“What she has to do now will take all the rest of her strength” or whatever she says hardly clarifies much. It just says “Carrie Fischer’s character is about to go die.”
At least it clarifies that she’s making an active decision to do “something” vis a vis Ben, and that whatever it is requires the last of her power, similar to Luke’s final actions in The Last Jedi. Honestly, I’m not sure the visual storytelling here is strong enough to convey even that, as clunky as the line is.
Yeah I thought that line was also a soft explanation of the end of tlj in response to that criticism
Good point. And that’s precisely why I’d lump it in with the Holdo maneuver joke and it’s like. Those things were clearly injected as digs or responses to criticisms which have their place in OUR time. If it’s not “long ago, and far away” it takes me out of the experience and I’d sooner see it cut.
The line, to my ear, is at least as clunky as the Medic Droid’s “she’s lost the will to live” at the end of Episode 3, which HAL9k wisely replaced.