In Johnson's last three movies, the only skill as a storyteller he demonstrates is castigation of the audience for their provincial admiration of "traditional" values like strength, heroism, stoicism, self-sacrifice, elitism, narrative predictability, etc. But we will see how that story goes, Thrawn is bavk, and I'm all for it! After all, Thrawns thing in Timothy Zahns book triology was cloned soldiers. Star Wars zombies were a bad idea when introduced in that book about an infested star destroyer, written at the hight of the pop culture zombie craze, and are an element the new canon could have well lived without. Funny how all the series set after Endor do their utmost to ignore the sequel movies, at least it feels like that to me.įo rTgrawn so, they could have skippes the zombie stormtrooper part. When the hinted at a fleet of hidden star destroyers in Rise of Skywalker, I so hoped they would steal some elements of the Katana-fleet story arch. The sequel triology did nothing of the sort, insetad it took the idea of a reborn Emperor, IMHO among the worst ideas of the Legebds EU, and made somehow even worse. Stuff, that is now free to use since it is not canon anymore. The Star Wars universe, from the original triology over the Clone Wars to the extended universe from the days of Westend Games, has so much stuff to work with. The moment I saw Jyn being transported in Jaggurnought, I was sold. none of that made any sense in terms of its writing. But they chickened out at the last second.Īnd then yeah, the whole last half of the movie with the slow space chase, escape plan, side quest. That would have opened up all kinds of interesting new places to take Star Wars and new stories to explore. They could have had Rey and Ben actually see eye to eye and both become grey Jedi after dispatching Snoke and finally obtaining the prophesied balance in the force. It was maddening.īut they almost did something really cool with the force, throwing out the dark/light dichotomy and replacing it with balance. It had bombs falling in space (as opposed to being projected as missiles), it had turbolasers arcing (not something it ever had before), it introduced hyperspace fuel in order to make the finale escape make sense (they could have just used an interdictor instead). Yes, the Star Wars universe never had realistic physics, but it did have reasonably self-consistent physics and Last Jedi threw them away. I hate the way it threw out the Star Wars universe's physics - because it took me right out of the universe. There are a lot of things I really loved about Last Jedi and a lot of things I really hated about Last Jedi.
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