>>6873730Sounds like you weren't even alive back when the prequels came out.
I was online with all the other nerds and most people were mostly OK with the prequels, if not super duper in love with it. Most hate only came after RLM's did their review on TPM.
A lot of the video games were well loved, especially the N64 pod racing game and people loved the Naboo fighter easter egg in Rogue Squadron. Toys were well liked too, except there was nothing new because of stores overordering TPM toys, so it became nothing but shelfwarmers. Those shelfwarmers weren't even of hated characters, but just random stuff.
The only thing that was hated right off the bat was Jar Jar. Everything else was treated as beautiful designs to just "that's ok" mediocrity.
TFA and TLJ hate is a hundred times worse than the reception TPM got. Even the girlie shit in TPM was loved. I'm not even sure where/when the hate came for AotC, but people were all out for the merch and the designs like nothing before it. The Clone Wars cartoons pretty much erased all hate and got hyped up for the RotS.
A lot of people gave up, including myself, for all Star Wars movies after TLJ.
Nah, there is a huge difference between the reception the prequels got and this post-Lucas crap.
I don't even hate TLJ for its SJW/feminist shit and didn't even hate TFA (dislike and general mehness), but for its complete lack of forethought put into the story and the Mary Sue-dom. If they explained why Rey was so powerful, i'd give it a pass, but she is simply just a mary sue.
Plus, the designs are weak as fuck. Even for army building kewl troopers, the ducktroopers are a joke.
