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If not the majority, then at least the vocal minority, villified Lucas, sure. But those whose gushdom remained in spite of the acts that created such villification, I find strong reason to suspect of having deified him instead. They who had bought the deification that sprung up around the man after ANH was released, that phenomenon where he could no longer go out into the streets, where people broke into his house only to steal the scripts, where film scholars suddenly changed their tune about SW from summer fun, to epic masterpiece. And seeing their hero attacked from all sides, they grew contrarian more than anything. I am talking about gushers here, not neutrals.
To suggest that this gushdom, embedded in these fans after years of treating Lucas like a god who could do no wrong, would have no impact on their tolerance for his actions, is ludicrous IMO. Whenever I have argued with a gusher over the TCW troubles, their first argument has always been that he owns SW, he gets to do what he wants. And on that point, Disney now has equal rights. But the second argument is always that he created it, we can only enjoy it in the first place because of him, his vision. So then he doubly gets to do what he wants. Disney can't compete on that point. If anything, they will now be comparable to what your stereotypical Lucasverse purist calls glorified fanfiction writers, aka EU creators. Cause they are not him. And he has consulted for EU products in the past without that helping.
I mean, seriously. Are you going to argue that this fandom does not possess affective opinions? That only the cold, formal letter of the law exists? Are the last two days of forums ablaze not proof to the contrary?
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