Analyzing Evil: Rian Johnson From Disney Lucasfilm 

“Don’t you love it when people hate your movie.” - Rian Johnson, the Visionary

JJ Abrams ruined my Dad's hero (Han Solo), Rian ruined mine (Luke).

“Rian” instead of “Ryan”, even his name is a subversion.

Luke was always my favorite character in Star Wars and seeing Rian Johnson butcher him like that in TLJ was beyond insulting.

Ohhhh I hate the "Star Wars was dead after 2005" narrative so much. I love it when people call that out.

Rian said that he didn’t care if half the people who saw his film hated it, which is the motto of a performance office who mistakes pissing people off as being a form of art.

I’ll never forget what they did to Luke Skywalker. It doesn’t feel like Star Wars anymore.

Expanded universe is gold.

"Hey, that Star Wars thing is really beloved, I bet millions of people have been waiting decades to see Luke in his prime, let's not do that and make sure it won't happen in the next movie either" - Ruin Johnson, the troll lord

I read an article where in an interview Rian Johnson said he hated fanbases and later enjoyed hearing how his choices split the fans. This man should have never been directing this film.

I still am in awe that Ryan Johnson had a role in Ozymandias (One of the greatest Breaking Bad episodes) and yet somehow screwed up Last Jedi soo badly.

KKK, JarJar Abrahams and Ruin Johnson the 1st triumvirate of evil. If good talented sane people ever owns Star Wars, they would make PERFECT villains. I could easily write them as propagandists deforming the legacy of the old heroes to elevate their chosen. Let's imagine Rey as an empress and having these 3 as propaganda who spread "Disney" canon as some form of "anti-christianity" towards the Jedi. And this is what the people of that time know about them. But then a new hero uncovers the truth and real story, so the Rey empire establishment declares this hero as their prophesied evil "anti Rey" cult.

I was in college when the prequels came out and the hate for them didn't seem to exist back then. It was hated on by losers that weren't even fans but simply hate what they don't make.

Thank you for putting Ruin Johnson's feet to the fire! Last Jedi is an abomination. To the apologists; where's Ruin Johnson's trilogy? 😂Silviers lining: at least the Sequels showed the Prequels actually didn't suck. It's something. 🤷‍♂

Round Headed Johnson was the one who helped create The Fandom Menace. I recall seeing The Last Jedi, opening night in my home town. There was a guy in a Kylo Ren outfit who fit it perfectly. He was a few rows ahead of myself. As the movie went on and came to an end. I didn't feel like I just saw a Star Wars movie. I wondered what was wrong with me. Normally I have stayed to the very end of the credits for EVERY Star Wars movie I ever saw. I saw the guy dressed as Kylo Ren, bolt from the movie theatre just as I was. So I knew I wasn't alone in my feelings. Then Rian and Disney started blaming the fans and kicking the people who support by way of buying things right in the face. Ever since that movie, I have not paid to see anymore of Disney's Star Wars CRAP. I did manage to catch Solo a Star Wars Story on a free to watch web site and understood why it "really" bombed. Not because I didn't see it, it really destroyed what I would have considered a decent Han Solo origin story polluting it with social politics and annoying characters. I'm surprised Disney can get any movies financially backed these days. They keep loosing money because they keep pushing "The Message". I guess they won't learn until they loose everything.

People often forget that Star Wars is a MULTI MEDIA franchise. The games, novels, comics and toys we got during the prequel era were fantastic. Only good things we’ve gotten from Disney Star Wars in the past 10+ years have been Rogue One, Mando seasons 1 and 2, Andor, and the Jedi games. Not a lot for such a large amount of time

I have fantasies about meeting Rian Johnson on an airplane or some other scenario he cannot escape.

Rian Johnson clearly has no idea how the force works in Lucas vision. The "balance in the force" doesnt mean there is equal number of Siths and Jedis. The Jedis try to keep balance in the force, the Sith try to upset that balance for their own benefit.

8:38 What really gives this away is that never once is it ever referred to as the "light side" in George Lucas' movies. Just as there's no "light side of the moon". There's the moon, and the dark side of the moon. There's the Force, and the dark side of the Force. The corruption of goodness. So yeah, restoring balance isn't balancing the two halves, it's eradicating the corruption and restoring purity. To their credit, though, Mace Windu's remarks in Episode III do greatly aid the misconception. "It's possible we misunderstood the prophecy," he says, shortly before the Chosen One and natural causes eliminate every single Force user slowly over the course of 20 years, except for Luke, who uses both "light" and dark powers (he Force Choked a pig-man :/). I can't really blame people, I held that misconception for a long time because of that line, myself.

