Tracking The Rise (Or Fall?) of Skywalker

[S.Peelman]

thismeintiel said: 

S.Peelman said:

Well. My banking on word of mouth for this one causing better legs than Last Jedi didn’t pan out. Maybe I just really wanted to be positive. Even though its a better movie, pretty terrible performance by Rise of Skywalker.

It's going to take much more than a convoluted retcon job go fix this franchise.  TLJ just left too much of a bad taste in many fans' mouths.  What they should really do is just wipe TLJ and ROS out of existence and follow up TFA with a couple of decent films.  Keep Snoke as the main villian.  Maybe have him turn out to be Plagueis and be a little more gray, instead of pure evil like Palpatine.  Add some actual weaknesses to Rey and stop having her OP.  Do something interesting with Finn and the Knights of Ren.  You can still have Luke die, but bring the old Luke back and have him make an ultimate sacrifice that even means a damn.

Instead of repairing the blot on the franchise that was the prequels, they took a hammer to the franchise to mold it into some mindless, hollow shadow of its former self.

It would be better if they weren’t canon. It’ll never happen though. These exist now. They’re called “VII, VIII and IX”, they can’t be unmade.

Personally I’m not bothered by Palpatine. On the contrary, he should’ve been there all along. It was weird that Palpatine was always supposed to be the biggest Force power out there, but then all of a sudden there happened to be another one; Snoke. Anyway that’s beside the point. Snoke, Palpatine or someone else, there just should’ve at least have been a consistent plan.

Last edited by S.Peelman - on 12 January 2020