Have you seen it yet?
Yep, saw it, really liked it, went to a rewatch party of the Original Trilogy the next week.
– Loved the visual style, very much felt like New Hope but with the modern capacity to do the Millenium Falcon in wild dogfights that wasn’t possible in 1977.
– I actually liked that it was so close to New Hope, but playing with all the characters and recombining elements: Han being Obi-Wan, Rey being Luke but with elements of Han too, Poe being a bit of Han and a bit of Leia, Finn having a bit of all three.
– Really liked Kylo Ren, but it took some thinking to wear away some of my issues. Still kind of liked it better when he was wearing the mask.
– Rey is not a Mary Sue. Her power set is almost exactly the power set of Luke and Anakin, and there’s a reason for that.
– Disappointed that Phasma was given so little to do. Not original to me, but there’s absolutely no reason why the Storm Trooper with the Shock Baton who fights Finn couldn’t have been Phasma, and the character arcs work better if it had been.
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Takodana/Maz Kanata. I feel almost heretical for saying it, but I don’t think the music in the bar hit the same spot that the Cantina song did. Maz feels a bit underused, but I’ve learned that they cut out 45 minutes of material and I think that’s there along with how Poe Dameron got off Jakku and a bunch of Leia stuff at the HQ. The vision sequence is great and I think will be obsessed about until Episode VIII comes out.
– Thought that the space part of the attack on the Starkiller Base was undercooked a bit. Very noticeable how few X-Wings and Tie Fighters were involved. While I know you need to avoid the overbusy compositions of the Prequels, it felt smaller than a New Hope’s Deathstar sequence, and should have been as big.
– Loved everything with the showdown between Ren and Han and then Ren and Finn and Rey.
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