NazoServantArk (Long Live The Star Wars EU!)

Authors, unpopular opinion: A good book alone doesn’t guarantee readers anymore. Visibility matters just as much. Do you agree or disagree?

I too hate the way so much of the fandom talks about Rey but dragging down Mara Jade because it makes you upset is so counterproductive like you’re just making it about some stupid fandom war instead of tackling the actual issue at hand and I don’t trust you if you do so

Fun fact: Lucas liked The Last Jedi, unlike the installments that Abrams directed. The reason is simple, and revealed here—he wanted something new. Further, the crap that the worst and most negative fans pile on Rian Johnson for Luke Skywalker's arc? That was heavily based on Lucas's own original ideas—a broken Luke in self-imposed exile, haunted by a betrayal of a student, cut off from the Force, and acting as a mentor to a young female protagonist only reluctantly. Hottest of takes here, but Rian Johnson was simply one of the best directors we ever had on a mainline Star Wars installment, and the fandom is full of childish idiots that should have been ignored. He has the originality of Lucas, respected his vision, and is innovative and the master of his craft. He managed to get more emotion out of the actors for Rey, Kylo, and Luke than Abrams ever did, and his special effects were interesting and spectacular. The throne room scene in particular was truly great. That more people do not appreciate what Johnson did is because they are philistines. He should have been allowed to direct and write all three installments. Somewhere in an alternative universe, people there got to enjoy a sequel trilogy that wasn't childish and derivative trash. I'm jealous.

People really trying to rewrite history AGAIN about why Veilguard failed and how it was all because of manufactured and undeserved hate… IN FRONT OF ME? Sell that to someone who wasn’t there while all of this was unfolding. Veilguard was the beginning of the end for toxic positivity culture. You had content creators, big and small, STRAIGHT UP LYING about the quality of the early access they played because they were raking in insane views and were scared to lose access. It wasn’t until testers who had played the game MONTHS before started talking, and leaks dropped days before release, that suddenly everyone had to come out and admit BioWare only let them play the best parts and they thought the game was infinitely better than it actually was. Veilguard—after costing EA and BioWare 200 million dollars and 10 years of development—collapsed under its own weight. DON’T try to rewrite history in front of me. I was there when it was written.