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shakibone · 1 month

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Ok, it's time. You may now infodump about The Rise of Skywalker

So I've thought a lot about Star Wars Episode 9

...not just as the actual film that got made, Rise of Skywalker, but everything that led to that film's flaws, and everything I would have done with the ninth episode of Star Wars and culmination of the Sequel Trilogy (but would not have been able to do due to the laundry list of executive meddling).

I am far from the first person to have tried to run a fix-fic on this trainwreck, and I'm far from the last. I'm pretty sure the last person will be Dave Filoni, engaged as he currently is in trying to build support beams beneath that film so that the whole franchise doesn't collapse when it decides to explore that era again. Good luck to him on that endeavor!

Before going in on my bulletpoint plotpoint list (because writing it up as a full fic is not worth anyone's time) for Shakibone's Episode 9, I'll clarify one thing: I enjoyed Episode 8 a lot and hold it up among my top three favourite Stwarses. That being said, it had some huge flaws that could be amended... I liked Canto Bight and Finn's character arc being about getting him from merely supporting the Resistance to protect his loved ones to fully wishing to fight the First Order, but I didn't like how that plot was executed by denying him any Jedi and Force business. With that in mind:

Finn is a jedi now (or at least training) and Rey has got a double ended lightsaber. Maybe she used the broken Khyber crystal from Luke's to make her double ender, or maybe who-gives-a-dang. It's cool and matches her previous staff-based fighting style.

Kylo Ren is our primary antagonist, and he hasn't rebuilt his stupid helmet. Assuming Disney mandates a redemption and a new helmet for merchendising, I have a redemption plan explained below).

Leia is either dead from the start, or offscreen throughout. No making a CGI Corpse Actress for Carrie Fisher, and no reusing previous footage to pretend she's there throughout. The film either opens with her dead (and the opening crawl starts with "THE GALAXY MOURNS" which I think is a solid opening line), or she's away on another mission and we see her through holograms and once at the end (via limited use of prior footage and a voice double).

With the New Republic HQ blown up and the First Order's flagship blown up, the Galaxy has descended into factionalism. The First Order is still strong enough to get these new factions to bend the knee, however.

Kylo is the Supreme Leader of the First Order, but he doesn't actually do his job. Hux is left with the actual day-to-day running his "Empire", which suits Hux just fine.

In case it needed to be said: Hux, the true believer frothing-at-the-mouth fascist is not a mole for the Resistance. That's dumb.

What's got Kylo distracted from ruling the First Order? He's busy hunting down ancient Jedi and Sith artifacts, and destroying them! Burn the past, remember?

Either that or he's hunting the Resistance.

Following Luke's big sacrifice, the Resistance actually has a decently equipped military as their allies have risen to join them.

By the end of the film there is no New New Republic, or New New Jedi Order. We gotta build something different for the franchise going forward, not just return to the Status Quo. The Galaxy is divided, albeit not destructively so. Focus on the idea that maybe the Jedi Order and the Republic, which gave rise to and were destroyed by Fascism twice, are not necessarily great ideas.

Palpatine cameo via pre-recorded message or Sith Holocron because Ian McDiarmid is a delight to see and I am no more resistant to clapping at the things I remember than anyone else.

On that note, Hayden Christensen shows up as a Force Ghost to give Kylo his (potential) redemption talking too. Speaking of:

So, assuming that Disney will mandate that Kylo be redeemed (because even in my fanfic I assume Star Wars will have executive meddling), here's my plan for Kylo's redemption:

Kylo does a big redemption moment of saving Rey and the Resistance or whatever. Maybe he had a heart-to-heart with Grandpa Anakin and saw the error of his ways.

Kylo, as his Empire burns: "Grandfather, I called to you for aid! Why did you never answer!?" Anakin: "I did answer. I was there every time you heard a voice telling you stop and go home." Kylo: "It's too late for that now. There is no saving me." Anakin: "Maybe… But it's not too late to stop, even if it won't earn you redemption."

