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#1324288
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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About the Dreadnought destruction:

In the moment it isn’t heroic. There’s a shot of Poe looking at Paige’s bomber falling into a fiery inferno and he does a sad face.

And then while everyone’s celebrating on the cruiser, Leia looks at the death toll and sighs.


The movie’s take on self sacrifice is: Useless self-sacrifice is bad. Paige didn’t need to die. If the battle had gone differently, she would have lived.

Holdo needed to destroy the Supremacy and only had one way to do it.

Finn’s self sacrifice wasn’t needed because it wouldn’t have changed anything.

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#1324286
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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I really really love your takes NFB!

One of my favorite things about TLJ is that it really destroys the old ‘Übermensch’ idea of force users. While I don’t think that George intended it, the fanbase/writers in the old legends continuity really really liked using that fascist idea of ‘strong bloodlines make people strong’ and stuff like that. Everyone who was good at things had to have some force connection because their dad had the force or whatever.

This movie is about resistance to evil and how everyone can/should fight back, and how you can be strong even without “strong blood.” And even those people with “strong blood” aren’t better than anyone else.

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#1324071
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Return of the Jedi Renewed (released)
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FreezingTNT2 said:

@IlFanEditore says that he doesn’t really like the visual quality of Return of the Jedi, yet he’s fine with the fact that it is very easy to tell that the ships are practical effects.

FreezingTNT2 said:

@IlFanEditore Can you edit the ships themselves so they’re much less obviously models/practical effects?

IlFanEditore said:

Lol, nope. That’s like going to the moon…
Plus, I never minded the ships look that much.

they immediately clarified what they meant:

IlFanEditore said:

First of all, I came to hate the visual quality of the original ROTJ. I dislike most of the coloring, and how many things look oddly out of focus.

They didn’t mention the ships. ‘Visual quality’ can be read in different ways, but they specified what they were talking about.