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@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. 

@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. 

I really liked the character development we got from this film, honestly. The stuff with Poe and Holdo was well done and allowed him to grow into the leader we’re probably going to see him become in ep 9. Also I loved watching his flying in this movie. Rouge One was the first time I’ve ever seen a space battle that I was 100% interested in and this outdid that imo. And! Holy crap! The visual of Holdo flying the cruiser through the star destroyer?! Killed me! So gorgeous! But I loved the lesson Poe learned and how that was really clear at the end when his mission was not to fight and die but get the rest of the rebellion to safety. 

I really loved seeing Luke Skywalker again. My brother has some issues with his whole… fucking up royally thing and I get that completely but I also think it kinda worked. Like, imo, the idea that if you built up a character as The Good Guy and A Legend that tends to go to a person’s head and they can wind up screwing the pooch. I mean, to me, the whole thing between Luke and Ben is like a microcosm of the Jedi Order and the Sith. The Jedi create their own problems b/c they’re The Good Guys and offer no solutions for dealing with potential darkness other than like.. killing it or kicking it out. (That’s how you get Sith lords, guys.) So like, I get why people are upset by it with the whole “Luke Skywalker would never” thing which I do understand but I actually don’t think it’s too far out of the realm of possibility. 

Rose was adorable and I loved her. She was kind and badass and self-less when need be but wasn’t going to stand behind sacrifices that didn’t really need to be made. (I really didn’t want to see Finn die.) I did think the romance between her and Finn was a little… meh but it didn’t make me super mad or anything. It was just… meh. The Casino stuff dragged a bit but I also liked that they brought up the war machine and how when it comes to war profiteering there are people who play both sides. That was kind of important I thought. 

I still love Rey. She’s a little up in the air for me in terms of what she’s going to do and how she’s going to fit. Like, don’t get me wrong, I get that she’s the light side character and she’s gonna defeat the evil and all but I’m not sure how and where we go with that based on what this movie just told us, you know? Like, the Jedi kinda sucked at their job so we need something else to balance the force. I mean, if this means grey Jedi I’m all over it like white on rice and I will die happy, but if not it’s kinda… why? Why have that whole thing about dark and light and balance and all that if you’re just gonna do more of the same in the end. I dunno. I will hold out until the final ep to talk about that. 

Hux is a fucking snake and he’s gonna be a big problem in ep 9. Mark my words. 

Okay so here’s the part I lose a bunch of people. I love Ben Solo. Like, maybe it’s the soft squishy part inside me that loves villains or maybe it’s be possibility that he could be saved from his own inner darkness, but I just love the character. He’s fascinating to me and I really feel bad for the guy. The part where he killed Snoke and then he and Rey teamed up to fight the guards was so fucking badass and I wanted to scream b/c holy shit!!! Yes?!?!?! It was fun to watch and I wanted sooo badly for him to just decide he was done with it. (I mean, I think he is as it is with the whole “no jedi, no sith, no first order, no rebellion” thing, but he’s got a ways to go still if he gets to join the right side.) It will be interesting to see what happens in the next movie b/c I personally don’t think he could lead his way out of a wet paper bag and that Hux is going to use that to his advantage, but that’s just me. 

Okay and the shit with Luke at the end was so badass. I really loved what this movie did with the force and advancing what can be done with it. 

And obviously I loved looking at it. There were some down right beautiful shots and the colors were great and it was just… I really loved it and I don’t have all the words to describe why I loved the cinematography but I did. 

So those are my thoughts. My long, rambly thoughts lol.