Star Wars fans need to grow up

After finally watching The Rise of Skywalker, he condemns its dialogue, jokes, characters, and Rey–Kylo kiss as painfully bad. A documentary on The Phantom Menace’s backlash leads him to argue adult fans mistake childhood nostalgia for genuine quality. He declares Star Wars dead to him, preferring dark adult violence and framing lost childhood joy as aging’s painful reality.

Disillusionment with beloved media becomes a proxy for accepting adulthood, loss, and changed desires.