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The amount of money people spend on larping astounds me. And here I thought I was an obsessive freak for spending thousands of dollars on merchandise.
The hotel was a vanity project from the start. Maybe if Lucas was onboard, he could have found a way for it to work, but at this point, it's the equivalent of putting lipstick and perfume on a pig. It looks funny, but it won't attract any real following.
People hate Legacy of the Force for the very same reason they hate the Sequels: both tried to take a happy ending with characters that people have invested in for decades, and turned it around to show how it was all a lie, all to support a conflict nobody cares about. Both works were a bad attempt to create a story that was morally ambiguous, and their attempts fell flat as the execution of it just pissed off fans on both ends. LOTF pissed off EU fans who have followed the adventures of Mara Jade, Jaina Solo, and Jacen Solo for decades, and the Sequels pissed off the normies whose memories of Star Wars ended with Episode VI.
In LOTF, Han's son Jacen Solo turns to the Dark Side for stupid reasons, kills Luke's wife Mara Jade, who was a major character people got invested in, and Jacen got killed as well, pissing off the large fanbase who wanted him to continue as a good Jedi. Han's daughter Jaina, a powerful Jedi in her own right, was made into Boba Fett's punching bag. You know, the guy who got stabbed in the back by a blind man? Somehow he manages to make Darth Vader's grand-daughter his bitch, because one of the authors has a boner for Mandalorians. The Sequels did the same thing, except there's no Fetts and Han doesn't have a daughter. They instead killed Ben Solo after he turned to evil, but they also killed off Han, Luke, and Leia as well. All after they made Luke into a pathetic, miserable failure, and they made Han into a deadbeat dad who deserted his wife.
Maybe if these stories were focused on conflicts that were meaningful, it could have worked. Heck, I wouldn't have minded half the OT cast dying to say, the Yuuzhan Vong, because laying down your life defending your galaxy from an unknowable, unfathomable evil that kept even the Emperor from the Original Trilogy awake at night is in character for these OT heroes. The Red Wedding from ASOIAF managed to make it work because the conflict of the War of the Five Kings was a meaningful battle between factions that all had their own reasons to covet the throne. So when well-loved characters started dying off like flies, it offered a substantial commentary on the world of ASOIAF and how ruthless it was, and that massacre became a key turning point in the war.
Instead, the conflicts in LOTF and the ST were so meaningless that they won't even be remembered. The First Order War was just a shitty knockoff of the Galactic Civil War, and the Final Order was so forgettable since they didn't even last past one film. Meanwhile, LOTF's Second Galactic Civil War that was started by a Corellian thug and inflamed by an out of character Jedi was so meaningless that it accomplished nothing and both sides just walked away as if they just had a boo-boo in their shoulder. For well-known characters to be humiliated and killed in such nonsensical, forgettable conflicts, just so some authors and scriptwriters can write something edgy, is the very definition of bullshit writing.
To be fair, LOTF is better than the Sequels, but that's like saying getting castrated isn't as bad as getting crippled for life, and the effect both works had on the audience was making them apathetic to the franchise. LOTF made many EU fans quit and decide to ignore it altogether in favor of other stories like the KOTOR games or the Legacy comics, stories that can go for the morally ambiguous route and experiment because they didn't involve main characters that people have loved for decades, but instead created new, interesting characters that were well-suited for the kinds of stories they made. Meanwhile, the normies who loved the OT and argued over the Prequels became united in their hate for the Sequel Trilogy. No matter whether or not you thought the Prequels were stupid, one thing everyone can agree on was that the Sequels were even stupider. Ever since TLJ, the respect that the SW film franchise commanded has been falling down a very steep slope, and soon, Disney will eventually realize all the money they spent buying Star Wars wasn't worth it.
Maybe if these stories were focused on conflicts that were meaningful, it could have worked. Heck, I wouldn't have minded half the OT cast dying to say, the Yuuzhan Vong, because laying down your life defending your galaxy from an unknowable, unfathomable evil that kept even the Emperor from the Original Trilogy awake at night is in character for these OT heroes. The Red Wedding from ASOIAF managed to make it work because the conflict of the War of the Five Kings was a meaningful battle between factions that all had their own reasons to covet the throne. So when well-loved characters started dying off like flies, it offered a substantial commentary on the world of ASOIAF and how ruthless it was, and that massacre became a key turning point in the war.
Instead, the conflicts in LOTF and the ST were so meaningless that they won't even be remembered. The First Order War was just a shitty knockoff of the Galactic Civil War, and the Final Order was so forgettable since they didn't even last past one film. Meanwhile, LOTF's Second Galactic Civil War that was started by a Corellian thug and inflamed by an out of character Jedi was so meaningless that it accomplished nothing and both sides just walked away as if they just had a boo-boo in their shoulder. For well-known characters to be humiliated and killed in such nonsensical, forgettable conflicts, just so some authors and scriptwriters can write something edgy, is the very definition of bullshit writing.
To be fair, LOTF is better than the Sequels, but that's like saying getting castrated isn't as bad as getting crippled for life, and the effect both works had on the audience was making them apathetic to the franchise. LOTF made many EU fans quit and decide to ignore it altogether in favor of other stories like the KOTOR games or the Legacy comics, stories that can go for the morally ambiguous route and experiment because they didn't involve main characters that people have loved for decades, but instead created new, interesting characters that were well-suited for the kinds of stories they made. Meanwhile, the normies who loved the OT and argued over the Prequels became united in their hate for the Sequel Trilogy. No matter whether or not you thought the Prequels were stupid, one thing everyone can agree on was that the Sequels were even stupider. Ever since TLJ, the respect that the SW film franchise commanded has been falling down a very steep slope, and soon, Disney will eventually realize all the money they spent buying Star Wars wasn't worth it.
But they can't delete the comment section. They need a place where sycophants can praise them. Even if nobody is commenting, they'll keep the comments sections and have bots/shills comment positively so as to keep good PR, even though interest is at an all-time low.
