Thinking about it, TROS kind of comes eerily close to my wacky idea to do a film festival of "anti-pilots", big series finale episodes to TV shows you just made up The whole thing is based on trying to gaslight you into feeling nostalgia for something you just learned existed
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That we'd watched the tragic betrayal of Palpatine's son in the prequels and thought of it only as a sign of the Emperor's final descent into evil but only now realized it had a deeper meaning That the Lost Sith World of Exegol was a fandom meme up to this point
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That Dominic Monaghan has always been there as a beloved member of the Rebel HQ, like Mr Poopybutthole
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Ugh there's so much of this in the movie Even the little stuff, like retconning Poe's personality so that he's clearly the new Han Solo Making it seem like Luke was actually Rey's father figure
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It makes the stuff that actually WAS a moving callback to older movies feel fake because it's lost among all the fake stuff (the X-Wing rising from the water, the binary sunset, "I know")
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