Five years ago. My initial reaction was “huh,” but it’s become one of my favorite Star Wars films.
@andrewliptak the plot is mechanically clunky and I think that has a lot to with the hate for it—aside from the culture war stuff and people just not realizing that Luke had to start with some flaws if he was going to have any sort of arc—but it's works SO WELL thematically. It's mind-blowing that Rian Johnson was handed such a jumbled mess of a series and somehow managed to find a through line to bring to m it together.
And it's criminal the Abrams took one look at it and decided to undo it!
@AJSWritesthings @andrewliptak My initial reaction to TFA was "woo yeah" and then it's gotten worse with every viewing. My initial reaction to TLJ was "...huh" but it's gotten better with every viewing.
@AJSWritesthings @andrewliptak tbh I would kill for a Star Wars movie where George handled the world building and overall plot summary and JJ scripted the dialogue, but between two failure modes I’ll honestly take any of the prequel movies over any of the JJ movies all day long.
@elfprince13 @andrewliptak In a way I find the prequels worse because there's something really great there under the surface, and that just makes it all the more painful
@AJSWritesthings @andrewliptak Honestly a lot of the problems with 1&2 are fixed with better editing (The Phantom Edit and Attack of the Phantom are genuinely good), and Anakin’s face-heel turn in 3 is wayyyy more believable after character arc in Clone Wars
@AJSWritesthings @andrewliptak prequel era as a Game of Thrones or Expanse-esque prestige political drama (like we just got with Andor) would have been so lit
@elfprince13 @andrewliptak by the time TFA came out the world's expectations had been sufficiently lowered that a no -frills, creatively-bankrupt-but-at-least-competently-executed Abrams production was almost welcome lol