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Not a fresh complaint, but something reminded me of it recently and now I’m pissed off all over again, so:
By all logic it should be humanly impossible to make a film that feels both like the director and the screenwriter didn’t bother to watch a single other entry in the series AND the shitty, scene-for-scene recut of two previous films, but lo and behold, Cinematic Marvel The Last Jedi somehow pulls it off.
What the hell was that???
Finn? They basically pushed a reset button on his character and chucked him into a B-plot that did not, in the end, do anything to advance the plot OR lead to meaningful character development because they basically made him go through the same arc he already had in TFA.
Poe? Nothing, exactly nothing in TFA suggested that he’d be a stereotypical macho hunk who has half a litre of AXE bodyspray sloshing around in his head instead of brains, but they just HAD to go with this, right?
Rey??? The hell??? Look... Luke’s actions and attitude in RotJ made sense because not only was Vader the father he idolised all his life, but he also had enough time to think things through and let his feelings settle down. But Rey? Kylo Ren was a literal stranger to her AND she went from hating his guts to ‘BUT I CAN BRING HIM BACK TO THE LIGHT!!!’ IN THREE DAYS TOPS!
Ugh and this whole smug ‘if you don’t like it you just can’t appreciate how original, revolutionary and never-before-seen this film is!!!’ attitude... This film was so original, revolutionary and never-before-seen that they had to make an extra LITERALLY LICK A PLANET to make sure the audience knows that it’s TOttttaLLY not Hoth.
Yes it’s been four years.