tRoS gave me a new found appreciation for Phantom Menace, like I can get past all the cringe and see the film for what it is.

This is one of the best takes on TRoS I’ve ever read. I feel like I can talk about the movie a little better for having read it.

Han not only doesn’t meaningfully grow or change throughout the whole film, but it makes his rise to being a “hero” in the later films empty and meaningless. Because apparently he was a hero already and just sorta had a momentary blip and forgot, but was totally always the guy who would come back to fight the Death…

“Not because it’s “bad” Star Wars, but because it truly isn’t art.”

Honestly, it feels The Rise of Skywalker gave me some semblance of peace. Not because I liked it, of course, I hated it, but because it broke me out having to care about Star Wars and its fans.

Every time I rewatch it I’m more and more convinced that the original script had a much darker Han as the lead. A Han who was actually a man forged by a childhood and adulthood formed by being crushed under the boots of war and imperialism.

My wishful thinking when I originally heard the rumor about Rey being a Skywalker is that the movie was going to make gray force users (who sit between light and dark) be “Skywalker”-s. Just as kind of an honorific of those who came before and paved the way. And thus Rey mastered the ability of both light and dark and…

I think Solo also suffers from some of this, to a lesser extent, tbh.

My take on RoS remains that it is is the only Star Wars movie that truly doesn’t deserve to exist.

Add Kelly Marie Tran to the “wasted” section, and the list is pretty much complete.

- They packed too much into a movie. It could have at least been palatable as a 6-8 episode series.

Maybe you should go watch the original movies again, hmmm?

Even if this looked great (it looks like a Star Wars renaissance faire), I cannot imagine spending time in the company of a bunch of guests who also spent $6k each on this thing would be anything other than the worst possible experience.

I will skip being shot into space with hundreds of Veruca Salts. (The Wonka…

You think the typical Disney guest is horrible and entitled? Wait till you experience “I JUST PAID THE PRICE OF A SMALL CAR TO BRING MY FAMILY HERE” level Disney guests.

My big issue is just that none of the production design looks particularly Star Wars.

I immediately noticed how bad that hallway looks. If I’m going to spend thousands of dollars to immerse myself in a sci-fi/fantasy world, I would like that immersion to not be broken the second I step out of my room. Although I assume the room ceilings probably look the same...

Not gonna lie, I’d go in for that Bridge Training gimmick just to get myself in position to go to hyperspace.

“ENGAGE ... that’s how it goes right?”

I can’t believe how cheap this looks.

So... Regular flat drywall ceilings? I mean even every other Disney hotel has something of interest on the ceiling in the hallways, much less a star cruiser where they’ve gone to great lengths to have every single ship in every single Star Wars movie have all kinds of details visible. WTF?

I suspect that the next movies are going to come out of the success that The Mandalorian has been driving and the movies that culminate out of the D+ series will simply end up going around the ST. Treat it like unrelated events happening far away.