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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn
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There's no way to have an intelligent conversation about this here. No worries.
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I’ll give it a shot:
TLJ May be a good movie — happy to concede that. What it isn’t is a good Star Wars movie.
There are way too many structural and specific issues with the film that get in the way of most Star Wars fans enjoying it. It’s been combed thru extensively, so no need to do it again, but the lack of any well thought out narrative arc for a trilogy is the biggest and most glaring issue, followed by a depiction of characters that is inconsistent with the earlier movies. Things happen in TLJ that should NEVER have happened in a Star Wars movie. And I’m putting aside the story decisions (e.g. Luke is a grumpy outcast) that some don’t like because they preferred to see something else happen. I could give you 5-10 ideas that would have made TLJ a much better Star Wars film and I think that gets to the heart of the problem: Namely that KK wants to create a franchise that appeals to non-Star Wars fans and/or she doesn’t understand the basic elements of what must be in a Star Wars film.
Maybe JJ rescues the trilogy, but Rian went so far out of his way to simultaneously crap on the legacy of the series while ending every interesting story thread introduced in TFA. I’m not exactly sure what I’m supposed to be interested in about Ep IX — which is part of the reason most fans aren’t really interested in what happens next.
I still have my suspicions that KK’s real goal was to reset the franchise in a way that would appeal to markets that never really got Star Wars (insert: map of China), but at the very least she’s guilty of creating a trilogy that has no continuity (if RJ is to be believed) and she gave over iconic characters to a writer-director who didn’t understand what he was working with.