I enjoyed the most recent trilogy as well. Were they high art? No, not really. None of them ever were. And this is coming from someone who was super obsessed as a kid and has probably forgotten more about Star Wars than most people will ever know.
I Blame the Jedi
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I said it then, I’ll say it now and I’ll forever say it: they should have recast. I understand the impulse to give into sentimentality, but doing to does no justice to the character of Leia and ultimately does no justice to the work Carrie Fisher did in creating her either. Leia was the toughest and bravest hero of…
If you’re in Oregon like I am, they aren’t even beginning to issue Real IDs until July, so they’re basically begging folks who have passports to just use that for travel starting in October. There’s no way they’re going to be able to roll out Real IDs in a timely enough manner. I needed to renew last month and *would*…
I love the idea. I do not love the low resolution and the fact that it looks like an uncompleted Heathkit. I think this needs more time in the oven.
Yoda’s energizing reminder to his own old student—that the past, good and bad, victory and failure, must be acknowledged in its entirety and learned from before it can truly be moved on from—is the message at The Last Jedi’s heart.
I respect that take.
Wow! I wonder how far they’ll take this?
Not only did he murder his dad, his Grandfather tortured *her* for hours if not days. Luke may have felt good in him but I always kinda wondered if LEAH forgave Vader for the drugs and torture and holding her in place and making her watch Tarkin murder her world. Her Dad, whom her Son did everything he could to…
Counterpoint: if your son is a mass-murdering psychopath, then maybe the right thing to do is acknowledge that they’ve crossed a line. Leia is not a piece of shit, but she’s also intensely moral and strong. It would break her heart, but I think she would realise that Kylo was not the Ben she used to know.
That all tracks to me.
Why is it that no writer at any point was ever willing to just commit to Kylo being a villain? He’s a wretched little rat bastard, he doesn’t need redemption just because his grandad did. Just let him be evil!
“It’s so cool that they’re bringing in Palpatine’s boss(?) after never mentioning him in any movies. So neat that he was just off-screen the entire time!”
You don’t need to do anything. Watching and reading extra materials gives extra context, but you don’t need that extra context to enjoy what The Mandalorian or Star Wars for that matter.
Show me a movie trilogy anywhere that has had a solid plan, outside of Lord Of The Rings which cheated by having an established book to copy it from.
Neither could this guy:
Yes, because we all know how great things turn out when George has a plan.
I feel like Clone Wars was full of so many bat-shit insane ideas that were beloved that the idea that 1. Leia, who has already shown has had Force abilities and should have learned how to use them more over 30 years, 2. Snoke suddenly dying after being given more screen time and personality than Palpatine in the OT,…
one thing that I didn’t liked about the prequels (well, yet another thing), the Extended Universe and TFA is that they kept going around the same cycles, over and over, in all the stories, similar protagonists, similar villains, same beats -occasional twist notwithstanding-.
Yeah I def agree. To me a lot of the “controversial decisions” Johnson made weren’t even that controversial.