Other thoughts:
- If you can take out a fleet of Star Destroyers by just flying a ship at light speed into them, why isn't that the standard tactic?
Because it sacrifices a ship, which are so expensive and take so long to build that the Resistence is still relying mostly on the ships from the Rebellion, and it requires at least one person to die in the process.
It also may just be difficult to pull off, without instead to just jumping past the other ships.
I was worried i wouldn't like it, when I saw his head, but it was great.
- Jedi are definitely getting more powerful as the films go on!
Not sure I agree. I don't think any of them did anything that was more powerful than what we saw in the prequels. Maybe in TFA with making the blaster bolt freeze in the air? Nothing Snoke did was more than just a strong mastery of "making things float".
- Snoke was better than expected. No explanation who he is. Did NOT expect to see him go out like that.
He was one of my favorite parts. He straight up dunked on himself with Kylo Ren, in the most "arrogant Dark Sider" way possible.
- Super space flying Leia looked and felt silly to me.
I mean, she's just pulling objects in space toward her with the force. It was cool to see her use the force, since we've known since the OT that she "has it", and it was a really simple usage. Her not dying in space fits with things we saw Jedi do in the Clone Wars, but also the whole things fits within the confines of basic physics+using theforce to move objects. If she'd flown in spite of gravity, that would have been lame.
- Casino planet sequences felt very prequel-ish to me.
Same, though I suspect that you're not as happy about that as I was. It's all one universe, there definitely should be things that remind a viewer of the world painted by the prequels. [/quote]
- Luke was seriously awesome at the end. At first I thought he was already dead and was there as a force ghost.
- So the main three are all out of the series now. That feels a bit sad. 3PO and R2 got about a minute's screen time between them.
- I love Star Destroyers and I love Imperial Architecture.
I rank it above Force Awakens, below Empire and ANH, above RotJ. I think. Not sure yet![/QUOTE]
I'll never understand why people rank Empire above Jedi, but otherwise I agree.
I'll add, that the three new main characters, and Rose, were all excellent, IMO. Even Kylo Ren was exactly what I hoped he'd be.
I loved how badly Snoke got himself killed. And the unanswered questions were great. Who is he, what is he, how is he even alive, why is he so obsessed with the Skywalkers? I kinda hope that some of those never get answered. I don't like my movies to wrap everything up in a satisfying package.
And the fact that Ren turned against Snoke, but not from the Dark Side, was great.
My only real complaint was the apparent nods to the idea of the Light and Dark both being required for balance, rather than balance being a matter of the Dark Side being defeated. If they double down on that in the next one, it's gonna seriously hamper my enthusiasm for the franchise.