by Harpua » Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:50 pm
Of course nothing to do with his buffoonery "saved" the rebellion so I don't know what that means.
Poe's stall and subsequent attack gave the rebellion time to evacuate the planet and jump to hyperspace. If Hux hadn't fallen for the trick, the fleet would have been destroyed before clearing the planet and jumping to hyperspace.
it's the first time I felt ANY of these movies was trying break away from the nostalgia death-spiral of the original tilogy.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, because you could probably say that about Attack of the Clones. It gave us a mostly original story with some similarities to the original trilogy here and there (Obi-Wan's half was original, but the Anakin / Padme stuff had some Han / Leia similarities), and it didn't use callbacks to the original trilogy for comedy or to advance the plot.
But are you REALLY expecting as much from those movies as you are from the latest Star Wars entry? It's the same genre of movie but no one asks all these nitpicky questions about something like Deadpool. Star Wars diehards just expect too much of these movies and they'll never get it
Since the writing staffs and directors change from movie to movie, I expect uneven quality. In this case, I guess I was expecting satisfying resolutions to: How is Luke going to react? Who are Rey's parents? Who is Snoke? Luke's reaction made sense, and I even didn't mind Rey's parents being "no one", but since they deflated the balloon on those answers, it would have been nice to get a satisfying resolution to the Snoke question. His actions were important to the plot, but without knowing who he was, how he came to power, how he learned the force, what his motivations were, they made a cool looking, main bad guy a weak character.
Also I am far from a diehard. There have been six Star Wars movies released in my lifetime - I've liked two. I don't read the books, own merch, and I've never seen the Christmas Special.
I would suggest you hop OFF Twitter
Trust me, NOBODY wants this. Just like I use the OKP to get my Phish stuff out of my system, so people who don't care about Phish don't have to listen to me talk about Phish, Twitter is where I get my Star Trek bullshit out of my system. Because there is a decent amount crossover in those fandoms, a ton of Star Wars nonsense pops up in my feed. (But I get what you are saying.)
Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.
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