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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 7309469" data-attributes="member: 1231">So I finally saw The Last Jedi today and I enjoyed it. There were things about it that were a bit disappointing. Then I came Home and started reading about how actually there are a [l]lot[/i] of things that are kinda disappointing. And, for the most part, agree those things could have been way better though maybe were not completely game-breaking. My overall feeling right now though is: wrap it up in Episode IX; proceed to never making anything that could be described as "Episode X". Like, yes, the movie was good enough watching. But it does not make me want to see more and more of the same forever in quite the same way the MCU managed to (forever still probably being a bit too strong there). I think the biggest thing that instinctively rubbed me the wrong way while I was watching the film was the way Yoda was handled. Having a Force ghost appear and use the biggest blast of Force Lightning we have ever seen to practically vapourize a tree kind of beggars belief in why we would even need living Force wielders at all. I also kind of think having him appear hologram style to Luke is a bit on the nose. He could have been more obviously just in Luke's head.Second, and this is not a complaint per se, but at the end I was actually expected Leia to disappear then and there right after Luke did. They were twins. They came into the world together. Having them go out of the world together would by acceptable mysterious in a way that nobody telling us anything about Snoke in a whole 'nother film kinda is not. If having her just die because he did would not be good enough, then maybe she could have been part of the final act. They already showed that she can use the Force. Maybe she could have acted as a conduit for Luke to achieve that incredible feat of Force projection across the span of half a galaxy and that the effort killed them both instead of just him.Finally, I really think more could have gone into the Finn v Phasma fight. Finn is an important character, as important as Han Solo or maybe even moreso. He is the first one who takes up the Lightsaber against Kylo Ren, an incredible act of courage. And in TFA it is teased that he might be Force sensitive: he hears the screams when the Hosnian system is about to be vapourized. And while that might have come from people from the cantina, I do not think that is the most congruent explanation. I was really hoping that the Finn v Phasma duel would be worthy of being called one of the Top 5 Star Wars duels of all time, yet it clearly was not. In this movie Phasma says he is "just a bug in the system" . The "system" in Star Wars is first and foremost the conflict between the Dark and the Light. Ordinarily I would expect that to be picked up on to great effect in the final film, but as we just saw, TLJ seems to have trashed a lot of the setup from TFA.</blockquote>

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