You should check out his interview on WTF, he’s a fascinating dude.

RuPaul speaks very highly of you.

It was the biggest grossing movie of 2017. You can argue about the choices Johnson made, but Disney hopes and prays that Solo “damages the brand” as much as TLJ.

I would argue the “bad writing” started in TFA. Writing that the only jedi left is in hiding doesn’t leave you with a lot of choices. I really enjoyed TFA and TLJ but things that Abrams did really put the trilogy in a tough spot.

I still maintain that The Last Jedi was easily one of the best *films* in the Star Wars canon. It is an especially well-realized story with a bit of padding around Canto Bight.

“Luke just “is different now” with no credit to the audience. It’s bad writing.”

My issues are with the script paying no attention to taking a character we know and explaining *why* they’re different - Luke just “is different now” with no credit to the audience.

Leia’s status as princess of Alderaan has nothing to do with her biological mother’s status as former queen of Naboo. Leia’s adopted mother Breha is Queen of Alderaan. Bail is Senator and Prince Consort. He handles Senate and Republic stuff. Breha handles the actual running of Alderaan. 

Bail Organa, while a member of the Galactic Senate, was also royalty on Alderaan. Princess Leia Organa was, as his adopted daughter, a member of the house of Organa. This is some basic shit, dude.

The new movies acknowledge the prequels. Kylo Ren mentions a clone army in the first one and Luke briefly recounts the rise of Darth Sidious in the new one. There’s not a lot of reason to dwell on those events 50something years later, honestly.

FYI, the bombs are magnetic :)

It’s both. They are not mutually exclusive.

Yes. I really, really dug Luke’s remorse (probably not the right word here) about having to live up to being a legend in his own time, and how he just can’t live up to what others expect him to be.

I loved the hell out of the way that it took everything you knew about a Star Wars movie and turned it on it’s head. It had a “Yeah, I’ve seen this all before - but somehow it feels fresh!” feel about it.

I had the exact same take. I also appreciated the meta commentary on the nature of heroism and the meaning of the word “legend” (which I took, just personally, to also include the Star Wars Legends non-canonical material).

I loved her, because I felt she didn’t owe Poe a damn thing. He’s a low ranking flyboy with an impetuous streak. He’s proved he can’t be trusted with being brought into the upper echelons, so she expected him to stay out the way and just do what he was told. And you know what? She was right. He found out what she was…

And then he vanishes. Coming from nowhere, going to nowhere, and all the First Orders who saw that or heard about it are going to wonder when Skywalker’s going to show up again to slap the crap out of their Big Bad. Putting worry like that into your enemy’s mind is a thing of beauty.

And those same joyless assholes would’ve complained had all their expectations been met because then the movie would’ve been too predictable.

I’m just going to say that what Luke did to Kylo was far, far worse than any physical beat down he could have administered...and was EXACTLY what the Resistance needed.

And ultimately trying to subvert these tropes is the reason that so many Star Wars fans are freaking the fuck out.