**SPOILERS** What I dislike about Last Jedi...

[MorGrendel]

* I accept that the most powerful Jedi on screen is the youngest, least trained person (or Yoda).
* I accept the fastest ship in the Galaxy is a freighter/barge.
* With great difficulty I accept that today's heroes/anti-heroes are all flawed and grey.

That said, there is no excuse for bad story telling.

Let's start:
How many times do I have to watch Leia not die?
Knowing Carrie Fisher is dead, show a modicum of sensitivity and play down Leia's false deaths; especially, since Leia lives through it all. It feels like they jerked my chain because they could. Perhaps I won't feel as strongly on a second watch, but when Lelia's frozen eyes reopened I did not feel joy, but horror.

Speaking of death, why is the Resistance so suicidal?
I get it, it's a story, don't think too deeply... but... it seems like the Resistance's answer for everything is suicide. You've successfully evacuated your base - suicide mission to destroy the big ship... Out of gas - Go down with the ship... Got to stop the ground cannon this time - clearly it's time to drive directly into, despite being told numerous times it's not necessarily... and it's not because, wait for it, Luke is going to sacrifice himself to save everyone anyway. I have a hard time rooting for the guys who just throw their lives away. They are not martyrs to the cause, but bugs in the windshield. And jumping back a bit... these big ships don't have autopilot? You can't plug a course into the computer? You can't get a droid to drive? In the end, what does Holdo's suicide accomplish? Did it kill Snoke? Nope. Did it destroy the tracker? Nope. Did the Resistance get away? Nope.

Which leads to another thought, do any of the subplots matter?
I don't mind a twist, but nothing worked. Is running away all this movie is about? Did Rey get training? Maybe. Did she convince Luke to join the resistance? Not really?

And what is up with all this Blah, Blah, Blah about Rey's Parents? Why should I care who Rey's parents are?
Why drag this on and on and reveal nothing, and then after the movie releases go so far as to say you can't trust Kylo's opinion. This sub-plot was a waste of time - we don't need to know unless it's important to the story. We are in the dark about Yoda's and Obi Won's lineage, so a little mystery is good; dare I say, I think Rey is so much interesting as a blank slate. Why suddenly have an inner monologue and a room of mirrors that reveals her to be her own parent. What? No wait, your parents weren't special, they were drunk junk traders. So what? Some fanboy is laughing, because he/she made you believe Rey was Luke's daughter. Maybe this pans out to something, but personally, that should have been time better spent on a different subplot.

Speaking of which - the code breaker. I'll accept hating people, solely because they are rich, even if you have to explain it to me like I'm an adolescent child (since that is the primary audience), but come on you don't pick up the first guy you meet, especially if you meet them in jail. I mean authoritarian governments would never plant spies where resistance fighters are likely to end up, would they? Oh they would. I must have missed Day One of Resistance school. But what about the plan. You saw the blossom and the target, you know he is in there... How do you just abandon him and the plan? How do you not question the new plan and put your life in the hands of a guy robbing a stolen ship? Are you the Resistance or petty thieves? What happened to the moral compass? I'd accept some grey here if it moved the plot along at all... but it doesn't... it just gives us a lackluster Finn and Phasma fight. BUT - Say your committed to selling the Collapsing Play Set, how about this: They grab blossom guy, who agrees to help for a price... but when confronted... "What am I doing here? I was enjoying a well-earned vacation, when these two snatched me off of (Casino Land Playset) to fix the brand new Hyperdrive tracker I just sold you." Whaaa? - Now we know who makes hyperspace tracking devices... that kind of information might be important.

Finally, why doesn't Luke arc?
He's not a supporting character. I can't buy that he dies a coward; this is the same stone cold Jedi that thought he could turn Vader... with minimal training. I accept something went down at the temple... and maybe I'd care, but almost no time is spent on this, nothing is developed. Worse, Yoda shows up, drops knowledge, and yet there is still no learning, no arc. All he manages to do all movie long is die, at a distance, leaving his sister in harm's way. Why show the X-Wing, if not to use it. Fan service? It is not the watcher's job to edit, but if Luke follows Rey then he transcends his fear.

And what a better scene: Rey is being tortured by Snoke when Luke strolls in - divorced from the force. Snoke force lightnings him but it just fizzles, the force can't touch him. Maybe it zaps Rey a little, and Luke touches her and Snokes powers are negated. He exist outside of the force - this scares Snoke. Now, THIS IS A DISTRACTION- now Kylo's killing of Snoke seems plausible. Everything plays out the same... except Rey and Luke escape together. This means Luke is really there when he and his sister share their tender moment. But here is the twist - he and Leia use there combined Jedi powers together to face Kylo - you only need a momentary scene of them seated side by side, reunited, holding hands. It all plays out the same, and when Luke passes on (gag)... instead of holding dice we've never seen before, Leia is left holding Luke's cybernetic hand. Closure. She knows exactly what happened.

All in all, it's fine. Its a two and a half hour chase scene. I just felt it was a lot people dying so Luke could find some peace/be written out. A handful of people saw Luke's projected image die, I fail to see how the SPARKS the Rebellion.

[MorGrendel]

Short Version:

LUKE IS A COWARD

[Fritz]

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