Star Wars: The Force Awakens
*taps mic* Hello, I know I haven't been here in ages but I have feels about Star Wars and I needed somewhere that could support actual discussion.
Spoilers for "The Force Awakens" below.
I went into this as unspoiled as can be so if I repeat things that have been discussed to death in those circles below I appologize. Hopefully there's something new or at least something worth discussing herein.
God was it good to have some Star Wars on the big screen again. I teared up a bit at the opening fanfare and the crawl.
For the most part I was happy with the movie, but for a team that wanted to dump the "Extended Universe" they sure did smash together a lot of EU plot lines. I mean, I'm not sure how you could write a Star Wars: TNG movie plot without stumbling over a lot of the EU storylines, but there's definitely a part of me feeling a bit *eyeroll*-ish about the choices.
I liked the new kids. Rey is lovely. I think my biggest complaint about the movie is how much we were TOLD and not shown about what happened between Han, Leia, and Luke. These are characters that much of the audience already cares strongly about and a huge amount of plot and its all just sort of - glossed over. I understand that filming a convincing flashback scene for the Big Three would've been super difficult, but still... Sigh. At least give me a fucking kiss between my original OTP asshats!
Having a passing familiarity with the EU I was completely unsurprised by the 'reveal' of Kylo Ren's parantage and I say 'reveal' because they really didn't tease it very long or that mysteriously. Nor was I particcularly surprised by Han's death. Though I am super upset and it plays back into the frustration above, I was expecting one of the Big Three to kick the bucket and by the time they left the Rebel base it was pretty clear that there was only one choice left. I do like that they maintained enough continuity to show Leia feeling it.
Speculation: Speaking of parentage mysteries - Rey has to be a Skywalker right? I mean there's no other bloodline in Universe that has that level of force sensitivity/power/control that I know of. But I haven't seen any of Clone Wars (is that considered canon to these movies?) so maybe there is someone else?
It was nice to see/hear a couple more women in on the action this time around and Yay! for passing the Bechdel test but there still isn't great balance over all.
I'm definitely going to see it again because I know there are things I missed - like parsing all the scenes from Rey's lightsaber trip - and I think TFA certainly out did the prequels, but nothing was every going to fully live up to the hype.
Spoilers for "The Force Awakens" below.
I went into this as unspoiled as can be so if I repeat things that have been discussed to death in those circles below I appologize. Hopefully there's something new or at least something worth discussing herein.
God was it good to have some Star Wars on the big screen again. I teared up a bit at the opening fanfare and the crawl.
For the most part I was happy with the movie, but for a team that wanted to dump the "Extended Universe" they sure did smash together a lot of EU plot lines. I mean, I'm not sure how you could write a Star Wars: TNG movie plot without stumbling over a lot of the EU storylines, but there's definitely a part of me feeling a bit *eyeroll*-ish about the choices.
I liked the new kids. Rey is lovely. I think my biggest complaint about the movie is how much we were TOLD and not shown about what happened between Han, Leia, and Luke. These are characters that much of the audience already cares strongly about and a huge amount of plot and its all just sort of - glossed over. I understand that filming a convincing flashback scene for the Big Three would've been super difficult, but still... Sigh. At least give me a fucking kiss between my original OTP asshats!
Having a passing familiarity with the EU I was completely unsurprised by the 'reveal' of Kylo Ren's parantage and I say 'reveal' because they really didn't tease it very long or that mysteriously. Nor was I particcularly surprised by Han's death. Though I am super upset and it plays back into the frustration above, I was expecting one of the Big Three to kick the bucket and by the time they left the Rebel base it was pretty clear that there was only one choice left. I do like that they maintained enough continuity to show Leia feeling it.
Speculation: Speaking of parentage mysteries - Rey has to be a Skywalker right? I mean there's no other bloodline in Universe that has that level of force sensitivity/power/control that I know of. But I haven't seen any of Clone Wars (is that considered canon to these movies?) so maybe there is someone else?
It was nice to see/hear a couple more women in on the action this time around and Yay! for passing the Bechdel test but there still isn't great balance over all.
I'm definitely going to see it again because I know there are things I missed - like parsing all the scenes from Rey's lightsaber trip - and I think TFA certainly out did the prequels, but nothing was every going to fully live up to the hype.