[ SECRET POST #4876 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4876 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

the "different anon" above the anon you're replying to:

some things:

The Knights of Ren, they're built up to be this 'thing' in TFA but they don't show at all in TLJ. You'd think they could have been the ones Rey and Kylo were fighting in the throne room at least.

Snoke: also built up to be a Big Bad and then killed pretty ignominously. Made me wonder what the point to his character even was.

Hux: TFA shows him to be fairly formidable, even though there was some humor made at his expense. TLJ makes him a pathetic laughingstock.

something small that I noted in my original reaction post to this back in the day: TFA made Threepio's arm red. TLJ made it gold again. Why bother? Why did it suddenly change? It doesn't actually affect the story, it just seems like a pointless change.

TFA builds up this idea that Rey's parents are out there somewhere. TLJ goes on to explicitly say she doesn't have any (both between Kylo telling her and her Force vision on Ach-To that only shows her reflections of herself).

In TFA, Finn seems interested in Rey, including with a joke where he wants to know if she's got a boyfriend. In TLJ, they give him Rose as prospective love interest (what with the love declaration at the end which I disliked because it came out of nowhere but that's a whole other thing)

There were other things in general I disliked about choices they made for the movie but they're not specifically related to how I thought JJ set some stuff up only for Rian to say, "nope, not going to do that, in fact I'mma do something else!"

I mean, I don't hate TLJ but I came out of it kinda disappointed. I liked it better on second viewing. I do think it was gorgeous and that was one of my favorite things about it.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Well, we can both agree on the gorgeousness at least! :)

Knights of Ren: Rian Johnson didn't want to use them as canon fodder. I think at the time he knew JJ was most likely coming back for Ep IX.

Snoke = the Emperor. As I said upthread, it opened the door to Ep IX not being a rehash of ROTJ.

I can see your point about Hux, but I'm the type of person who can see ridiculousness and ruthlessness coexist in the same character (one of the reasons I love The Death of Stalin so much, I suppose).

Threepio had his gold arm back at the end of TFA.

TFA built up the idea that Rey believed her parents were coming back for her, but also shot it down. As Maz Kanata said: "Whomever you're waiting for on Jakku, they're never coming back."

Re Finnrey: while you and I might believe something had been started, it doesn't seem to have been intentional. John Boyega: "I mean, we didn’t establish a romance in seven; we never played it that way. Daisy and I, we’re friends. [So there’s no romance?] Yes, Finn and Rey – they’re just friends."
https://variety.com/2016/film/news/star-wars-episode-viii-darker-bigger-john-boyega-1201774027/