It's very easy to "challenge" someone's understanding of something by saying, "Your understanding of this thing is all wrong." That's not intellectual; it's the classic video game griefing of a 10-year-old.
An intellectual challenge retains whatever is true in someone's understanding and offers a correction or second way of looking at one part of their understanding to move them to a deeper level of true understanding or insight. The revelation in ESB that Vader was Luke's father deepened our understanding of both characters. The "revelation" in TLJ that Luke was a pathetic loser did not add depth to his character--it took depth away.
(Griefing in video games is when a person intentionally destroys something that someone else is doing or has built up in the past in order to derive sadistic enjoyment from that person's reaction of sadness and grief over their loss. Griefing is one of the purest forms of evil.)
Tbf: TLJ, while shite, is probably still the best of the three sequels. ROTS is a tour de force of insulting the intelligence of the audience and TFA is just a beat by beat rehash of ANH.
It's very easy to "challenge" someone's understanding of something by saying, "Your understanding of this thing is all wrong." That's not intellectual; it's the classic video game griefing of a 10-year-old.
An intellectual challenge retains whatever is true in someone's understanding and offers a correction or second way of looking at one part of their understanding to move them to a deeper level of true understanding or insight. The revelation in ESB that Vader was Luke's father deepened our understanding of both characters. The "revelation" in TLJ that Luke was a pathetic loser did not add depth to his character--it took depth away.
(Griefing in video games is when a person intentionally destroys something that someone else is doing or has built up in the past in order to derive sadistic enjoyment from that person's reaction of sadness and grief over their loss. Griefing is one of the purest forms of evil.)
These people always claim they were “fans” of Star Wars but then they shit all over the universe. So I call BS on their fandom.
As Despot of Antrim showed in his review of the movie, it still follows the direction of copying The Empire Strikes Back even if less overtly.
Tbf: TLJ, while shite, is probably still the best of the three sequels. ROTS is a tour de force of insulting the intelligence of the audience and TFA is just a beat by beat rehash of ANH.
At least TLJ tried to do something new.
You mistake "new" for "positive". The first time you get cancer, it's "new". In 1917, communism was "new". Cain killed Abel, and murder was "new".
I'd rather a basic rehash or even an insult to intelligence than Rian Johnson's version of "new".