What is important is that Kyle gets massively fucked-up-mangled in the process and is presumed dead. Then at the big Resistance party before the credits Rey turns around like she's gonna look at some ghosts smiling at her, but it cuts to a planet where some First Order Remnant trying to enslave some kids to be stormtroopers. Ben shows up in a suit like those Redeemed-Vader concept art that the scrapped Star Wars Battlefront 3 was gonna use and saves the kids. When they ask who he is he says: "Ben… from Nowhere". Ben turns around, sees Rey in the scene watching him, she smiles, he leaves. Ben gets to survive and redemption, but he's gotta spend the rest of his life dismantling the evil regime he built, and he'll get no fame or acknowledgement for it except from Rey.

Anyway, that's the sickness in my brain.

As a reward for having sat through my rambling, here's the cool Redeemed vader concept art:

#Star Wars #Episode 9 #fix fic #Rise of Skywalker #here's how I woulda done it!

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mitigatedchaos · 8 months

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December 14, 2028.

The committee appointed by Republicans finally releases the finished recut of Rise of Skywalker into two movies, with Part 1 officially taking the place of Episode 8 in the main Star Wars series. A master copy of The Last Jedi is burned onto five golden discs as a record of shame.

You might question the authority of the Republican Party to decide the canonicity of Star Wars. You might even hold shares of the Disney company. But do you really want to lose your job over this?

The new Episode 8 disc arrives in the mail and you replace the Episode 8 disc in your collection. 25 minutes of new CGI footage gives John Boyega a more prominent role after his untimely death. Reylo is officially canon.

#star wars #media_tag

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themattress · 1 year

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A NUANCED LOOK AT THE SEQUEL TRILOGY’S CONNECTIVE TISSUE.

A post brought about by my recent rewatch.

People always bitch about the bad part of this subject given Disney/Lucasfilm’s lack of a solid visionary plan and the trilogy being tossed between different directors with different styles. But what about the good? Because a lot of good still managed to come through despite this.

........Ah, fuck it. Let’s just get the bad out of the way first.

THE BAD:

Finn - If there’s one character that everyone down to the actor himself agreed was screwed over in the Sequel Trilogy, it was poor Finn. He was a huge part of The Force Awakens, and even if the marketing making him look like the new central Jedi character was a lie to hide that it was actually Rey, the film foreshadowed him as Force-sensitive which meant he could still become a Jedi by the end of the trilogy. Instead, his importance was drastically reduced in The Last Jedi, he was treated more as comic relief than a leading man, certain scenes that could have set up a good arc in the last film where he leads a Stormtrooper rebellion were axed, and nothing was done to further explore his Force sensitivity. In The Rise of Skywalker, his Force sensitivity is confirmed but not explored or even told to Rey, and out of all the main characters his arc is the smallest and least consequential-feeling in spite of him playing a pivotal role in the final battle. In many ways, it feels like Poe ended up usurping Finn’s originally intended role, which is ironic since Poe was originally supposed to die after Finn busted him out and they crash-landed on Jakkuu, his last act being to eject Finn to safety. The character was meant to be a springboard for Finn, but it went the other way around.

Maz Kanata - She was introduced in The Force Awakens as a Mystery Box of a character, living for thousands of years and running a space cantina while dealing in less-than-legal activities, but also attuned to the Force and very wise about the cycle of imbalance it’s been through, and having personal connections to Han and Leia. Despite how intriguing the character was, absolutely nothing was done with her in the following two movies. We never learn any more about her, nor does she do much for the plot beyond helping in an ill-fated space mission in The Last Jedi and providing Leia-based exposition in The Rise of Skywalker to run interference for Carrie Fisher’s death. Oh well, there’s always the expanded universe...

Anakin’s lightsaber - Speaking of Maz, how did she recover Anakin’s old lightsaber, which was lost along with Luke’s hand in Cloud City? “A good question - for another time”; another time which never comes in the movies. And that’s not the only issue this damn thing has - it’s also used for the fake-out of Finn as the main Jedi hero only to say “Psyche! It’s Rey!”, it’s used for the notorious cliffhanger ending to The Force Awakens and the even more notorious follow-up of Luke tossing it over his shoulder in The Last Jedi, it’s used for Rey to unfairly best Luke in combat when they were fighting with staffs, it’s used to kill Snoke with, it’s used for awkward archive footage of Carrie Fisher twice, and it’s used for a controversial callback where Luke catches it and says “a Jedi’s weapon deserves more respect”. I agree; it does.

