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Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable? (www.theguardian.com)
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The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (25 children)

I legit liked BB-8, Maz Kanata and Babu Frik. Could do with more of them.

As for the films:

Force Awakens - Mostly harmless. Gets a lot of hate for "just being Star Wars again" and that's valid. But they needed to prove they could do Star Wars without Lucas, and they did.

Last Jedi - Looks great, absolutely shits the bed. Johnson needed an average 8 year old to come in and point out all the plot holes. "Here's this tracker, you can use it to find us anywhere in the universe." (Same scene, no cuts, First Order comes out of hyperspace) "HOW DID THEY FIND US! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"

Rise of Skywalker - I feel bad for this one and generally give it a pass. Last Jedi painted them into a corner by killing Snoke, killing Phasma, killing Luke, reducing the size of the Resistance to something that could fit in the Falcon... and then... THEN Carrie Fisher up and dies. I don't know what else they could have done. It was supposed to be Leia's movie. 😟

[–] rock_hand@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey thanks for putting thought into the comment. Agree on most of your points. I like Star Wars and will even rewatch these films even though they aren’t the best.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only scenes I remember from the whole trilogy are from Last Jedi. Hyperspace blasting a starship into a star destroyer was a cool concept. And the whole final with Luke force projecting across galaxies was a good sendoff I thought.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Rey stealing the Falcon in Force Awakens was a direct rip off of the asteroid escape in Empire and it was EPIC. Well, epic for being a re-hash of Empire, but still very well done, and I think the best single scene from the prequels.

Compare:

https://youtu.be/60dFh008LKo#t=2m07s

with:

https://youtu.be/2r70SDJjwEg#t=1m38s

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