Board Thread:Star Wars/@comment-4935956-20191219160853/@comment-4935956-20191223015710

-Price- wrote: 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. Looking back it's very clear Disney had no clue what they were doing with this trilogy and it was just a cash grab. Like you said, it feels like it was written by people with conflicting ideas and I personally blame Kathleen Kennedy for that. She should've kept JJ & Rian on a tighter leash, making it very clear how the trilogy was going to play out and the important plot points they needed to incorporate. Say what you will about the prequels, but at least Lucas had those mapped out BEFOREHAND.

By itself, TRoS is a good film and I have to give JJ credit for trying to clean up the mess Rian created. That being said, however, it is absolutely horrendous as the conclusion to the saga. Bringing back Palpatine completely undoes Anakin's arc as the Chosen One and his sacrifice at the end of RotJ.

Tldr the sequel trilogy is an absolute mess that should've never been made, but at least we have the Mandalorian.