I still think that Jedi Celibacy is absolutely retarded, especially in the face of something like Order 66, where most people with the special Midichlorian Genes were killed off, but yeah, I also got the message that Palpatine was meant to be the Antichrist in those movies.
Jedi weren't celibate. Lucas himself noted it during the Prequel era. If you get married and have an emotional attachment with a spouse, the Council would BTFO you, even if you both remained virgins until you died. But if you just got drunk one day, splurged your load in a whorehouse, and got some women pregnant, and you forgot about them the next day, the Council would still be OK with you. They might send agents to that whorehouse to check for Force-sensitive babies down the line, but they won't be angry with you in the least.
Palpatine was every bad guy Lucas can think of. He's the Devil, Richard Nixon, Julius Caesar, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, the works.
And yet the bigger pivot in the fanbase to reframing and accepting the Prequels seemed to really only kick in around a decade after the prequels came out, and when TFA came out. It's also when the side materials and games that showed its best side came out and wrapped up, as well as having Dave's Fanfic rolling in. This would also be when the kids who saw them would be old enough to actually talk about why they really liked the Prequels online. That IMO makes more sense.
Not quite. Most fans were OK with the Prequels and didn't really mind them. They very much enjoyed Prequel media and bought all the Clone Wars multimedia project shit, which shows that they did enjoy the Prequel era and wanted to know more about it. That was during the time of 1999-2005, around the time the Prequels were coming out. So when the PT was coming out, the fans gobbled up the media around it, which shows that it wasn't that hated by the actual fanbase that paid good money for SW merchandise.
Dave's fanfic rolled in 3 years after the Clone Wars Multimedia Project ended. That's why it felt so unnatural to the canon.
In fairness, I'm railing on this because there's a point where the "fan backstab" concept is a retarded take and why I call it the "Dolchstoßlegende" when it gets focused on too hard. It comes off as doing sweeping work for the execs for free, and those guys don't need that shit.
The execs were just whoring out to the PT haters, but that fizzled out after Rogue One. Then they whored out to the SJWs with TLJ, and it failed. Then they whored out to Filoniverse people, and that worked for a time. Then they whored out to ANTIFAs with Andor.
The execs basically BTFO'd the SWEU because Chewie died in it, and they knew the PT haters didn't give a rip about the SWEU. Every time the EU gets brought up to defend the Prequels, the PT haters plug their ears and say that if it's not in the film, it doesn't matter. Even though the films were made for the fans who did consume these products; not just normies.
It also removes the true blame from the actors that actually are involved, which was a mixture of Hollywood, Kathy, Bob, and even Lucas a bit since he failed to find an heir after he slowed down and got old. Blame the main lot (barring George, who just felt creatively deprived and likely saw his buddy Spielburg losing his touch in why he stepped back) for being dumb enough to listen to drunks from Moocow Land. And blame them for hating you and hoping you die screaming when they got pissed that converting it into winemom princess brands failed.
The actors who were truly to blame were the PT haters. Hell, if they weren't so loud, Lucas might not have quit, and you'd get a Sequel Trilogy that instead tries to go for new ground with Maul as some Godfather-esque villain. We'd at least have something new, instead of a re-tread of ANH without the soul.
And I say this as someone who sees the audience as fent junkies who deserve to shove AIDS needles in their eyes and OD on the toilet, the dealer spitting on them for buying drain cleaner disguised as product.
Blaming the corporate state for the state of the audience belies the fact that the corpos are just appeasers. They want the money, so they follow the loudest voice in the room. And at the time of the Disney SW purchase, that was the PT haters. It's the same reason behind the woke corporate bullshit years ago; they saw a ton of morons on Twitter spouting woke bullshit and thought the money was there.
