I don't have a problem with yellow cars.

Rating: 3/10 (14 June 2018)

Analogy-Incoming -

I don't have a problem with yellow cars.
But right now, I don't want one myself.
In fact, I quite like yellows cars.
But some people are still going to say that I hate yellow cars.
My mom used to have one when I was a child. A little yellow Golf 2. She inherited it from my grandmother. It was yellow, and I loved this car. I cried when I had to say goodbye to it.
But that doesn't mean that I would buy a yellow car myself today.
I might want something else.
I believe there are many beautiful colors.
That's why I don't agree with those people who want all cars to be yellow.
I want all colors. Not just yellow.
When I go to buy a green car, I want it to be green, not yellow.
Some people might say that a car is more than just its color. But I can't change what I see with my eyes. If it's yellow, then I see it the way it is. I'm not blind.
So please don't think that I'm a yellow hater. I really like yellow cars. I think it's an important color. I just love other colors too.

The same is true for the strong political influence in Star Wars.
I have nothing against these views, Just as I have nothing against yellow. But when I decided to watch Star Wars, I did it because I wanted to watch Star Wars. Not something else that someone dictated because they thought I had to watch it in order to give me the political education I already had.
I really don't hate the yellow car people. But I dislike those who infringe upon my freedom to choose other colors.

Star Wars has always been political you might say.
Star Wars was an analogy for the war against fascism you might say.
And I would agree.
And the times have changed. The memories of those generations are not our memories.
So where does that leave a modern Star Wars?
Is it supposed to just retell the story of old?
Maybe. Sure. In a modern version.
But the creators of this one decided to just take the modern left-right chasm and project it onto the fascism analogy that Star Wars is.
Which shows that they have neither understood Star Wars, nor modern politics.
You see. In the old days, everybody was supposed to choose brown cars. Star Wars has always been about the idea of fighting the ideology of everyone having to choose brown cars. Now, the creators of Star Wars want me to choose a yellow car.
Without me. I choose whatever color I like.
The only color worth fighting for is the color of free choice. And that happens to be the color of the original Star Wars too.