General Hux - He has a solid set-up as an antagonist in The Force Awakens, then when he takes his villainy further in The Last Jedi we get more development of his obvious animosity toward Kylo Ren which might lead up to him betraying him. But when he finally does in The Rise of Skywalker, it’s “I’m the spy!”, then about a minute later Bam! Dead. While some of this is The Last Jedi’s fault for using him for broad comedy too often which neutered any menace he might have once had and that naturally made using him as a major villain in the final film feel ill-advised, he still could have accomplished a lot more then he ultimately did.

Captain Phasma - Even Hux had it better than Phasma, who appeared early into The Force Awakens, then disappeared until one largely comedic scene near the end, then resurfaced in The Last Jedi’s third act only to be killed off...and in the much less climactic way compared to another version that was shot. Geez, why hype up this character yet do so little with her!?

Vice Admiral Holdo - While new characters be in every Star Wars movie with some of them being one-offs, Holdo is a case where making her a one-off feels like a grave mistake. The character is introduced out of nowhere in The Last Jedi as someone who’s been with the Resistance the whole time and has a deep history with Leia, yet we have never seen her before and her appearance makes her someone it would be hard to miss in a crowd. Then she makes herself as frustrating to the audience as possible, fucks up and then redeems herself by sacrificing her life in a blaze of glory. That sacrifice is designed to make us feel something, but we hardly know nor like Holdo so it falls flat. In retrospect, I think Admiral Ackbar should have stuck around long enough to make the sacrifice play and Holdo ascended to Admiral rank which she would carry forward into The Rise of Skywalker. We then could see her develop more and get to like her more, and she could do a lot of heavy lifting needed due to Carrie Fisher’s passing. The Holdo Maneuver was awesome, but Holdo being the one to perform it and die in the process, all her potential left untapped, was not.

Canto Bight - If we had to be put through this God-forsaken casino planet in The Last Jedi, at least make it mean something in the end! Let the fathiers be the ground team’s mounts in the final battle of The Rise of Skywalker, let Canto Bight be the planet that funded the Final Order’s creation, bring in the broom boy to do something instrumental, have fucking DJ return and do something instrumental, anything! Because otherwise, what was even the point?

OK, now for the good!

THE GOOD:

Kylo Ren - I have zero complaints as to how Kylo Ren was handled in this trilogy. I frankly don’t care that we never saw how Ben Solo was corrupted or got all the details behind his mindset spelled out to us; the character we saw on screen went through a perfectly natural progression that lived up to the initial pitch of “Darth Vader in reverse”: from conflicted and vulnerable to self-assured and ruthless to “killed” and reborn as a heroic Jedi who deals with his mother’s death in a positive way and is able to save the woman he loves through pure selflessness. Adam Driver’s performance helps sell it all as a grand, cohesive character arc.

Rey - And I’m talking specifically about Rey’s character. Her personality. This is something that Daisy Ridley carried across all three films; I was always interested in Rey and liked her and wanted to see what she would do and how she would overcome the challenges placed in her way. If she’s the start of a new Jedi Order, then the galaxy is absolutely in good hands.

Rey’s heritage - Yes, I’m going there. I think the films as a whole actually tell a good story about Rey discovering her heritage. She’s uncertain about it in the first act and wants to believe her parents were exceptional people who had a good reason for abandoning her on Jakkuu, then in the second act she comes to grips with the fact that they weren’t and for all she knew just sold her off for drinking money but that’s fine because she’s found a new family to belong in now, and in the final act she learns that her parents did love her and abandoned her for her own protection from her grandfather, who is exceptional in the worst possible way and at direct odds with the new family she has found. In the end, Rey defeats her grandfather and embraces the name and purpose of her found family, because that’s the family her spirit connects with in spite of her blood. It’s a beautiful message that deserves more appreciation.

Rey’s power - Again, I’m going there. The explanation that she is so powerful in the Force so naturally because she’s part of a Dyad in the Force with Kylo Ren due to them being the grandchildren of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader makes perfect sense when you consider the depth of the relationship between Palpatine and Vader and how instrumental that relationship is to the entire Skywalker Saga. Oh yeah, and speaking of that Dyad...

The Dyad - Everything about this concept is fascinating and portrayed superbly. From Kylo Ren sensing something special about Rey immediately, Rey seeing Kylo Ren in her vision before meeting him, and Rey reversing Kylo’s Force probe on her mind back at him before defeating him in lightsaber combat in The Force Awakens to the Force-based conversations from entirely different locations which culminates in them touching from that distance in The Last Jedi to fighting through the Force from different locations and even passing objects back and forth between one another through the Force and Ben giving all his life force to Rey in order to resurrect her in The Rise of Skywalker, this was an awesomely executed plot point.

