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Message: [QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 3232076, member: 2133"] Yep. The single biggest problem with Star Wars, which is weird because the whole thing has made billions of dollars, is the lack of any kind of cohesive underpinning. This started with Lucas when the changed the visual aesthetic of his universe in the prequels (based on his being blown away by CGI) and then Disney drops the ball on speccing our their narrative arcs for the sequel trilogy by not keeping their creative team consistent. One thing that keeps gnawing at me is the exponential growth of jedi power. In A New Hope, the jedi knights were mythical warriors yet the only thing that Obi Wan did was wave his hand a few times for a mind trick, light saber some drunk in the bar, and lose in an unspectacular duel with Vader. But it all worked to keep people blown away and kids wanting to be a jedi and drive a multi-billion dollar franchise. Yet by the time we get to IX,[SPOILER] Rey is tractor-beaming transport ships and Palpatine is lightening bolting an entire fleet.[/SPOILER] I thought the movie was fine as far as an action movie goes, but the whole thing kind of feels like junk food: pretty good at the time, but I don't think I got anything lasting out of it. The fake outs were obvious, the action seqeunces were predictable and went on a little too long, some things didn't make sense (and boy does JJ likes his plot devices, there's a lost map, a spy, a thingamabob, etc.). I felt they discarded the best things from Rian's movie and doubled down on the some of worst things from TFA. This movie was supposed to the be the end of the Skywalker Saga, but it ends[SPOILER] with Rey, apparently a Palpatine, adopting the Skywalker name? One of the best parts of TLJ was that it opened up the universe that if Rey was unaffiliated, then [I]anyone [/I]could be a jedi, and therefore opened up the opportunity for more movies that will make billions of dollars[/SPOILER]. I think they screwed this up. [SPOILER]In one of the expanded universe plot lines, the Empire had constructed a giant fleet and stashed it away for contingency purposes. Additionally, it was, IIRC, supposedly automated. But it seems like JJ took the idea of the lost fleet, but couldn't or didn't feel the need to shoehorn in all backstory to it.[/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]

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