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If Bob pursued a BA in English he probably would have had a slightly better chance of becoming a respectable critic and would not be as shitty a writer as he is now. But who needs to read The Wasteland or Ulysses when there is the next Black Panther or The Last Jedi to consoom?Community college, for a "new media" degree. Even more useless than a BA in English. Don't know if he graduated though.
As a holder of a BA in English with a minor in history (a subject Blob knows nothing about), I never took offense to anyone to calling it useless. I pursued it because of my interest in storytelling. Bob's big problem along with many of the current-gen screenwriters and critics is that they have been taught to fetishize deconstruction as a storytelling method that makes any work thoughtful and deep. No, dipshit. Any idiot can disassemble an engine with the right tools, but it takes a mechanic to reassemble it. Fiction is no different in that a true creative identifies the various pieces that make a story work and assemble them. George Lucas had read Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces, took inspiration from sci-fi serials like Flash Gordon and samurai films, and sought input from friends and family to create a true cultural phenomenon.
...and Rian Johnson? "Oh, hurr, hurr! I'm going to subvert all expectations because I'm so smart."
No, Rian Johnson basically did what a monkey with a typewriter could do and Bob's a uneducated moron for not recognizing this.