Why is it problematic to say one doesn’t have a problem with a black actor, but rather just their character? Seriously, this doesn’t even make any sense. Particularly in the case of Jar-Jar Binks, which Ahmed Best played brilliantly from every perspective, but was cluelessly written by idiot George Lucas to be…

And? Do you think Robert Englund should be indicted on child murder charges because he wears a funny glove onscreen?

Luke at the end of ROTJ is absolutely a super awesome guy. Not so much a badass though of course thankfully. He so awesome in fact that TLJ has to come up with a Frasier farce level misunderstanding to make him a failure.

“I hope we’ll still see the Rian Johnson trilogy because I think the idea of Broom Boy - who shows us for the first time that ANYONE can have Force Powers, not just Skywalkers - is just so fascinating!”

I don’t think we need obvious exposition. We get too much of that in Star Wars.

I think the best case scenario is a press release that says, “We consider those stories and characters to now be part of the Legends universe and look forward to adding new stories in their place.”

I’ll never understand why people complain about fan service... its what most fans want and I’d rather the film attempt to cater to its fans than to everyone else.

Star Wars is a great example of this. The worst, most controversial movie Disney made? The Last Jedi, which went to great lengths to give fans the finger and…

I cannot WAIT to play the inevitable very boring Canto Bight level, which is six hours long and takes up half the game, then tell people I didn’t like it, then have the internet tell me I only didn’t like it because I’m an incel, then have incels I hate defend me, then have my boss read what I’m typing about all day…

that no one seems to have had a clear and coherent idea or plan what they wanted to say or do with a sequel trilogy

at the end of TLJ, the whole point was that force-sensitive people came from all sorts of backgrounds all along, not just “important families” like the Skywalkers; and it was never something that institutions like the Jedi order owned. Filoni’s shows highlighted this too - it’s not a game-changer, it’s just…

I see people cite this “regular people connecting to the Force” thing as a point in TLJ’s favor a lot, and I really don’t get it. Where does everyone think the pre-Order 66 Jedi came from? There’s no indication in the movies, and I don’t think in other material, that it’s just fancy people being Force sensitive before…

Oh wow, that was me! I wrote that!! Can’t tell you how much it means to me that my comment resonated with someone else :-)  MTFBWY

I have to share this for others who haven’t seen it. When TLJ came out, a poster on io9 shared this perspective, and for me, it’s the perfect analysis of why Luke’s arc in the Sequels did not sit well with me at all:

People absolutely learn from their mistakes.  Why would anyone want such a depressing spin on Star Wars escapism?

That’s some weapons grade bullshit. The prequels already democratized the Force. The rest of your points are rehashed themes of previous and better movies.

“What’s particularly intriguing about these revelations is that they suggest that Lucas’s ideas for Luke and Star Wars were not, in the end, all that different from those as developed by Rian Johnson in The Last Jedi, ideas for which he was very powerfully criticized by a certain band of fans of the franchise.”

Oh for…

“The best part about The Last Jedi’s “Nobody” was that is completely opened up the universe of Star Wars to a billion more stories to tell.”

Johnson shouldn’t have directed any of the Trilogy films that centered on any of the Skywalkers.

Citroen Karin:

I think the bigger problem was no one told Rian no. JJ setup a trilogy and an arc and Johnson comes in blows it up yells “surprise” and then walks off patting himself on the back for being oh so smart.