I've been trying to hold in my mind the thought that any amount of the considerable number of people who went to see the original Star Wars in 1977 (some numerous times) thought of it as just "a good time at the movies" with the "mythic overtones" and "saga" viewpoint coming later, and I can suppose there's a part of the audience of The Force Awakens (maybe even a significant slice) that can consider that movie just that, just as they had a good time at the previous Star Wars movies without demanding profundities... but I unfortunately understand all the other baggage attached to it that starts to weigh it down at the slightest consideration.
Anyway, I wouldn't say this is the only time I've seen this "it's as much what happened to those 'original' characters we're supposed to love as much as anything" expressed. Maybe I'm just distracting myself with more things (including trying to time a subtitle file of "Backstroke of the West," the infamous back-translation of Revenge of the Sith, to a video of the movie itself...)
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Date: 2016-01-13 01:19 am (UTC)Anyway, I wouldn't say this is the only time I've seen this "it's as much what happened to those 'original' characters we're supposed to love as much as anything" expressed. Maybe I'm just distracting myself with more things (including trying to time a subtitle file of "Backstroke of the West," the infamous back-translation of Revenge of the Sith, to a video of the movie itself...)