They kiss for good luck before swinging across the gap in the original.

Critics didn’t actually enjoy TLJ? It was actually some sort of a conspiracy? Yeah, that seems like the most plausible scenario.

I genuinely can’t tell if this is a bit, so...good job?

I know this is totally sincere and not an intentional hot take, but hoo boy, a casual browse through any number of theories and armchair “How to Fix X” in Star Wars videos reveals the exact opposite

To fuck with Luke? I dunno, it broke the force rules and looked cool so it’s subversive I guess

The Last Jedi was better than The Force Awakens, but my problem with the whole thing is the hopelessness of the whole endeavor. [snip] The whole notion that our heroes’ victory at the end of the original trilogy was anything but, and that they’ve all spent their entire lives fighting that same war, and now we get to…

this is exactly what’s wrong with TLJ and also KOTOR 2, it’s creators incapable of imagining purely good and enlightened characters.

It drives me up a wall when people talk about how TLJ introduced the idea that the hero with Fore powers doesn’t have to be from a special family.

Is it really a retcon though? The bad guy lied to the hero about her parents to break her down and offer himself up as the only person that would accept her. It’s only a retcon if Kylo told the truth.

I liked TLJ because Luke said what anyone that watched the prequels thought: the Jedi Order was a complete failure and we shouldn’t try to just make another one. It was a cool subversion from the original idea that got smashed to pieces in the prequels when they were played for fools by Palpatine.

Except Luke isn’t set up to be special because he’s a Skywalker. He’s set up to be special because he’s literally all the Jedi have left (well, when the films were being made, anyway).

And then the prequels showed them all getting killed off and introduced a prophecy about a messiah figure bringing balance to the force. 

I liked TLJ because Luke said what anyone that watched the prequels thought: the Jedi Order was a complete failure and we shouldn’t try to just make another one. It was a cool subversion from the original idea that got smashed to pieces in the prequels when they were played for fools by Palpatine.

Rouge One has some problems — a fairly weak lead, too much planet-hopping, the absolute dumbest strategy possible from the notoriously idiotic Resistance/Rebellion/what have you — but the good stuff is great, and it’s my favorite depiction of the Force in these movies, something that may or may not exist but even its…

Most people are totally unfamiliar with the EU. Just because a story or idea happened there doesn't make it old hat to the movie audience.

Except most people still haven’t read the EU novels or played the EU games. Going by what’s been presented in the films—which most people have seen—the Skywalkers are the Jedi.

Except that there have been countless tales in the EU (whether in the novels or in the video games) that have shown nobodies can be Jedi.

Thank you. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills whenever I hear people talk about how “subversive” The Last Jedi was.

Mostly agreed. I still liked the last 1/4 of the movie, and think it could have set up a nice scenario addressing what happens if things didn’t wrap up so neatly after RoTJ. There feels like a real chance for Kylo Ren to NOT be redeemed (the antithesis of Vader in a sense), and for something different than the old…

Here’s what I like about TLJ that I think broke free of retelling ESB. It had Luke be a broken reluctant mentor. It broke expectations by making Rey an everywoman, and not some special messianic next-gen Skywalker, while also making it apparent that the Force could choose anybody to be special (ala. the Force-wielding…