#imagining how laura gets to make up for lost time with logan as he died for her

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They have the purest father and daughter relationship. The way they are looking at each other with so much love. I think I'll cry.

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Logan/ RWBY Headcanons

Because I’m obsessed with both Logan/ The Wolverine, and RWBY I came up with some head canons for Team RWBY and Logan. I asked @headcanonsfromremnant to do something for this, and they did it great. Here’s a link for theirs as well. https://maximalcatpossible.tumblr.com/post/159003285659/because-i-watched-logan-last-night-and-im-hella Right off the bat, I can see Ruby and Logan being a Wolverine and Jubilee duo. I can also see Logan accidentally calling her Jubilee by accident. If Ruby recognized him from comic books or the news she’d be both excited and maybe even a little disappointed. Logan very well would tell her that the real world isn’t like the comics or the fairy tales. If she pestered him about what was true or not from the comics, he’d tell her some things were real, but not everything was real, and not all the endings were good. Speaking of fairy tales, I can still see Ruby as a “Red Riding Hood” character, her being red riding hood of course, the enemies being the wolves, and Logan being the huntsman. And for enemies, I totally would’ve wanted to see Logan wreck Tyrian. If Ruby got too hurt, Logan would’ve done his famous Berserker Rage and just annihilate Tyrian. If she was captured by Tyrian, Cinder, or even Salem, Logan would no doubt go after her, even with all odds against him. Of course Logan would take some major hits and I can see Ruby getting concerned for him, despite Logan most likely not taking her help or concern. If Ruby managed to save his skin or downright save his life, I think Logan would give her his shy thanks. “I don’t know how you got me out of there, but, thank you.” In spite of how gruff he is, and how different their personalities are, I can actually see Ruby finding that softer spot in his heart. Wether he admits it or not is anyone’s question, but either way he’d deny it. Finally, if Logan WAS to die, Ruby would hold his hand without a doubt. This is maybe where Logan would give her a good thank you, goodbye, or to keep moving forward. For Weiss, I can already see them butting heads about the littlest things. I can also see Weiss judging him for things like his personal hygiene (referring to his scruffiness), his cigar and alcohol habits, and of course his temper. I also have this scenario in my head where their car or truck breaks down and Logan needing to fix it. It doesn’t go so well and Logan cusses, yells, throws stuff, or maybe even bashes the car in a little. All Weiss can do is sit there and watch, a little worried if not a little scared. Seeing this Logan calms down and takes a breather before apologizing to Weiss. I can also imagine Weiss’s biggest issue would be her father’s men chasing her. Of course Logan isn’t just gonna sit back and let this happen, and of course neither is Weiss. Seeing her actually fight would no doubt surprise him. Seeing her with a sword and not a gun is also another surprise. I can imagine Logan disliking guns, as he’s usually the one being shot at. Since Winter is Weiss’s final and only true family left, if they DID find her, I don’t see Logan sticking around for too long. He’s more of a, “I agreed to this, we’re done now”, kinda guy. I also have another scenario in my head where Winter and Weiss are talking and Logan is sitting off further away. Logan probably sees this and remembers his alpha flight or x men days when he was surrounded by people who loved and cared about him. He’s glad to see them together, maybe even wants to join in, but he doesn’t. He just sits there and watches them talk, smile, and be themselves. To me, Blake is the character that most resembles Logan, in my eyes at least. Mostly because Blake was made into a pawn of the White Fang, and Logan was made into a weapon for the Weapon X program. I can also still see Blake’s beauty and the beast theme with her and Logan. I don’t see it as romantically, but more of the girl with a kind heart and a monster who still HAS a heart. Maybe Adam being the Gaston of the theme as well. And like I said for Tryian, I would wanna see Logan wreck Adam too. I think he would be a tougher opponent than Tyrian, because even though Tyrian does have poison, Logan’s healing factor can likely take care of this. Adam on the other hand has that one slash semblance thing he used on Yang. I don’t know if this can kill Logan or not, but there’s a good chance it could cut through adamantium. And with Adam’s Japanese style of fighting, I can see some resemblances of honor and will to fight like the japanese comics of the wolverine. Maybe Adam or other White Fang members could bring some light about the Kuzuri myth. But back to Blake, more specifically the faunus side of her, I have another scenario in my mind. I can see Blake being discriminated for her faunus traits, and Logan standing up for her. Maybe him roughing someone up or just using that scary scowl and deep yell of his. What I mostly see is him telling her what he told Rogue on the train in the first X-Men movie, how he knows how she feels, and how people are going to judge her for being different. I also see Logan being a guest in Blake’s home and meeting her parents. I don’t see Ghira being so picky with him like Sun, as he doesn’t see Logan as a boy pursuing his daughter, more of another parent picking up their daughter and bringing her home. Maybe even Ghira or Kali recognize him from their youth and before Logan lost his memories. Even though he may be a guest over for dinner, if there’s one thing I know about Logan and Wolverine stories, being a guest in a family’s home doesn’t end well for him. Whatever happens, I have two ideas of what comes after. He dies and that’s where he tells Blake the “Don’t be what they made you”, line, or he leaves because he doesn’t want to put Blake and her family in anymore danger. Maybe leaving with something along the lines of Shane, “There aren’t anymore wolves in the valley.” And the beast protecting Bell from the wolves could still be a beauty and the beast thing. And then there’s Yang. For her, I can see her getting irritating for Logan kinda like the way Deadpool would. Being a part of Ruby’s family I can guess that she’d recognize him from the comic books too. Maybe she’d say how she liked his yellow spandex suit because it matched her colors or something. But like Ruby I can also see Yang getting a little disappointed about actually meeting him. I can also see him giving her the “I am NOT, whatever it is you think I am” speech. Another big thing I can see Yang and Logan getting involved in is Raven and her clan. Logan vs. Raven could be a good fight, but since I don’t know much about Raven I don’t know who would be victorious. I can also see Raven and her clan recognizing Wolverine as the Kuzuri or the Kuakuoku, the Japanese story of the animal with claws or the Native American story of the wolverine. Maybe there was even a time where Raven met or fought with Logan before he lost his memory. Bringing it back to Yang, I can also see them sharing an interest in motorcycles. I can also imagine when Logan was driving with X-23 with her sunglasses on and her arm hanging outside of the window, that Yang would do something similar. Yang is a showy character, and an epic back to back tag team fight would make one awesome scene. Fist and claws working together would be bad ass. On a more subtle side, they both have some major PTSD on their ends. I can also imagine Yang replacing Laura in that nightmare scene from Logan, “I have nightmares too, people hurt me”, “Mine are different, I hurt people.” So that’s my headcanons off Logan/ Wolverine and team RWBY. Just another one of those things that’s been buzzing around in my head. I apologize for this post being one long paragraph. I'm on mobile and it doesn't let me write it otherwise.

