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S.Peelman on 21 December 2019
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I saw it yesterday.

Decent movie, it wraps up this trilogy in a satisfying way. It is true what people have been saying about how it feels like it's too fast paced. It's kind of tiring to watch. This proves how The Last Jedi was a waste of time, as Rise of Skywalker obviously tries to fix things from the previous movie and set things up for an actual plot in this one. It is necessary. After half an hour to an hour, the catching up is done though and things get a bit more streamlined. The movie answers pretty much all the questions we had in this trilogy, and most characters have a satisfying end to their stories. Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine does his job well. He should've been introduced sooner. It however doesn't really get rid of the feeling that the whole trilogy feels disjointed, not only from each other but also from the two earlier trilogies. The overarching story doesn't really feel like a necessary or logical follow up to the end of Return of the Jedi. The prequels never had this problem, they feel like they belong in front of the original trilogy. Rogue One also fits seamlessly into the story of the saga as a whole.

Overall I'd say, probably the best of the sequel trilogy, but I'll decide that definitively when I have seen it at least once more. For now personally, because ranking things is what we do on this site;

A New Hope/Empire Strikes Back > Return of the Jedi > Rogue One > Revenge of the Sith > Rise of Skywalker > The Force Awakens > Solo > Attack of the Clones > The Phantom Menace > The Last Jedi.

A couple thoughts below. Spoilers obviously:

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This is a pretty dark movie actually. The parts on the Sith world were quite unsettling. I love how Palpatine is as all-powerful as he is. He and Yoda are supposed to be the most powerful Force users that have ever existed so it's good that it shows.

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Palpatine being able to just Force Lightning the entire Resistance/Republic fleet at once is awesome. Like Vader said "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of The Force." Palpatine shows it. Minor nitpicking though, I realise Rey was supposed to have the backing of all of the fallen Jedi in the conclusion, but this was a good chance to get those Jedi visibly behind Rey and tie all the trilogies together. You hear their voices, but it would have been awesome if at first you see Luke, then old Obi Wan, then Yoda, then Mace Windu, then Qui-Gon Jinn and the other Jedi from the council, I think you even hear the voice of Ashoka Tano in there so show her as well, and then finally even Hayden Christensen's Anakin. Save Leia for the final scene on Tatooine like in the film now, that's powerful.

I don't like the fact that there's again some kind of planet-killing device. The Death Star was always supposed to be some ultimate terror, the pinnacle of Imperial might and according to Episode 3 and Rogue One some kind of super complicated tech, but then Episode 7 came with it's own version of it and now..

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They can fit a weapon that's as powerful on a single Star Destroyer. I'd say the ability to spawn an endless fleet of ships would've been enough already.

Also, I think the backlash about Rose's character when The Last Jedi came out probably diminished her role for this movie. She kind of felt like an Episode 2 Jar Jar. Next to that, I'm fine with Rey's origins and the resolution of Kylo Ren's character. I'm happy Chewie finally got a medal (Han's I presume), but Finn I am also impressed by how they used Leia after Carrie Fisher had already died. The use of earlier shot scenes is amazing. Not sure about Rey's healing ability though and it's too bad we never got an answer about how Maz got Anakin/Luke's blue Lightsaber in Episode 7 after it fell into the abyss on Bespin in Empire Strikes Back. But, I'm very happy my favourite Lightsaber colour, yellow, is now also finally movie-canon.

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Finally I was totally surprised by the appearance of Han Solo there, even if he was just a figment of Kylo's imagination, I did not expect Harrison Ford to be there at all. Cool to see Wedge again for a second.

Last edited by S.Peelman - on 21 December 2019