Confessions from a Star Wars Fan

TL;DR at bottom

I never had any friends that were into SW. My friends would look at me like I’m crazy for watching it, so at first it sucked to not speak about it.

After The Mandalorian’s first season finished I gave it a try and that’s when I got into SW. I literally binge watched everything and loved the tragic nature of some of the stories. I also loved that some of the games and comics were actually canon to the movies and shows.

But this excitement was suddenly dulled when I joined SW groups where all I saw was hatred and hyper criticism. Every little thing is nitpicked, and the enjoyment is just sucked out. Everything you like that people are weirdly upset about is bashed if you even remotely express a positive opinion.

It’s just so weird to me that the saying ”No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans” is absolutely true.

Example: The Acolyte.

I understand it had its flaws as a show, but it received SO much hate from the very first 30 second teaser trailer. There was no plot revealed, or acting chops put on display but all anyone could say was “woke”, “acting is garbage”, etc. with 3:1 dislike ratio. Just like the weird 20 minute video dedicated to explaining why Captain America 4 is hot garbage… 4 months before release.

The thing that made me genuinely despise the fan base though? When everyone was shitting on the show for “breaking canon.” For those who care about spoilers, Spoiler Warning: The villain revealed himself to be a Sith warrior. The Issue here is that 100 yrs after the show the Sith are vividly explained to be extinct for 1,000 years, but in fact they were just under the radar. So, if the character told a bunch of Jedi he is Sith how is that true? It breaks the timeline, right??? No, because by the end of the season the Sith characters kills ALL who learn of him. But impatience made the fanbase lose their fucking minds. 

The thing that kills me though is how these same “fans” harass the actors. Death threats, racial slurs, insults, invasion of privacy, etc. But when the actors address it articles and “fans” alike act as if they’re calling the entire fan base racist and just feeds into the bs. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

An actor in The Acolyte made a troll music video about the people harassing her every single day, but all anyone reported was how she’s calling everyone who dislikes the show a racist bigot.

 The ones that do real damage are YouTubers like Star Wars Theory, who routinely do nothing but look for things to complain about while ignoring anything positive.

But whenever I ask these types of people anything I’m insulted. I’ll give you an entire unbiased Good, Bad, & Ugly review any day, but now? All anyone does is spread hatred since that’s what generates clicks.

I love SW. But fuck the fanbase. I’m glad I have no friends into it. Now I can just enjoy it on my lonesome.

TL;DR:

I genuinely hate the SW fan base and how much negativity overarches the people that just like to watch. Actors are harassed with death threats and so much more, dating back to the early 2000s. Then griefers capitalize on it by spreading more hate on their platforms for clicks. I’ve met so many people that didn’t watch The Acolyte based on the amount of trash talk about it just to be confused when they finally watched for themselves.

It’s like we’re thriving off of hate culture right now.

Sorry for the rant. It’s not like I have anyone to tell this to lol