Han Solo - Given Harrison Ford’s notorious dislike of Star Wars and the character he played in it, it’s something of a shock that he ended up as the best utilized old character in the Sequel Trilogy. His role and development in The Force Awakens is perfect and although he dies by the end in a failed attempt to turn his son back to the Light, this death is never forgotten and reverberates across the rest of the trilogy, culminating when he appears as a Leia-induced memory that completes his son’s turn to the Light in The Rise of Skywalker.

Snoke - Yeah, I’m kind of surprised too. But Snoke ending up being a literal bad clone of Palpatine who is the puppet he uses to lead the First Order and manipulate Ben Solo through makes his whole character kind of genius. When he is introduced in The Force Awakens, the musical motif from “the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise” from Revenge of the Sith plays, which led many to suspect Snoke of being Darth Plagueis back in the day. But now that the trilogy is completed, its meaning is more clear: that scene was actually about establishing Palpatine’s knowledge of ways to use the Dark Side of the Force to cheat death, and Snoke is a direct product of that knowledge being put to use. Then there’s the fact that Snoke is so much like Palpatine: from the hatred of everything Light, Jedi and Skywalker, to his throne room adorned with crimson-clad guards, to his decrepit appearance, to his use of Force Lightning, to him attempting the exact same gambit in The Last Jedi that Palpatine did in Return of the Jedi. Everything about Snoke now feels like foreshadowing that Palpatine is pulling the strings from the shadows, which honestly makes Snoke a stronger character for it.

Ach-To - This place features in all three movies, and it’s great. Not much else to say, really.

The Battle of Crait - For all of The Last Jedi’s milling around, its conclusion ends up being highly impactful. Kylo Ren is now Supreme Leader of the First Order and on the verge of wiping out the Resistance, who have sent out a signal for help but no-one in the galaxy answers. Then Luke Skywalker, the Legend, appears to face Kylo Ren in a duel. They fight, only for Luke to disappear like magic in the end after he’s bought the Resistance enough time to escape. The story of this battle spreads like wildfire across the galaxy and in The Rise of Skywalker, despite Poe’s fears and doubts, when the Resistance calls for aid in a climactic battle again, this time the galaxy answers the call. It’s a dramatic pay-off not just to a situation in this trilogy, but from the observation by young Anakin in The Phantom Menace that the galaxy’s biggest problem is that not enough people help one another. Well, they do now.

Lastly, things I’m half-and-half on.

THE IN-BETWEEN:

Poe Dameron - Aside from stealing Finn’s originally planned position as the leading man on the side of the Resistance, Poe’s character changes in every movie. He’s an admirable, upstanding guy in The Force Awakens, then a hot-headed, reckless and paranoid moron in The Last Jedi who has to learn how to be more admirable and upstanding, then a frequently angry guy struggling under the weight of leadership and embarrassment of his criminal past in The Rise of Skywalker. Even Oscar Isaac soured on Poe by the end, feeling maybe he should have stayed dead in the first film! But with that said, I feel that the screenwriters’ dialogue and Isaac’s performance helps keep a consistent likability to Poe even when he’s at his worst, and there is at least a semblance of a consistent character arc of becoming Leia’s successor as the Resistance’s leader. He could’ve been better, but he could’ve been worse.

Rose Tico - On the one hand, I am perfectly fine with her reduced role in The Rise of Skywalker compared to The Last Jedi; given the circumstances of the story it makes perfect sense that a character we only met in the previous film takes more of a back seat in the Skywalker Saga’s finale. But on the other hand, the bad editing on the film cutting her role down that much (approx. 2 minutes of screentime in an over 2 hour film) is unforgivable, especially considering the harassment that Kelly Marie Tran received from “fans” in real life.

Luke Skywalker - Once it got going, Luke’s character arc in The Last Jedi was amazing, and his contributions as a Force Ghost in The Rise of Skywalker were pivotal to its conclusion. However, early into The Last Jedi he was depicted as way too much of a grouchy asshole for my liking, which didn’t match how he looked when we saw him at the end of The Force Awakens. Even if Luke had depression and given up everything, I just can’t see him being so rude and hostile toward a perfectly nice young girl he just met who only wants to help. Rian Johnson could have stood to listen to Mark Hamill’s concerns more, it would have helped.

