So we can talk freely! Sorry, I'm gonna ramble a bit. Feel free to join in!
Shortpix77 mentioned being disappointed that they used Rose so little in the new film. I was as well, especially since we didn't get any explanation. I mean, she was in very intense peril last time we saw her. Guess she's ok. They did that with a lot of stuff, just pretty much ignored it. We saw Luke's lightsabre being destroyed, and we saw that Rey had the pieces, but yeah, it would have been nice to either see or at least hear about how it was put back together. I presume Rey did it? Or did Leia? I also didn't like Luke's abrupt turn - he was wrong. OK. And where'd that come from?
OK, stuff I loved:
1. Wedge!!!!! I cheered when I saw him.
2. One of my favorite images from The Force Awakens is Rey eating her bread and then putting on the x-wing pilot helmet. I love that they paid that off by actually putting her in an x-wing, Luke's no less. Loved hearing Red Five called on again.
3. Loved the verbal sparring between Rey and Poe about BB-8 and the Falcon.
I tortured a friend last night that I was texting with after she'd seen the film by asking her what Finn was going to say to Rey when they thought they were going to die. She'd forgotten about that.
Finn to Rey: I'll tell you later.
Poe: When I'm not here?
The tone of Poe's delivery of that line was terrific.
Brutal - Chewie's reaction upon finding out about Leia.
I hadn't expected to see Han at all. Friend speculated that Han's scene was originally supposed to be Leia's scene but they had to re-think it after Carrie died. That makes sense, though I was happy to see Han. I was wondering if there would be a family picture at the end with Han, Leia and Ben, but that didn't happen. It was nice to see Luke and Leia again at least.
Speaking of which, since Carrie died, I've wanted to know what the original story was going to be, and what they had to change because she wasn't available to shoot any more scenes. I don't know that we'll ever find out.
After the movie, we jokingly wondered how long it would take for Leia's lightsabre and Rey's new lightsabre to show up at Dok Ondar's. Friend mentioned that they do have 2 new lightsabres there, but it's Ben's and the put-back-together-from-Luke's-old-one.
Question: After the fight on the old Death Star between Rey and Kylo, and Rey takes off with his ship, how does Kylo get off?
I'm not entirely comfortable with the revelation about Hux being the traitor. I at least like that the explanation was that he just wanted Kylo Ren to fail, but I'm not sure I buy that his anger at him is enough for him to turn on the First Order.
I thought both of the new women characters were kind of shoved in. I would have liked to have seen more of them, though I did like the story point that there were many others like Finn, who were taken as children and forced to be soldiers. And I'm REALLY glad they didn't even hint at Finn being related to Lando. Not sure how I feel about Lando being in it. I mean, yeah, it was great to see Billy Dee, but Lando's appearance seemed a bit forced.
I'm still processing Rey being a Palpatine. That's gonna take a while. But I loved her look when Rey was fighting herself, especially Rey with the hissing Palpatine expression. That was cool.
I'm sad that there are no Skywalkers left.
I saw the film in 3D because we wanted to go to a particular marquee theatre, and they happened to be showing it in 3D. The 3D glasses never fit over mine, so I'm always messing with it during the movie and it's distracting. I have a ticket to see the film again in IMAX next week.
Bookmarks