Post by the light works on Dec 24, 2017 15:30:10 GMT
first, for the record, yes Mark Hammill DID say that wan't the Luke he would have done, but he also said that having gotten that off his chest, it was time to do the movie.
for me, the story worked. there were details I would have done differently, but there are always details a person would do differently. most of the details I would have changed were minor story elements, and effects choices.
the story of what happened at the academy works. it explainse Kylo's behavior AND the reason why Luke became a hermit. the story of Rey's parents also works. fanboys don't like it because it pretty much dumps all their intertwining speculation that is basically the idea there are a few "royal families" of force users on its ear. at that point, if Rey can be a nobody from no parentage, then that means Anakin probably was, as well.
Is Snoke dead or not? I am perfectly fine with dead. I am curious to know where he came from and how he came to power, but I am just fine with him having pushed Kylo a little too far and kylo snaps. remember, Kylo has snapped before.
Kylo taking over the first order? yep, perfectly fits with his wanting to finish his grandfather's work: remember, Anakin thought he could rule the galaxy better than anyone else, too.
so in the end, the resistance has lost nearly everything - just as at the end of Empire. but this wasn't a repeat of empire. I'm good with that. history doesn't repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.
my complaints:
luke was a little too flippant, sometimes. at this stage, when Rey handed him the lightsaber, would he flip it over his shoulder, like W.C. Fields would flip a cork, "don't need THAT, any more" or would he fling it across the island? would he really tickle Rey's hand with a plant and say "do you feel the force?" when he is trying to make a point about why the Jedi order is a failure?
the special effect for Chewie's roasted porg, was terribly rendered. it looked like a rubber chicken painted brown.
Yoda being chatty, also didn't work for me. he has never been chatty, so why would he start, now?
the hyperdrive crash into the flagship: yes, the special effects were impressive, but I would have made it look less like some superweapon cutting the flagship and every other ship in the fleet in half, and more like a catastrophic collision with shrapnel everywhere. as it is, it leaves me wondering why they are wasting time with energy weapons when they could just rig up a remote targeting system on X-wings and make hyperdrive torpedoes out of them.
and finally, "battering ram cannon." REALLY? what script doctor let that go through? that has absolutely NO style. I can let "miniaturized death star tech" have a pass with a name like that.
how about "breaching gun"
there were many other style choices, that I would have made, but those are the biggies. of the two, I preferred the storytelling in this one a bit more than in TFA. a good generalization would be the TFA brought in a load of side stories, while TLJ cleared out a lot of distractions.
for me, the story worked. there were details I would have done differently, but there are always details a person would do differently. most of the details I would have changed were minor story elements, and effects choices.
the story of what happened at the academy works. it explainse Kylo's behavior AND the reason why Luke became a hermit. the story of Rey's parents also works. fanboys don't like it because it pretty much dumps all their intertwining speculation that is basically the idea there are a few "royal families" of force users on its ear. at that point, if Rey can be a nobody from no parentage, then that means Anakin probably was, as well.
Is Snoke dead or not? I am perfectly fine with dead. I am curious to know where he came from and how he came to power, but I am just fine with him having pushed Kylo a little too far and kylo snaps. remember, Kylo has snapped before.
Kylo taking over the first order? yep, perfectly fits with his wanting to finish his grandfather's work: remember, Anakin thought he could rule the galaxy better than anyone else, too.
so in the end, the resistance has lost nearly everything - just as at the end of Empire. but this wasn't a repeat of empire. I'm good with that. history doesn't repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.
my complaints:
luke was a little too flippant, sometimes. at this stage, when Rey handed him the lightsaber, would he flip it over his shoulder, like W.C. Fields would flip a cork, "don't need THAT, any more" or would he fling it across the island? would he really tickle Rey's hand with a plant and say "do you feel the force?" when he is trying to make a point about why the Jedi order is a failure?
the special effect for Chewie's roasted porg, was terribly rendered. it looked like a rubber chicken painted brown.
Yoda being chatty, also didn't work for me. he has never been chatty, so why would he start, now?
the hyperdrive crash into the flagship: yes, the special effects were impressive, but I would have made it look less like some superweapon cutting the flagship and every other ship in the fleet in half, and more like a catastrophic collision with shrapnel everywhere. as it is, it leaves me wondering why they are wasting time with energy weapons when they could just rig up a remote targeting system on X-wings and make hyperdrive torpedoes out of them.
and finally, "battering ram cannon." REALLY? what script doctor let that go through? that has absolutely NO style. I can let "miniaturized death star tech" have a pass with a name like that.
how about "breaching gun"
there were many other style choices, that I would have made, but those are the biggies. of the two, I preferred the storytelling in this one a bit more than in TFA. a good generalization would be the TFA brought in a load of side stories, while TLJ cleared out a lot of distractions.