The Rise of Skywalker.

[Arturo Bandini]

(12-22-2019, 12:06 AM)CKwi88 Wrote: Star Wars Episode VII: A New A New Hope
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
Star Wars Episode IX: The Return of The Return of the Jedi

This entire sequel trilogy has left a bad taste in my mouth. While I did enjoy each film individually  (yes, even TLJ), the most glaring flaw in the entire thing is just how unnecessary the entire thing was. While the prequels deserve their fair share of criticism, they at least added something to the original trilogy. With the sequel trilogy I feel like Disney hadn't quite thought up a confident way to tell their own unique story, so they threw one together and then added in the familiar faces to appeal to the fanbase.

And it largely worked. Episodes VII and IX are familiar enough to not piss off the older fans, but are kind of just empty shells of movies. While VIII gets duly mocked at times, at least it took risks and tried to do something different. But since Rise of Skywalker is familiar enough, it'll get a pass for things that The Last Jedi won't. Hate the forced love plot between Rose and Finn and that time spent on Casino planet? You should hate the sudden love connection between Kylo and Rey (and Poe and whoever the rando masked woman was) and the time spent on wherever the droid hacker thing was. Hated that Leia all of a sudden uses the force? Oh, she also has a light saber! Hated the forced comedy? Get used to it 'cause Disney owns everything now. What are these force powers we've never seen before? Too bad Luke hadn't learned the Lay on Hands, heal for 5x your character level so he could help Vader out at the end of RotJ.

Don't get me wrong, I was more than entertained during the film (and all of the films). I just think that time will judge the sequel trilogy very poorly. They'll call it "The Skywalker Saga", but the sequels don't really fit.

I hope to have more Star Wars in the future, I think there are some excellent stories to be told. But the series needs to jump to another point in time, related to none of the characters we've seen so far.

By doing this, Ben Solo is fullfilling what Anakin couldn't do and lead him to the dark side : Save the one he loves from dying.

Somehow, he's closing the loop.