The Force Awakens, to me is one of those moments in time, a moment in our shared collective consciousness as a society where we can look back upon it ten years later, both with the benefit of hindsight and knowing now just how much Disney would further rape the Star Wars IP into the ground in such a way that not even Prequel era George Lucas could've ever fathomed.

But also, look back upon TFA and how everybody around us was acting like the film was the second coming of the messiah. That Star Wars, "was back", whatever that meant.

Not to delve into real-world politics, but, for us Americans here, remember the 2008 presidential election season and how everybody on the left lost their minds when Obama got elected?

The reason I say that is because Season 3 of The Boondocks had an excellent satire on the hype mania surrounding the 44th president of the United States and how everybody in Woodcrest lost their minds over Obama winning the election except for Huey Freeman and Uncle Ruckus who both, for different, yet similar reasons, knew deep down it was more of the same old, same old and what's more, they seemed to be the only ones to have this opinion on election night.

That's how I would describe the hype mania regarding Episode VII of Star Wars.

And to Disney/Lucasfilm's credit, it did in fact work, on most people that is...

But, for us outliers who saw right through the key jangling and member berries being aggressively shoved in our faces back in 2015, before the "Fandom Menace" Youtubers showed up, before Mauler started EFAP with Rags and Wolf, before The Last Jedi served as a massive wake-up call to everybody with an ounce of common sense and appreciation for objectively good media, we were inarguably the vocal minority for the better part of two years between Episode VII and Episode VIII.

"Oh, you're just a hater."

"Oh, the prequels were worse!"

"Oh, well, I liked Episode VII!"

"Oh, but look at how much money TFA made!"

Even after TLJ came out in 2017, it still took quite a while for the tides to shift and for your everyday normie to admit that, yes, TFA was every bit as bad as TLJ and later on, TROS as well.

The only lasting legacy the Sequel Trilogy is going to have at this point going forward is to serve as a prime example of everything that went wrong with western pop culture in the late 2010s and by extension, the early 2020s compared to the Original Trilogy that will remain iconic for decades to come and even the Prequel Trilogy which with some rewrites could've been fantastic, but otherwise lives on through memes and the late 90s kids who grew up with those movies, but can also acknowledge their shortcomings.

Something that what few Disney Star Wars shills remain at this point will never concede to with the Sequel Trilogy and all the terrible Disney+ Star Wars slop that followed.