Board Thread:Star Wars/@comment-4935956-20191219160853/@comment-2228158-20191221161943

There was some great stuff in this movie and overall I liked it but it was definitely far from perfect. It's okay that the entire sequel trilogy wasn't written out all in advance; I think it's pretty obvious George didn't plan some things like Luke and Leia to be siblings until ROTJ, but the whole ST now just has the feeling of not only not being planned ahead of time, but of having been written in segements by people with vastly conflicting ideas. And there was some stuff in here that just seems like a brazen rejection to parts of the EU that were awesome.

But I really think the movie was thematically great, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver's performances were better than ever, the new characters were neat, and the fight sequences were on point.

I really love the way the philosophies of the Light/Dark side were handled in this movie, but they also did some wildly dumb stuff with the Force, so in a way this movie has both my favorite and least favorite interpretation of the Force.

Would still reccomend watching it.