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Post #1146794

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DrDre
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
21-Dec-2017, 10:41 AM

Matt.F said:

Ha, Dre - you’ve proven nothing!

It’s not about proving anything. It’s about writing a coherent argument, rather than just spend your time qualifying other people’s argumentd. It’s allways very easy to stand on the sideline, and yell: “Yeah, your argument sucks!”.

You have an issue with Rey, but Luke did his “massive” Dagobah training in what… around 48 hours or so.

I again paraphrase Lucas’ words on the subject:

"The Force is a perception of the reality that exists around us. You have to come to learn it. It’s not something you just get. It takes many, many years…Anyone who studied and worked hard could learn it. But you would have to do it on your own.”

You have to study hard, and you can do it on your own. Luke spent the three years between ANH and TESB honing his Force skills after Obi-Wan had shown him the basics. You may remember, he was able to do a Force pull at the start of TESB. He then got trained by Yoda on Dagobah for a period that may have several days, or more. It does take time to travel through space, you know, and the Star Wars galaxy is 120,000 light years across, meaning it would take 120,000 years to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other at lightspeed. The Millenium Falcon can travel .5 past light speed, whatever that may be. Even though the movie intercuts between different scenes, this does not automatically imply these events are happening at the same time.

It’s true, if you applied your level of nitpicking to Empire Strikes Back you’d rip it to shreds but saying that The Last Jedi fails is ‘selective’ in the extreme.

My suggestion for those grown men who choose to nitpick - and I don’t know whether this applies to yourself or not, this is a general suggestion - would be to go and watch the movie with children. Whether your own kids or a nephew, and see it through their eyes. It might make you remember some of the magic and escapism you felt when you first watched ESB as a child.

I still remember that magic very well, and all of those movies can withstand my level of nitpicking very well. You’ve yet to come up with a single argument, that shows the original films having the same level of inconsistency among themselves (and I’m mostly restricting myself to the OT, since I’m not much of a PT fan).