[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by acdcguy

Doubtful. Public forum still existed via print and word of mouth. Plus merchandise sales indicates it was well received. And if people truly objected to a tough woman and a black man in position of power (be it good or evil), then A New Hope would have bombed at the box office like Fox predicted. Outside the internet I run into tons of people that adore the original trilogy, young and old, but do not care for this Disney trilogy so far. A lot of that had to do with The Last Jedi.

TLJ actually had more of a reason to be exceedingly scrutinized thanks to having more legacy behind it than Empire.

Take Snoke for instance. You didn’t need to know about where the emperor came from because he was the emperor. That told you enough. You could theorycraft where he came from but with nothing shown about the rise of the empire yet, there’s nothing to really get wrong in writing him.

Snoke just exists with no explanation of where he was during the GCW beyond a couple JJ Mystery Box lines about being around possibly during it. And because we saw the GCW, we want to know what happened. We want to know who the heck this guy is. And then he just gets cut in half with no ceremony because apparently he doesn’t matter anymore and you shouldn’t care about killing the big bad two acts in to a three act story. Which is far as writing is concerned, is a complete Richard relocation. That is to say, a dick move.