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Star Wars Episode VIII: My favorite Star War is that gay robot
Hieda no Mukyu:
Bump and wake-up.
As a whole, "The Last Jedi", episode Ⅷ, is probably the best Star Wars movie made after 1983 in my ranking, if "Rogue One" (which does not belong to any trilogy) is not counted. Ⅷ brought me lots of interesting and beautiful stuff, provoked many thoughts, and failed miserably at a few points.
--- Quote from: commandercool on December 17, 2017, 01:57:50 AM ---Spoiler: The timeline of the movie feels bad. I don't know why it had to take place over one day.
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In episode Ⅶ, they brought back the Death Star concept from Ⅳ and Ⅵ. In episode Ⅷ, they brought back Spoiler: the walkers and the timeline issues from Ⅴ.
--- Quote from: commandercool on December 17, 2017, 01:57:50 AM ---Spoiler: That said, I'm thrilled to bits that they did go with the "Rei's parents weren't anybody special" answer. I'm endlessly frustrated by the Amazing Spider-Man/Man Of Steel trend in genre movies lately to make heroism genetic.
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Spoiler: Force sensitivity is at least partially genetic, canonically, all the way since the classic trilogy. Extraordinary Force sensitivity even more so. That said, I am quite happy if the later parts of the Star Wars saga deal with more than just the Skywalkers. The Galaxy is so huge that one would expect more highly Force sensitive families than just one, and also random occurrences not related to "the Force running strong" in a bloodline.
I have one further thought about the "not anybody special" point; I should revisit it later.
--- Quote from: commandercool on December 17, 2017, 01:57:50 AM ---Spoiler: A lot of people were really unhappy with the whole Space Leia scene (...). I have no problem accepting that Leia's force powers become activated by extreme danger.
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Spoiler: I found it most natural that her powers were activated by such an extreme situation. However, I would have preferred a very different presentation. Firstly, Ⅶ should already have mentioned some rare past "Force moments" of hers. Secondly, the scene should have been filmed in a completely different way, including something about how she personally experienced the "Force moment". Last but not least, the visual effects used should have produced something more credible than a 1950s sci-fi impression. I?m afraid the way her telekinetic flight looked was the single worst moment of the movie in my eyes. And I am generally very forgiving when it comes to visual effects.
(To be continued if any others are willing to participate as well.)