Oh 100%. The thing that pisses me off though is when people direct it only at the sequels as if there aren’t glaring moments in every other movie too. Like this lightsaber ending up here? She’s connected to the resistance in some effect so sure. That doesn’t bother me. People complain about the “Somehow the Emperor has returned too” but like… we saw how he returned. Cloning. Was literally in the movie. It was only the Rebellion that didn’t know how the Emperor returned because like… why would they? Palps giving out the details on his resurrection to everyone like some kind of moron?

Meanwhile…

1. Vader isn’t capable of sensing Leia is his daughter while staring her dead in the fucking eyes and (in the radio drama) literally torturing her but he gets the vibe of Luke fucking instantly otherwise.

2. “Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise”. They then proceed to miss everything for three movies.

3. Zero foreshadowing for Luke and Leia being twins to the point they kiss

4. Han says he’s flown from one side of the Galaxy to the other and doesn’t believe in the force despite the Jedi being galaxy famous less than 20 years before that moment.

5. Technology taking an INCREDIBLY steep nosedive in 20 years

6. Obi-Wan lying left/right/center where he either just makes shit up or omits massive details but is true “from a certain point of view”

7. Obi-Wan doesn’t recognize R2 and R2 never says shit to anyone despite no memory wipes. Oh and VADER DOESN’T RECOGNIZE HIS FUCKING DROIDS.

8. “If its not in the archives, it doesn’t exist”. So they’re the guardians of knowledge but don’t notice a planet being deleted out from under them. Also, if it isn’t in the archives it doesn’t exist? WHAT?!

9. Farmer boy becomes fighter pilot overnight because ‘The Force’ and shooting womprats

10. Sifo-Dyas just orders a clone army and no one notices or asks questions or anything. I know it’s partially explained in Clone Wars but still way too fucking sketchy to be satisfied over.

11. Padme just dies

12. They train Luke but not Leia?

13. Palpatine just somehow skates by on being a Sith lord for decades while being 5 feet away from Yoda for YEARS

14. Dooku just appears in Episode 2 with zero mention despite being a major figure and having trained Qui Gon

15. Speaking of, Obi Wan calls Yoda his master but his master was Qui Gon

16. Midichlorians. Hyper important. Never mentioned again.

17. Death Star takes 20 years to build but the second one takes no time at all to be half completed and bigger than the first one. Oh and it’s fully operational. Sure.

18. Jedi aren’t supposed to love. Anakin marries Padme. They’re always together. Like… literally no one noticed? Ever? Or are all Jedi boomers and believe that marriages are supposed to be loveless?

19. Yoda just knows how to become a force ghost from Qui Gon who learned post death and Yoda taught it to Obi-Wan off screen. Oh and Vaderkin knows. Somehow.

20. Leia remembers her mother. Who died in childbirth.

21. The Rebel Alliance goes from ragtag fleet of fuckall to an entire navy with star cruisers.

Now, a lot of those can be explained. You can either think of an explanation yourself and use it as headcanon or scrape through the canonical extended stuff like novelizations or whatever and fill in gaps. You can make arguments and say one thing is one way or another thing is another way. Hell I could come up with a ton of reasons for all of those. I DO come up with reasons for all of those. I love Star Wars and if it’s not openly explained I’ll have an explanation that fits. But what pisses me the fuck off is that everyone is willing to do it to the EXTREMELY LONG LIST of shit from the Original Trilogy and Prequel Trilogy but immediately give up for the Sequel trilogy. It’s complete hypocrisy to say “These glaring errors are okay but those aren’t because they don’t come from the sparkling region of errors.”

also not saying you’re doing that. Just wanted to vent. It’s legitimately the reason why I just actively avoid every single Star Wars community I’ve ever had the displeasure of having to deal with. Whether that be on Reddit or even here on Lemmy. The toxicity from Star Wars fans is fucking insane because it has no logic behind it. Star Trek people will argue to the death over because Star Trek lays everything out arguably too much so you can at least use a thousand points to fall back on for your argument. Star Wars is just passionate fans getting angry about shit they don’t like for no reason other than they don’t like it while being blind to the things they do like being guilty as fuck of what they’re crying over.