Another day, another Star Wars: The Last Jedi Podcast here at DFAT. Chris and Casey decide to get even deeper into the most divisive film in the saga and try to unpack all that Rain Johnson presented on screen. Take a listen!
Show Notes:
- Spoiler Warning
- Wish Rian Johnson a Happy Birthday
- Criticize Fan-Event
- Mention the music of this film
- Film does the opposite of what you’re expecting.
- Characters
- Rotten Tomato score crashing. Will “fans” ever be “happy”? Star Wars “ownership”
- Mention Ring Theory/Composition for all those out there that say SW always does the same thing
Commercial
Liked:
CW
- Luke’s presence in the film, characterization
- Theme of nobodies
- Throne room scene
- The space chase scene/Holdo hyper-spacing through the FO
- New Force powers
- Jedi – bringing it down a notch
- Yoda, use of the original puppet, him being all ESB
- Rey took the books
- Rose’s story and motivation
- Characters’ continue to grow: Poe, Finn, Hux
- Johnson’s world building
- John Williams Soundtrack / Canto Bight theme is awesome
CB
- Kylo and Rey throne room
- Snoke
- Anyone is a force user
- Puppet Yoda
- opening with Rose’s sister dying. So well shot.
- new ships
- snoke dying
- Rey not having a real parentage
- luke breast milk
Disliked:
CW
- Porgs
- Snap Wexley (Greg Grunberg) just killed off?
- Finn not dying
- Phasma
CB
- the horse escape
- Treatment of Phasma
- DJ
- BB-8 on the AT-ST
- no knights of ren?
- Ackbar no fan service
Nitpick:
CW
- Luke not getting an opportunity to kick ass
- Humor off at some points
- Vader Kyber Crystal is JUST an easter egg
- Leia force powers
- Snoke
- Knights of Ren
CB
- Finn and Rose. It was like that whole thing was trying to hard. I didn’t care enough to really dwell on it too much.
- couldn’t the first order just send all their ships to wreck that transport ship. Easily.
- I also didn’t like that they gave Benicio a stutter just because. Like the dude mumbles enough now you gotta add that to the mix?!
- luke throwing the lightsaber over his shoulder? don’t wanna find out what it is
Top Things People Didn’t Like
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- Humor
- Force powers
- Fuel running out
- Rey’s parentage
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- Younglings!?
- Ezra from rebels
- No explanation of Snoke
- Luke “dying” – No one could kill him before….
- Killing off “main” characters (i.e. Ackbar)
Final Thoughts:
Where do we go from here?
- Ep9 was supposed to be Leia’s story and it’s heavily setup that way. What do you do? Recast? Do you kill her off in between movies?
- Balance in the Force?
- Hard to speculate what will happen next with the way Johnson leaves it so open
- Film felt like the end of a series
- Does Johnson build his new trilogy out of this movie?
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