Commodified fantasy

Rating: 2/10 (25 January 2018)

Following the loss of Ursula K. Le Guin I think her point of view about commodified fantasy is excellent as a review for TLJ and Disney in general.
"Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great storytellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable."
-Tales From Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)