so many people are mad about the various retcons and worldbuilding flubs in TROS and like. I get that, but at the same time, I was never, ever watching Star Wars for crisp details and continuity. I am here for the characters, the drama and the space magic visuals.
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by the same token, I just Do Not have the energy to hold TROS up to a critical microscope on plot grounds because It Is Star Wars! and the characters are doing things I like, or which at the least make sense to me, and also there are pretty visuals! The End.
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"but WHY is palpatine back??" listen. LISTEN. I did not live through the Jar Jar Binks Era and Obi-Wan uncritically accepting his mystery army of identical men to start caring about whether the SW universe makes baseline sense at this late date.
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"but in the supplemental stories, it CLEARLY states that-" sir I admire u for caring but I literally Do Not. there are supplemental materials where luke "extremely gay in armani" skywalker had a hot female wife. there was a christmas special where chewy had a son called lumpy.
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do not come to me complaining about a sky full of force lightning. it is STAR WARS. did we ever care that darth maul was meant to show that the sith were a species, except for how they weren't? do I require a naturalist treatise stating the exact diameter of a wamprat? NO.
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I understand that the geeksphere feels very kindly towards rian johnson at present as he has made a cool new original movie (which I am sadly yet to see, because Life, but which I badly want to) but knives out being good shouldn't retroactively redeem the last jedi.
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the point being, while I respect the right of people to be as critical as they like about any film whenever, I have been... baffled, shall we say, by the sudden collective decision to treat star wars worldbuilding and continuity Extremely Seriously, when it has never mattered b4
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Oh god this. Not to mention the sidelining of Finn and making Rey into a doe eyed devotee of the Ben Solo Redemption League.
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And even as someone who does care about the lore and details, Last Jedi pisses me off way more on that end because its sense of morality is fundamentally broken.
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I think this is the first negative commentary I’ve seen of TLJ that’s not just pissy manbaby crying :) Although I read Poe’s arc in TLJ as learning to see the bigger picture and think tactically. What was your take on it?
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I think the whole thing was an idiot plot that totally twisted his character from what it was in TFA. There was no good goddamned reason to have him be sexist about Holdo or for her to keep her plan secret, and that whole middle chase section did nothing and went nowhere.
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