re: Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi Discussion Thread ***SPOILERS***

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Poe and leia were the main characters

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I felt like Poe was too. It felt from the start that the film was more about handing the leadership of the rebellion off to him from handling Finn/Rose behind the scene to the coup of leadership. I felt that this movie was about Poe’s growth in the resistance moreso than Rey.

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Rey isn’t a nobody. She’s a princess. Y’all will see..

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I mean we all fell for that and/or Snoke was going to have a cool backstory. But you still believe? That’s sooo cute!

Kylo Ren came on super strong as an interesting character in this movie. Even for all the other stuff it missed, that is one thing I liked about it. Unlike Cader from the original trilogy, who is an imposing killing “machine,” Ren is a great example of a conflicted force user (something the prequels failed horribly at). I have a feeling force ghost Luke is going to impart for character development to him in Ep. 9.

In some ways I think he is the main character of these movies. That and the visuals were out of this world.

On the other hand, the script was dogshit. All of the Rey/Luke scenes were untillegible garbage that were horribly underwritten. They made that whole arc into complete limbo jumbo. Almost all of the humor was really bad. The Poe/Hux scene was cringeworthy and stupid.

All of the complaints about Ackbar are legit. Holding does have some more connections in the expanded universe, but absolutely none of that came through on screen. It is amazing to me that they let Rian kill off one of the most beloved characters with an off-handed remark.

I’m not as upset about Rey’s lineage, but all of the shite they put into Ep. 7 about it seems really weird. At this point, I hope Ren was lying (or misled by Snoke). I feel conflicted about Snoke. I thought his death played out really well on screen, but I again have no clue why they made him so mysterious in Ep. 7.

I think this board is being hard on the Luke force projection. Projecting yourself that far and for that long is an amazing feat with the force based on the expanded universe. Luke went out pulling a nearly superhuman force feat. That is actually pretty amazing.

A lot of the Poe/Finn storyline wasn’t that bad, but feels pointless in retrospect. How many times is Poe going to do something stupid and get let off the hook though.

Lastly Leia Longstockings was bad.

I have not a bloody clue what happens in Ep. 9. I’m not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Probably bad, especially since they probably planned to use Leia in some way.

Explain to me how they tracked the rebels through hyperspace

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Explain to me how they tracked the rebels through hyperspace

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I thought they were going to explain it as Finn being implanted with a microchip. Instead it’s basically just deus ex machina.

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Explain to me how they tracked the rebels through hyperspace

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They had a thing-a-ma-jiggy they could do it because reasons

I loved yoda I’m it. Loved kylo ren. Luke’s storyline in this trilogy could’ve been so much more. Frick it hurts man

I think I’m also kind of pissed that it felt like we didn’t get an awesome Star Wars battle (not lightsaber fight but military vs military). Because honestly, the one in the beginning wasn’t all that amazing. Maybe it’s jyst the inner kid in me, but when I see Star Wars, I want a major battle.

I just can’t beleive how blatant Disney has made their SJW takeover in the past decade. It’s depressing as hell. Frick Goerge Lucas for selling out to gay Mickey Mouse.

The real reason Ackbar was replaced with Holdo. "A character w/ the name 'Ackbar' performing a suicide attack would have caused an epic sh*tstorm (and prob a fatwa calling for RJ's head)."