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‘Logan’ or ode to Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

What is an actor? The actor is an artist who brings the author’s, writer’s and society’s imagination into reality for the purpose of entertainment or for deepening one’s understanding regarding a concept. The power of an actor is stronger and intense as they have the power to impact so many minds all around the world. On that note, even before I dive into critiquing the movie, I would start with showing my appreciation for Hugh Jackman as an actor.

Not only did Mr. Jackman pulled off the character of wolverine beautifully for past 17years, he also let go of it as beautifully. Nobody could have interpreted the character Wolverine so perfectly and consistent like he did. His humble, innocent, kind and universal disposition gave him an edge in understanding and portraying the character, thus adding depth and dimension that we all have enjoyed. With his decision to let go of the character, Mr. Jackman not only proofs this businessman's intellect but that of a true artist who loves his character and take responsibility for it. It is true that the character (Wolverine) might have become monotonous for the audience and would have stopped yielding a profit. Mr. Jackman’s personal growth and wisdom also spill from his decisions, as he has appeared to accept his age and health. Hugh Jackman is the next actor that I have come to admire after Mr. Robin Williams.

Now moving on the movie, to tell you the truth I don’t feel like completing the review as I don’t want the effect of this movie to wear off (Only crazy movie lovers would understand that). But as the quotes go “ what needs to be done, needs to be done”. I also need to review this movie and that needs to be done. In the initial scenes, we see James Logan Howlett sleeping in a car, but because of some disturbances, he comes out. It is then when the audience gets to see the first glimpse of the man and the hero they adored; Wasted and wearing a suit of a chauffeur. He sees some thugs trying to steal the silver rims of the tires that he was just in. He urged them to stop and warned them “you don’t want to do this”. The thugs shoot him. In the back of the mind, the audience knows that he has regenerative powers so nothing would really happen to him. Quite contrary, the regenerative powers seemed slow and he in pain. But of course we are talking about Wolverine, even though he was injured, his will and attitude never shivered and he was as fierce as the first time when we saw him. He still had that fire and fierce energy to kill off of the rowdies who attempted to attack him. 

The struggle of this fictional character made me remind of my real life hero, my father. Made me remind of his last stages of life, where till his last breath he was fierce and refused to go down without a fight, without making his children stand strong and safe. Now, this is only a fraction of a way to relate to this movie. There are so many people viewing this movie and they all have their own sweet way of relating to this story. The only reason that the movie could have had such an intense impact on its audience is because of its decades of build up. I was moved by its every scene.

You would see all the pillars of the X-Men tumbling, from Wolverine, Caliban (Stephen Merchant) to Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart). But the hope is not lost, they encounter an 11-year-old girl named Laura. who apparently happened to be Wolverine's daughter. She was created as a weapon X-23, which later become redundant due to the success of project X-24. From there, the story is all about how Wolverine, who is not only wearing off physically but also struggling psychologically. He is finding a hard time looking out for hope, a brighter place where mutants have a future and can live in peacefully. The appearance of Laura in his life should have given him hope but because of his years of experience being defeated and falling to find a safe enough place to settle down. He feels reluctant to believe Laura and tries to convince her to not to be that hopeful. This is exactly when the audience gets to see Laura’s adamant character similar to that of Logan when young. It is not just that Laura is similar to Wolverine in powers but mentality as well.

