so the sith were just doin’ the autarch from book of the new sun all along? smdh
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they’re all snokes and yes, every one of them is wearing the gold kimono and comfy slippers under their armor
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when did force healing become a thing? was that a thing in the movies and I’m just blanking on it or did they just shoehorn that in there in order to get themselves out of the plot corner they backed into at the end?
who were all those people/ghosts/spectators in the Emperor’s throne room at the end waiting to watch the events unfold? were they real? where did they go? where do they live?
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re: force healing, i think this is one of the reasons they show baby yoda trying to heal the mandalorian in one of the early episodes of that show. my own personal theory backed up by nothing is that it is actually a version of the same type of power that sidious promised anakin in episode 3, and which he himself uses to stay alive in 9. but the difference is that rey uses her own life energy to heal others rather than the other way around. in general i think rey shows much more intuitive understanding of the force throughout all of the sequel episodes, it’s just that there’s like… massive power creep with each one
as for the throne room, i don’t think there’s meant to be a clear explanation, but palpatine also has like people manning his thousands of star destroyers so clearly something is going on. to me it works mostly as a visual callback to the senate room in the prequels. they could either be clones or like sith cultists. idk i feel like the tv shows go into more depth about low level sith people in a way the movies never do. one can only assume they’re out there somewhere
i kinda tagged them as a sort of sith chorus, a manifestation of all the sith lords prev as he talks about their spirits flowing thru him etcetc. there’s no bodies under them cloaks
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hey do mention during the movie the ships have to be staffed by members of the first orders, ol’ Spooky didn’t provide the crews, just the hardware.
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They did? Can’t remember them saying that.
So the First Order, when they were doing a council meeting to discuss the Last Order, mentions that the Sith Fleet contains “a thousandfold” more ships than the First Order has. Where did they get a thousand times more people to staff the ships? Also who was piloting these ships when they all rose out of the ground, windows all lit up and everything?
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question for the deep star wars heads who have already seen the movie:
how many of the voices did you recognize in ‘that’ part…? i heard obi wan, qui gon, mace windu, luke, and yoda, but there were definitely others. i assume at least some were meant to be recognized?
I’m 90% sure one was Asoka Tano from clone wars.
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I was gonna watch this today. But then I got distracted by those dern blasted videogames.
Yeah this movie left a sour taste in my mouth. It had absolutely every problem that I had with the last Jedi and very few of the redeeming factors. It basically was two movies of content smushed together to make one, bigger, stupider movie.
All that that sound and fury to have almost exactly the same ending as the Return of the Jedi except it renders none of what happened in return of the Jedi relevant.
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You are all right. I saw the credits.
I think I may have the answer to many of the Internet’s Questions
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watched last Jedi again and this movie is really way better than it had any right to be though one thing that jumps out is Rian Johnson’s active disregard for space physics
everyone remembers the questionable Holdo manoeuvre but the “bombing” run at the beginning is also pretty silly
the entire cast is also fantastic, like even Carrie Fisher’s reaction shots are exceptional, which really stands out against JJ’s dogshit directing
it’s not even comparable, it’s so not comparable as to make the whole idea of being critical of star wars seem even more ridiculous than ever, this trilogy is like a C-, an A, and an F
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honestly pretty cool that we got exactly one good star war again no matter how tedious the associated marketing blitz &c. are
the way they talk about “the dark side” in this movie is also one of the only times it seems plausibly like mature adults who happen to live under a manichean dichotomy which they take for granted, rather than just action figures
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all the “fighters” also act like planes in atmosphere all the time until it’d be cool/convenient for them to not
physics does not and has never existed in Star Wars Space (until it’d be cool/convenient for it to and then only for that long)
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this: is utterly stupid
this also: does not matter it looks cool in the moment/maybe there’s a strong visual metaphor there if you want/this series is mostly about space wizard who do space magic
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yeah but I feel like that’s always been easier to overlook than this stuff, ultimately it’s a minor quibble because it all serves the writing well but it’s weirdly egregious
like to make the bombs appear to be dropped by gravity is like, you really are trying to make a point about how much you don’t care about space physics. it’s impressively antagonistic
wild to me that something this expensive can only be this good against incredible odds and immediate efforts to overwrite it
not that anything else is really comparable to star wars in terms of media juggernaut so I don’t think it’s the most generalizable complaint
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I also forgot that I cry at the part where Luke sees R2
and I still dislike about half of Laura Dern’s lines which is strange just because I love her in everything and almost every other word of this script works for me