Star Wars Episode IX Teaser!

Literally putting Kylo Ren's dumbass helmet back together--I'm surprised there wasn't a shot of JJ Abrams firing Kelly Marie Tran IRL

I started crying as soon as Leia's theme cued up. I am not emotionally ready for this.

Then again, Rian Johnson didn't feel the need to keep the characters consistent with TFA, so I wouldn't be too upset about Abrams getting rid of some of Johnson's garbage ideas.

I outright loved Last Jedi, it really is what I think is the best Star Wars film because Johnson went in such a drastic change of direction. Mostly in how he dealt with the characters of Rey and Kylo Ren. If they do walk back Rey's parents or Kylo, this movie is just a waste of time to me. I hope I'm wrong, but everything seems to be pointing to retcon city.

At the Celebration, after they played the trailer for the first time...Ian McDiarmid shows up on stage. After the cheers die down enough for him to be heard, he says, in Palpatine's voice, "ROLL IT AGAIN!" and they play the trailer a second time.

I've already watched this thing about 8 times today. Yeah, whatever.

I don’t care what else happens in this movie because motherfucking Lando Calrissian is in it screaming, “Wahooo!!!!” and flying around in a spaceship.

Yes, I would LOVE to see Kylo just turn into the new Emperor, that 100% should be where they're going with it, but I don't actually think they have the balls. And I won't lay that at Abrams' feet, because there's no way Disney isn't micro-managing the fuck out of where the characters end up (even if they're clearly not terribly concerned about how they get there).

And I do like Hux, there was just no reason for him to be so overblown when everyone else was relatively restrained.

My Poe issues are largely "um he's been around the goddamn Rebellion since he was a kid, he's now a commander, there's literally no fucking way he's going to react like a spoiled child because Holdo refused to confide the top secret plan in him, and no way he's going to go ahead and commit what would be court-martial-able actions if they had a court because he got his feelers hurt."   Presenting the Rebel Alliance like it isn't a military structure and that someone of that rank would act like Andrea on The Walking Dead is idiotic.  

I'd be surprised because I'm pretty sure he could only cackle and didn't poses the ability to speak.

No, he can definitely also say "UNA!!!!"


Salacious Crumb also appears to say multiple words in whatever language it is that he speaks after R2D2 electrocutes him to save C3PO from having his eye eaten.

I really take exception to calling Rey a Mary Sue. By that logic, Luke Skywalker was the OG Mary Sue.

Yeah it's an "argument" advanced by morons who are still mad about the main character being a woman but don't feel comfortable saying it

I have no real issues with Luke, but it has always bugged the ever-living fuck out of me that Luke "became a Jedi" with, like, a weekend of training on Dagobah.  Are you in-fucking-sane.

Would've made more sense for Luke to go back to Dagobah, humbled by Vader, to train in-between films before he goes to Jabba's Palace having leveled-up.

So I've been rewatching The Last Jedi today, and a very important point to add toward Ep9:

In Luke's story about how he failed Ben/Kylo, he specifically referred to him as having "that strong Skywalker blood". Just confirmation of that.

(Also, the parts of this movie I -and others- thought were a bit too long upon first viewing, such as Canto Bight, really don't take up a lot of screen time. I think I love this one even more now.)