Naboo was pretty underwhelming though. Theed was beautiful, but it was a ghost town, with very poor explanation why, so it largely functioned as pretty scenery. We didn’t explore Coruscant to a significant degree until AOTC and ROTS, because in TPM, it consisted almost exclusively of the Jedi Temple and the Senate.

Finn said to Rey, upon meeting her, that nobody had ever looked at him like she did, a genuine human connection. That pretty strongly implies Finn never really had any friends, and going by new EU material, Slip (the stormtrooper who died in front of him) was the closest thing he ever had to a friend. He was also…

By the time of ANH, the stormtroopers were mostly regularly conscripted soldiers. Here, they seem to often be abducted and brainwashed.

I don’t know if this works. If that’s all the Resistance has, then they’re really barely a threat. What sort of conflicts has the Resistance engaged in against the the First Order before? Why does the support of such a tiny group warrant the First Order to destroy the senate and an entire star system?

I was wary about him, and they pulled him off very well. He has a cutesy design and name, but he was remarkably inoffensive and there was next to nothing in the way of slapstick comedy with his character. Or anything else bothersome. He worked better than C3PO and R2D2. A character who’s design was meant to strongly…

“Guys, can I point out something? “Iran” is the Farsi pronunciation of “Aryan”. Iranians are “white”. Oh, sure, Persians have been conquered by Arabs enough times that they’ve picked up a darker skin tone, by and large- like Sicilians and Spaniards. Who are also “white”.”

Persians were darker before then. Like many…

Yeah, but this was about space pirates making her walk over water. It’s really pretty stupid.

Poe really should have stayed in the movie after they crashed though. One of my least favorite parts about it.

Yeah, briefly trained. And she defeated a severely wounded one.

I don’t see any problem with how it ended in the sense of the losses- why does it have to follow the exact pattern of the others? It did something distinct compared to the others, in contrast to much of the rest of the movie being parallels of the OT.

You might be right about that- I at one point also used to think he knew when to fire, but ended up thinking he guided the missiles in some way. The other time missiles were fired, they impacted the wall behind the port. Even still, that was a strong instance of latent force capabilities that arose when they weren’t…

I think what Luke did at the end of ANH was just as impressive, if not more so. Guiding missiles in a spaceship going at incredibly high speeds without the help of any targeting mechanism down a vent to the core of a moon-sized space station. I think the takeaway was that Luke (and Rey), and therefore Jedi in general,…

This is a criticism that loses sight of what Luke went through in the OT, and the differences in experiences between the two. Rey lived a much harsher life, whereas Luke lived a laid back one. Luke received very minimal training in ANH and towards the end was able to guide missiles with his own mind, which is a lot…

They didn’t nuke everything. Rakata Prime has been established to be in the new canon, along with Darth Bane, so that does in a rough sense validate many of the older events.

I’ve seen this criticism and it doesn’t hold much water. If they’re going to make a sequel to the OT before any of the original cast dies or becomes too old, what else are they supposed to do? Do something long after long after they’ve died in-universe? It would have been hard to maintain relevance and could have…

Dante’s Inferno was honestly a pretty good game. It did have pretty terrible graphics though.