Thank you! Let’s not pretend TLJ didn’t deserve a lot of the criticism it has gotten. RJ wanted to “sUbVeRt tHe eXpEcTaTiOnS” and that can be well received, but when it doesn’t please don’t cry that the mob is after you.
Tiago Simões
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The Star Wars movies plans have been in a free-fall ever since the dork reaction to TLJ,
Seems like reminding some folks that Palestinians are human beings too and deserve to live and have their human rights respected as well makes them think you’re a Nazi, huh?
I’m surprised there are people still clamoring for a Rian Johnson trilogy.
Honestly, Rian Johson is such g’damn disaster... Incomparable. And he got off easy with the total acquittal for his cold, almost soulless crime dramas. And actually contrary to the common legend, all the nonsensical focus on Rey being played by a woman just saved him and was a distraction, instad of being even…
Well the idea that Jedi can come from anywhere, any family line, has been there since the beginning. Sure we focused on the Skywalkers but Kenobi and Yoda were completely different families/species. At the beginning of the Phantom Menace there were roughly 10k Jedi, 99.9999% of them not Skywalkers. I never understood…
and one of my deep sorrows about JJ’s ‘Force Awakens must reset the story to be Rebels vs Imperials again’ mindset is that it robbed us of actually seeing a functioning, growing New Jedi Order.
They might be able to make the plot point work but that would not make the movie any better.
...earning some misguided wrath thanks to the idea that going different places with Star Wars is sacrilegious.
As Andor has shown, people want new and fresh with Star Wars.
Haven’t you beaten this dead horse enough? We get it, you love TLJ and everyone who didn’t are racists/misogynists/incels bla bla bla.
I suppose there is irony in the fact that for the rest of this man’s life, no matter what he does, he will never escape a single Star Wars thing he did years ago.
This is the correct answer. No thanks
But Rian, we want to see more of your relationship with Star Wars!
Say what you will but he never turned his back on his friends and family. Not until TLJ that is.
I think what Disney and Rian Johnson weren’t prepared for is that many fans, maybe even most fans, absolutely want to be pandered to.
The thing that drove me nuts with Luke’s “failure” is that, as a character arc, Johnson had him failing in the wrong way. Almost striking down Ben in a fit of fear seemed so wrong because it was like he hadn’t learned anything from RotJ. If instead, his mistake was seeing Ben’s anger and thinking he could save him…
Yeah, that was my biggest problem with TLJ. It didn’t subvert expectations for any reason other than subverting them. Luke throws away the lightsaber! Snoke doesn’t matter at all! Rey’s parents were nobodies!
But, the hill I will die on time and time again, the character assassination of Luke was just completely out…
Compared to Rise of Skywalker, The Last Jedi was Citizen Fucking Kane.
With carte blanche on the script, Rian Johnson could have had his whole movie focus on force sensitives.