Leia Organa - Leia was infamously meant to be “the key role” in this trilogy, particularly in Episode IX. And she does play a major role, completing Rey’s Jedi training (with Rey also completing Leia’s as a result), sacrificing her life to save Rey and bring about her son’s redemption, and helping Rey from beyond the grave through both her spirit and her lightsaber. However, she does all this with limited time on screen, because Carrie Fisher passed away before The Rise of Skywalker could be filmed and they were stuck relying on archive footage and body doubles. And before this, Leia was honestly pretty underwhelming in the movies where Carrie Fisher was actually alive and playing her, especially in The Last Jedi where after a narm-tastic moment where she floats through space like Mary Poppins, she is put into a coma for a good portion of the movie and does little but shoot Poe and have an emotional reunion with Luke after waking up. I don’t get it - giving Leia and Carrie Fisher a major role was a huge goal for Kathleen Kennedy, yet she didn’t allow her to be utilized as much as possible when alive and on set. It just can’t help but feeling as though the character and her actress got screwed over one last time, just as they often were in the Original Trilogy.

The other old characters - Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, Lando Calrissian, Admiral Ackbar, Wicket the Ewok, the Force Ghost of Yoda, the helmet of Darth Vader...all of them were fine. Sometimes there were issues, like Chewie and Threepio being relegated to pure comic relief filler in The Last Jedi, Ackbar being unceremoniously killed off in the same movie, and Lando’s screentime being cut short in editing while also losing the firm confirmation of Jannah being his daughter in The Rise of Skywalker, but otherwise there was nothing offensive here.

Emperor Palpatine - I love that Palpatine was brought back as the mastermind behind everything and the Final Boss of the trilogy and Skywalker Saga; it made the most sense and you will never get me to budge on this. However, the execution of his return was admittedly ridiculous. The Dead Speak! Palpatine sent out a broadcast to the galaxy that we never hear! Less than two minutes after the opening crawl and we see him! No explanation is provided as to how he’s alive! Somehow Palpatine returned! It’s both way too much and way too little, and all in such a short amount of time. Plus, we could have used a little more solid foreshadowing beyond just Snoke that Palpatine was at large in the previous two movies; it really would’ve gone a long way. Aside from this, Palpatine’s presence as the Big Bad is most welcome.

The Knights of Ren - They’re purely perfunctory; I’ve got no strong emotions toward them either way, though I wish we had some of them in The Last Jedi for consistency’s sake.

That Force vision - The vision Rey receives when touching Anakin’s lightsaber in The Force Awakens is a pure Mystery Box style scene from J.J Abrams, not really meaning anything. With hindsight, though, you can easily read meaning into it: Rey being told by the Jedi who have joined with the Force that she is key to saving the galaxy (”These are your first steps”), Rey getting her first hint of being part of a Dyad with Kylo Ren, and Rey’s parents leaving her being related to something important about her lineage. So in that light, it’s pretty damn cool.

The Resistance vs. the First Order - My biggest mixed feeling on the whole trilogy is its primary conflict. Doing such a direct rehash of the Rebellion vs. the Empire from the Original Trilogy is just so lazy, and the lack of advancements in many of the characters, technology and situation in the galaxy makes Return of the Jedi almost feel like it was all for nothing. However, there are just enough new factors to still make it an interesting conflict I want to see through to its conclusion, and it really pays off in side material such as books, comics and Disney theme parks. So I ultimately like it, but wish that it could’ve done somewhat fresher.

#Star Wars #The Force Awakens #The Last Jedi #The Rise of Skywalker #Opinion #Analysis #Comparison #This has been a PSA

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newdougsblog · 2 years

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With the Kenobi series currently being released and Love and Thunder on the horizon, I’ve decided to start a lil’ something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while that I’ve been calling PW—Predictions and Wants. It’s pretty self-explanatory, I think.

After the series is over/after I’ve watched the movie, I’ll come back and reflect on how close (or far) my predications were and see if any of the things I wanted to happen did indeed happen.

So without further ado, here’s PW: The Kenobi Edition!

