Nothing justifies that level of harassment, but that’s not to say the prequel films themselves aren’t seriously flawed. Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best was harassed to near-suicide, and Jake Lloyd, who played Anakin Skywalker as a young boy in The Phantom Menace, quit acting altogether by the time he was 12 following the bullying he received. It goes at least as far back as the 1999-2005 prequel trilogy, which despite their massive box-office success received ugly backlash at the time of their releases. But with a large enough swath of toxic fans to harass an actress off social media or, more recently, trying to get a host fired for speaking out against racism, just to name a few examples, it’s no secret among those occupying the geekier corners of the internet that the loud minority of entitled fanboys are quick to bully anyone who appears to defy the will of “real Star Wars fans.”īut this started before YouTubers and adjacent #FandomMenace grifters formed a whole cottage industry around hating The Last Jedi (my favorite Star Wars movie, no matter what the aforementioned fanboys may have to say about it). Star Wars is objectively one of the most popular things on the planet among people of all ages, genders, and ethnicities, so obviously I don’t mean all Star Wars fans are bad. So understand that I take no pleasure in saying this, although we all know it’s true: Star Wars Fans are the worst. To this day, there are few things that arouse my restless soul like John Williams’s unforgettable opening theme. My dad took me to see the original trilogy as they were rereleased in 1997 when I was but a wee 6-year-old youngling, and it kickstarted a lifelong love affair with laser swords and space dogfights and pew pew pews. And that opinion is: Yoda’s ridiculous lightsaber battles in Episodes II and III rule, and anyone who says otherwise hates fun. Apparently I’m a glutton for punishment, because this week, I’m doing the most dangerous thing a critic can do on the internet: sharing a Star Wars Opinion. I kicked things off last week by mentioning how annoying it can be to talk about superhero movies on the internet. Each week in Silber Linings, he takes a humorous look at the weirdest, funniest, and most obscure bits of comics and pop culture that he can’t get out of his head.
The Beat’s Gregory Paul Silber has been accused of having a bit of an… obsessive personality.
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