The Force Awakens: more coherent thoughts
I liked it a hell of a lot. I don't think I'm able to unconditionally love Star Wars movies any more, because I'm not seven, but this was pretty fucking awesome.
( Some thoughts, various levels of spoilery. )
( Some thoughts, various levels of spoilery. )
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I mean, I wouldn't have phrased it that way, but I really liked seeing that the legacy of Vader and the Dark Side wasn't something just easily ignored and forgotten. There is no "final victory", because ultimately, a final victory for the light side would mean the force was unbalanced.
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I think, on reflection, what irked me was not the fact that it wasn't all peace and happiness - fair enough, at the end of RotJ the Emperor, Vader and a good chunk of the fleet are wiped out, but but there's still a loooooot of imperial machinery for our heroes to dismantle.
It's the fact that narratively it's very very similiar -- too similar -- to ANH, which made the existence and form of the First Order more irritating than it would have been if they were a post-Imperial junta in some other form.
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