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Post #1145422

Author
DrDre
Parent topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
19-Dec-2017, 4:39 PM

For me it’s quite simple. Star Wars is a language, that has a fairly limited vocabulary, which are the story beats. It also has grammar, which are the rules of the universe, such as becoming a Jedi requires dedication and a lot of training. George Lucas and his collaborators have used this language to make some beautiful sentences, and poems.

What the creators of the ST have done is to change the order of the words in hopes of creating new sentences, and poems. With TFA fans complained the poems are too similar to previous ones. TLJ has opted to more dramatically change the order of the words, but I and a few others argue it hasn’t added many new words to the vocabulary. We also argue it doesn’t allways use the Star Wars grammar. To some of us the sentences have become incomprehensable because of this.

The throne room sequence is an example of this. It uses words allready used by the OT, but changes the order to the point, that it’s like a joke, where we get the punchline without a proper setup.