The Rise Of Skywalker
Dec. 20th, 2019 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorWell, I enjoyed this film! I was pretty much right about a lot of the areas where it didn't deliver, though. One just has to go through the film with the acceptance of "well I guess this is happening now". While I didn't try to avoid all spoilers, I wasn't really interested in knowing the whole film plot before I saw it, either.
I was satisfied by Palpatine's appearance--he really does look old and damaged. Though I felt like they should have gone into how he's back a little more. Would've like a Plagueis reference at least. I was also fine with Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter, though I preferred the 'Rey is no one' explanation from a thematic perspective. At least we do get the message that bloodlines aren't destiny.
I refuse to accept that Palpatine had a child in the normal fashion. That simply does not work for me. I'm just going to imagine that he cloned his son (and maybe mixed in some other DNA which is why he doesn't look just like a younger version of Palpatine) and then I won't have to imagine the alternative! What if Disney disagrees? Then they're wrong! Wrong!
Also, I don't know why, but my brain skipped out on several parts in the film, leading to a disoriented "wait what's happening now" feeling from me. Nevertheless, I feel like I saw enough to know that most characters don't really get much of an arc. Really only Rey, Kylo Ren, and Palpatine get central roles in this film. They put too many characters in this film. Was also really annoyed by the straight romantic interest they shoehorned in for Poe, and how underutilized John Boyega is. They could have just not had a romantic interest for Poe since they're obviously too cowardly to make any main characters in this franchise explicitly gay. And there should have been a romantic scene for Finn. It's not even that I disliked the new characters, but that the sheer number of characters in this film reduced the amount of time for developing the ones introduced in Ep VII and Ep VIII. We should have gotten some resolution regarding Finn and Rey's relationship. Almost any resolution would have been better than the film's indecisive waffling on that.
Leia got some good scenes, but I couldn't help but think what more Carrie Fisher would have been able to do with the role if she'd been alive.
If it sounds like I have a lot of criticisms of this film, I do! I did have fun though, maybe because my expectations were super low and I did get some cheap thrills out of it lol.
Well, that's all for now. There's more I could say, but that will have to wait!
I was satisfied by Palpatine's appearance--he really does look old and damaged. Though I felt like they should have gone into how he's back a little more. Would've like a Plagueis reference at least. I was also fine with Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter, though I preferred the 'Rey is no one' explanation from a thematic perspective. At least we do get the message that bloodlines aren't destiny.
I refuse to accept that Palpatine had a child in the normal fashion. That simply does not work for me. I'm just going to imagine that he cloned his son (and maybe mixed in some other DNA which is why he doesn't look just like a younger version of Palpatine) and then I won't have to imagine the alternative! What if Disney disagrees? Then they're wrong! Wrong!
Also, I don't know why, but my brain skipped out on several parts in the film, leading to a disoriented "wait what's happening now" feeling from me. Nevertheless, I feel like I saw enough to know that most characters don't really get much of an arc. Really only Rey, Kylo Ren, and Palpatine get central roles in this film. They put too many characters in this film. Was also really annoyed by the straight romantic interest they shoehorned in for Poe, and how underutilized John Boyega is. They could have just not had a romantic interest for Poe since they're obviously too cowardly to make any main characters in this franchise explicitly gay. And there should have been a romantic scene for Finn. It's not even that I disliked the new characters, but that the sheer number of characters in this film reduced the amount of time for developing the ones introduced in Ep VII and Ep VIII. We should have gotten some resolution regarding Finn and Rey's relationship. Almost any resolution would have been better than the film's indecisive waffling on that.
Leia got some good scenes, but I couldn't help but think what more Carrie Fisher would have been able to do with the role if she'd been alive.
If it sounds like I have a lot of criticisms of this film, I do! I did have fun though, maybe because my expectations were super low and I did get some cheap thrills out of it lol.
Well, that's all for now. There's more I could say, but that will have to wait!