Best Star Wars story outside of Lucas Arts? The SWTOR cinematics!!! The Twins, The Republic fight-back, the Daughter... amazing.

People will try to gaslight others and convince them that the prequels where hated and ruined the franchise. When they try to do that to me, I ask them "why is there SO MUCH prequel content then?" Republic Commando, The Battlefront and BF's reboot franchise, and several cartoons and movies. If no one liked the prequels, who were they marketing that stuff to?

TLJ was an awful movie from start to finish. It has no redeeming qualities. TFA managed to fool me with JJs sneaky mystery boxes, but TLJ was very clear in its contempt.

Post-2012 Lucas Films approach to every beloved male character: [insert male character] is down on their luck. They’ve lost hope in life and need the assistance of [insert female character] to kick them into gear.”

Does anyone else get irritated they never include “Dark Forces” among great Star Wars video games?

Jar Jar Abrams KILLED Star Wars and Damaged Star Trek, that takes skill...or malice

Saying that the prequels ruined and / or destroyed Star Wars is to say that you never liked Star Wars to begin with.

As an Indiana Jones fan, I loved your analysis of Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Ark! Could you do an "Analyzing Evil" episode on James Mangold, the director who butchered Indiana Jones? I made a five hour deep dive on that movie, check it out if you can for reference!

That sums up what I think about the prequels. No masterpieces. But a large amount of the best secondary Star Wars works were made around that time and were directly based on them. Hindsight we really can say they expanded the Star Wars universe and were overall a net positive. I'm actually glad that Disney stuck the "Legends" tag on all older works, since it means I can safely ignore anything that doesn't have that mark.

To put the success if Star Wars before Disney into perspective, Clone Wars was made ar a 10 million dollar annual loss because the merchandise from Clone Wars tie ins where bringing in more then that. And Clone Wars with its budget that was put toward RnD did more to further animation technology then Pixar accomolishes with literally ten times that RnD budget even when they where making good movies.

Ruin Johnson

JJ Abrams making The Force Awakens the way that he did paved the way for The Last Jedi. Obviously Rian Johnson had his own way with The Last Jedi, but had the previous installment been different, then perhaps the way Luke, the force and other things that were handled in The Last Jedi could have been a lot better, especially if they didn’t let Rian do whatever he wanted. But Rian Johnson did things his way and well we now have The Last Jedi. I still remember a video around the time Disney bought Lucasfilm where he was asked if he did a Star Wars film and what he’d like to do with it and his response was basically he wouldn’t want everybody loving it. He’d want half the people who saw it to love it and the other half to hate it. Nothing in between where you liked some stuff, but disliked other stuff. Had to be you either love it or hate it. With that in mind, makes even more sense why The Last Jedi was the way that it was. Thank god he’s never getting his trilogy made because with the attitude he had making TLJ, I’m sure he’d continue making that trilogy the way he’s already contributed to “Star Wars”. Plus whenever he’s said Empire Strikes Back was divisive with fans, it’s obvious he’s purposely misleading people to think that because fans of the time really enjoyed or loved Empire when it came out, the mixed reception was with critics not fans and he has to know that. And I agree that under George Lucas, the books and comics of the expanded universe was a lot better. Yeah some things would overlap with other things the more time goes where so many stories are told outside of the George Lucas films, but George Lucas would be involved and approve of what did and didn’t go into the books and comics regarding storylines and characters. This is a great video man and a great series. Keep up the great work and take care!

I'm starting to love the prequels again. At first, i hated the prequels, but after watching them again, i love them.

the PT era was PEAK. nothing under disney wars comes close. and when they do they mog themselves with terrible and poorly implemented copies of what was already done better in the EU. And I say this as an adamant EU hater(for the most part, some of the games and books are enjoyable)

I loved reading Legacy, Empire, Clone Wars and KOTOR from Dark Horse comics while having a beer with my old man in the late 2000s. I loved everything Star Wars up until TLJ.

Fuck yeah homie...I loved the prequels and the OG battlefront games from republic commandos and star wars empire at war...also the EU was so in depth it was mind boggling and dark it made star wars open up after the prequels and the old republic.......fuck Disney

Never understand the hate for the prequels. George wrote them, they were fun, they told a cohesive story, had great casting choices, the best fights, they are classic Star Wars.

