A thoughtful video about The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a startlingly divisive movie, even without Russian bots making it more so. This video is a thoughtful exploration of that division — it talks about things like whether a movie can be “objectively” bad, whether common complaints about it could also be lobbied against other movies in the franchise, and whether a sense of entitlement is reasonable for fans. It’s from a YouTube channel called Make Stuff:
The Last Jedi: Restoring Balance to the Star Wars Fandom
Here’s a quotation: “There is a human being behind that tweet, with their own feelings and passions and traumas and history. There’s a hundred things that human being loves that you love too.”
Actually, his message is broader than Star Wars — it’s an important message about empathy for our time.