cornerbackcastiel:

rosemoonweaver:

@cornerbackcastiel replied to your post “So I just saw The Last Jedi.  I liked it a lot, personally. I…”

As I just walked out of the theatre as well, I’m excited to see your thoughts! 🙂

Oh man I don’t even know where to start, honestly! I’m still processing most of it (and this is after spending hours last night discussing it with my giant nerdy brother.) Uhmmm, spoilers below the cut I guess. 

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I’m doing this on mobile, so to my followers, spoilers ahead for The Last Jedi. 🙂

I agree with a lot of what you said. Visually, the film was stunning to look at. Like you said, the cinematography was amazing.

I was so conflicted on Holdo at the start (which I think was the point – she’s working against our “hero”). I think it was very humbling for Poe, who had been selected in the previous film to carry out this Very Important Mission and this film, he had to learn his place, and what it’s like to be a cog in a machine. I enjoyed how they worked that for him.

I agree with everything you said about Luke and the Jedi vs Sith. It was so hard to see him fight himself and admit failure, but I loved the way they did it (it wasn’t very surprising to me as there were similar story lines in what’s now called the Legends series as well).

I enjoyed how our three “mains” we’re separated, had their own missions and stories, but were still given the same amount of attention, as well as how they wove together. I was also meh on the Rose/Finn thing, but I did like how they worked together and brought each other back to reality when it was needed.

For Rey, the scenes where they wanted us to “hang” as far as her decisions, I felt enough to be believable, but I didn’t see any expansion about her darkness/conflict like we did with Anakin, Luke, and Kylo/Ben (even though they say it’s there). I also enjoyed the fight between her and Luke, mainly because its such a departure from your typical “good vs bad” fights with two people of “good” fighting due to their own beliefs.

The two main non-space battle fight scenes (Rey and Ben and Luke and Ben) were so fucking amazing. And the former also falls into that not-good-vs-bad grey area that I like.

Obviously, I thought the Porgs and BB-8 were adorable lol. Overall, I did not have very many complaints about this movie. 😀

OMG yes! I forgot to mention the fight between Rey and Luke! That was awesome and I adored it. Definitely fun to see more fights that weren’t so black and white and the scene with Luke and Rey was a great example of that. (Also I love how pissed she got. She does not like to be lied to lol.) 

I almost think it isn’t really about her darkness but more about her willingness to go places the others deem inappropriate. Like when Luke freaked out I kinda didn’t get it because how was she supposed to know looking in that cave was verboten? It didn’t seem like that big of a deal to me. But maybe that’s the point? Rey is willing to use the “darkness” and things that are on the darkside (anger , destruction, ect) if it’s helpful. Maybe. IDK if that’s what it was supposed to be but I’d like it if it was. They’ll probably explore that more in the next movie. Maybe.

And that’s a good point about the audience hanging on her decisions. Obviously they can’t make her decide right away because they’ve still got another movie to do and there has to be some mystery. 

And yes, BB-8 and the porgs were adorable. I kinda want one now lol.