Based intro to this. People who say "Star Wars died after 2005" are really dumb. Say what you will about Filoni now, but Clone Wars was HUGE when it came out, made a ton of new fans, and it really only ended because of Disney buying the series rather than being cancelled. People seem to forget how big of a game Force Unleashed was as well. Hell, the hype built off the back of all the 00s Star Wars content is why Force Awakens was one of the hugest opening weekends in history.

I console myself with kotor & kotor2 which has diversity, storyline, locations and Sith. Good and Evil are vague concepts and the Cantina has hot dancers.

I'm so glad you addressed the theme of failure and how Rian Johnson was not being original by using it. Sequel trilogy fans don't get it. It was already done in the Empire Strikes Back, and executed much better in a far more superior movie.

If it wasn't for the Phantom Menace I wouldn't even know what Star Wars was.

Are you ever gonna do a in depth series talking about The Plinkett Reviews?

The prequels are so much better than disney star wars

I love the prequels too, you're not alone. And I love this Analyzing Evil series. This whole thing is a metaphysical battle, and the conspiracy is both conscious and unconscious, as it is with all forms of evil.

Originally I found the prequels boring but as I grew up I realized how good they were. I also read most of the expanded universe. When Kathleen and JJ talked Bob into relegating the expanded universe to legends so they could pick and choose the plots they wanted and not be constrained, that was when things fell apart. For the most part Disney hasn’t had a hand in the Movies, Kathleen has been doing a fine job Messing it up on her own, that said, Disney renewing her contract continually is either them not caring or them having no choice due to a clause they never should have allowed.

Check out the West End Games' Star Wars TTRPG. It was the foundation for pretty much everything following the original trilogy, starting with Timothy Zhan's Heir to the Empire trilogy.

It's very telling when the near-universally despised Electronic Arts is looked to as the last bastion at the gate of the Expanded Universe. They put some lip service outfits that were homages to Disney's wreck of a 'canon' universe, and chose to ignore anything 'creatively' or narratively as it relates to the overarching EU lore that they did that contracted said lore. Lightsaber crystal color being a preference of the user and not some quasi-spiritualistic nonsense that undermined the original. And Johnson is just another lazily-hammered nail in the coffin.

I dont get why people say The Last Jedi is so ground breaking in Star Wars storytelling. Its mostly just a tired re-mix of precious Star Wars plot points. As for the story-still nothing that groundbreaking in terms of what has come before

As for Rian Johnson, he's definitely a hack who destroyed Star Wars (at Kathleen Kennedy's request), but I have give the Round-Headed Simpleton credit. His subverting of expectations played a part in potentially damaging JJ's career, cementing his legacy of Hackery.

the people that hate the prequel movies reek of insecurity. it's fine to not like some aspects but to bend over backwards and go "OW THE CRINGE! THE CRINGE!" is more childish than the prequels were. It's like anime fans that say "mecha's dead" because the 70s and 80s are behind us

You are doing God’s work. God bless you and keep analyzing the evil of Disney

You need to make these way way longer. I want more

found out about this channel from your analyising evil videos about JJ arbams and kathleen kennedy and then i decided to binge watch your videos i really want to read some more EU material because of this channel

1:32 Don’t forget the KOTOR comic. Zayne Carrick is a great take on a Jedi apprentice.

Seeing the mug @J.J. Plagiarisms, i`m going to dare to suggest you another Analyzing Evil: Pablo Hidalgo, or why not, the entire Story Group and their "care for continuity." Great video, by the way.

I don't know where Disney got thr stupid idea of purposely hiring people who knew nothing of the source material but were also told to not even read or watch it boggles the mind. So many dead franchises.

It's amazing how current Disney Star Wars shows somehow have EVEN WORSE writers than Ruin Johnson. Just let that sink in.

Been waiting on this. Hey KK! How's that Ruin Johnson trilogy coming along? 😁

Everything Disney puts out •improves• George’s work

Honestly, this is closer to the original Analyzing Evil than the current iteration where you (annoyingly) see and constantly cut to the narrator. I much prefer this. Thank you for keeping it going, and for keeping it grounded in reality by focusing on all the living breathing evil narcissists on this Earth, rather than just focusing on fiction. This a strong concept taken to the next level.

Iran Johnson was born in 1973.

Another video exposing the prequel and EU haters as well as Ruin Johnson. Your defense on the former two never disappoint.

The prequels are great.

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Bro couldn't agree more with you about the prequels- people (like RLM- Trekkies 🤢🤮) took hating on them waaaaayyy too far, yet didn't bring the same energy to the Diznee trilogy

I love Phantom Menace. Always have. Always will.

