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#1143694
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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No I think it was supposed to be that Snoke wanted them to be brought together, and his plan was to have Kylo kill her so that his resolve would be stronger - and the threat he previously thought was Luke would also be gone of course.

The two characters being connected was still fascinating. The Ying/Yang idea was the most interesting part of the film, no more bloodlines only mystical cosmic energy. The idea of balance made sense for once.

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#1143198
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Good article, but I think everyone knows what it was trying to be. Whether they liked it or not is a different matter.

Random thoughts while writing about the movie - I really love the bit where Rey is outside the Falcon putting her hand in the rain. No explanation needed. Also that Luke’s green saber is never seen after the flashback.

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#1143195
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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The Knights of Ren are sort of weird back story (like certain elements of SW before we had prequels) and or mystery box nonsense so who cares. Maybe they died, maybe they will be in IX. Whatever. The best part was they threw out so much “wooo what an enigma” stuff JJ is so fond of, and it makes TFA stronger because of it.

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#1143097
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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JARUS5 said:

who else feels that episode 9 will take place several years later. That i think would be the best way to deal with carrie fisher’s death. a funeral scene just to acknowledge her passing kind of the way they did leonard nimoy’s passing in star trek 3

Jeez I hope not. Best case scenario would be that they cut together a few deleted scenes or different takes form TLJ to let her be.

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#1143096
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Ranking the Star Wars films
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DominicCobb said:

I’ll never understand the Marvel joke criticism thing. First of all, what’s wrong with having jokes in your movies? I’d be quickly bored with Marvel movies if they didn’t. Second, just because there’s a lot of humor doesn’t automatically mean it’s the same kind of humor as Marvel tends to do.

Yeah I don’t get it. SW is my favourite, and it’s full of humour. We don’t live in the 70s anymore so comedy asides today are executed differently, but they are a part of this series.

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#1142842
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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It didn’t suck and it was better than The Force Awakens. Structural problems, certain comedy/fan servicey aspects, and pacing are an issue … but I appreciated that it’s a movie that does a few things that are unexpected, while actually making the force feel magical again and also including enough good character moments for everyone. Rose was kinda meh, score was kinda meh. But stuff with Luke and Leia was great. It was overall… good. Maybe not great, but above the average so I approve.

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#1142281
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Star Wars: The Lucas Film Edit (aka 'How Star Wars was saved in the edit' video)
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Verboten said:

Really highlights what the problem with SEs and prequels is, too. George really didn’t change at all. I think this also shows that he stubbornly felt he was right all along. See how the trade talk pops back up in TPM’s crawl. Honestly surprised he didn’t make further changes in the SEs to return the film to its original version.

Quite right. 1977 could have just been The Phantom Menace under another name, and it would have just been known today as a weird over budgeted experiment.

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#1142277
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Disney to buy 20th (21st) Century Fox? (Disney has now bought them - 14 Dec '17)
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Cobra Kai said:

Mocata said:

Mike O said:
He writes, “There’s one pretty noteworthy person who doesn’t want them released. Shouldn’t be too hard to research who that is.” (https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/941382975853281281).

I’m not sure what the subsequent discussion here is implying but this seems pretty unambiguous to me (his shitty sarcasm aside) … and it’s the same thing everyone was told by Kennedy months ago. What else is there to debate now?

Kennedy never commented on the possibility of an OOT release.

Only if you grasp hard enough at all those straws.

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#1142265
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Disney to buy 20th (21st) Century Fox? (Disney has now bought them - 14 Dec '17)
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Mike O said:
He writes, “There’s one pretty noteworthy person who doesn’t want them released. Shouldn’t be too hard to research who that is.” (https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/941382975853281281).

I’m not sure what the subsequent discussion here is implying but this seems pretty unambiguous to me (his shitty sarcasm aside) … and it’s the same thing everyone was told by Kennedy months ago. What else is there to debate now?