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I think Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the best of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

I think this is an unpopular opinion, at least among my star wars friends it is, but I genuinly think that The Last Jedi is better than The Force Awakens. I think it's more interesting, I think that the visuals are cool, I like the music more. Now I dont think its great, it has a ton of problems, and it probably has the worst fight choreography, i dont like how they portrayed Luke Skywalker, and I think that it was dumb that Holdo didnt tell Poe what her plan was.

But TLJ feels more unique and I absolutely love Kylo Ren in this movie, and I like Rey, I think she was done best in this movie. TFA was just kind of boring imo.

Edit: Mind you, I still think that all the movies in this trilogy are pretty crap. This one is just the one I dislike the least overall, ALTHOUGH, it probably ruined the trilogy the most, storywise.

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  • My thoughts are that episode 8 (and 9) is a collection of really cool scenes and ideas, they just don't quite add up to a good movie or part of a trilogy.

    I think you can take almost any part of those movies and flesh them out into a really cool standalone movie, TV show, comic, novel, etc.

    Casino heists are a tried and true formula. Not breaking any new ground there but that's something that can make for a fun movie. Han Solo or a similar sort of character could work well for that, gambling is kind of his thing after all.

    The whole "military industrial complex selling arms to both sides" thing could work well in a grittier project like Andor where you're dealing with all kinds of morally grey stuff. Or again, with a Solo movie since Han is from Corellia where those rich assholes are building battleships and such and directly shitting on the little guys.

    Broom Kid- I think we've all been clamoring to see more of the non-jedi/non-sith aligned force users.

    Rey's training, feeling the pull of the dark side, the force dyad thing between her and Kylo, etc. had a lot of really cool moments, and they just didn't spend enough time going into any of that.

    Maz felt kind of like a shoehorned-in plot device, but I think there could be a really cool sort of anthology series in there about her past, her customers, etc.

    The crait battle was cool, kind of a rehash of Hoth, but also not. Luke's force projection facing down the whole first order from across the galaxy was pretty neat.

    Onto RoS

    Again, cool force dyad shit.

    The Knights of Ren got done dirty, we probably should have had a whole movie of them.

    Palpatine clone- look, cloning is an established technology in the universe, one of the first bits of star wars lore that got dropped on us back in '77 is that they had whole damned clone wars. Of-fucking-course Sheev would have a backup or two. The old EU had some Palpatine clone arcs (maybe not their best moments, but at least they executed better than "somehow Palpatine returned")

    Running around the galaxy searching for wayfinders, or holocrons or sith daggers, whatever the MacGuffin du jour is- that's basically every star wars video game ever.

    Killing Chewie and erasing Threepio's memory, there were some good opportunities for some real emotional gut punches there, they just couldn't commit to them.

    Exogol could have been cool, kind of wish that they came up with something cooler than a fleet of star destroyers with big cannons strapped to them, but there's potentially a lot you could do a whole weird sith cult working in secret to do...??? I feel like maybe exactly what they're doing is maybe better left up to the imagination than outright stated.

  • I'd argue it's a good move, and they tried to do some cool things with it, and the visuals are delightful.

    It's absolute crap Star Wars, though.

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