Sure, if it's not an Empire-era TIE fighter that's been sitting derelict in a destroyed space station for 35 yearsI think technology is allowed to improve over time without having to explain it
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Sure, if it's not an Empire-era TIE fighter that's been sitting derelict in a destroyed space station for 35 yearsI think technology is allowed to improve over time without having to explain it
Sure, if it's not an Empire-era TIE fighter that's been sitting derelict in a destroyed space station for 35 years
And has somehow survived a huge explosion and a fall from orbit
That doesn't even bother me. Nor the wayfinder thing; he's been there before with it, he gets there again without it, sure, fine. The frustrating part to me is not that he takes a TIE Fighter, it's that him having done so is part of JJA's pattern of disregard for established stuff. TIE/lns don't have hyperdrive, ion cannons don't make things go KA-BOOM. And there are easy alternatives. The thing only shows up in one establishing shot. Could just as easily be a shuttle, or Vader's x1, or any number of other Imperial ships that have a hyperdrive.
JJA does not care about details and it shows.
MAJOR
-Blatantly sidelining Rose in response to racist "fan" whinging
MINOR
-Two cheap character death fakeouts. One is OK. Two is LAZY.
"I'm every Jedi, it's all in me" the Force doesn't work like that
That doesn't even bother me. Nor the wayfinder thing; he's been there before with it, he gets there again without it, sure, fine. The frustrating part to me is not that he takes a TIE Fighter, it's that him having done so is part of JJA's pattern of disregard for established stuff. TIE/lns don't have hyperdrive, ion cannons don't make things go KA-BOOM. And there are easy alternatives. The thing only shows up in one establishing shot. Could just as easily be a shuttle, or Vader's x1, or any number of other Imperial ships that have a hyperdrive.
JJA does not care about details and it shows.
He doesn't even fly it onscreen, he just moves away from it in the establishing shot where it shows he's on Exegol near the end
Worse. It was because Merry from Lord of the Rings won a soccer bet with him, and JJ put him in the movie and gave him more lines than he gave ANY other Resistance member that wasn't a main star. Hell, I'm sure he has more lines than Lando.
Two? Kylo-Ren, then Chewie, then 3P0, then Kylo-Ben, then Rey.
Don't forget the bespoke knife-map that was forged AFTER the Death Star was destroyed to show the location of the spatially impossible vault!
I only count 3P0 and Chewie as actual fakeouts. The rest were obviously not going to be real deaths.
Guys, I think JJ Abrams is bad at movies
Sure, but he also has a fair number of film credits to his name by the time he got to TFA, and they all had the same sorts of problems present in both TFA and TROS. His toolset as a director isn't as limited as his writing abilities, but pairing the two like the studios like to do only leads to pretty, flashy, and narratively empty productions. Stuffing his productions full of mystery boxes to deflect from that doesn't help at all, and only serves to point out how utterly devoted to form over substance he is.It is the first time he's ever had to finish a serialized story himself instead of starting it and then handing it off to others to finish.
Guys, I think JJ Abrams is bad at movies
I absolutely and unironically love the knife map. It's just so in line with Palpy's multilayer plots! As in, he wants to kill a Senator, so he advises the Trade Feds, the Trade Feds hire Jango, Jango hires an assassin, the assassin buys a probe, the probe is filled with poison worms, the worms bite the Senator!
I feel this.
Thinking about TROS would probably just depress me, but one thing I think TLJ doesn't get enough credit for is salvaging the handoff from TFA. So much buildup went into the map to find Luke and it magically came together and whatever was going to happen, it was worth a minute of triumphant rotation around them - just a huge burden on the next movie to try to pay off. Chucking the lightsaber made the best of something that I remember TFA taking way too seriously.
(I haven't watched TFA since it came out, some details might have mercifully faded.)
TLJ had a couple of scenes that took place during hyperspace. I especially liked the shot of Leia looking out the window.
Yep. You go from "The Supremacy can track through hyperspace OMG" in the Last Jedi to "Normal TIEs can track through hyperspace" in RoS as well. Hyperspace has been completely broken in the space of four films. Rogue One has an atmospheric hyperspace jump.
Chewie died in the old books, so I thought they might. 3P0 was, whatever. OK. R2 saved the day. Still cheap.
Disney-era Star Wars will never kill any characters that wear a mask, full body suit, or is a puppet or CG.
They killed Phasma, Kylo Ren and Snoke just in the last two numbered movies. And L3-37 in Solo.