Johnson kind of threads a weird needle with it. He does acknowledge there’s a kinship between the two of them, and something that could definitely be more defined down the line. But as of that point, whatever you want to call it, romantic sure as Hell ain’t it.

EDIT - That said, as far as Johnson v Abrams…

Also, Luke having thoughts that would prove of a decidedly more Casterly Rock vein years later.

This is one of the points that bugs me the more I think about it.
Kylo Ren had already basically decided “Fuck the Republic, fuck the Empire, it’s the fucking age of Ren now, assholes!” and he was fully prepared to go ahead with it.
Hell, he cut a bloody swath across the galaxy expressly to find Palpatine and snuff him…

I feel like this is also a big part of where the myth that George Lucas planned everything out from the beginning came from, despite the fact there is still a fair amount of easily accessible evidence that many of the big changes were made as he went along (lookin’ at you, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.)
It didn’t help…

I was actively browsing the comments looking to see if anyone was gonna speak up for Cushing.
Thank you.

...clearly these were after my time in the EU, so I must ask - dafuq? @ Force-immune space orcs.
Only counter I remembered to the Force prior was the Ysalamiri.

EDIT - and whatever the Hell was messing with Luke in Planet of Twilight. Gonna be honest, a lot of that book has kind of been mentally lost to the ages for me.

Memory serves, wasn’t Lucas mainly just talking visually there?

I mean, it’s hard to argue he doesn’t like unnecessary recycling of the past when he took a fan favorite, but ultimately background character from ESB and made his backstory a prominent feature in Attack of the Clones.
To say nothing for the decision to…

Gonna offer a counterpoint on Dark Horse - their tie-in comics for The Thing were, with one exception, pretty lackluster.

If this is the character I’m thinking it is, this is also the point where I’ll remind people, even back during the heyday of the old EU, Kevin J Anderson wasn’t exactly praised as one of the greats working in the setting.

(Then he teamed up with Brian Herbert’s son and ticked off another sci-fi fandom, but that’s a…

That first part is something I think people really need to keep in mind when they’re playing the box office game (...semi-related, I can’t remember - is the phenomenon of actively trying to prove movies you didn’t like failed new, or just easier to witness in the age of the internet?) is that for a while, SW had a…

Not to mention this came after reading about how a whole lot of people with laser swords utterly failed to see fascism coming, even when its leader - radiating evil power - was right under their noses THE WHOLE TIME.

It was almost worse (sort of).
If the telling presented in How Star Wars Conquered the Universe is anything to go by, he initially didn’t even have the mentor role to fall back on. Initially much of what Qui-Gon does in the finished film was written for Obi-Wan (as one would expect) and Qui-Gon would join them after…

Let’s be fair to Jake Lloyd here.
Lucas’s colleagues all questioned why Anakin needed to be a little kid in the first movie.
They actively tried to talk him out of it.
He still stuck with it...and then only conceded it was a bad idea years later.

Lucas hosed that poor kid.

Honestly, kind of with you there on RO.
The third act is some of the finest action porn the brand has seen in its entire run, and one thing I will continue to give Disney, between that and the Marvel comics runs, they’ve made Vader into a genuinely terrifying figure again.
At the same time, a lot of the first two-thirds…

To this end - come the ending of TLJ, I was actually interested to see what could be done with the way it seemed like Johnson laid the groundwork for a three-sided conflict to end things - the Resistance, Kylo Ren’s ‘Fuck it - burn it all and start over!’ brand of the First Order, and General Hux, still suspicious as…

That best animated win...seeing Studio Laika throw down against three different Dsiney films and a Dreamworks movie and win.
It sustains me.

To be honest, there’s already some of that kind of in there (you just know had the First Order not been formed, Hux would have been all over the SW version of YouTube.)

If anything, I kind of thought that was a big part of where they were going with emphasizing how overall young most of the rank and file were compared…

“How the fuck is she able to get past that?”

Same way her teacher saw the good in his kid-killing, wife-strangling, daughter-torturing dad.

Forgiveness in the Star Wars universe is fucking BONKERS. 

No need for food. Once enough drop dead, Palpatine just calls up the Tall Man and puts in another order for hooded henchmen.

The execution’s bullshit, but I wouldn’t say Hux’s heel turn itself is. His being pissy towards Kylo Ren has been established since TFA, and he definitely gives the impression of being pissy and petty enough to have that ‘I value seeing him lose more’ kind of a grudge.

The problem is, it’s such an afterthought because…