No one is stopping any one from editing out jar jar, if they care that much, just do it. Put up or shut up. /s

This may be code for "I don't want to see uppity women, brown people, and queer people in my shows."

One of the motivations for fanfiction is that people want more "filler". They like the characters and (often) the world those characters inhabit, and so they write a story that lets them (and other fans) spend more time with the fiction.

So in highschool, I was one of those annoying kids that went "why do we have to learn how to analyze poems? We're never gonna need this in real life" in English (well... German, but doesn't matter) class.

I'm deeply grateful for my teachers back then to patiently get me to do these things anyways, because there came a point in my life years later where I suddenly understood that those "useless" lessons and hours "wasted" analyzing Goethe and Borchert and Fitzgerald handed me the tools to understand media (and not just literature!) instead of just consuming it.

I hope it's clear how that relates to the screenshot. More than that though, I sometimes feel like the slew of shit media over the past decade is at least in part to blame on writers/studios/... now assuming people do in fact merely consume. But that's a rant that's completely off-topic here, so I'll shut up now.