Editing Star Wars Movies (section)

===Episode 8: The Last Royalty Check (aka zomg Luke dies!)===
On December 14 2017, ''Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi'' was released world wide. The critical reception was [[Bullshit|extremely positive]], with many critics considering it the best movie in the series since The Empire Strikes Back. The fan reception has been a great deal more negative and [[Skub|mixed]], and a number of fans are convinced that Disney leaned on media outlets to shill the new movie or else. If you have watched the Empire Strikes Back, you ''WILL'' be [[Rage|disappointed at best]], if you want to see a Star Wars film that would finally expand the characters of Kylo Ren and Rey, you ''WILL'' be satisfied and disappointed at the same time, if you want to watch the film because it is the last film starring the great and wonderful Carrie Fisher, you ''WILL'' feel hollow and sad inside. (Actual results may vary).  

TL;DR: The Last Jedi is seen as the most divisive film in the franchise by the fandom, [[Skub|which is one hell of an achievement]] considering the other films.
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The complaints about The Last Jedi are many: the treatment of Luke (which even Mark Hamill hated, to the point that he claimed he had no interest in playing Luke again), Leia's Superman asspull, Finn's pointless character arc that's essentially a rehash of his arc in the last movie, the complete disregard for established [[fluff]], disregard for even the most basic laws of physics, the fact that the central conflict is essentially the same as the one in the originals right down to the last stand ripped straight out of ''Empire'', the virtue-signalling PC bullshit (a hipster admiral who the plot always treats as being in the right despite killing 90% of the Resistance through her refusal to communicate with her subordinates, the Gilded Age planet arc that [[Namek|sucks up a third of the movie to no benefit]], Rose's horrendously pretentious, mildly hypocritical, and utterly forced #LoveTrumpsHate one-liner in the final act) and the whole thing being basically a 2.5h screed against the franchise it belongs to and the culture which spawned it.

Fans have also criticized the movie for dropping or discarding major plot points from TFA and repeatedly invoking Shamalamadingdong-tier plot twists for cheap gotchas that are somehow less interesting than the recycled cliches they play off of. Director Rian Johnson responded by shitting on critics, calling fans who disliked the movie misogynists, and trying to defend the film on social media like something out of an ED or RW article (Important note: George Lucas never tried to defend the prequels, despite the huge backlash at the time, and he agreed with fans that [[C.S Goto|The Star Wars Holiday Special]] was an abomination.) It later came out that Johnson had not been given any kind of roadmap beyond Lucas' old and unfinished concept scripts and was not allowed to see what Abrams had done until TLJ was too far into production to write in most of the previous movie's plot points, which makes the fail Disney's fault just as much as it is Johnson's. 

(That said, we also know that he had at least a modicum of influence over the ending of TFA and Rian's 100% to blame for his shitting on critics.  As with TFA Lucasfilm has tried to paper over the holes with tie-in material, and just like TFA the fans recognize the damage control.)

World-building is also of major note as The Last Jedi not only disregards fluff but also fails to come up with anything of interest. The best it give is a casino planet which solely exists to provide a ham-fisted "Capitalism is evil, mmkay children?" aesop, a Hoth knockoff that exists purely to rehash ''Empire'''s ending, and a barren shithole implied to have a connection to the ancient Jedi which is barely explored. Meanwhile by comparison, while The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were the most [[skub|skubtastic]] Star Wars movies before the sequels, each of them still did arguably more for world-building than all three originals combined, laying the groundwork for things to come, most notably [[Star Wars:The Clone Wars|The Clone Wars]]. People simply wanted to see more of the universe. Meanwhile TLJ only managed to lead to [[Star Wars:Resistance]] and the lack of fan interest in it speaks for itself as many have decided to not watch it solely due to it being set in the sequel era. 

The point of all these examples is that Star Wars is by nature a very lore-heavy franchise. So how could they fuck it up so badly? The reason is quite simple: [[Heresy|Rian Johnson outright admitted that canon, lore and world-building is of no interest to him and he doesn't care about anything outside the story he is trying to tell. Lore contradictions? Don't matter. World-building? Waste of time. What happens to the story after he is done? Not his problem!]] <ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/03/03/star-wars-the-last-jedi-director-rian-johnson-admits-he-didnt-care-about-star-wars-canon-and-history/</ref> Why a guy like that would ever be hired to make a movie in such a lore-heavy franchise and why was he allowed to contradict canon as he wished is beyond us. But with that taken into consideration, it is certainly no wonder that The Last Jedi was so hated and that it caused people to lose interest in not only the trilogy but the sequel era as a whole.

The Last Jedi has without a doubt torn the fanbase apart in ways even the prequels and most of the Legends didn't come close to, with many fans declaring that they have dropped the sequel trilogy. Even Star Wars' famous merchandising has taken a mauling, as [[/toy/]] giggles at Rose Tico, Admiral Holdo and General Hux figures warming shelves while new product shipments go straight from the transport case to the clearance bin. Many had even said that The Last Jedi caused them to lose interest in Disney Star Wars as a whole until [[Star Wars:The Mandalorian|The Mandalorian]] managed to drag the franchise back up again.
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