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Hot take: the sequels weren’t that bad until the third movie and “somehow Palpatine returned”

Anonymous 1w

I think the sequels suffer from a lot of the same problems as the prequels. A LOT of the “plot holes” and problems are explained by outside media. But the movies aren’t considered good because that critical information is just left out and you have to read “The Life and Times of Jinky Minus” in order to understand why Rey was an S-tier pilot.

Anonymous 1w

I liked seven. I did. It wasn’t perfect or particularly great, but I liked it. Eight was not good. The primary tension was less interesting than the middling sub-plots, and those were drawn out too long, just like the “we ran out of gas” main storyline. Eight suffered from ideas being stretched too far to the point of becoming boring. Nine was just bad. Dialogue, story, length, all of it.

Anonymous 1w

tbh episodes seven and eight were trying to be two different things, neither necessarily objectively better than the other, and trying to mash them together is what made the sequel trilogy bad.

Anonymous

#2 1w

Eight could’ve been better if nine followed through with what eight set up. (Also it could’ve been so much better if Finn’s character didn’t get trashed for an odd side plot…)

Anonymous

#3 1w

YES omg if they had followed through with Kylo Ren becoming the leader of the first order and the main antagonist it would have been so much better. Also, Rey and Finn could have both been force sensitive/jedis and could have rebuilt the Jedi together 😭💔

Anonymous

OP 1w

Force sensitive Jedi Finn is so true in my heart.

Anonymous

#1 1w

I also get confused when people compare sequels fights to prequels fights. They’re like “why are the fights so slow compared to the prequels” and it’s like dooku was canonically the best duelist in the galaxy, maul was a young sith trained by sidious himself, and grievous was a robot with 4 arms. Plus all of the Jedi were in their prime. Of course the dude trained by a failed science experiment and the girl with like 2 months of training aren’t gonna fight as well as all these trained duelists

Anonymous

#1 1w

Of course, the prequels fights are objectively better in choreography, pacing, emotional weight, etc. but I feel like it’s kind of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” If Rey and Kylo were out here like prime Ani vs. Obi, people would’ve called their power levels unrealistic. Because they are slow and inexperienced, people call them boring and clunky. The writers kinda shot themselves in the foot. Regardless, there are many more major problems in the sequels than this imo

Anonymous

#1 1w

I didn’t really have any issues with the duels in the sequels. They felt natural for the skill levels of the duellists. Even though Kylo had training under Luke as well as Snoke (Palpatine’s puppet) he constantly lets his emotions cloud his judgement and I liked that this showed up whenever he duelled and fought anyone.