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⌈ Secret Post #4243 ⌋

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Same. It made sense to me.

Hey, me too! High five!

It made sense to me too, tbh

I agree. I loved TLJ.

I'm a hardcore Star Wars fan, and I thought it was very fitting, too.

I have mixed feelings. I was never in the crowd who needed badass Luke kicking ass all over the place. A crisis of faith sounds fascinating and something I would have loved to see. However, the execution was terrible. Perhaps there could be something in the next movie that reflects back on TLJ positively (but then I hoped for the same thing with regards to Finn's history with the FO and that still hasn't happened so I'm not hopeful).

Overall, I was disappointed, but more for the missed opportunity than anything else. If they'd done it justice, I would've loved it.

How/in what sense do you think the execution was terrible?

There were things I didn't like about the film, but that wasn't one of them.

Edited 2018-08-16 23:34 (UTC)

It was faaaaaantastic and one of my favorite parts of a film that I generally loved

I agree.

I liked it. Though I suppose I am also a "casual" fan.

Agreed.

Although the "fix-it" movie fundraising is turning out to be wonderful real-life comedy, that inspired a similar movement for Voltron. It's the gift that keeps giving.

And for the "Luke Wouldn't Have Fallen in That Way," folk. Yes he did, multiple times throughout ESB and RotJ, right up to the climax of the film when he cut off his father's artificial hand through a cinematic act of god.

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I didn’t hate it in isolation but I always hoped that after the original trilogy was over, Leia, Luke, and Han would face challenges but would generally be happy personally, even if the remnants of the Empire and the problems facing a new government meant they still had lots of work to do. So the fact that only Leia is still alive and she’s on the run while her kid is hellbent on destroying everything she’s worked for, knowing her son killed his father and her brother is dead...

I like most of the new characters, and I want them—with the exception of Kylo Ren—to be happy and relatively safe, but I’m afraid to get too attached to them and end up pissed because after all their effort their lives mostly suck. If it had only been Luke suffering in self-imposed exile I would’ve been okay with it, and I wasn’t disappointed that he wasn’t perfect, or backflipping through stormtroopers with a lightsaber in each hand or whatever the fuck, but I wish Luke hadn’t basically been isolated and miserable for a big chunk of his adult life.

I can't imagine Luke or Leia ever being happy while there is still evil in the galaxy. Han, sure. That's why I loved when he settled down in the EU and was the one to raise the kids. But Luke and Leia would always be part of things unless there was a situation where they messed up and became disalusioned. Which is exactly what happened for Luke.

Maybe not exactly what I would have wanted, but I liked it and it seemed appropriate for his character. I've never understood the criticism for his part in the movie, in particular. I guess I'm just not a ~*true*~ fan.

I like that he became a legend in the end, but before that, he was human when everyone thought of him as legend. To the people who say "he would never attack his sleeping nephew like that"... well, he didn't? He thought about it in a moment of darkness, and Kylo's perception of the incident was off (which I also loved about the movie, because memory is tricky that way!).

But I do sympathize with fans who are disappointed with the character's storyline because they wanted something different.

Yeah I didn't mind it either. It seemed to fit him, and the overall story/theme of this new trilogy. Could it have been done better? Sure, most the Star Wars movies could have been done better in some way, but I was satisfied with how things went.

Definitely leaves me wondering how they're going to wrap things up with the final installment.

I agree, things could be done better in all the movies... I think SW as a whole is rife with possibilities for improvement via fanfic :)

I didn't actually mind his overall arc but the way the scenes were written was so stuffed full of dumb "gotcha" moments just to try and be funny that it was cringey at best.

Can't relate. This movie was wretched to Luke and for that I will always hate it.

Ah yes

Because he's not the Hero it's awful

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I agree, but not because the writing was bad or whatever, but because apparently he spent at least half his adult life miserable and alone and ffs none of the original trio got to have a relatively happy life.

Cosigning! I loved TLJ, I loved Luke's arc, and I thought it was very consistent with the overall arc of the Skywalker family and their multigenerational issues, not to mention some of the tension between their issues and the larger dysfunctions/issues of the old Jedi Order as we got them in the PT (at least as I personally see, and love, and love to engage with, the overall story of the series--- Star Wars is such a megafandom that there are so many different ways to love it and things to see in it, or possibly it's such a megafandom because there are so many different ways to love it and things to see in it). And that moment when we shift from the battle on Crait to Luke sitting there concentrating for all he's worth to project himself to the battle was just breathtaking to me.

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