This is a response to this YT Video.
Zero Woolfe is a Leftist YouTuber but one who adheres to the same reactionary dogmatic belief in the existence of Objectively Quality that Mauler and the Critical Drinker do. It's difficult to think of them that way because they have difference specific views on Objective Qualify and what media does and does not pass it, and they also make their videos in a very different style. But they do in fact adhere to that same basic philosophy. Which is why in my opinion they fail at being a Leftist.
Their thesis about Prequel Fans and their reevaluation is in large part debunked by my existence. I was 13 when The Phantom Menace came out, and I saw all three in Theaters the day of release and loved each one immediately. I had already seen the original Trilogy and mostly liked them but have never loved them nearly as much. So no 10 isn't too old. I was also never that big a fan of the Clone Wars and consider it overrated, so they add no context to why I like them, if anything I enjoy The Clone Wars as much as I do because they remind me of the Prequels, not the other way around.
I know I wasn't alone, I was never a popular kid but I know others my age liked them. So no the fact that Zero recalls negative things being said about The Prequels by people who would have been 10 in 1999 doesn't prove anything about the generation as a whole.
In fact my personal belief is that the Prequel Haters were always a Loud Minority even among their Gen X-Late Boomer Age group, it's just that Negativity in general was what online culture encouraged back then. But even if that's not true, I think something about the nature of Millennials and Zoomers made positive media opinions more welcome online once we started taking over. And yet Prequel fans always had some presence online, you just had to know where to find them.
My relationship with Disney Star Wars has also been complex. I liked each Sequel film initially but soured on them pretty soon similar to how I reacted to Superman Returns. Only The Last Jedi would I ever say I actively hated, and I currently regret having engaged with that hatedom, but I was never much a fan of any of them and I still don't care for them. I haven't given a second viewing to either The Last Jedi or Rise of Skywalker, someday I will.
However I have liked ALL of the Live Action Disney+ Star Wars Content, unironically, every single one. I still haven't gotten to see The Mandalorian and Grogu since going to the Theaters isn't an option for me right now. But I also equally love both Anime seasons of Star Wars Visions, didn't watch season 2. Right now I see all of them having a better chance at future reevaluation then the Sequels.
If future Sequel Trilogy reevaluation depends solely on younger people liking them from the start getting older, that it isn't going to happen on nearly the same scale as the Prequels. Disney has refused to make Sequel era EU content and more or less accepted their failure. At best we'll see the view that The Last Jedi alone was good become more popular. Right now you don't have to be as old as you used to be to make your opinions known online.
And the reason why they think so many Romance Novel covers are based on Kylo Ren is because Kylo was already based on Romance Style knock offs of Bane form The Dark Knight Rises.
I almost wish it were true that Prequel fans were still only people who always liked them like me, but I know they aren't. I'd seen positive Prequel videos begin with the person confessing how they used to hate them. I've seen notable online people change their minds in real time. And some people absolutely give the impression of Posers, that they want to bene seen who always knew the truth but clearly didn't.
Sequel Trilogy Reevaluation will depend on that even more then the Prequels did because the evidence is showing the Sequels failed to engage the current youth the way the Prequels did precisely because they always cared too much about catering to Prequel Haters. They failed to create anything New for a New Generation of fans in their obsession with pandering to the people who'd been fans since 1977. And that is what I predicated before The Force Awakens came out.
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