'Spice' in star wars is supposed to be like a drug, basically borrowing the concept from Dune, albeit not nearly as important in star wars. What exactly it is and what it does isn't super important, its basically an analogy for illegal drugs in star wars and a lot of criminal activity.
Amazing how George Lucas gets having it just be a simple story element that doesn't need a lot of focus and these retards want it to be explained because there are so sheltered/autistic that it being a drug is not clear to them. Imagine them watching Pulp Fiction and freaking out over the briefcase "WHAT THE FUCK IS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT IT?! We never see or are told what's in it!!!! This movie sucks!!!!"
Its not even a story element. In the case of Han, he is a smuggler, so what is something he could smuggle? Drugs comes up at the top of the list of potential criminal activity, and 'spice' sounds scifi enough, especially off the success of Dune, so George picked that. It could have been Kuatian wood furniture or bantha dung for all that it mattered to the story. All that mattered was Han was a smuggler, so give him something to smuggle to show that he is a smuggler. I mean, would it matter if it was drugs, food, animals, leather, etc. other than it be 'something'? Does it change the story if you switch it from spice to a rare exotic animal? No, because it isn't even a story element.
I took a gander at the Goodreads page for Shad's book. General consensus is that it ranges from mediocre to bad. Lot of references to rape and sex trafficking. Let me remind you that this is meant to be a fantasy story about an immortal guy with magical swords, monsters and knights.
Maey Sue main character. Murderer rapist looking for redemption but shad cant pull off the guilt/remorse because he still wants the main character to be the most badass. Its not so much that he changes but that he just kills different people.
This has been a huge problen for the star wars community. They want to know every detail while not understanding that it ruins the mystery. Instead of using their imagination to fill in the blanks, they demand answers and bitch if they dont like the answers. There is a reason George r r martin doesnt write about robert's rebellion. By providing a few details it allows room for discussion and theories.
I think it's more of an EFAP issue than Star Wars fans, and other than the six movies (if even that) made by Lucas I don't think they really like Star Wars. They hate the 3D cartoons, never watched the 2D Clone Wars (they love a fucking LoL cartoon but turn their nose up at modern classics like ATLA WTF?), and played maybe a few of the video games(?). Oddly, it seems at least Rags read some of the comics/books, but doesn't get what the spice is. What a tool.
I'm going to guess....
There are too many people in those reactions and they all try way too hard to be funny so they end up missing half the episode which is why they declare it bad. If the reactions were cut down to just Mauler, Rags and Fringy with a guest sometimes they'd be able to get a much better look at the episode in question, and whilst I think that booting Rags wholesale would be a massive improvement there's no way that'd actually happen. They're so far up their own ass that they'll call this ridiculous sneedery a critique and likely never watch the show themselves to evaluate it on it's own merits.
They didn't do a breakdown stream for Mando S2 so my guess is that they'll just keep it as minis and maybe react to a Top 10 Things in The Book of Boba Fett video in a week or two.
It’s funny because I just saw a video on YouTube talking about how reaction channels actively hurt original content creators because they take clicks away from videos that have actual effort put into them when they just lazily slap someone else’s video into theirs with a minimal amount of effort, like pausing to either laugh or give some retarded take on what the video is saying.
It doesn't even need to be drugs. It could even be a reference to the historical spice trade from the East Indies. One could just be smuggling extremely valuable goods outside of a company or government monopoly, bureaucracy, or tariffs.
And also shitting on them and sometimes harassing them on twitter for months
EFAP acting like they think pedophilia is bad is a joke at this point with how many groomers of minors they've had on and even refer to as their "friends"
Never trust a critic who doesn't create
That feels like Patrick Williams speaking to Mauler and co.
They are the ones who can actually feel any impact in v(You)s and money. Joe Nobody will probably only see some traffic increase if the reactor shit on them and even thats temporary.
