Yeah, I will watch it again tomorrow as well. Perhaps I will warm up to it too, but I will say, that despite it’s weak execution in the prequels, Lucas’ six episode saga had some underlying themes of hope and redemption that have gone by the wayside with this installment, like for example Luke who transcended his masters’ pessimism by believing in his overtly evil father’s capacity for good, now contemplating killing his nephew for having dark thoughts, and Leia ultimately giving up on her son at the end of this film. I know most people wanted to originality for TLJ, but this seems like throwing out the baby with the bath water.
If you think they abandoned the theme of hope in this… I don’t know what to tell you but… watch the film again, I think you’ll see it’s very much there.
I actually think they went a bit out of their way trying to force the hope theme on us…
Luke preemptively wanting to kill his nephew, and Leia accepting her son is lost for me is the opposite of hopeful. It screams pessimism. Parents should not give up on their children, and given Luke’s experience with Vader, his behaviour is inconsistent.
Yeah, but the final scene with the boy, and how Luke said that the Jedi were going to end and then he said that he wouldn’t be the last Jedi, and that light would always come back. I don’t know, just seemed pretty hopeful to me. Even the rebels after suffering heavy casualties are still somewhat hopeful. But that’s jut what I got from it