Midgrade star wars fan here. I am not excited. Frankly theres no surprises or plot threads in this trilogy that I'm still interested in from the first two movies. Now let me get this straight I don't hate TLJ. Theres plenty of hate videos out there on youtube (many longer than the movie itself), and while I agree with some of the criticisms out there I don't agree with all of them.
(For instance, some people point out that if Rey's parents are nobody, it makes her a mary sue because she has power but not the lineage to back it up. It is friendly to the lore that Rey could be a crazy powerful force sensitive even if her parents are nobodies. Where do you think all of the Jedi from the clone wars era came from? Jedi weren't allowed to have kids except under rare circumstances. So all those other force sensitives just popped up.
Also a lot of critics point out the hyperspace ramming problem that TLJ, and how it has now opened a can of worms surrounding the mechanics of star wars space combat. But it happened in a legends comic...
And in the clone wars cartoon.
I though think this whole issue comes down to the fact that nobody ever bothered to actually bolt down the mechanics of space combat within the star wars universe leading to wild power yield calculations and things coming out of nowhere. The mechanics of space combat need not be realistic but they should at least be internally consistent within the world.
You hear criticisms of the last Jedi about these two things, which I disagree with. Just about every other criticism you hear some random angry youtuber levy at this movie I'll agree with.
Nevertheless this is kind of a digression but this is a fourm and I feel as though I should express my opinions into my defense of the last movie, which I was not a fan of, but I do think some of the critics are arbitrarily negative of. The point I'm trying to make is this movie is either going to be bad. Like really bad. Like worse than people view Attack of the Clones, or how these critics view The Last Jedi. Or this whole movie is just going to come off as a giant apology and course correction for the last Jedi. In which case I still don't want to watch it. It could be a good movie that rectifies a lot of issues that I and others had with TFA and TLJ. But then its going to be a standalone star wars movie largely disconnected from the first two movies in its trilogy I don't have any investment.
When I was younger and less cynical this show was the bomb. I'm cautiously optimistic about this.
JadeGreen17
I don't think Rey is a mary-sue because her parents are nobodies. Me personally I think she's a mary-sue because she's good at literally everything and kicks our big bad's butt in his first outing and then goes on to beat Luke Skywalker in a duel as well ALL without any real training. I was willing to be more accepting of her if the predictions of her being properly trained and having a genuinely good backstory...but she just comes off as a mary sue now who never earns anything.
The fan theory of her having her mind 'wiped' by Luke and having been a previous student of his who he sent to be hidden on Jakku would've been awesome.
But yeah as far as the 'force sensitive' thing goes...I'm not into the 'broom-kid' at the end and everyone being able to wield the force if they just believe. It just comes across like Syndrome from Incredibles.
"When everyone's super...no one will be."
My main issue with the film is also the treatment of Luke, it doesn't even line up with what we established in TFA in this same trilogy.
The Arc where Anakin and Obi-Wan go to Utapau(where the 212th betrayed Obi-Wan during Order 66) to try to retrieve the kayber crystal not to similar to the one they'd use in the Death Star. Lot's of foreshadowing and a overall entertaining episode.
