i have seen a war in the stars

[meelie]

THANKS I HATE IT

what a garbage fire of a movie! everything was coincidence! and magically connected FOR NO GOOD REASON. mcguffin after mcguffin!

and JJ BLEW UP ANOTHER PLANET. did a planet hurt him when he was a kid??

the rest of my notes from right after session ended:
keri russel great!
all of poe's looks were great!
lightsaber fight on the death star wreck; great!

plot holes! so many!
how did richard e grant get to the fleet? you needed a sith triangle doohickey! OR DO YOU??
palatine lived? or he was a clone?? if he was a clone, why would he have all the force electricity damage??
how the hell would a 20+ year sextant doohickey show where the sith triangle still was? the wreck could move! also, why build a sextant, why leave the doohickey there??

so many things we are told that we didn't see! when the crawl was like, knock knock who's there oh palpatine is back it happened OFF SCREEN BETWEEN MOVIES??

i really liked seeing carrie fisher but uh, it was little my head is pasted on yay. i am glad she was included and some parts were okay, but it wasn't great.

when did ben come back to the light? when talking to han? feeling leia pass? WEAK


why did the emperor tell kylo to kill rey if he needed her to strike him down and become a sith puppet??

how the hell did the emperor build a huge fleet in the unknown space? from what? with what? how did the people flying those ships get there??
how did richard e grant get there? did he have a sith triangle?? or did he not need one since he was working for the emperor the WHOLE TIME, sure yeah fine.

droids are friends! lets WIPE OUR FRIENDS MIND. notice they have threepio hooked up and he tells us HE AGREED TO THIS AT SOME POINT, while he basically begs not to be wiped and its for laughs??

at the end of the day, i enjoyed the reylo, and i am okay with ben dying to save rey but it still sucks and such a JJ move and ugh

i'm not mad, I'm just disappointed

also should have been called the last skywalker not rise of skywalker.

i teared up but didn't cry, both with leia moments. but this movie didn't earn my tears.

OH AND LETS JUST SHOVE IN CHEWIE GETTING A MEDAL.

i liked force awakens okay, i really likes TLJ, i was interested in what it had to say about balance, but ROS just ignores everything and now the sith are all gone? rey is a jedi? has she learned from lukes mistakes? is she going to train finn who is force sensitive i guess? (only when it helps the plot i guess)

after all that basically at the end of the day this trilogy just killed everyone we loved from the original trilogy.

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[arysteia]

after all that basically at the end of the day this trilogy just killed everyone we loved from the original trilogy

This is literally all it achieved. After three years and a bazillion dollars, it killed everyone I cared about, and some other shit went on in the background, none of it meaningful or consistent, and nothing changed and we're right back where we started.

[meelie]

also! JJ gets his reveal, rey is palpatines granddaughter and i’m sitting there thinking to myself great so it’s now canon that palpatine fucks, wonderful

[arysteia]

So, since “The Rise of Skywalker” establishes that Palpatine f&!ks, what do we think he yells as he... finishes?

(a.) “Let the hate flow through you!”
(b.) “Good! Good!”
(c.) “Feel the power of the dark side!”
(d.) “A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.” pic.twitter.com/iIz2oihKed

— Darren Mooney (@Darren_Mooney) December 21, 2019