Just a reminder: In their review for the film, RedLetterMedia actually fucking said that The Force Awakens was better than Return of the Jedi.
Of course they'd love TFA. Disney's Lucasfilm listened to RLM's criticisms when making it. They saw it as an improvement because it was their criticisms that Disney and JJ drew inspiration from. Make it resemble ANH, avoid politics and worldbuilding, stuff like that. Their ''love'' for ANH and the OT was superficial at best, false at worst, especially when TFA nullified anything from the OT and made the heroes victories count for nothing.
He forgot that Grievous never met Kenobi either before ROTS. Hence why Grievous has to actually tell Kenobi that Dooku taught him how to wield a lightsaber, which is somewhat of a threat since Dooku kicked Kenobi's ass twice.
These people want Star Wars to be Warhammer 40K, which is why things like Ewoks and the kid appeal elements of TPM annoy them.
He massacred an entire McDonalds because his McNuggets 10-pack only had 6 nuggets inside.
Exactly. That's why you have series like the KOTOR/SWTOR stuff and the New Jedi Order books. Although, to be fair, the latter kinda pissed off the fans too, if anything because they thought it got too dark, whereas KOTOR/SWTOR media just had the appropriate amount of darkness and light-hearted comedy. Yes, you have the grimdark atmosphere and feel with the Sith and everything they touch, but outside of that, you have humorous things here and there, like Bastila getting flustered with male Revan's taunting, the Bounty Hunter in SWTOR making a Jedi look like an idiot for using a mind trick, and the entire Smuggler SWTOR story.
Funny how RLM is treated as Gospel when it's about the prequels, but no one ever wants to talk about their Sequel reviews. Very amusing.
Or Matrix Resurrection, or Obi-Wan Kenobi....which, I shit you not, contain some of the single dumbest Neanderthal takes on media and storytelling I think I've ever beheld on my life. Worse than anything they've opined on the Prequels.
Hey! I bought Space Cop on Blu-Ray! It... It was disappointing.
Not only that, but it looked to me like Kenobi had a pensive analytical look in Episode III when Grieveous advances with four lightsabers in hand(s) - two of which are spinning around as a makeshift barrier capable of shredding anything in its path. It's as if Kenobi had never seen anything like it and needs a moment to figure out how to apply his defensive Ataru form of lightsaber combat to such an unorthodox fighting style. Sure, it doesn't take long after that for Keobi to make a couple of well-palced strikes to neutralize some of Grievous' advantage, but it's still clear (to me, anyways) he needed time to plot his first move in seemed to be thier first duel.
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Even without all the specifics about in-universe fighting style names like you put in there in the scene Kenobi's like visibly surprised but intrigued about the fact a guy with crippled lungs just whipped out 4 sabers like he hadn't seen anyone do that before. Guy's on defensive waiting for the small slip ups and openings till the clone troopers show up.
This reminds me of that scene from KOTOR 1, a light-hearted scene within a dark setting:
This is why people shouldn't be given free reign to do their fantasy projects when they just ignore the lore & consistency of a franchise since people are just going to point out the silliness & stupidity of your work the moment they see it when it contradicts the established lore in the first place.
I read that Obi-Wan switched to a defensive technique while mixing a bit of his master's style after seeing Qui-Gon fail against Darth Maul and also due to confined spaces not suitable for Qui-Gon's style. That's a double-edged sword though since as you said, you have to be on the defensive while waiting for your enemy to slip-up.
Saw Gerrera's cameo in Andor was one of the best uses of the guy. If you knew of the character previously, you could appreciate seeing the character at a different stage of his life. If you didn't know of him, he served as a representative of the nascent rebellion and how precarious and paranoid they were. He serves as a character for the story first and not merely for fanservice.
The Ewoks were pretty gay in RotJ but minus that its a good film and a great trilogy bookend. Of course it was even better before Lucas went and fucked with it. Anyone assmad about RotJ has garbage NPC tastes.
Just another reason Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney to spite these kind of people. It's ok to give critique to a part of a movie you don't want but to make it the martyr of it sucks is why we're in the timeline to begin with.
Ever since Joss Whedon got cast down to the sodomites, Kevin Smith has taken his place on my list of people whose miserable downfall I want to see happen in real time
Hell, weren't they the originators of the 'A Stormtrooper hit their head on a door frame in 1997 so Obi-Wan and Leia doing an Austin Powers skit is fine!' meme'd defence of the Kenobi show?
