Divorce court, SW is our child.

Just please promise me when you get your time with our child that you'll make them eat their fruits and vegetables. Don't let them eat only what they want to eat.

 

The problem with the analogy is that The Last Jedi isn't real SW. According to your analogy then, the child is an impostor, and a poor one at that. It's like having your beautiful child replaced with an ugly mutant with a terrible sense of humor.

So all of the parents who love that ugly impostor, feel free to take it. I'll wait for the real child to show up -- because good parents care about their children enough to recognize them.

 

The mutant showed up in 1999.

 

Interesting analogy, but sometimes things go too far....

 

I have a 40 year old child? How did I miss this?

 

You're never getting time with our child, you're too toxic. You'd mess him up, and then I'd have to hunt you down....to have a civil, completely rational conversation that most definitely won't end badly.

lol

 

This thread is the greatest.

 

your analogy made me chuckle @Sparafucile

ya know.. i'm fairly confident that i can speak for a very large percentage of Cantina members that loved TLJ in saying this:-

we are upset that a lot of fans (including a lot of members here) did not like The Last Jedi. we aren't angry with them, and we have no wish to change their minds or be critical of their opinion of the film.

of course we wanted you all to enjoy the film as much as we did. but some of you didn't.. and as i said - it's upsetting to us.

a small but loud minority of members here at the Cantina think differently, and are quite frankly... rude and spiteful. i may get into trouble for saying that.. but i love this place with a passion and a small few are making things very uncomfortable for everyone else. if they are allowed to speak their mind.. then so am i.

despite loving TLJ, i stand with those that didn't. it's time everyone else on here does the same.

/mini rant over

 

You can believe me from the bottom of my heart that I wanted to love TLJ, a movie I had been waiting for over 30 years. ROTJ was my all-time fave SW and you cannot imagine how happy I was when I heard about the return of the OT3. I'm one of those who spend thousands of euros for toys, merch etc. I was even at 2 celebrations, in London in 2016 and Orlando in 2017 (first time US ever). This movie was really a total shock to me.

 

Mature parents who both put their child's well-being and interest above their own egos do not have custody battles.

But otherwise, the analogy is spot on.

MTFBWY-2!

 

I've known you a long time now, and i know how passionate you are and how much you were looking forward to TLJ. honestly sweetie, it pains me that the film wasn't what you were hoping for.

almost nothing i had predicted or wanted for TLJ was in the movie... yet somehow, i loved it. i can totally understand those that didn't.

 

The philosopher George Santayana once said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Mr. Johnson instead suggested "Let the past die". I consider Mr. Johnson unfit for parenting.

 

To be fair, that was the villain of the movie...

 

yes, that's something that especially we Germans are reminded every day.

 

I haven't been using the "SW is our child" analogy. My analogy is that Star Wars is the ultra-hot girl I dated for a years and years but now she has gotten too full of herself so I am moving on. I'll welcome her back into my life if she goes back to the way she used to be but if she remains this new person, we're done.

(Please note that my *real* love life does not even remotely resemble the above )

 

It looks like SW, it has got many things, that are "typical SW", it has the name "Star Wars"... so it's not Star Wars? Following this logic, me and my brother aren't brothers, just because in some points my behavior is different than his...