The problem with the Star Wars fanbase

Hello everybody, now, it is apparent that there is a problem with the Star Wars fanbase. We are just SO divided as a whole, and it's ridiculous. We literally have people getting so butt-hurt and angry at each other all over the internet over LITERAL FICTION. Sure, I love Star Wars, but people really need to just figure out that IT IS FICTION. NONE OF THIS IS REAL.

Given that, is there any reason to get mad about anything that happens? NO. If you've got a problem with Disney, sure. That's fine. I do also. But there is NO NEED to get angry because somebody DARED to say that something Disney made is pretty good. If you say that, you literally suddenly have an army of people saying "oH, nO iT jUsT cOmPlEtElY rEtCoNs EvErYtHiNg ThAt GeOrGe MaDe In ThE oRiGiNaL tRiLoGy!!!!!!!!!11!!1!!!!" Y'all. Too bad.

First of all, they say that it retcons stuff even when it literally doesn't. Second of all, even if it did, is there really something wrong with that? Sometimes you have to change things to make the story interesting going forwards. It's fiction. Third of all, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Don't get mad about it. Just don't even CARE about it. No need to get mad about it, just don't even think about it.There is no reason to act like a toddler who got a toy taken away from them when there's something with the Star Wars name on it that you don't like. Just get a grip on reality!

Nobody is telling you that you have to regard everything as canon. There are different canon universes. You could use your two braincells to grasp that reality. There's George's stuff (AKA legends), and then there's Disney's stuff ("canon"). Two separate universes.

If you like something, like it. If you don't like something, don't like it. Think about when the Prequels came out, the fanbase literally had Ahmed Best contemplating SUICIDE because they were just hating their guts out onto Jar-Jar. And not just the character, the ACTOR. Now back then, the fanbase was really only 2 sides. OT purists, and those who were open to new stuff (The Prequels). But now however, that has expanded. We have the George Lucas purists, OT purists, Disney purists, and then those who are just open to new stuff but don't like everything but do like some new stuff and who think about stuff logically. That's the part of the fanbase I am part of. Of course there's also just the people who watch only the movies and don't even know about all of this discourse that goes on, and don't even care. But anyways, let's keep going.

The sequels? No. I don't like them. But I don't get mad at anybody who does like them simply because they enjoyed them. The original trilogy AND the prequels are both GREAT. Clone Wars, Rebels, Mandalorian, Ahsoka, Andor, and The Bad Batch are all GREAT. Book of Boba Fett is pretty good for the most part. Obi Wan Kenobi is mostly just boring. That's the show I like the least. But I don't get mad about it.

Most of this article I've only been directly calling out those on the side of the George Lucas purists. But Disney Purists, and really every faction of Star Wars fans, this goes for YOU AS WELL. It does not matter what anybody else thinks about it, just let them enjoy what they want to enjoy. You enjoy what YOU want to enjoy. It's really not that hard of a concept to grasp.

Now, the reason I wrote this thing in the first place is because on YouTube comments I'm getting attacked for liking Ahsoka. I literally just tried to say that it doesn't retcon what George made. And then they start trashing on me saying I'm a Disney suckup and that my brain isn't fully developed and that I can't think properly and really just going all out attacking me for DARING to have an opinion. All the while I'm just trying to get through their thick skulls to tell them what I've written in this post. But they won't accept it. They just keep acting like toddlers while saying that I am the immature one. I don't attack them at all, I simply try to calm them DOWN. And even at this moment they just keep on repeating the same things acting like they're roasting me to pieces when they can't even think of anything new to say...

But also on the flipside when I didn't like Kenobi or the Sequels I have people from the other side saying that I just hate on anything Disney... There are people like that, but I am not one of those. When I don't like something, it's not because it "retcons George's vision" or anything, it's because I just didn't enjoy it.

Now, I was going to make a separate post about this a while back, but I never did. So I might as well just stuff it in here. Theory is in the same place as that. When he likes something, he gets accused of being a Disney suckup. When he doesn't like something, people get mad about him being a Disney hater. So no matter what he does, he has people mad at him. I had ideas to make a whole article about that but that's the basic idea shoved into one paragraph. Now, let me finish up. 

So, in conclusion, the real problem with the Star Wars fanbase is that they treat Star Wars like a religion. And there arguments over what stuff is good and what is bad is like arguing about theology INSIDE of a religion. I'm a Christian, I know all about that. I have my own ideas about what theology is correct and whatever, but if somebody disagrees about something I'll maybe debate with them but I'll still respect their opinion. (In the end only one of us is right either way) But there are still people who get into full on arguments about who's right about even the most TRIVIAL THINGS that have little to no effect on the grand scale of things. That's what the Star Wars discourse reminds me of. And it's not good that it reminds me of that. You really shouldn't treat Star Wars like a religion. It is, after all, fiction. Nothing that happens in Star Wars affects anything in the real world, why get all worked up about it? As I've said a million times already, like what you like, don't like what you don't like. Agree to disagree.

Thanks,

DarthPlagueisTheWise