How a Yoda line predicted the decline of Star Wars

By Chris Snellgrove | Published 25 seconds ago

In The empire goes backYoda warned Luke Skywalker that what was waiting for him in the mysterious cave on the dark side of Dagobah was “just what you carry with you.” Luke insisted on taking weapons inside, which resulted in a dream duel with Darth Vader, who revealed that he wore Luke’s face. Yoda was trying to teach his head apprentice a lesson about anger and fear, but his famous Star Wars line also serves as a prediction for the decline of this franchise after Disney bought it.

Yoda saw the future of Star Wars

How the Devils could a single Yoda line in the second Star Wars film predict the decline of the franchise decades later? Everything is reduced to the chorus of each fanatic discontent that you find online: “This is not my Star Wars!” See, the franchise has existed enough time that it has several generations of fans, and everyone has a different idea of ​​how this famous very distant galaxy should be.

For older fans (such as, “goes the first films in the theaters decades” of the original trilogy, Star Wars is mostly well -produced science fiction … a successful adaptation of the types of Gordon Flash series that George Lucas himself grew loving. He created an interconnected world of books, comics and games.

The prequel trilogy was deliberately directed to a younger generation, so The ghost threat It was plagued by a cartoon that alternates annoying that alternates between stepping on peanut and being thrown by some other CGI monstrosity. Finally, the trilogy of the sequel was made for a more progressive generation of fans, so it is a female nostalgia festival whose most interesting characteristic is the relationship of our protagonist with a bad melancholic boy.

So what does this little franchise history lesson with Yoda’s have to do with Yoda’s Empire goes back LINE AND THE DECLIVE OF STAR WARS? The short answer is that every annoying fan that says “This is not my Star Wars” is telling the truth, but every generation of fans loves something different in these characters and movies.

This is a great part of why the prequels received so much hate years: older fans finally obtained new films in their favorite franchise and were understandably annoying because they did not look at anything like what came before. Ironically, many of those who fell in love with the prequels were equally annoying when the sequelae traded in the humor and heart of those previous films for the annoying narration of mysterious stories of JJ Abrams and his thick layer of myocardia myocardia simulated.

In The empire goes backYoda’s warning to Luke was quite literal: he left that cave on the dark side that brought her, and since he entered with weapons and anger, he faced a vision of himself transformed into Darth Vader. Now, Yoda’s words apply to Star Wars fans complaining about the decrease in franchise because everyone is coming out of these films and they show what they bring them. Someone waiting Ahsoka be exactly like Rebels It will be disappointed, but someone who enters with an open mind (without weapons, so to speak) is much more likely to enjoy what they see.

Now, Yoda’s disturbingly prophetic prediction does not mean that modern fans accept Slop or refrain from commenting on a perceived decrease in quality. However, it is important to remember that the “decline” is relative: the popularity of the prequels demonstrates that the garbage of a fan is the treasure of another fan. In addition, it does not help YouTube He has developed a complete artisanal industry to make fans hate franchises such as Star Wars long before the latest films or shows are thrown.

That means that, in addition to different generations of Star Wars fans, who have different expectations, too many of them become furious by YouTubers and, like Luke Skywalker before them, they enter new movies and shows with anger. Like the candidate for Jedi, they face a manifestation of their fears and perceive the last content of Star Wars as a kind of monstrous creation that destroys his childhood. Yoda may not have been able to teach Luke enough before the cave, but it is not too late for Star Wars fans complaining about the decline of the franchise to learn from Jedi Master and stop projecting his own emotions in everything they look at.