I keep seeing this over and over again in pieces like this: if people condemn the abuse against an actor like Tran, who was just doing her best with the role, but then voice doubts about the role itself they’re accused of “missing the whole point”, as you yourself have done. This is about harassment of an actor, and has nothing to do with the film’s artistic merits. Leave the film out of it. Fine.

Then invariably in the very next paragraph (see above) that same person will list reasons why fans can’t accept the new movies because they are too radical and forward looking, and fans are stuck in the past. I thought we were leaving the films out of it?

If we must talk about the films then, is it possible – possible – that some morons abused an actor of colour, but that the film was also bad – which irritated a different, non abusive – group of fans? These two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

My own belief is that, much like the prequels, abusing actors is appalling and inexcusable behaviour, and the films are also terrible.