![]() She didn’t need to be his granddaughter for this to work, and in some ways her being his granddaughter makes it a more unwieldy plot point. But it would be nice if there was some cooperation at play between storytellers and directors here.Īt the very least, if we’d been left doubting Kylo Ren at the end of The Last Jedi, or had some other hints pointing at a possible Palpatine link, then when we learn that in Rise it wouldn’t have felt like a “fix.”Īnd I would have been perfectly okay if Rey had actually been a “nobody” and Palpatine still wanted to use her as a potential vessel. I didn’t mind that Johnson tossed this any more than I minded Luke tossing the lightsaber (and later catching it in Rise). ![]() Clearly Rey was set up as important and her character was meant to have important parents, even if Abrams hadn’t figured out who they were just yet. It was a logical, powerful continuity between the two films.īut elsewhere, both films try to backpedal too much on their predecessors, to the point where it almost doesn’t feel like a trilogy at all. That, I think, felt very natural and right. But by the end of the film, he saves the day, and by the time Rise of Skywalker comes along, he’s back to his former self. The only problem was the fact that we didn’t get to see Luke for so many decades that when we finally found him and he was bitter, living in self-exile, cut off from the Force, it was almost too much to accept. On some levels, The Last Jedi did this quite well.įor instance, Luke Skywalker had a brilliant arc in The Last Jedi. It’s an interesting storytelling method-to take tropes and expectations and subvert them completely. I think a fair critique of The Last Jedi is that it takes too much of The Force Awakens and turns it on its head. Snoke and Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi Credit: Disney / Lucasfilm Her and Finn’s friendship could certainly have been explored in greater depth (especially if we had two movies!) 3. Instead of sidelining Rose, maybe Abrams could have given her a more interesting part to play. So maybe it wasn’t intentional, but it sure seems like a slap in the face. I have no problem with Finn’s new pal Jannah (Naomi Ackie) or Poe’s old fling Zorii Bliss (Keri Russell) but both these brand new characters have better lines, more lines and more interesting roles than Rose. Rise Of Skywalker does the same thing The Last Jedi does in introducing new characters for no apparent reason. ![]() Why have Rose with Leia when the previous film established her and Finn as friends? Besides, there were plenty of other “anchor” characters to keep Leia company at base. Yes, there’s the whole “She was supposed to be with Leia but the CGI was troublesome” argument, but I think that’s pretty flimsy. ![]() Rose should have been there, even if she ended up staying on the ship for some scenes to hold down the fort. She should have been with Finn and Poe and Rey when they went out to find the Sith wayfinder. She’s a fine character but nothing special and I’m still a little surprised that she was given that much screen-time in The Last Jedi to begin with when we should have had the core cast spending more time together instead- one of its most egregious errors.īut we have to deal with the hand we’re dealt, and in this case Rose was an established character with a major role and an important relationship with Finn. And I say this as someone who was never really all that into Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) to begin with. I don’t care what the reasons are for Rose Tico’s unbelievably brief screen-time. Rose Tico got the shaft Credit: Disney / Lucasfilm The end of Rise of Skywalker on Exogol gives us precious little time getting to know that planet compared to the final act of Return of the Jedi on Endor. We haven’t gotten long, extended scenes like the Jabba the Hutt sequence on Tatooine or the opening of Empire Strikes Back on Hoth. One of the great things about the original trilogy that pretty much every new Star Wars movie (including Rogue One) has failed at, is taking time to establish place. ![]() Suffice to say, if they had made Episode IX all about discovering that Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) was back and revealing Rey’s true parentage, and then Episode X was about the Resistance finally taking down the Emperor once and for all, it would have had a lot more room to breathe. I’ve written at great length about this, so I won’t go into more detail here. The pacing is so frenetic that when you think Chewie (Joonas Suotamo) is dead, you barely have time to process it.d. Probably my number one problem with The Rise Of Skywalker was just how rushed it felt, especially in the first act. I’ve written about this problem previously, but it bears repeating. ![]()
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