The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs

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      2 months ago

      TFA was perfect, it had mystery, and mystery, and mystery, and even nostalgia too!

      It was only when TLJ explained some of those mysteries that suddenly all the pieces that looked like they weren’t from the same puzzle, and some of them weren’t puzzle pieces at all, and a few of the pieces were obviously colored with crayons by a confused child… That’s when it suddenly fell apart through no fault of anyone other than Rian Johnson.


      I’m pretty sure I’ve never been satisfied by the reveal of a single JJ Abrahms mystery, ever. I don’t understand how he has such a career of failing upwards.

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          2 months ago

          What was the path TLJ laid out? It killed off the main villain and left the trilogy with very few story threads to pick up on in the third and final film.

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              Snoke was just a Emperor re-tread

              Well yes, but wasn’t the 7th film a reboot of the 1st? It doesn’t matter whether it was a good idea initially or not, the point is that changing your mind halfway through about who the big villain is doesn’t leave you with enough time to establish a proper replacement.

              it also reinforces Kylo’s path to finish what Vader started and do something Vader failed to do: supplant his Dark Side master.

              This is a third act story beat that happened during the second act. The reason why the Vader storyline works is because it has nearly three films worth of development before its big climax.

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                  2 months ago

                  you falsely decided he was the big villain

                  I guess you watched some alternative universe version of the first two films, because Smoke was 100% the big bad until he was killed off. You literally just acknowledged him as an Emperor re-tread lol