Rey, after always having everything come so easy to her and facing no challenge too tough for her, falls to the dark side and becomes the new big bad. Finn, the noble hero, must seek out the force ghost of Luke Skywalker to train him to take down Darth Rey. 

and what was the point of it, aside from filling time in the film?

I’m not going to give it too much thought until they prove they can announce a flick and actually make it. So far, since E9 we’ve had what? 6-7 film announcements and nothing has even got a single person cast.

Yea, I was always confused as to whether or not I was supposed to be shocked. I saw what they were doing but it seemed... a little Khan-ish.

Here’s my idea.

Hot-take: Jedi ruin Star Wars.

“What if [THING] but human?” Yeah, they really had to pull out the stops to come up with this one.

“It all came together when we realized that the fire girl could have a fiery personality, while the water guy could have a wishy-washy personality.”

First: “Andor is better than the Mandalorian” is a take so cold it can be used to calculate 0 Kelvin.

Probably because the character design looks like a mashup between Inside Out and Soul.

I feel like this movie already came out a few years ago.  

Take your star!

I think they’re looking for a steamy romance. 

It also feels weird to me that he discounts horror franchises like the Purge, because a vast majority of franchise over the last century have been horror. Horror has always been very amenable to franchises. 

Yeah, this series really went through the same “grounded, approachable hero in fairly realistic world gives way to ridiculous comic book physics and over-the-top set-pieces” progression that hit Die Hard and especially The Fast and the Furious pretty hard.

Originality is overrated.

As someone who had those exact same criticisms about the second and third films, I was pleasantly surprised to discover this movie does a much better job at threading the “Why should we, you know, care?” needle than either of those two films. I think the change in screenwriters had a positive effect on that element.

Having watched all four this weekend, I was surprised how little the first one ultimately fits in with the tone of the rest of the movies after it, especially the first half of the first one. It’s a just a meditation on grief until Theon Greyjoy shows up and starts the perpetual motion machine of death that is John…

I think there are two distinct things going on.

It’s weird that this is structured as a “Why aren’t there any original movies?” piece but it’s actually a “Why aren’t there more new franchises?” piece. Like, isn’t something like Get Out a lot more of a unicorn than John Wick? Franchises are commonplace but hard to pull off, and every one that pulls it off makes the…