On Monday, former Hollywood Reporter editor Marc Bernardin took it upon himself to explain the ongoing failure of the new Star Wars lineup to set the world aflame. His answer: the fans are the problem.
Calling your audience a bunch of deplorables didn’t work well for Hillary Clinton; it’s not going to work well for Disney, either. But that didn’t stop Bernardin from laying all the blame for Star Wars’ failures not at the feet of studio head Kathleen Kennedy but at the feet of the “toxic fandom.” According to Bernardin, it’s a series of internet trolls who have destroyed Star Wars’ luster and caused the newest film in the canon, Solo, to bomb. That problem started not with The Force Awakens, but with The Last Jedi. These toxic fans, Bernardin writes:
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