Most people do like the movie. It’s a small minority of very loud, very angry nerds who make it seem like there’s a lot of doubt to its quality.

If you aren’t happy with the responses he’s giving, it may be that you aren’t expressing your point well enough. It sounds like you are discouraging his excitement because of the presence of a separate issue not related to the topic at hand. You can be disapproving of sexism in comic fandom and still be delighted for…

George Zimmerman looks like a police sketch that you are convinced is just a little off because surely actual faces don’t look like that....

Ha don’t worry, I am familiar with Chris-chan’s oeuvre.

But if she wasn’t chosen by the force, you couldn’t get all the cool laser sword battles!

Yeah, it was a brief reveal, and Yoda said something to the effect of “there’s nothing in there that Rey doesn’t already have.” I think Yoda did it to reassure Luke that even though Rey hasn’t gotten all the training and study of traditional padawans, she’s going to be okay.

At this point I am mostly interested in finding out if Kylo Ren can redeem himself or if he is totally damned. I can see it playing out either way.

Which would be narrowed down further if Rey is woven back into that heritage of cameos. Any time they acknowledge that important people exist beyond the edges of the screen is a good thing in my opinion.

She did get the books though—they showed the books on the ship at the end. She won’t be able to remake the Jedi order the way it was without the full proper training and upbringing, but between the books, her brief mentorship, and potentially any other pointers force ghost Luke might have to offer, she could build…

I understand the books focused on at least three generations. But part of my annoyance was the fact that the most important conflicts in the universe seemed to center so neatly around a certain family tree. And for people in that universe to keep stumbling across one another or their descendants made the universe seem…

I feel like it was longer than a week; might have even been a few months? But either way he imparted some philosophical pointers from the perspective of somebody who had grappled with the Jedi teachings himself. Bottlenecked through himself and Rey I can’t see their ancient traditions returning to the same monastic…

Thank you.

The biggest difference to me is that it one situation sounds a little too close to racial supremacy while the other is more like plain old fortune.

He is also the mentor of Rey who seems to be the next generation of Jedi. Or moral force users or whatever they will call themselves.

I agree that stoking imagined rivalries with clickbait headlines is unnecessary. But they were totally setting up Rey’s parentage as a mystery, if only because Luke’s parentage was a huge deal and Rey was an orphan too. I’m really glad her powers weren’t something she inherited, because the idea that some bloodlines…

Yeah that’s my thinking. She’s in zero gravity and we’ve seen countless examples of force users moving stuff with their mind. And I’ve actually read people could survive for a few short minutes. Chimpanzees have survived about 3 and a half minutes with no lasting damage. Of course people would typically pass out after…

Fair enough then. I’ll be curious if they explore grey morality further in episode 9, though they might be more wrapped up in wrapping things up. This movie already had so much going on in it that I couldn’t expect it to also get into that topic as thoroughly as a 50+ hour game. Still I like when they write…

Because I hate the hipsterism of people insisting that something accessible is unnecessary because something obscure that they were into before it was cool already did whatever better. It doesn’t matter if it did whatever better if the vast majority of The Last Jedi audiences have never and will never play that game.

Okay.

KOTOR 2 was also a rushed and broken video game from 2004 that sold less than half a million copies the month it came out. The fact that it explained anything better than a movie released to tens of thousands of theaters worldwide 13 years later is irrelevant.