![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Fantastic Article on Fan and Critic Response to The Last Jedi
I loved this article on fan and critical responses to The Last Jedi and why the film is so divisive.
I see myself a bit in both camps (fan and critic). I liked it on the whole and like it more the more I think about it. Some of my niggles are fannish niggles: concerns that Luke and Leia wouldn't behave this way, etc. I think part of the what makes this surprising film easier for me to embrace than for some fans is that I'm very used to running parallel Star Wars fanon and canon. I've been off-canon in my head since the Expanded Universe started being canon in the 1990s(?). I'm even off canon a little bit with regard to the original trilogy. And right now, I'm glad about that because it makes the surprises easier to absorb. I can appreciate them without feeling that they have assaulted "my" Star Wars.
I am surprised, however, that there's so little talk about this film on LJ/DW. I mean, I know LJ, DW, and long-form fan meta in general are fairly dead, but... it's Star Wars. Are y'all not seeing it?
I see myself a bit in both camps (fan and critic). I liked it on the whole and like it more the more I think about it. Some of my niggles are fannish niggles: concerns that Luke and Leia wouldn't behave this way, etc. I think part of the what makes this surprising film easier for me to embrace than for some fans is that I'm very used to running parallel Star Wars fanon and canon. I've been off-canon in my head since the Expanded Universe started being canon in the 1990s(?). I'm even off canon a little bit with regard to the original trilogy. And right now, I'm glad about that because it makes the surprises easier to absorb. I can appreciate them without feeling that they have assaulted "my" Star Wars.
I am surprised, however, that there's so little talk about this film on LJ/DW. I mean, I know LJ, DW, and long-form fan meta in general are fairly dead, but... it's Star Wars. Are y'all not seeing it?