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Collipso
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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18-Dec-2017, 5:03 PM

Ryan said:

Collipso said:

Ryan said:

dahmage said:

Ryan said:

TV’s Frink said:

Speaking of other message boards, I just read this on another one, and it’s spot on.

All this discussion and posting really shows the tough part about working on franchises like this - I doubt there was nearly this much discussion, theorizing and fanboying for the original trilogy. It was fresh and there was no internet, not to mention no years of backstories, extended universe and ages for people to decide what Star Wars was to them. I don’t think you could ever make a perfect movie now for it that will satisfy everyone or even most people - again that’s why I respect Rian for doing what he did in this film.

This is why I originally felt that the original main characters like Luke, Leia, and Han shouldn’t be in the new trilogy.

But then I thought about it and changed my mind as I was expecting to have a badass all powerful Luke Skywalker. I figured it’d be worth the risk to be able to see a Luke kicking ass. But then we didn’t even get that. Oh well.

I doubt two years ago people would have said they wanted a Luke Skywalker who was living like a hermit in isolation and doesn’t really do anything in the movie as far as Jedi battles go, etc.

Oh, i think Luke was quite kick-ass in this.

What I mean is Luke doing Jedi master battles and things like in the extended universe. Or even something like the lightsaber battles in the prequels. We didn’t get any of that. Luke might as well been a nobody or a regular person in TLJ not counting the force projection thing he did at the end.

I think it was a huge missed opportunity. I think people were expecting to get a Luke like we got in the extended universe. I kept up with all the Luke theories people had passed 4 years that we were going to get, and none of them were even close to what we got.

I guess now the best we can hope to get something like that would be a post Jedi cartoon or something with Luke doing Jedi Master things.

This is sounding a lot like Yoda vs. Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones or Yoda vs. Emperor in Revenge of the Sith.

I don’t like the prequels. But I did like some of the lightsaber battles. I thought those were the high points of the prequels. I know people who hate the prequels generally say the lightsaber battles weren’t too bad. But I’m not saying those lightsaber battles were perfect or that I liked everything about them or liked every bit of choreography. But I thought they were in the right direction. It’s like they took the lightsaber battles in the OT and cranked it up a notch.

Well, they made it pretty clear that they’d distance themselves from the prequels as much as possible due to its poor reception.
I like some of the prequels’ lightsaber fights too, don’t get me wrong. I like Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs. Darth Maul and Obi-Wan vs. Anakin has some great moments and some awful moments too. The rest? Eh not so much.