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Swazzy

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#931212
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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“What I meant was it is painfully obvious that Luke is the father, but being the person I am I desperately want that to be a revelation to the audience because mystery box. Even if it doesn’t better the narrative at all to instead just directly tell the audience at he end of the first movie.”

JJ should just tell people it’s in Rian’s hands now and save himself from any more sensationalized headlines. Early ‘leaks’ had said the movie ended with Rey reaching an abandoned temple and finding Luke inside, who immediately told her that he was her father. I suspect the only reason it didn’t happen in the final draft of the story was because JJ thought a silent Luke would’ve made it all the more powerful of an ending.

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#930792
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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Lord Haseo said:

Swazzy said:

ray_afraid said:

I think he learned that lying is a great way to conceal spoilers.
And why not?

Also if Luke wasn’t he father, doesn’t that kind of render the reprisal of his “the force is strong in my family” monologue in the second trailer utterly meaningless?

No because Kylo Ren is of the Skywalker lineage. Also unless he says those exact words in one of the sequels the monologue means shitall.

It’s either complete farce or the dialogue was explicitly re edited to make it sound like Luke was taking to a direct descendant. In the original scene, having the force is a revelation to Leia, and Rey going through the same exact thing in this movie, I don’t know why we’d be expected to think otherwise about the meaning of those words. They’ve dropped more than what can be only described as hints that Luke’s the father, and if they back out now just to be less predictable, not only does the narrative for our main character make a hell of a lot less sense, but it also completely nullifies JJ’s entire ‘mystery box’ concept in terms of slowly letting the answers to these questions unwind over the course of the trilogy. I just hope Reys father isn’t a sentient, ancient puff of smoke in the end.

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#927802
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Filmmaker and New Yorker film critic Richard Brody's thoughts on the prequels.
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TV’s Frink said:

Lord Haseo said:

IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer said:
…We truly are the most pathetic fanbase in the world.

We’re definitely in the MLP, Minecraft, Breaking Bad and FNAF spectrum. Only difference being is that there are a lot more of us than them.

Speak for yourself. I don’t even know your language.

You don’t know how lucky you are