The use of a weird phrase like "The Phantom Emperor" in the crawl immediately made me think "oh, that was the title at some point."
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Replying to @the_moviebob
Rey is the Phantom Emperor, if you think about it
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @the_moviebob
You and I had a conversation about this before, but I think it's a problem that Star Wars titles went from being fairly literal homages to old serial titles to these odd metaphorical things that only make sense in retrospect and don't necessarily match the events of the films
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Rian Johnson said The Last Jedi is Luke
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Yeah, but compare to like "The Empire Strikes Back" you know what that's about going in to the theatre in 1980, just like something like "Flash Gordon: and the Revenge of Ming" or whatever, "The Last Jedi" evokes a sense of mystery and possibility that the classic titles don't.
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I dunno about that, Return of the Jedi sounds like it could mean a new character actually showing up, having it just mean Luke himself becomes a Jedi was kind of a letdown (Because they didn't nail down that "There is another" meant Leia until they were writing it)
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Oh I agree. I think only "A New Hope" and Empire really fit the bill. I think you could make the case that because the OT was more self-contained "Jedi" works a little better. Attack of the Clones almost gets there if that title had anything to do with what happens in the movie.
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The clones do attack
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hyperdriveprof and
I mean, sure, but it’s not exactly the core event in the narrative.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect and
I thought Attack of the Clones meant specifically Order 66, which is a pretty pivotal moment, especially in the worldbuilding in the SW universe. I find the titles make a lot more sense in general if you assume they're about where the movie fits in the grand arc of history.
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Order 66 doesn't happen until nearly the end of the next movie
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