Well, the "all but" is just one guy
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I keep saying, the Mystery Box is a huge con job he's pulling on both his bosses and the audiences and he actually gave a TED Talk admitting it in detail
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If you just keep asking intriguing questions, and let people assume you've asked them with an answer already in mind, but really you have no idea, it's very easy to give the impression of being a very hardworking genius while actually being a very lazy idiot
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Hell even the *ending shot* of TFA is this People had their socks knocked off by how epic and dramatic it was to end the movie on this huge cliffhanger of Luke just staring at Rey and the lightsaber for a long continuous shot and then cutting to black
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Rian Johnson realized, almost immediately, that there was NOTHING he could have Luke say at the beginning of the next movie that would live up to the hype of this moment It was impossible JJ completely fucked him over with that cut
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That ending shot also contributed to what felt to me like one of TLJ's biggest problems: picking up minutes after TFA ended. Not having any time pass between movies kept the world if the ST from developing much, because there was no time for things to move along between movies.
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Replying to @FroyoBaggins @arthur_affect and
But Johnson didn't really have a choice because with TFA ending on that shot, you really had to pick it back up there in the next one.
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Right, and Johnson feeling pushed into the choice of "Luke rejects the call and tells Rey to fuck off" means that you can't do a timeskip involving Rey's life as Luke's student (like ESB did with Luke and Yoda) because the whole conflict is Rey not being his student
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I mean, he could have risked confusing the audience by just not addressing Luke and having Rey either off with the Resistance and not a Jedi, or hunting for her past on her own as a grizzled bounty Hunter Pull from ROTJ and reveal some random bounty Hunter is Rey 45 mins in
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You could probably fix a lot of it in the opening crawl. Traditionally it's been used to catch the audience up on offscreen developments since the last movie that they need to know about, but TLJ basically used it as "Previously, on Star Wars"
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He could've done that if TFA hadn't specifically ended with everyone on the edge of their seat waiting to find out what Luke said
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FroyoBaggins and
Abrams' TV roots were really showing there. TFA feels more like a pilot for a Star Wars show than a self-contained movie.
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Replying to @Elpico72 @arthur_affect and
And yet it's my favorite of the whole series, which is probably why TROS upsets me so much
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