Luke throwing his lightsaber wasn't a declaration that he was done with the jedi. It was a declaration that he IS a jedi and thus won't outright kill his father and turn to the darkside. Like....the film literally ends with him staring at force ghosts why would he be done with the jedi and force?
Uh you do know what ROTJ stands for, it's not Removal of the Jedi. The climax has Luke outright stating he's a jedi. Throwing away the saber was what made him a true jedi, it's the payoff of Yoda's teachings(only defense, never attack) and his personal growth. Luke ends as the biggest Jedi that ever Jedi'd.
When Luke joins the Endor celebrations he has his lightsaber on his belt. He didn't abandon it on the Death Star.
They bitched out on every potentially interesting idea, even with the watered-down version of ideas like Chewbacca's role.
cant believe they missed that very obvious callback and they had literally the perfect opportunity to do that in TROS :(The real problem with that flashback scene is that they didn't make Flashback Luke do the Luke thing. Y'know, the double-handed grip, lightsabre way out in front of him, back foot way out behind; classic Luke. He does it in The Last Jedi and you're like YOOO that's my boiiii, but here Flashback Luke just does a bunch of Prequel Jedi twirly-whirls that don't read as Luke at all. This movie has the weirdest approach to fanservice, jamming it in in eye-rolling ways but then totally missing the no-brainer moments.
Also Kylo never does one of his signature drama bitch foot-stomp sabre hunches:
What I'm saying is that this movie is a 0/10, literally the worst movie ever made.
the only thing i would take is Lucas owned ILM going above and beyond in the vfx department,i would give you that
There are so so many examples of women in media who are portrayed as evil as they simultaneously seduce men. Tying the act of seduction itself to being evil, which inadvertently promotes the idea that a sexually active woman is inherently bad and/or misleading. Like given the amount of examples you can find I can't see how such a common and boring idea is in anyway fascinating let alone a good message for children. It was always poorly done in SW. Hell, even RECENTLY. This character was pure cringe:
The concept itself is misogynistic as it was inspired by misogynistic ideas about women...
Literally what evidence do we have that they'd suddenly know how to handle a misogynistic trope. They couldn't even stick the landing when attempting to be overtly feminist....
It's really not that interesting. Especially in the context of SW which very frequently sexualized women.
It already has without resorting to misogynistic tropes.
It already has without resorting to misogynistic tropes.
TLJ is full of sexual awakening imagery.
The writers behind SW have literally shown recently that they can't do it.
It's really not plausible given the literal evidence in 2019 that they handle the trope poorly.
Snoke had a purpose, Palpatine did not. I don't defend Palpatine's inclusion in TROS as a gotcha villain who's behind everything. Kylo should've been the main villain of the trilogy as he has the most direct connection to the cast, not Palpatine.
It actually does, as it hasn't been done before in SW.
Your conception of it aligns with many many poor examples of "women written as reclaiming their sexuality, as written by men." You essentially pitched Sucker Punch:SW Edition.
Did you really just post Reylo? And your talking about misogyny, talking about missing the forest for the tree.The concept itself is misogynistic as it was inspired by misogynistic ideas about women...
Literally what evidence do we have that they'd suddenly know how to handle a misogynistic trope. They couldn't even stick the landing when attempting to be overtly feminist....
It's really not that interesting. Especially in the context of SW which very frequently sexualized women.
It already has without resorting to misogynistic tropes.
TLJ is full of sexual awakening imagery.
"Look at how sexy this alien chick who is yet another example of a sexualized woman in media but we'll like, totally subvert that" is the laziest route possible.
What version? There wasn't a Darth Caedus version of TFA or a version where Kylo was evil because he got seduced by a woman.
Acknowledging that TLJ is full of sexual awakening imagery from Rey's perspective=/=supporting Reylo. Especially when the film itself closes the door on the idea and ends with Rey outright rejecting Kylo.
Your using is as positive argument of Star wars exploring sexuality, you know between that of the genocidal father killer and the MC. That's about as sexist as what your arguing against here, so the fact you don't "support" Reylo doesn't really matter at all.
She does close the door on Kylo at the end but I don't think Rian meant to literally close the door on Reylo for good, especially when you hear him talk about it.
It's definitely double bladed that thing folded up had two blades sticking out from it. It also looked very silly when it did so.
He certainly proposed the idea in the film but she shuts the door on it. It's pretty definitive as an ending to any chance of their hostility ending. Hell even TROS treats Ben Solo and Kylo as two entirely different people, the latter getting violently killed by Rey and the former sacrificing himself for Rey.
He certainly didn't seem to think that Ben and Rey having feelings for each other or a relationship was inherently a bad thing, and we know we was also very open to the idea of Ben being redeemed. I wouldn't doubt that he also would have redeemed Ben and followed up on Reylo, the latter just making sense if you're going to redeem him.
Rey and Ben. But not Rey and Kylo. Ben Solo doesn't appear in TLJ.
Sure. That's why Rey says "I wanted to take your hand. Ben's hand."
Oh right.
I really wanted TLJ to have Rey and Kylo join forces. This would have been an interesting and new direction for them to go.
