Before the dark times. Before the Disney Wars...

He send me Messages on Reddit trying to Justify the Kenobi-Vader rematch (this before the series aired) I Blocked him

Remember this?
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What happened to him?

It's that guy's stock-in-trade. From the clickbait title down, StarWarsTheory is a fueller and profiteer of nerd outrage. He not only has a very one-sided, partisan take on the entire Sequel Trilogy and the machinations of Disney/Lucasfilm, but his videos are downright lazy.

It's kind of funny that he basically accuses Disney/LFL of avoiding creativity for the sake of easy money, placing profit above originality, when he himself just sits in his chair and reads entire articles, written by other people, line-by-line (rather sloppily, too -- i.e., with small mistakes in recitation along the way).

Tellingly, in the video just posted, he gets to the end of the article and says, "I fully agree with whoever wrote this article on most things. Who the heck wrote this? I don't even know." Then there is an obvious edit in the video and he goes straight on to quote people in the comments section of the article. He never gives any attribution to the author, even though the author's name is right there at the top of the article. All he had to do was scroll back up. He could easily have done this in real-time; or, better yet, before he actually began reading through it, platforming himself off of someone else's work. It shows you how he operates. He is happy to pilfer entire articles for views and subscribers, but he doesn't have the patience or respect to actually bother to read out the writer's name, despite even giving kudos to the article itself (i.e., this isn't even a deconstruction; it's him uncritically agreeing). That's someone operating with a lot of ego.

I would also disagree with the assertion (by Arch Duke) that there is much "meat" in the video. Red meat for ST haters, sure. However, the article itself (the foundation of the entire video) only contains speculation/gossip/hearsay/innuendo; which SWT even admits is the case. Of course, it is centered primarily on Kathleen Kennedy and her leadership of Lucasfilm. But, even if I don't agree with everything she's said or done publicly (e.g., throwing Alden Ehrenreich under the bus by blaming him for not being Harrison Ford on the box office failure of "Solo" -- as SWT brings up himself), she's still the head of Lucasfilm after ten years. If she was that much of a disaster, she'd have been removed by now. I don't entirely disagree with SWT that Disney under the leadership of Bob Iger placed profit ahead of storytelling; yet I also think it's too simplistic to act like the ST films are worthless and should be written off as a commercial monstrosity. Reality is a lot more nuanced most of the time.

Ultimately, we're all outsiders looking in. None of us knows exactly what is happening internally within Lucasfilm; and even if we worked there ourselves, we wouldn't have all the details. Moreover, art appreciation is subjective. I don't think it can be denied there was some degree of rushing on LFL's part to get these films released, or that compromises weren't made along the way; but that still doesn't tell you how you should feel about the end result. SWT appears to be someone who has jumped on the "I hate what they did with Luke" bandwagon; and he now plays that role to the hilt. He is tapping into a vein of discontent and enjoying his own small measure of popularity (and money) because of it. The subtleties of the artistic process are obviously foreign to his mind; and, it seems he has decided, would risk getting in the way of his mission of stoking and collecting those precious fanboy tears. 

Yeah. Although, I should clarify, when I said that SWT is partisan, I meant that he has basically picked a side in the "fan wars", or "Disney Wars", or whatever term you want to use. His actual political stances? I've no idea. It's the polarity of everything that is so depressing and destructive.

Yeah, I figured you did, but just wanted to make that clarification to avoid any confusion. I don't like being pulled into sides (in either area). It's obvious I have come down hard on Disney/LFL -- and the sequels themselves -- plenty of times. Yet I sometimes say more positive things about them, too.