not changing my screen name tiddlywinkler on Nostr: One of the strangest phenomena I've seen with the whole Star Wars fandom is that the ...

One of the strangest phenomena I've seen with the whole Star Wars fandom is that the original fans believed the second trilogy was for them, and it was actually for people who were ten years old when it came out. Each Star Wars movie was targeted at whoever would actually play with the toys that came out at the same time. And if you watch them with the idea that you're letting your ten year old self watch, they're more enjoyable.

My experience is that Gen Xers and older Millennials tend to hate the prequels, while members of the target audience loved them and remember them fondly.

I wonder if Zoomers and Gen Alpha are going to remember this last trilogy with more fondness than it is being afforded now. Disney may suck in a lot of ways, but they're usually really, really good at siphoning money from parents' pocketbooks through children. Even the soccer ball robot was designed to appeal specifically to children, right down to the sound design of the noises it made being something that children could replicate with their own mouths.