Quote Originally Posted by philby View Post
With these two, I have no problem with the idea and the themes. I particularly love the part where Luke talks about the folly of the Jedi and that the Force does not belong to them. However, I just don't like that introduction where he throws the hilt away and walks off. It just feels like too much of a slap in the face

Rey being a nobody is fine. It is annoying though when the previous movie makes you think she isn't. The star wars saga is about the Skywalker family. The lightsabre beckons to her. The ghosts in the vision talk to her, by name. The way Maz asks "Who's the girl?" The way Han and Chewie act around her make me think they know something about her... These things absolutely deliberately make you speculate and get excited and come up with ideas and generate hype. I don't think it is a good payoff for the buildup.
Hence I felt this is a bad trilogy altogether. One episode doesnt follow the other. It doesn't connect well. The two aspects are okay, I don't think they are good decisions but I am fine. This is the only trilogy that felt disjoint with no sense of real direction. Rian's story if told in a proper manner would have been fine and would have less criticism.

Throwing the lightsaber was one thing, some didn't like the hand dusting off his shoulder since it was fake to begin with for the last scene but is a nick pick <I get it they wanted some humor.

But here's the thing, JJ's way was to make you excited and speculate. Rian on the other hand goes nah....this is what happens without the "why" and the "hows" and ends there with no tease to the next episode. < Technically my take was to just leave Luke fall to the ground and leave the audience hanging. (sure he dies but it gives the fan that moment and they will pay to watch the next episode)

Actually it did payoff because everyone who managed to score TFA up to 88% on rotten tomatoes went full on to watch TLJ but only to be let down because Rian failed to connect the dots. This is like one of those back in my days composition writing where they give you a part of a paragraph and you continue the story. While.....the paragraph could give it an obvious theme like a day in the zoo.....you changed it to a kidnapping episode. And this is something I felt similar happened here. Some will like it others will say thats totally out of point.

My overall thoughts are more mainly how episode nine ends and whether it brings everyone back on to the same page of liking Star Wars rather than a fragmented brand at the moment. Till the next episode.