I don't.
The Last Jedi pretty much killed any interest I had in this.
The Force Awakens did have some problems but I still liked it. It did just steal the plot from A New Hope and made it as if the Rebels had never won against the Empire because we were just back in that same spot again and the Jedi plot got old really quick because we were immediately back in the "turned to the dark side ploy again" Still I liked it and I just viewed it as a starting point for better things and I was interested in all of the questions.....who is Snoke, who is Rey, who are her parents, how was she able to channel the Force so quickly like that, how powerful is Luke, what kind of Jedi is he now....etc.
The Last Jedi killed who Luke was, messed with Canon, threw away ALL the questions The Force Awakens set up....I don't even recognize this anymore.
Knowing what I know now I wish they had set these new films about 150 years after Return of the Jedi and made no ties to the original films and characters, no cast from the originals, no Empires or Rebels......I wish they had just gone somewhere new with this.
They just ruined everything trying to delve into the old plots and characters. They ruined, tainted and destroyed the existing characters and Saga and they just delved right back into the old formula of evil empire, freedom fighters, jedi turning to the dark side stuff. It didn't work.
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Heisenberg (6281)
5 years ago
Hans-Wilhelm, the force is strong with you, because you just read my mind with everything you said!
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WhereIsRent (1013)
5 years ago
Exactly this. The character assassination of Luke was the worst.
It would have been better if Luke had gone to the first Jedi temple to look for something that would defeat Snoke and bring balance to the force. He didn’t find it but was stranded there unable to fix his X-Wing. Anything would have been better than this depressed coward waiting for death who threw away his lightsaber.
The movie wastes so much time not going anywhere because Luke doesn’t want to do anything. A time jump would have helped where in that time Luke could have trained Rey and they could have got back on the Falcon ready to rejoin the fight and the movie starts there.
TLJ didn’t even have a proper lightsaber duel, you could have had Luke going up against Snoke but he dies and in episode IX have Rey and Kylo teaming up to defeat Snoke
It could have been a classic heroes journey like the original trilogy but Rian decided to subvert expectations on everything and take the story in a direction where the only ending now is Rey defeating Kylo, who has become a laughable villain seeing as Rey already defeated him in TFA and Luke humiliated him in TLJ.
Snoke was also a laughable villain only because of how he died. If written correctly he could have been a villain on par with Thanos if they’d actually explored his character more and made him the main antagonist of the trilogy.
I feel sorry for J.J having to come back after Rian chucked out everything he’d set up in TFA.
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mikethemartian (6057)
5 years ago
The days of young idealistic Luke were far in the past. He travelled far away from home and everyone he knew to find the lawn planet where he could finally grow the perfect lawn and this kid shows up asking him to train her. The only unrealistic part was that he didn’t immediately strike her down with the light saber and tell her to get off his lawn. Don’t you know any old people?
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