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(This is a proxy discussion. I’m attempting to explore some friends’ views, and not as well as they would directly. :) ) I think they’d argue that TLJ gives the gobbledygook answer. Because Luke’s character would never have allowed him to make the choices depicted in this movie.

I think my Star-Wars-fans friends would disagree with this. Yoda had more or less disappeared. But that's because he had some super important Jedi work to do in keeping on eye on the spooky swamp planet. As I understood from their explanation. Luke might have had some important mission spoke...

I've settled on what I didn't like about the film (pending a subsequent viewing): It's a film filled with iconoclastic ideas that may not be prosecuted adequately. A good story of failure is played out in the consequences. But at the conclusion, Finn is the only one who really progressed...

I'm fascinated by the reactions to the movie. I saw it with die-hard, read-the-books, buy-the-comics, play the games, watched TFA five times this year. Watched TLJ twice this weekend. They hated it.

Thanks. i thought it was the exit trace. Since the ships are shown as having a "slide" when they exit hyperdrive, I assumed it was a zero-distance jump with a the exit slide slicing through the ships. Everyone I've talked to says it was the entrance jump that did it. My friend that started this...

A question about Holdo's warp-jump kamikaze: Did she strike during the jump entrance or jump exit (of an essentially zero-distance jump)? I was talking with a friend this evening about it. I must have missed a detail when I watched Friday. He'd seen it a second time this morning and had a...

How do you blame The Force Awakens for perceived problems in The Last Jedi?

I understood the ForceTime calls to be unexpected and unbidden. They happened when the happened. In that one, it happened when Ren had just stepped out of the shower. He wasn’t intentionally sending inappropriate selfie to Rey. Since we’re not naive, we know this is giving a little...

I think this is a marvelous insight. :) I still don't know if Rose saving Finn works. The basic emotional beat is fine: Rose can't bear another personal loss so soon after losing her sister, and she loves / admires Finn and so she saves him. There is some resonance. And Finn is one of the core...

My opinion of The Last Jedi will incomplete until the third the third movie is released. The implications that Poe’s rash actions nearly destroyed the Rebellion are profound. If there are consequences, if Poe grows as a character, then this will be a very interesting story arc. If the story has...

I was initially uncertain about TFA. But I’ve found that I enjoy all three of the new Star Wars movies. TFA holds up very well, even improving, on rewatch. Rogue One is a wonderful interstitial Star Wars movie; it has the best depictions of The Force in any of the movies for my taste. And The...

Luke is no longer a hopeful youth. He blames himself for destroying his sister's family, turning her son to the dark side, and for creating a new, incredibly powerful apprentice to the Sith. Luke is an emotionally broken man in self-imposed exile, wanting nothing more than to never cause such...

I took the day off work to see The Last Jedi with friends. And in preparation, I rewatched The Force Awakens this weekend along with the special features. I enjoyed TLJ well enough. It has some moments of nostalgia and other emotional beats, especially early on, that made the screen a little...