I just wish ST fans would just admit they didn’t like Star Wars, and weren’t fans before the Disney buyout.
People are allowed to like what they like, but pretending to be a long time fan to add credibility to your opinion of TLJ is just utter bunk. And no one who has been a fan of the OT through out their lives could enjoy TLJ.
To better illustrate my point, no fan of Lord of the Rings would be happy if some corporation bought the rights, and made a “canon” sequel that would be attached to the collected books, where Sauron came back because the ring actually had nothing to do with his supremacy, and Gandalf came back, from what was supposed to be his peaceful retirement to paradise, as an ally of Sauron. And then we find out Gondor has fallen apart because Aragorn became a drunk and a layabout. Some dwarf girl suddenly appears out of nowhere, totally unrelated to prior canon, defeats evil Gandalf the first time they meet, and then several more times, all before the exciting climax where Gandalf unexpectedly cuts Sauron down, only for Morgoth to return bodily in the final act.
It would subvert expectations, but Tolkien fans would hate it. Of course certain sects of the internet would praise it, because the dwarf is female, and they see her racial attributes as some sort of nod towards people with disabilities or something. Then they’d claim they always loved Tolkien, and this story is the best one. Probably also try to say it was based on secret letters and rough drafts, up until the point where the Tolkien estate revealed that unequivocally false, at which point they’d say Tolkien was never a great writer to begin with.
Just writing this made my head hurt.