The Acolyte had introduced into the fandom a hatred for witches. I suppose it was already there from the Dathomir arc of TCW, but the Acolyte pushed it further.
And I'm all for it.
You guys are incredibly quick to dismiss him on small bullshit. What exactly was wrong with the RLM Phantom Menace review anyway?
Everything. From the complaints that most people didn't even think of when they first watched TPM, to the suggestions about toning down the world building and keeping it simple. It was a roadmap to the disaster that was TFA.
It takes 14 hours to say what could be said in 5 minutes, and it's all just angry boomers seething about the Prequels. RLM's further takes on Star Wars and Star Trek show that the place they came from was really flawed and they were never going to give the Prequels a chance anyway. Mindless devotion to TNG was more of a red flag than anyone suspected, until recently. Remember that they actually liked the Picard finale for all the reasons they hated Rogue One.
TNG was perhaps the worst thing to happen to Star Trek. It turned what once was Twilight Zone in a space loveboat to this weird, pontificating show which had bullshit morality and overbearing preaching. Like how they treat capitalists as scum. Or how they see a lack of religion as enlightenment. Or how they're willing to let people die if it keeps to their stupid Prime Directive. Even the fucking Sith are not that bad. The fact that RLM is blindly devoted to that really is a red flag. Perhaps that explains why they don't point out the SJW influence; TNG's morality was proto-SJW; the farthest to the Left you could be back in the 90s.
Although I suppose DS9 subverting that shit doubles as schadenfreude.
i like RLM in general (haven't watched them in years at this point though to be fair) but i always thought it was weird how they made their biggest splash with the star wars reviews when they're all Trekkies and don't really even like star wars post empire. it's clear they think it's all slop garbage and everyone who likes it is a dumb rube.
which you'd think that would make them go extra hard on the Disney stuff since it's worse in every way almost but the best they can come up with is "why are there AT-ATs in Rogue One? isn't that stupid?" i guess they're afraid if they were to actually criticize the actual problems with Disney they would risk get lumped in with the dirty "right wing Nazis" who also criticize Disney and they might not get any more A-list celebs to come on their show anymore like macaulay culkin.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they held some SJW beliefs close to their chest. Avid TNG fans, refuse to criticize woke shit, hell, even that criticism of AT-ATs in Rogue One made no sense since AT-ATs are Imperial heavy armor and the Scarif base was an important Imperial base. So no shit, they'd have the big dogs guarding that, too. That, and a lot of the dirty jokes RLM made during the PT reviews were made back in an era when the Left was more tolerant of politically incorrect humor. I mean, a lot of guys during those years who used language and jokes that people now would call sexist now have TDS and stan for the wokies.
RLM not criticizing the woke doesn't necessarily make them woke, but to know that they really loved a show that was as far Left woke as you can get back in the 90s, that's the one thing that got me curious. Perhaps they don't want to come out of the proverbial closet because they don't want to be targets for mockery, especially since we all saw what that did to Lucas, and RLM was at the tip of the spear with that.
