Jeff Miller
Shaw 1988, NYIT 2009
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My opinion is mostly unchanged after a second viewing. I might like it a little more. There's still a "what could have been" vibe with this whole trilogy, but I think RoS does the best it can with the rubble left from TLJ. I'll still never forgive Kathleen Kennedy for allowing these movies to be made with no clear vision/plan on what they would be and where they were going.
"A convoluted mess" is a good way to describe the sequel trilogy. They put too much effort into cranking out product and not enough into crafting a satisfying story to wrap it around. With as much money as they had to spend and the return of the original characters they could have made something really great that built on the Star Wars legacy. Instead we got something just kind of "meh" and completely disposable.I haven't really commented much on ROS, so a couple of quick comments. One, it was a good bit better than TLJ. The action sequences I thought were pretty good. Plenty of light saber fights, which I thought were fun. But from a story telling perspective, I don't know. Just hard to fill things in after the mess of TLJ.
ROS just left me asking a lot of questions and the ending was a convoluted mess imo. I understand why, but I just felt like more could have been done.
I thought it was better on a second viewing, but there are still glaring issues. Knowing the "twist" ahead of time puts more of the character's actions in perspective.
I'm guessing this isn't the end for the SW franchise, but I'm wondering what's next. I haven't read much about the next phase, or if that's even in the works at this point.
Nah, just the Skywalker Story. And even then I'm skeptical that we won't see an episode X eventually.
They've got a ton of things both Disney Plus and movies in development. The only things we're certain on are the Obi Wan and Cassian Andor Disney Plus shows. Everything else is rumor at this point, although yesterdat they did just announce Taika Waitti is cowriting and directing a movie, but we know nothing about it.
seems to be the consensus among sw fans. i still haven't seen ros and don't care.I'm so confused.
He didn’t. His son was actually a clone of himself, but you’d have to read supplemental material to know this.seems to be the consensus among sw fans. i still haven't seen ros and don't care.
astonishing that j.j.a. had all the advantage$ and none of the pressures of lucas, yet still delivered a steaming 7trilogy.
btw, when does THE galactic bad*** have time to bone, and why?
No it wasn't what it was all about, but Disney wanted to make the sequel trilogy their way and it's what we got.And again, this entire 8 episode epic saga, all the heroics, the rise and fall and rise again of Anakin/Vader, Obi-Wan getting the final hope Luke Skywalker involved to save the day and also redeem his father....all of this was leading us to Palpatine's granddaughter saving the day for the Skywalker family, then taking Skywalker family name?! Is this what this entire 40+ year story arc was all about?!