How Can Star Wars Be So Good Even Though It’s So Deeply Flawed And Narratively Inconsistent And Was Created By A Dumbass
Hell yeah, what a dumbass!
I mean it’s not like you know…he made most of it or anything? It’s not like he made himself ill working on the original movie because he wanted everything to be just right, it’s not like he threw aspects of his personal life and his politics into the scripts, it’s not like he worked long and hard on the visuals, it’s not like he’s thought long and hard about Anakin, Darth Vader and redemption and has probably the best words on the subject –
It’s not like he ended up hiring one of his most vocal critics to ensure that the Jar Jar Binks debacle didn’t happen again, because god, he’s so stupid, right? And it’s not like we’re talking here about a guy who threw himself into philanthropy as soon as he got rich and with his wife donated a lot of money to genuinely good causes. Or a guy who, after years of being called a fucking rapist by Star Wars dudebros who can’t tell the difference between movies and violent acts, is still pretty chill about people disliking the prequels…
Like, he’s not perfect or anything – no-one in Hollywood is, no-one anywhere is – but the shit Star Wars fans give him, especially since he’s quite obviously according to all accounts terribly bad at interacting with people and at expressing himself verbally. (Neither of those things are character flaws, incidentally.) God, if that’s what gets you called a dumbass these days…