#t backlash

description: According to the author, fans who disliked Star Wars: The Last Jedi are a vocal and sexist minority, who dislike the fact that the leading character of the film is a woman, or people who created their own elaborate theories about the film before they have seen it. Additionally, unlike Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the The Last Jedi does not rely on nostalgia. The author personally considers the film to be extremely well written.

description: According to the author, the media's response to fans' disgruntlement about Star Wars: The Last Jedi is overly dismissive. Fans of the franchise dislike the film not because they do not understand its messages, but because they do not like how those ideas were executed.

description: Reading responses left by fans on the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rotten Tomatoes page reveals that many of the self-proclaimed fans are angry because the film starred multiple women and people of color. According to the author of the article, the diversity present in The Last Jedi is a good thing, since it better reflects the expectations of people all around the globe.

More on the petition here.

description: Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Rian Johnson (director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi) briefly discuss why the film was so disliked by some of the fans. They dismiss the backlash as something that naturally follows a new release of a new Star Wars film, and suggest that if the older films were released in the era of social media, they also would have been criticized in the same way.

description: The article reports that the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rian Johnson was sent death threats by the disgruntled fans of the franchise who did not like The Last Jedi. Johnson himself said that this behavior comes from a small but vocal minority of Star Wars fans.