Predictions:

There will be at least one flashback containing new footage from before the rise of the Empire.

This next one was honestly the main thing that motivated me to do this: When Vader and Obi-Wan fight (because we all know they’re going to at the very least confront each other), Vader will incapacitate Obi-Wan and have the opportunity to go for the killing blow—but doesn’t. He instead leaves Obi-Wan there. This is simultaneously the last merciful act of Anakin Skywalker—the boy Obi-Wan once loved—and the ultimate revenge of Darth Vader—whom Obi-Wan left to die alone on Mustafar (I actually wrote a fic in which this happens after the first teaser came out (you can find it HERE). Dave Filoni has also discussed how George Lucas was insistent that Vader can’t be diminished (it’s touched on a bit in THIS interview, but I couldn’t find the original video interview in which I heard that tidbit). We also know how obsessive Vader is. Even before his Fall, we’ve seen how he attempts to compensate for prior losses and ensure that they won’t happen again, even when they weren’t his own. This trait is evident in the “Obi-Wan and Anakin” comic, when he battles a training droid he specifically altered to mimic Darth Maul’s fighting style:

Listen. I just really want this to happen. It makes sense and it's angsty.

Wants:

Obi-Wan double-wielding his lightsaber and Anakin’s. I’ll also accept him using a blaster and a lightsaber in tandem.

Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber for the first time in the series upon facing Vader.

During the inevitable rematch, flashbacks to their fight in ROTS—like their movements lend themselves to a seamless back-and-forth between past and present.

Obi-Wan and baby Luke interactions. Please. I need them.

#star wars #kenobi series #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #darth vader #kenobi #kenobi spoilers #speculation #PW #PW: Kenobi Edition #meta #obi-wan and anakin comic #so many meta ideas not enough time #sorry this is a bit messy

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socialwicked · 2 years

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‘Rogue One’ Original Review: Star Wars Thrills, But Still a Footnote

Again in 2016, Lucasfilm launched the 1st Star Wars film that wasn’t component of the Skywalker saga — Rogue A person: A Star Wars Story. A person of the movies stars, Diego Luna, is about to get his have display in Andor, streaming on Disney Additionally from Sep. 21. So Disney is re-releasing Rogue One particular in IMAX theaters on Aug. 26, with a sneak peek at Andor footage. To rejoice, this is our first review of Rogue A single from 2016.

When Obi-Wan Kenobi brought Luke Skywalker to a place termed Mos Eisley a long time back in a galaxy considerably, considerably away, he explained, “You are going to never discover a much more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

But Rogue 1: A Star Wars Story finds a number of. And though the heroes of the first Star Wars hopped in the Millennium Falcon to leave the wretched scum driving and blast off into galaxy-spanning space opera experience, there is normally some thing of the avenue about Rogue Just one.

Rogue One particular is the to start with spin-off from the key Star Wars saga. It expands the tale beyond the epic films we’ve observed so far, revealing what it can be like to stay in the Star Wars universe when your identify is not Skywalker.

Technically, it really is a prequel — slotting into the saga in the wind-up to the 1977 primary and hence stuffed with references for lovers to get pleasure from. But from barren labor camps to occupied desert cities to slight armed service outposts, the emphasis stays on bit-section players who push the action when the significant names are off addressing galactic federal government, wooing royalty and practising their lightsaber swing.

Felicity Jones prospects the ensemble solid as Jyn Erso, a petty felony drawn into the Rise up in opposition to the evil Galactic Empire. She’s surrounded by a dust-streaked crew of small-time rogues and renegades performed by Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed , Jiang Wen and Mads Mikkelsen. Amid them, Donnie Yen is the stand-out as a blind monk who’s a dab hand at roughing up Stormtroopers even without having a lightsaber.

Regardless of becoming a concoction of motion capture and CGI, Alan Tudyk’s droid K-2SO is a single of the most lifelike of the people. Which is a compliment to his hilarious effectiveness, but it also reveals how the relaxation of the proficient forged is remaining brief-transformed by the script. The film sets up a assortment of interesting figures — Whitaker’s extremist rebel, for example, or Ahmed’s guilt-ridden Imperial pilot — but won’t entirely commit to its intriguing thoughts.

Diego Luna, in specific, fails to influence as an icy assassin, but that could also be for the reason that his soulful eyes are just soooo dreamy.

