Posts tagged “Rian Johnson”

It’s all over. The Skywalker journey is complete. Well, sort of… Way back in December of 2015, droves of people showed up to watch Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Now, it’s been a few months since the December, 2019 release of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Fans have had lots of time to watch these films if they haven’t yet, what with the plague upon us *cough*COVID-19*cough* so with all that time to watch the films and digest the message the films conveyed as a whole, I wanted to personally take a look back at the Sequel Trilogy (ST) as compared to the Original Trilogy (OT) and the Prequel Trilogy (PT). We know that some dislike various films in…

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The Last Jedi Makes Star Wars Pointless

joecarro

Posted on January 9, 2019

It’s taken me a lot of time and self-reflection to begin dissecting The Last Jedi with a renewed and critical focus. I originally wrote a post out of pure disbelief and anger shortly after seeing TLJ several times in theaters and then re-watching the entire saga from the prequels to Solo – but that previous post was more to discuss how badly TLJ botched the character of Luke Skywalker. I examined Luke’s character in each film and discussed over several points, citing sources from the films, why he would not (as currently presented) be the character we get in TLJ. The Luke issue alone is something I could spend several posts on, but I wanted to take a moment to discuss another very sad side-effect…

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The Assassination of Luke Skywalker.

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Posted on March 15, 2018

There seems to be two schools of thought on Luke Skywalker’s character as depicted in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The first is that his character is actually completely true to that of the original trilogy, and in the defeated hermit we see on screen in TLJ lie the tattered vestiges of heroics, idealism, and youth that have naturally fallen away under the harsh realities of a galaxy constantly at war. The second is that the Luke we see on screen is an entirely new creature, one so far removed from the Luke we see in the original trilogy that he may as well be another character entirely. And either because of this, or maybe because the filmmakers haven’t done a good enough job…

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Where The Sequel Trilogy Went Wrong

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Posted on April 14, 2020

The Last Jedi Makes Star Wars Pointless

joecarro

Posted on January 9, 2019