A buddy of mine sent me an article from a shill media site because he knew I’d roll my eyes and it was the usual tripe attacking fans and praised the last Jedi for “showing” that it’s ok to make bold decisions that fans don’t realize they need. Of course it mentioned that “fanboys were mad because they wanted a heroic Luke”. Of the many reasons I despise that movie, one is definitely this notion that subversion of expectations is brilliant writing.
What’s wrong with wanting to see a hero of a movie be heroic? I hope Rian Johnson never gets a hold of Superman. To be fair TFA should’ve had an opening scene with Luke training new Jedi. Had Rey been one of his students she would’ve been received much better. Plus you could’ve had more Jedi characters to build future stories and could’ve had Luke’s Jedi Academy at Disney world as an attraction.
Anyway, sorry about that rant. I just find that “subversion” as annoying as the Stranger Thigs season 3 where they set up that guy and the girl at the ice cream shop to be a couple (original plan) only to make her gay. Media shills actually called that a bold move. About as bold as race/gender swaps. A show that is an homage to the 80s thought that was a good idea
Yea I remember walking out of the movie feeling off because I had always loved Star Wars and I didn’t like it. TFA too. At least with TFA I was excited to see Luke in the next movie
TFA got a bit of a pass from a lot of people because it could have led to some cool stuff. It set-up a lot of interesting ideas that were then quickly squashed, which retroactively made TFA worse.
Yep. I was looking at different theories and there were theories about Knights of Ren and what Luke would do. You are right, could’ve set up some cool stuff
I walked out of Ep7 with a whole gaggle of friends, and my first words of my own review were "well, the music was really on-point."