And as exciting as the individual figures are, they don’t spark the type of chemistry that among Rey, Finn and Poe carried us by means of the significantly sillier Pressure Awakens .

On the opposite aspect of the Force is the sneering Director Krennic, played with pantomime relish by Ben Mendelsohn. Like the heroes, Krennic is definitely a small character in the Star Wars saga, a footnote in galactic heritage. He is a petty bureaucrat, an bold opportunist blindly serving men who take gain of his shorter-sighted moi to exhibit what evil genuinely is.

The shadow of the Dim Facet looms over the movie with appearances from acquainted villains, but Rogue 1 is in quite a few approaches a glance at the banality of evil, of the workaday compromise and minimal-degree corruption that retains the cogs of galactic tyranny grinding.

Speaking of villains, Rogue 1 repeats a mistake of final year’s The Power Awakens, leaning a minor much too difficult on CGI to deliver just one of the main villains to lifestyle.

Fortunately, Rogue 1 avoids the tacked-on ending of Force Awakens and it’s in the closing third that the new spin-off bursts into daily life like a Star Destroyer exploding into flaming carnage. The ending fight sees director Gareth Edwards diving headfirst into the Star Wars toy box, pitting lumbering walkers and swooping X-wings versus every single other in no-expense-spared battle. And you will find a climactic sequence that may be one of the finest moments in any of the Star Wars movies.

Faithfully brushing up towards the Star Wars saga, Rogue A single nevertheless can take us places in the universe we have never ever found in advance of. It might not have the joyous spark of experience as the classic films, but it is really nonetheless a thrilling glimpse into the street life of a galaxy considerably, significantly absent.

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villainsinlove · 5 years

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“People keep telling me they know me. No one does.”

“But I do.”

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker (2019)

#star wars #starwarsedit #reylo #reyloedit #tros spoilers #the rise of skywalker #filmedit #CAN YOU BELIEVE #dumb comments get blocked btw #edit: im dumb and realized i forgot about the new fight footage so added #mine

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wishingupontheskyandstars · 4 years

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Gahh Finallyyyy!!! We see Kylo with the Knights Of Ren!!! Yesss!

#yes I replayed this second of new footage many times already 😌#lol ugh so nice!!#latest tv spot #‘celebrate’#hmm that title <3 #star wars #the rise of skywalker #tros spoilers #kylo ren #ben solo #the knights of ren #!!!!!

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buffshipper8490 · 5 years

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According to this article, Dark!Rey in The Rise of Skywalker trailer may be a Force vision after all!

#star wars #rise of skywalker #rise of skywalker spoilers #the rise of skywalker speculation #the rise of skywalker #episode9 #episode ix #star wars episode ix #star wars episode 9 #esquire #dark rey #d23 expo #d23 2019 #d23 #d23 trailer #d23 footage #d23 news #reylo

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millennium-reylo · 4 years

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damn Disney really out here trying to give away the whole movie before it even comes out huh?

#look #I’m always happy about new footage #but #i want SOME surprise when I see the movie #reylo #kylo ren #rey #tros #tros promo #the rise of skywalker #star wars

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thatgirlinskullz · 5 years

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I FKIN LOVE THIS LIGHTSABER DESIGN OMFG ASHASASHDASDASDAS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#rey #sw #star wars #episode 9 #rise of skywalker #d23 footage #spoiler?#omfg #this lightsaber #the design #her new look #the dress #i don't care if it's just a vision #i fkin love it #aaaaaa

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grimwcr · 4 years

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Does anyone else think it’s super weird that they chose to reveal Snoke’s identity...in a trailer?

#memoires #tros #star wars the rise of skywalker #they should stop releasing all his new footage

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swiftreylo0402 · 5 years

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Vanity Fair The Rise of Skywalker pics and BTS footage pt 2

Full article: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/star-wars-cover-story?verso=true

#star wars #reylo #the rise of skywalker #2019 #characters #Vanity Fair #New Pics #BTS footage

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fictionadventurer · 2 years

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I hope it's okay to come in here with a random out-of-the-blue ask, but I know you like the New Trilogy of Star Wars, and... well, I was just wondering if there's anything you didn't like or think was done poorly? I don't want to make a fuss, and you can delete my ask if you want. I just got the thought in my head, and I wanted to know, that's all :)

I never mind random out-of-the-blue asks. Thanks for asking!

