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I agree about the demographics of Star Wars fans.
I have seen many YouTube videos by white male fans who keep complaining that all they want to see is the hero's journey and the new Star Wars movies are bad because they "go woke" or something like that. Its very toxic and unwelcoming.
The real problem with the sequels, is that they're a poor rehash of the other films, so for anyone who's watched the original trilogy and the prequels, all that's left in the sequels are some slightly better SFX, some different goofy parts, plus some poorly added racial elements that come from nowhere and go nowhere (see: Rose x Finn). Of course it didn't help that Carrie Fisher would pass away and they had to use CGI to paste her in, but even Rey's "hero journey" is kind of "meh" compared to Luke's or Anakin's, and IMO they didn't give her enough screen time.
Agreed. This is also discussed in the video. The sequels are just rehash of the original trilogy and that is by design because that's what Disney does.
It really is! I definitely think fandom spaces like YouTube do tend to be disproportionately male, with all the toxicity that comes with it. Not that the more female and LGBT dominated fandom spaces don't have their fair share of toxicity, but I'd rather deal with "my preferred gay couple is better than your preferred gay couple" than "gay couples shouldn't even exist". It's much easier to agree to disagree when the disagreement is about personal taste rather than whether some people even have a right to live.