Rise of Skywalker reaction in gif format

[orangerful]

Click the date to see the entire twitter thread. Only spoilers if you are swayed by opinions in gif format.

I will eventually type up my thoughts on #RiseofSkywalker but until then, here are initial reactions in GIF format:

— orangerful (@orangerful) December 21, 2019

Comments

[beccadg]

From the gifs, I get the impression I should be offering my condolences. We've discussed elsewhere my lack of interest in the Disney Star Wars sequels, but a number of the gifs make me think of my reactions to movies like Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame, Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End, and Highlander: Endgame which makes me sad on your behalf.

[orangerful]

LOL I appreciate it. I feel like I've been going through the stages of grief the past few weeks. I'm not sure I can go back and watch it again, it really just didn't do what I wanted it to do and it didn't give me anything I ever wanted to see again.

And at 142 minutes, I don't have time to watch it again. I came home and watching Two Towers as a palate cleanser LOL

[beccadg]

LOL I appreciate it.

You're most welcome!

I feel like I've been going through the stages of grief the past few weeks.

I imagine you have. My mother who was a Master's level or "Professional" Social Worker for 40 years told me that what people call the "The Five Stages of Grief" are more like five stages of response to a traumatic event. I didn't fully get it until I saw someone else illustrate it online by pointing out how you can go through them over a dead car battery-- Denial: you keep trying to make the car start when it won't, Anger: you swear at it because it won't start, Bargaining: you make promises to whatever you believe in that you'll do thus and such if it'll just start, Depression: you give up and burst into tears, and Acceptance: you make the phone call to AAA for help. Given it was traumatic you've probably been working through it. Course, with some of the movies I mentioned I've either never fully gotten past denial or anger, but that's me.

I'm not sure I can go back and watch it again, it really just didn't do what I wanted it to do and it didn't give me anything I ever wanted to see again.

If there was nothing in it you ever want to see again there is no reason for you to ever watch it again. I can give you two examples separate from any of the movies I've already mentioned of things I've watched exactly twice, and only watched a second time for a specific reason.

Example One: The film Highlander: The Source which a lot of the fandom has either avoided watching altogether or gone into denial about having watched after viewing. The first time I watched it just to see what it was like, which was mostly God awful. The second time I watched it I did it specifically to be certain I could quote word for word the only lines of dialog in the entire movie I cared for in the least. The dialog, for the record, was my favorite character in the franchise named Methos telling another character off with--"I saw Christ teach, I saw Christ heal, you, you self-centered son of a bitch, are NO Christian!"

Example Two: Rather than being a film at all is an episode from the eighth and tragically awful final season of Voltron: Legendary Defender. Shortly after my one and only full viewing of that entire season someone in a V: LD comm I was in at the time, who was avoiding watching the season, having heard the reactions to it in the comm, asked if anyone in the comm could tell them at what point in the episode "Zenith" did little happy AU Lotor make his appearance. I rewatched that single episode just so that I could give her the time mark so she could enjoy that version of Lotor without having to watch the whole episode.

If you have neither the reason nor the time to watch RoS twice DON'T.

[rhoda_rants]

I knew you'd done a post like this so I can back after I finally saw the movie but I can't SEE anything! *sob* It just shows me the top tweet. What am I doing wrong? Rather, what is TWITTER doing wrong? They changed something again, didn't they? Those bastards!

*shakes fist*

[orangerful]

Weird, when I click through on the date, it comes up correctly. Here is the direct link (I think)
https://twitter.com/orangerful/status/1208463035876225026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

I mean, it's mostly gifs that are angry and sad LOL

[rhoda_rants]

It's showing me the top tweet, but when I click on "show thread" it's showing me NOTHING. I've unmuted all the things so that shouldn't be a thing anymore. *shrug*

From that "angry and sad" comment, I'm gathering you, like most of my timeline, hated it? I . . . feel like I'm somehow betraying half my friends by enjoying it as much as I did. Like, I did mute ALL the things, but the general feeling of "WE HATE THIS" came through despite that, and I never really saw the context of why.

(I have a squee post up, though! I'm sorry!)

[orangerful]

We are all allowed to like different things for different reasons. Everyone looks at art a different way and takes something different from it. It didn't do what I wanted it to do.

And it's funny you say that about your Twitter timeline because most of mine liked it. I felt like the odd one out after it came out. **shrug** Like I said, everyone has different things they want/like.

The real problem is these assholes saying you're not a "real fan" for liking/not liking it.

[rhoda_rants]

I think a lot of people were mad about Rose--not unreasonably, I get that--and that's what dominated most of the conversation. Wanna trade timelines, lol?

[orangerful]

Rose is just a teeny tiny part of the whole problem with this film.

And HELL NO! I worked hard to weed my timeline of negativity LOL. Pretty much have it down to LJ/DW friends, IRL friends, and a handful of YouTubers, authors, actors, and a couple journalists that I trust.

[rhoda_rants]

See, that's what I need to do, weed out the negativity, but I don't even know where I'd start. That is one of my resolutions this year, actually.

Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

[orangerful]

I think I went through just just unfollowed everyone and then started from scratch. Believe me, it makes a HUGE difference.

AND turn off retweets. For everyone. It makes your feed a lot cleaner and you only see retweets if people bother to comment on them prior to retweeting.