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Petition to Remove ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ From Official Canon Has Over 13,000 Signatures
Indiewire ^ | December 19, 2017 | Zack Sharf

Posted on 12/19/2017 9:12:23 AM PST by EdnaMode

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has become quite the controversial entry for certain fractions of “Star Wars” fandom, so much so that an online petition is currently circulating asking Disney and Lucasfilm to remove “The Last Jedi” from official canon. The petition, started by Henry Walsh of Georgia, has well over 13,000 signatures and counting.

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To: Morgana
I blame Dinsey..George should have never have sold to them

Lucas forfeited any presumption of moral sense when he made "Phantom Menace". He gets $4 billion, and Disney makes whatever money they can. Heck, even the "Thin Man" ran out of steam after four or five movies.
61 posted on 12/19/2017 11:18:12 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Star Wars, get a LIFE


62 posted on 12/19/2017 11:19:32 AM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: xzins

To be fair, the old Expanded Universe elaborated on that bit: He had C-3PO melted down because of being forcibly reintroduced to his bad past, but after Chewie saved him, Vader, in a surprisingly nice moment for him, ultimately allowed Chewie to repair him (something that was implied in the film when C-3PO’s remains were supplied to Chewie from what was essentially a doggie door).

Don’t know about the Disney EU, though. Apparently, the SCAR comic didn’t have Vader recognizing C-3PO at all despite the titular unit interrogating him [and succeeding to such an extent that they actually wanted him to shut up, though I haven’t fully read that comic, to be honest so I might be mistaken.].


63 posted on 12/19/2017 11:20:32 AM PST by otness_e
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To: Dr. Sivana

Lol


64 posted on 12/19/2017 11:20:49 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: right way right

65 posted on 12/19/2017 11:22:56 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: EdnaMode
Should have called the movie "Star Women: The Last Y-Chromosome"....

With the possible exception of Luke Skywalker, every man in the movie is portrayed as a reckless hot-shot who constantly makes dumb, risky mistakes and has to rescued by the much wiser and intelligent women around them. Come to think of it even Luke Skywalker was portrayed as inferior to Rey in both skill and wisdom....

66 posted on 12/19/2017 11:24:36 AM PST by apillar
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To: Dr. Sivana

Heck, forget Phantom Menace, he forfeited any moral sense the moment he decided that the so-called “heroes” be based on the Vietcong while the so-called “villains” are basically American soldiers, all in an attempt to flip the bird at our involvement (and what makes it worse is that the first film was released around the time the Boat People were fleeing, many Vietnamese refugees arrived in California, the whole reeducation camps in Vietnam were being reported on, and then there’s the whole Khmer Rouge business that was all the rage in 1977, meaning by that time, he obviously should have known better than to base the Rebels on such an awful group, or to make us the bad guys.).

And honestly, even though Disney is largely responsible for the many screw-ups in Star Wars via Rebels, the Aftermath Trilogy, Battlefront II, and The Force Awakens, among others, I STILL blame George Lucas for what ultimately transpired, and his sale was all so he could ensure he was tax exempt by 2013 should Romney be elected to office in anticipation of higher taxes, and this is DESPITE making clear he was an Occupy Wall Street type of person.


67 posted on 12/19/2017 11:26:26 AM PST by otness_e
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To: discostu
C'mon man, Lando was the best thing about Empire Strikes Back.


68 posted on 12/19/2017 11:36:37 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: bar sin·is·ter; Boogieman

Yep.


69 posted on 12/19/2017 11:50:14 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: xzins

No, he didn’t. R2-D2 is the one who said he belonged to Ben Kenobi. C-3PO said he had no idea who that was or what R2-D2 was talking about.


70 posted on 12/19/2017 12:08:14 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: JohnyBoy

They did bring Thrawn back as a character on the “Rebels” cartoon, so he is at least back in the canon in some fashion. I think he appears in some of the new books too.


71 posted on 12/19/2017 12:09:45 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

In the first Star Trek, little annakin skywalker shows c3po the droid he is building and almost finished with except for the skin.


72 posted on 12/19/2017 12:10:16 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Boogieman

correction:

In the first Star WARS, little annakin skywalker shows c3po the droid he is building and almost finished with except for the skin.


73 posted on 12/19/2017 12:10:45 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Ingtar

“Obi-Wan should have remembered the droids. That is a plot hole.”

Well, technically, we don’t know that Obi Wan didn’t remember them. All he says is “I don’t remember owning a droid”, which is true, he never owned R2, because R2 was Anakin’s droid. I do think that Lucas never really planned the prequels that far ahead when he wrote the dialogue, but it’s not a direct contradiction.


74 posted on 12/19/2017 12:14:03 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: xzins

Actually, in the comics he did. Or so I’ve heard.


75 posted on 12/19/2017 12:20:59 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: xzins

Might have been a novelization.


76 posted on 12/19/2017 12:21:29 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: otness_e
he decided that the so-called “heroes” be based on the Vietcong while the so-called “villains” are basically American soldiers

I hadn't known about that. In general, my main issue with the central theme of the franchise is the implicit Gnosticism of the "Force". For my own children watching, I am willing to look at each movie on its stand-alone merits. "The Magic Flute" is gnostic as well, but I would not stop my children from listening to Mozart over it. "The Phantom Menace" was just a bad movie on ANY set of measurements, with "Lost in Space" having more believable child characters, plus the implicit mockery of the Virgin Birth with Anakin having no father. Too cute by half. I have never seen II or III (nor have my children) for those reasons.
77 posted on 12/19/2017 12:23:50 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Rurudyne

Lots of star wars stuff out there. I only watched the movies. Never did any of the reading.


78 posted on 12/19/2017 12:25:31 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m getting the feeling that the people most disappointed are the loons that actually think there is something to this “force” stuff. Seriously.

From what I’m reading in the articles, it sounds like it’s a good movie. Sometimes if certain people don’t like a movie it means I will like it.


79 posted on 12/20/2017 7:44:49 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: discostu

I called empire, “star wars for grownups”. The characters were not so two dimensional. Sounds like that is happening even more with this one.


80 posted on 12/20/2017 7:46:10 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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