Yeah, the prequels were fine.

"Star wars had better quality control when lucas was in charge" The three writers reviving palptaine just to kill him immidentally after:

“How does it feel to see your favorite franchises go up in flames?”

Rian is one of the worst, right behind Kathleen Kennedy.

Honestly the prequel is the best, the original trilogy is fine and all but i wouldn't have stuck to star wars without the universe building of the prequel. There was very little of that in the original trilogy and it was just a story. The prequel gave us a universe.

You just know that Rian was bullied as a child and as he grew instead of getting over it he got into a position of power and took it out on the rest of us. If you watch any of his interviews in his mind he is still that bullied child.

A movie designed to piss off people out of spite. This and Ghostbusters 2016 truly marked the point of no return for Hollywood. It clearly showed they have no desires to actually entertain people anymore.

The only Prequel I didn't care for was Phantom Menace. Just a little too campy for me. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were much better. The EU is the heart and soul of my love for Star Wars though. Loved it.

Before Rian Johnson, there was Dave Filoni!

Between kk' jar jar abrams and ruin johnson star wars has been violated to its core its tragic af.

I was born in 97 I’m a prequel baby

Next video should be analyzing evil JJ Abrams addition 🤓😈

The most hated director in Hollywood. Seriously. Not kidding. 😂. Not because of some sex scandal but because of The Last Jedi.

There are definitely only six films. I was 4 when I saw Star Wars in 1977. My favorite way to make fun of OT purists is to say "Star Wars ended for me during the point in Empire Strikes Back when Vader looks at the screen at the Hoth shield generator and says 'That's it!'" Lucas had some ups and downs, but I'm not about to judge who is and isn't a fan different parts of his work. Disney just bought the name, big car companies and big shoe makers buy name brands all the time and make trash under the old labels.

Never heard of you until this slid into my rec's. I relate strongly to that impassioned rant at the start. I, too, am a prequel fan and big EU fan. Revenge of the Sith is my favorite movie of the six and I mean unironically. I enjoy that movie so much. As for the EU, I literally spent half of my teenage years practically studying it. I hated school and had a crappy home life, so the EU was a major escape for me. I was always a history nerd, enjoying that as my favorite subject in school, and studying the EU was like studying a history that wasn't ours. It was fun. If I had all my schoolwork done in study hall, I'd either have my nose in a Star Wars novel or comic, or I'd be in the computer lab looking random stuff on Wookiepedia. I had many of the games (Rogue Squadron is an amazing quadrilogy), I watched the movies frequently, both from the perspective of the movies by themselves, and as an EU nerd knowing all the things happening off-camera. Star Wars was a _big_ deal for me. It also influenced the way I look at media a lot, and the importance of escapism. Even if Star Wars had the occasional, subtle political take, the key takeaway that it _was_ subtle and easy to ignore or not even notice. Which is how it should be. Preachy media sucks and it doesn't matter who's receiving it. For those who agree with it, it will have no effect. For those who don't, well they just lost out on a story. Such things should almost always be in the background. Especially since the entire point of Star Wars' creation was so that kids could grow up with fairy tales again. Those movies are timeless because any subtle political messaging _is_ easily missed and that's the point. They will and have outlived the politics contemporary to the era of their making. Something Disney Star Wars will never understand. And the EU... The EU doesn't get enough credit, and it didn't back in the day either. I consider the entirety of the EU a work of art unto itself. Nothing like that ever really existed before. An immense tapestry that any author, artist, game designer, etc. could add to, and have it _mean_ something. Have it _stick._ It gave purpose and meaning to even the less quality additions. With a handful of exceptions, if you had a Star Wars something in your hand, it was probably canon in some way. Engaging with the story then gave you a clearer look into this universe that isn't ours, yet has almost as much detail. It was so _unique_ that eventually a few other brands tried it out. I seem to recall the Star Trek novels started trying to form a similar cohesive EU of their own. And that's _great._ That's _awesome._ The EU was cool enough to deserve to have attempts to follow it. It was beautiful. I studied the EU like a subject of its own. I just kept wanting to learn more, because it was fun. And it was something to focus on, put my energy towards something I cared about. Even the bad parts I was happy to learn about. And to be honest... I even had intentions of adding to it myself one day. I had no delusions that I'd be creating anything like the Thrawn trilogy, but I'd be honored to add to the EU even in a small way. Maybe give some other teen an escape. That dream is dead now. And so is the wonder that was the EU. When I heard that was happening a lot of my interest in Star Wars died with it. I tried to then just hang on to the movies but as the brand sunk further and further, I found it more and more difficult to enjoy the movies. I only kept thinking about what was lost, both George's magic touch and the EU. It's really depressing what Star Wars has become. It's now antithetical in every possible way to what the original six films stood for. I hate you so much, Disney. There aren't enough words in any language on Earth past or present to express the _depth_ of my hatred for this corporation. You destroyed a beautiful piece of art. You destroyed my dream, as well as any hope of a future kid seeking an escape to find it in the Star Wars saga. _Please_ go bankrupt.

