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Rex Tremendae Majestatis
Rey has Palps' powers, but . . .
It never ceases to fascinate me how wide the range of subjectivity can be when it comes to what's acceptable and what isn't in these movies. I suppose it just makes for more interesting discussion.
When I watched Palpatine shoot miles of lightning into the sky to disable an entire fleet of ships, the thought of "well, why not" was one of the furthest things from my mind.
Yeah, in the end, it all has to do with how much you're enjoying the movie and how well it manages to put you into "suspension of disbelief" mode. However, discussing it, I still find I can easily explain it in my head, so I'm fine with it.
Of course, for me the whole ST is a bit bollocks anyway, so as long as I find the story entertaining, I can go with it. I mean, as derivative and pedestrian in its ideas as TFA was, I could go with it, it was really TLJ that was pretty much unacceptable to me. Now with TROS I can just enjoy the movie, and I found some surprisingly emotional moments that really worked for me.
Do I think it's a fitting end to the Saga? Not really. Am I ok with how it destroys everything Anakin and Luke went through in the first six movies? Not really. But all that went out the window the moment TFA set up another "rebels vs. empire" story. Is it stupid that Palpatine is back? Of course it is. But so is that the entire meaning of Anakin's struggle and redemption were meaningless.
But... it's what we got. And TROS is a far more entertaining movie than TLJ could ever hope to be. I dare say it's better written, better directed and better acted. And that is all I could hope for.
TFA was just a nostalgia trip with too many nods to the OT with very little imagination, but it managed to set up interesting characters.
TLJ tried to be clever, and although it posed interesting ideas, it did so with the finesse and intelligence of an angry hippopotamus, and completely disregarded character development, story and cohesive development of what came before.
TROS spent half its time being episode VIII and the other half rushing to be episode XI, but this time it fleshed out the characters, made them relatable and likeable again, and managed to build on some of the ideas of VII and VIII. So, in my book, it's quite successful as closure to this particularly flawed trilogy.
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