The short answer is that I dislike the vast majority of stuff about the Sequel Trilogy. As a whole, it's a soulless, cash-grabbing mistake. Star Wars has never been a good franchise, but it's a creative one. As bad as some of the stuff in the previous movies was, you still got the sense that this was George Lucas' creative vision, sometimes weird and objectively terrible, but personal. This is Star Wars made by committee, Star Wars not as a story, but as a franchise that fails to tell any meaningful story at all.

The Force Awakens, while derivative, introduced some amazing characters and an intriguing potential story, and it's the reason I got into Star Wars in the first place. The Last Jedi is a movie with some of the best imagery and character arcs in the franchise, and some themes that are extremely important to me personally, so I'll always have a special love for it. But The Rise of Skywalker is where it all falls irreparably apart, to the extent that I don't think Disney can tell any more stories set around or after the Sequel Trilogy. This is where it becomes clear that there was no plan. This series was all promise with no payoff. All those intriguing threads in The Force Awakens were just bait to make us pay for more movie tickets. Anything interesting and new and personal that The Last Jedi did was ignored in favor of a million new plots and characters.

To be honest, when you sent the ask, I'd never watched Episode IX. I saw the reviews and the spoilers and never bothered. I watched it just now for the sake of answering this ask, figuring that if I was going to tear apart the trilogy based on this movie, I'd better actually watch the movie for myself. That's two hours of my life I'll never get back. I can't think of a movie that's been more painful for me to watch. It's just two hours of stuff happening--images and words thrown together almost at random, with no plot logic or character coherence at all. Leia's lines are clearly just copy-pasted into scenes based on what they had from leftover footage, and it feels like the whole movie was constructed that way--just bits and pieces that they had lying around that someone pasted together into a two-hour collage.

I can't even coherently explain what's so bad about this movie. It's easier to list the few things I did like.

The first couple of minutes, with Kylo Ren's lightsaber stuff, was cool-looking and interesting. It reminded me of what I like about the sequel trilogy and made me think for a very short while that perhaps this movie wasn't going to be as bad as its reputation.

Poe and Rey bickering when he gets back to the planet. It makes no sense that he thinks it's dumb for her to be training as a Jedi, but the bickering about how to handle the ship and BB-8 showed a bit of personality and gave them a slightly interesting dynamic.

"Somehow, Palpatine returned" being delivered with Oscar Isaac's most dead-eyed "my career is over" look was even funnier than it is in the gifs.

The snow on that one planet was cool. I'm used to Star Wars only having snow on snow-planets. This was just a light dusting, which made for a different look, with the light sparkle adding visual interest to an otherwise typical set.

That hairdryer droid was adorable.

That little alien hacker dude was interesting, too.

Hux as the spy had potential for, like, five seconds.

That moment when Ren takes the necklace from Rey.

The chalk dust cannons.

The fact that they meet other First Order defectors.

Ben's talk with Han mirroring his moment in the first movie.

The moment when Rey's lightsaber appears in Ben's hand.

The moment when Ben brings Rey back to life. They look at each other and for, like, five seconds, I actually believe in them as a romantic couple. But only for those five seconds.

And that is absolutely it. Every interesting moment in that movie was never followed through on. We just moved on to another random plot point or another five new characters or another ten new spaceships and never built on anything or had any connection to anything whatsoever. I'd say this was like kids playing a game with their toys, except that is an insult to all kids everywhere. At least kids have passion for their stories, and this movie has none.

Star Wars is based upon movie serials, but it was never really a serialized story. Each movie told its own story. Each movie gave you the information you needed to connect to the characters and understand the story they were in. Those movies had us connect to the characters and then be surprised by a twist. This series promised us a twist while never telling us who the characters actually were, and when we did find out, it meant nothing because we never really connected to these characters or their story. It's just empty, all smoke and mirrors with nothing of substance.

This trilogy had amazing casting, some very promising characters, gorgeous visuals, all thrown into a pointless story. And that's really a shame, because it could have been better if anyone had really cared.

#star wars #the rise of skywalker #answered asks #long-live-the-gobop #this is one of the worst meta posts i've written but i just don't have anything better to say #my brain cells have all been destroyed by that movie #i want to watch the prequels just to refresh myself with something that has more substance and soul #that's how bad this was

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