I love Rey’s hair during her conversation with Kylo after they fight off the praetorian guards and the tug of war for the saber.
Best action scene of the ST. Great looking composition. Nice choregraphy. Might even be the best moment of the ST, where RJ was turning the tide… too bad the following half hour was kinda regressing after 2 hours of boldness.
If by “boldness” you mean RJ promoting the whole “no good, no bad, no Sith, no Jedi, just Force” business, I’m glad the last half hour regressed–a good-evil dichotomy is what Star wars is built on. I think it should have been more explicitly rejected and done better.
I don’t buy that Star Wars is only a black and white, good-bad dichotomy, when Darth Vader has been one of the most driving forces in the franchise since 1980. It’s always been about choosing to do good over bad, but never at the expense of exploring how difficult it can be to do that. Or at least how easy it is to fall into doing otherwise. Luke has to reject his darkness at a pivotal moment in ROTJ, and Vader realizes that he can still choose - that his ability to do good isn’t as damned as he is. It’s not about good and bad people, it’s about choice.
TLJ says the exact same thing but expands upon those themes. That that struggle between good and bad is lifelong and eternal. That triumphing one moment in life doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep choosing over and over again. The line will only get more and more blurred, and it will only get easier to choose the dark. But you must continue. Every day. Being a hero isn’t a natural state of being. Nothing is. Poe can’t coast off good intentions, Finn can’t just be neutral, Luke can’t escape those choices.
If Darth Vader in ESB/ROTJ was about how being evil isn’t a state of being, then TLJ was a natural extension of that. Heroism comes from choosing not being.
Wow that was seriously a great post NFBisms. I still hate TLJ though sorry.
Also I am about 3/4 drunk right now. Merry Christmas everyone!