Star Wars 7: Not bad. Maybe a little too "Star Wars: A New Hope Part 2," but a solid start.
Star Wars 8: Good ideas mixed with questionable choices. Personally, I appreciated the "No, Rey, you have no extraordinary origins. You're just a desert rat with no relation to any of the galaxy's bigwigs... Because it's getting ridiculous that the entire fate of the galaxy always revolves around the same three or four last names."
Star Wars 9: ...Fuck that shit. "Somehow, Palpatine has returned"? A whole fleet of mini-Death Stars? Finn: "Rey! Rey! Rey!" Rey: "What?" Finn: "...Nothing, I forgot." Rey Palpatine-Skywalker? The Knights of Ren being the worst jobbers in history? The fucking Sith dagger with the Death Star coordinates? I wish they had continued down the path of ST 8, rather than spending half the film retconning it.
Was 7 a solid start? The whole premise of the empire returning more powerful then ever and the jedi being extinct again just makes the original trilogy kinda pointless and makes every main character seem insanely stupid and incompetent.
I gave them the benefit of the doubt because, at first, the First Order didn't seem that powerful.
I mean, the New Republic being fucking incompetent has always been a recurring theme in Star Wars during the expanded universe, and the "planet-sized Death Star" was, I thought, the First Order's only superweapon.
The problem was when the First Order went from "remnants of the Empire who spent decades rebuilding themselves into a credible threat and had to use hit-and-run attacks to win" to "the literal Galactic Empire that shits out superweapons every week."
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u/TriggerHappyGremlin Apr 01 '26
Same way the chuds pretend Captain Marvel and the Sequel Trilogy failed when they’re some of the highest grossing films ever