I don’t know what people thought they wanted. Everyone I’ve spoken to out in the real world loved the movie.

I was grinning like a damn fool through the entire movie. Not only did it manage to embrace what I’ve always felt was the true message and meaning of the Force, but it did so in a way that managed to redeem the prequels for me.

• When Kylo Ren, with like ten seconds of icily savage dialogue, revealed that Rey’s parents were nobody-ass losers, pissing on both George Lucas’s sole storytelling move and all The Force Awakens’s hints about Rey having a mysterious and auspicious background.

I’ve said this in other comments so I will say it again. Being 45 years old I had the “luxury” of watching Empire in theaters and seeing the aftermath of it as we all shuddered at the thought of Darth Vader being Luke’s father and how that movie basically trounced on the original by doing that. A lot of people are…

It’s essentially the most un-Star Wars movie ever made.

Thank you for this post, I think I understand this movie better. I walked out of TLJ hating it and I now realize it’s because it took a lot of classic Star Wars tropes and either threw them out or turned them on their head, for better or worse. It’s essentially the most un-Star Wars movie ever made. I’m gonna watch it…

Yes! And when Poe himself, Mr. Damn The Torpedoes, was like “Shit, this is stupid as hell, let’s get the fuck outta here!”

When the plucky band of misfits with tiny, beaten-up shitmobiles can’t actually defeat the vastly superior technology of their evil foes and have to, like, sneak out the back.

Yeah, but that one episode of Rebels showed us that those other ships carry cargo by attaching magnetized cargo containers to the outside of the hull:

it works thematically as an echo of the harpoon guns on the speeders, a hideously impractical asspull for the sake of a REALLY sweet shot

but they’re definitely meddling with one of the primal forces of space opera, Let’s All Politely Pretend Accelerating A Rock To Lightspeed Wouldn’t Wreck Any And Every One Of Our…

I feel like you missed the best one, where Poe Dameron, dashing space flyboy, pulls a mutiny on the cold and frigid new commander who’s obviously not as a good a choice as him in his own mind, and it turns out he’s the asshole, not the hero.

Oh he did die, just in the Year 2 BBY on Tattooine. Clone Wars and Rebels made his survival from Episode 1 canon.

It’s very heavily implied in ‘Empire’ and ‘RotJ’ that Leia has the potential to become a powerful force user - perhaps even as powerful as Luke (Obi-Wan and Yoda discuss ‘another’ (Leia) when Luke flies off to Bespin, and Vader taunts Luke in the throne room by threatening to turn Leia to the Dark Side.

A thousand voices just groaned, and were silent. 

Leia sensed Han’s death from across the galaxy, and she’s canonically force sensitive in Empire and ROTJ. We’ve never seen her move something with the Force, but I have to imagine pushing yourself through a weightless vacuum is one of the easier tricks, especially if your life depends on it.

Seriously, to all the people who feel the need to know everything about every character and Snoke’s whole backstory:

For every criticism I see pop up about The Last Jedi, I can come up with at least one time in the canon of Star Wars that a similar “problem” was given a pass (typically somewhere in the “unassailable” Empire Strikes Back). Also, gleeful arsonist force ghost Yoda is the best of all Yodas.

I didn’t notice the feet. Interesting.

No resistance nor much gravity in space, so only a little force (not “Force”) would push her. Doesn’t seem more or less plausible than pulling a lightsaber out of the snow and willing it to fly to his hand when Luke was also an untrained, amateur force user. As for surviving in space - don’t know much about that. But…

I think the difference is neither Ben nor Rey want to live in the past...but Ben wants to move past it (“kill it if you have to”) opposed to Rey who wants to study and learn from it’s mistakes.