more complaining about The Rise of Skywalker

SPOILERS OF COURSE 

Chewy's fake out death. What was the point of that? It's cheap enough that they say "oh he was on another transport" when there was only the 1 transport. Out in the open. In the desert. That we saw clearly. In general I can't stand fake deaths. Marvel has done this a bunch too. This movie pretends to kill Chewy, Kylo and Rey, and that female character who Poe has a thing for. Bad look when your plot revolves around Palpatine, a character who was clearly killed in a movie over 30 years ago.

Palpatine is way too over the top powerful. A lot of movies do this too, have the big bad, or even the hero sometimes, be so over the top powerful that it's not credible. But it's so beyond anything we ever saw from Palpatine or Vadar or Count Dooku. Imagine if Thanos could do all of what he did in Infinity War without the glove. When Palpatine is wrecking ALL those ships it's just not believable.

It seems that the whiny fanboys who never shut up about The Last Jedi and obviously caused Disney and Lucasfilm to retcon the shit out of this movie largely don't really like this movie a whole lot more than the last one anyway. I would hope that this is the last time a studio goes to such extremes to placate a vocal minority of fans. Lucas changed some things in the prequels after the reception Phantom Menace got (obviously Jar Jar was meant to be a much more central figure in 2 and 3), but he didn't pretend like episode 1 never existed. 


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  1. MichelleDecember 21, 2019 at 9:52 PM

    Did Kylo make everyone imagine the transporter blew up? Maybe I’m overthinking it.

    I had a discussion with my brother about why Qui Gon wasn’t at the end of RotJ, I’m like because Luke has no connection to him but he does to the others. He’s like but he trained Obi Wan. He also thinks RoS is better than TLJ, he is one of the whiny fan boys.

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