Everything Rian Johnson made is garbled trash. How do people not see this?

George's Star Wars made a foundation and the Eu was "like" official fan-story smorgasbord and one could pick and choose what "you" accepted to be cool. When Disney literally thrown away the Eu and venomously hurled on it, that just ruined the nice eclectic smorgasbord we had.

Im interested in reading legends and the prequel era is iteresting for me but theres a lot of books. Where should i start?

It's kind of amazing how OT purists were on Disney's side and wanted Lucas gone, but weren't happy with how Luke was ruined in Last Jedi. They complained about the Force Awakens being a remake when they wanted the flavor of the OT to be continued, and not the style of the prequel. Even if Disney SW ended up being off brand or at best New Coke.

I’d like to see that worm Michael Giordano a subject of “Evil Analysed”.

The Prequels love them or hate them lead to so much expanded material and it never felt like Star Wars went away as long as you were someone who enjoyed anything aside from live action content. The Sequels gave us so little, most of the books are about filling in the massive holes those movies left behind, stuff set so far away from the sequels they don't have to worry about them. Prequel era content never felt the need to dance around the trilogy or ignore it. They reveled in it. Simply because there was actually something there to expand. Look at all the content they made out of the time between TPM and AOTC, and then The Clone Wars itself. There is an actual time gap between TLJ and TROS but you'd never know it. Simply because, no one and I repeat NO ONE seems to want to touch that time period. Let alone post TROS. They're so afraid of doing anything set in or around the sequel trilogy ever since TLJ it's honestly insane.

Best thing about the sequel trilogy is that it made people realize how good the prequels actually were.

i'll never get over jake skywalker

My analogy for RJ's Starwars: imagine seeing a poster for an Aerosmith cover band and thinking, "Yeah, I like Aerosmith, I'll go along." You know it won't be the real original band but they're gonna dress up and play the songs - it'll look and sound like the real thing so cool enough. Then they come out on stage and say "Hey, no we're gonna toss the Aerosmith songs backward over our shoulder and play our OWN songs instead!" And their own songs are aggressively political, sound nothing like Aerosmith, as though they don't even know or like Aerosmith, and in between songs they insult the audience: "What's wrong man-babies, can't you handle our ideas, don't like having your expectations subverted man-babies your Snoke theory sucks fuck you!"

Thank you again. As long as there are masses that care, no corporation can actually kill Star Wars. I look forward to your perspective on Leslye Headland.

When somebody accidentally shits in the bed, we say they "Rian Johnsonned It."

I think you should’ve made the first 4 minutes and 30 seconds of this into a completely separate video as it’s has nothing to do with your main topic. Also, I wouldn’t turn to Rotten Tomatoes since I learned that site’s not quite reliable. Those are my only criticisms here.

The new trilogy will never have the iconic music or characters of the prequels

Hearing him in interviews, I see nothing worse than a man who thinks that his movies are perfect and wouldn't change anything. As if he believes he can do no wrong. Or perhaps this the producers/studio paying him to talk like that, which is probably way worse.

There are a lot of things I won't forgive Rian "The Ego" Johnson for, but mentioning Empire almost every time he can as if it will somehow associate his garbage film with that masterpiece, might just be the most egregious.

Much like TLJ, the more you think about Looper, the more it falls apart. That movie is a pure paradox and it hurts my brain to think about.

I think the fairest thing to say about the prequels is that they could have been a lot better, but they were good enough, especially when compared with everything that has been made since then.

It Ruin had just accepted that people didn’t like what he made instead of being a baby and lashing out at us, he wouldn’t be regarded as one of the worst people to ever touch Star Wars

At the 9:45ish mark iirc he openly bragged about how proud he was Last Jedi was so devisive

Well done, J.J.! If he's not in the works already, here's another Evildoer I'd love to see you Analyze... *Harry Mudd (Star Trek) ...since we're coming up on "Star Trek Day"; September 8 will mark the 58th anniversary of the original series' debut on NBC. What better way to celebrate, wouldn't you agree?