From what I have heard, it goes like this:
"Standard to regular fan" audience mostly loved it.
Hardcore fans are completely split.
Obviously on a forum like this, you are going to get mostly a hardcore fan sample.
I mean we spend thousands on Star Wars statues and props. That's a really specialized audience.
But there is no denying that the RT audience score means something. That didn't happen to TFA, nor Rogue One, so it's not just an anti-Disney campaign. The movie is truly divisive.
Normal "fans" hardly spend a dime on SW figures/statues and props. Watching couple of SW this and that and calling themself "fan" would be ridiculous. I watched The Dark Knight 6-7 times already but im not consider myself " a fan"...just simply love how the movie was well directed and intersting characters, good music...thats it... and have no interest to buy related figures from that movie.
But I have seen some people who newly started with SW from TFA and spent thousand on Hot Toys...but that interest quickly faded as time goes by.
The intention of Disney to shift target audience of SW to "newer fanbase and new SW generation" clearly..fails to meet their expectations.
Every single target, walmart, toys r us all have shelves full of The Force Awakens merchandise and Rogue One merchandise in clearance
What do you think is gonna happen to the last jedi merch?
True, I did see a couple videos on YouTube a while back pointing that out. Crazy stuff for someone like me who remembers the madness of The Phantom Menace when it came to toys haha.
Phantom Menace had Darth Maul. He is hella bad ass mofo.
TLJ do not have anything cool, old guys, granny Leia and new characters just boring.
That's a good point, actually. Are we getting a figure of Holdo with finger-wagging action?
I can see it now: little ones playing with their toys, recreating the scene where the lovable rogue is shamed by the newly-appointed rebel leader. Iconic scene. Definitely one for the kids. Who needs a double-edged lightsaber when you have office politics?
According to sjw logic princess Leia should be despised. She had white privelage and was wealthy.
The slave leia outfit overrides any privilege
She became a victim of patriarchy immediately