Are Mara Jade stories good? Been wanting a good female Jedi, and so far we’ve gotten Superman Leia and Mary Sue Rey
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I think Mara Jade is in those. Maybe it was the previous 9 books to Fate of the Jedi called Legacy of the Force
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a weird fucked up way of their universe’s mother nature making sure things aren’t too far one way or the other.
Your story sucks and you should feel bad.
At least the story had Natalie Portman in a mid riff.
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While everyone’s talking about the Star Wars franchise; the Star Trek franchise has its own problems…
We have to give him that.
Chekhov’s Gun. 
No the meetoo movement…
The metoo movement is a nationwide problem, probably worldwide problem.
Rewatching The Last Jedi at the moment. Will provide random tidbits, probably by editing this post as things happen.
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The bananaphone scene is a lot shorter the second time around. Probably because I already know how awkward its going to be. Still not really all that great.
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Poe doing awesome x-wing pilot stuff is still pretty awesome. The special effects are pretty damn amazing even wtih my low streamed version of this movie. It feels weird how long it took to deploy tie fighters. I say feels weird because technically they just arrived from light speed. Doubt they were ready to have things roll out but maybe they should’ve.
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Poe has a convo with Leia about Dreadnoughts being fleet killers. Doesn’t seem like much but this lets the audience know that somehow there are more of these. If you have these massive ships that can bombard a planet’s surface, and pressumably you have a lot of them, wtf was the point of blowing up planets altogether. It makes it seem like the alliance planets really didn’t have their shit together after 30 years.
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BB8 fixing stuff is still really cute. I like him because he has a very star wars droid personality, but he also has this weird conundrum about him: he shows technology moving forward in a series where tech is very much locked at a certain level. I’m sure at a certain level its gotta be really annoying to have access to better special effects and have to maintain a certain stylistic integrity for the star wars universe. Figure if you’re a creative person that’s a really hard line to walk.
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These slow moving bombers are the criminal in how bad they are. In general they feel wrong. Star Wars has kind of always made it a point to show small ship move fast and big ships fly slow.
The bombers are slow moving small ships. I’m not really sure why they’re moving so slow but they’ll be damned if they try to get there faster.
One thing that bothers me a second time for this scene: where the hell did this squadron come from? They literally show up at random. Think there was a missed opportunity to show them coming from light speed. the way the scenes move make it seem like they left from Leia’s ship. that wouldn’t make any sense because why would they be carrying around these dumb ass slow ships?
The resolution to this battle is definitely Rian wankery getting in the way of things.
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Planet killing weapons in Star Wars were all about trying to cow the enemy without having to fight them in the first place. I think the gist was that using conventional fleets was expensive, slow, and somewhat risky- so the Empire was looking for a showy way to convince the rebels to abandon any hope without even needing to fight them first.
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Think the problem is that it doesn’t sustain a good narrative with the first movie. really wish i had a copy of TFA so I could watch these back to back.
The conversation implies a couple of things: 1) they’ve seen multiple of these, 2) they’ve seen them in combat, 3) it seems to have damaged enough of a fleet to where you’d question why they wouldn’t just build more.
Edit: The toss back of the lightsaber is as goofy as Luke just standing seemingly in some place for no reason. Rey translating Chewbacca to luke is also kinda dumb. Hermit Luke is kinda cool but all of this is kinda bleh.
Where the hell were these during TFA? you figure something that could destroy fleets would’ve been protecting the Death Rock 9000.
All in all it kinda leaves me up in the air as to wtf has been happening in this dumb ass galaxy. It literally feels like the empire vs the rebels is a starcraft match done by two dudes playing for fun in a high school computer lab.
My guess is that the writers we’re more interested in cool ideas than in keeping the narrative air tight.
But fwiw, in the real world naval dreadnoughts we’re only built in tiny numbers because they were so expensive and took so long to construct. Eventually someone noticed how cost-effective it was to sink them with planes and they stopped being much of a big deal.
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So Luke and Rey are talking in the Jedi library. The humor is delivered awkwardly. The way Luke questions her is kind of weird too. Its a little bit weirder that they don’t show them have a discussion about what happened to Han and what’s going on with Kylo earlier. Much less about the imminent danger Leia is in.
There is this really great moment where they have Rey talk about her force powers. she starts tearing up about how afraid she is of them since she doesn’t understand them. Feels like that’s where you should’ve gotten a really good sense of Rey as a person: “Look I’m super powerful and I have no idea wtf is going on and I need help”. First viewing of it kind left it as a big “meh” all around. Probably needed this to be developed more.
Honestly, this is why I have more of an issue with TFA than TLJ.
“There are things you cannot solve by jumping into a cockpit and blowing things up.”
Motherfucker what? This is Star Wars. The first movie was literally solved that way. Probably a wink and a nod moment to fans but that just sounds stupid. Specially since they blew up a ship whose crew, materials spent constructing it, money constructing it, time investment on construction far exceeded the random ships the Resistance/Rebels/People-who-were-in-charge-for-30-freaking-years-before-they-got-their-shit-rocked-by-a-Vader-cosplayer lost destroying it. Worst/Best part about that line is that it’ll make even less sense once they reveal that they’ve been tracked. Not sure how much better life would’ve been if they’d had the dreadnought following them.
Apparently better, according to battle hardened Leia.
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Laura Dern giving off some serious “please fuck me” vibes at Poe. This Holdo everything sucks. Her outfit sucks, her speech sucked, her bitchiness sucks.
Feels like they missed a really good chance to have an awesomely authoritative female character to contrast how mellow they had Leia be between both movies. Instead it moves from Grandma to Mean Girls. Terrible.
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