lack of a coherent story line in this trilogy that bothered me more than anything else.

Just cancel it at this point. Every interesting character is leaving.

I completely agree that large parts of the fanbase is toxic, and there are a lot of bullshit criticisms out there. But I disagree that substantive criticism doesn’t happen, and while critiques that feature misogyny, racism, etc. should be dismissed, I do think that some fans are too involved in defending the franchise…

Agreed the concept isn’t bad, but poorly executed.

I hate to wade back into this argument, I really do, but it is astonishing to me that anyone doesn’t understand why people didn’t like S8 of GoT, especially people who’s job it is to write about fandom and culture. Chalking it up to “expectations versus reality”- that is, accusing fans of “not getting the ending they…

Right, the backlash is inevitable. I mean, it always happens when something ends. Remember the backlash to the last Harry Potter? No, wait, that was the best reviewed of the series, no backlash. But there was the Lord of the Rings, right? Nope, Oscar winner there. Hmm.

I feel sorry for most of the cast.  They must have been so excited to be in a Star Wars movie and then the writing utterly failed them.

It’s absolutely true that you can’t please all people all the time. It’s also true that some people are going to have unreasonable or frankly offensive objections, and those should simply be ignored. But that doesn’t mean that everything is subjective and no movie can be criticized in a substantive way. JJ Abrams has…

Or perhaps fans were disappointed because the films / series were actually bad? Just a thought to consider...

I will say that as far as certain Game of Thrones and Star Wars fans are concerned, it’s not necessarily a question of personal expectations not being met, it’s more a fact of multiple character and story arcs not being resolved in ways that made sense based on what has already occurred.

Yeah, but so is the slavish unquestioning devotion from a large contingent of fans.