As far as I see it, it’s a good game that probably should have spent just a little more time getting some of the rough edges sanded down.

Okay, stay with me here.

Not calling you a liar, but I have spent more time than I would have liked trying to find quotes from RotJ that support Palpatine threatened to turn Leia to the darkside, and I failed to find anything. This leads me to believe that *if* Palpaptine did make that threat in RotJ, it was minor enough to be forgotten by…

I didn’t say it would be vastly preferable to some hypothetical version of RoS that was well written and didn’t feature CGI puppet Leia with cut and paste dialog. I said that her dying offscreen was preferable to what we got in the actual film. Though even in your version, which would definitely be better in terms of…

I don’t think that the majority of the audience is going to have RotJ memorized, but I do think most will recall that Leia is Luke’s twin sister and would generally expect her to have some force power as well.

Luke and Yoda both acknowledge she’s strong in the force, and Luke explicitly states his intention to train her in RoTJ.  If anything required explanation, it’s why Leia wasn’t a Jedi in Awakens.

“You have that power too, Leia.”

to have this movie The Force Awakens reveal that she had undergone Jedi training before ultimately deciding against being a Jedi to have a kid is a logical

To each their own, and there is a lot to criticize about Rise, but this piece strikes me as unduly harsh for little reason. Like so much AV Club stuff these days, snark for the sake of snark with no real purpose. I am glad Ms. Lourd got to be a part of this if she wanted to be, and I thought the scene was fine.

“Depending on how well you stomached it, Leia’s scenes landed somewhere between being a bittersweet tribute to the character and being a jarring distraction that reduced the character to a depressing puppet who was brought to life exclusively to save Disney the trouble of having to write around Fisher’s death”

Or, and…

The flashback showing Leia and Luke training was arguably one of the only, painfully brief, moments in this dumpster fire of a movie that actually DID make sense and that wast at least lightly entertaining.  

This article—and I know this sounds weird to say about an AV Club article—is pretty goddamn harsh. Here are the basics: Carrie Fisher was beloved not just for being Leia, but also for her writing, and frankness in her writing about her personal life.

JJ Abrams has such a huge level of respect for the original trilogy that he didn’t want to risk outshining those movies by making ones of his own that worked narratively.

Heh. KOTOR UI sounds.

I mean, it was a movie definitely worth seeing in theater once back then, and was marketed very well.

Sequels tho... Yeah maybe on Netflix one day when there really isn’t anything other to watch, maybe ?

Which is my exact fucking problem! A powerful light-side Force user who is an actual leader in the Rebellion yet somehow completely unknown even after the son of her own Jedi master becomes famous?

you mean tic tacs 

I heard a very apt observation that Trump understands tactics but not strategy.

Sigh...if you were only smart enough to understand what he just did to you. LOL