There are times in the movie when Logan is seen to lose his consciousness and faint, Laura becomes the stronger one and help him meet his responsibility towards her and the future. James Mangold, the director, and the story writer, by choosing Laura to be an 11-year-old girl, contrasting that from the comics, suggests that he intended to draw out the sympathy of the audience and entertain the younger audience, that I am sure would have got inspired by looking at Laura. Dafne Keen acted as Laura, and she did an amazing job. Her character was not invested with many dialogues so the only way she could bring out the character was purely through acting. She gave the character her own personality and depth but also portrayed some shadows of Wolverine here and there, giving her character an interesting and refreshing outlook.

The director dealt with the character of Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier well. Though, again it was really sad to see how he dies by being stabbed by X-24, who looked just like wolverine. So, the summary of his life was a man who took a bullet on his back and chooses to stay handicapped throughout his life to protect innocent humans; who also built mutants as heroes to protect the world, got stabbed and betrayed by a man-made and a soulless mutant. Actually, making his theory and life philosophy wrong or let's say un-ideal. I was thinking to myself during that scene, that Xavier must be thinking, “Ahhh! Dame that Magneto was right! Stupid humans, we should have taken over the world when we had the chance. At Least, we would have had a good death and not to forget “life ”. (But if everything was so peaceful then we would have never got to the part where we sit in a hall and watch an X-men movies and critique it later. Right?). Apparently, entertainment won over Professor Xavier and Magneto.

Moving to the villains of the movie, Donald Pierce (Played by  Boyd Holbrook). He too interpreted the character well, though his role reminded of Cruella de Vil ( the villain of 101 Dalmatians(1996)) or Joe Mantegna (Villain of Baby’s day out (1994)). Nevertheless, he too did an amazing job.The next Villain was X-24. Ironically, it was a  relief to see X-24, whose mission was to kill the hero. X-24 was the only way we got the glimpses of the Wolverine’s younger and the stronger self, even though he lacked the spirit of the hero that we all have come to admire. Again here also, it is needless to mention that Mr. Hugh Jackman did a marvelous job in portraying the character of X-24, who had only a few scenes to develop his character. Mr. Jackman brings out the character by portraying a man who looks similar to wolverine and possesses the same powers but he is not the same, cause he has no soul. The intricate work that he did in developing his roles in this movie is beyond one’s praise. 

The makeup was so ‘unreal’ that it almost made me cry to see Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) so old. The camera shots were clear and nicely taken. And not to forget the humor, even with such an intense storyline, the writer didn’t fail to deliver subtle hints of humor, that the character, Wolverine always possessed. But sometimes the tone of the humor took a little stereotypical turn. Portraying what the father did the daughter does the same, similar to, where the father has a mole the daughter possesses the mole in the same place too. Old humor, yet classic.

In the end, as it turns out, I actually think that I wouldn’t be able to completely review the movie. Who else is better at judging the movie than the actors and the people who were intimately involved with the movie. So, I have attached a link to an interview with Hugh jackman and Patrick Stewart. In here they dive in the political stance of the movie, as well as, have shared some interesting insights into the movie making. Hope you enjoy!

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My thoughts on THE LAST JEDI

It’s Christmas Eve-eve and I’m working 2nd shift.   It’s finally calmed down a bit so this seems a good time to talk about my difficult relationship with STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI.

I overall dislike the film, both as the 8th episode of the Star Wars Saga/9th film overall in the entire franchise and as a film on its own merit. But there was a lot I liked about the film.  A lot I LOVED about the film.  Which perhaps makes it more frustrating.  Were TLJ as categorically bad as say, HIGHLANDER 2: The one where they’re from the Planet Zeist, I would actually have a much easier time disliking it.

But first, what exactly is my history with Star Wars?

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was the first film I ever saw in a theater.   My older brother took me.  I was all of 4.   I saw STAR WARS on TV later on and it was not until RETURN OF THE JEDI that I connected the dots that it was the same film.  You gotta remember that for my generation, what you call, “Episode IV: A NEW HOPE,” was just STAR WARS to us.   I loved ESB.  And collected what little merchandise was available in early 80s rural Indiana.

I’ve seen EMPIRE STRIKES BACK more than any other film.   I have a son, college-age right now, who grew up with the prequels.    We had our various lightsaber battles, and played the video games together and bought the toys.  It was great!

I don’t hate the prequels in the en vogue way that GenXers seem to hate them.  Jar Jar doesn’t bother me all that much.  Nor does Jake Lloyd’s Anakin.  I still fire up the DVD from time to time for the Podrace and Darth Maul duels.  And Qui-Gon is one of my favorite SW characters.  

I really enjoyed ATTACK OF THE CLONES because it feels like Ewan really had fun playing Obi-Wan.  And SITH… well… it’s not great.    I think the last two minutes of ROGUE ONE makes up a lot for the last two minutes of SITH.  It’s the Darth Vader we’ve wanted to see for decades.

And I loved FORCE AWAKENS. I really dig all four new leads. I was bummed that Luke had nothing to do and I felt Han got a really bittersweet ending (as did Harrison Ford finally get the exit he wanted from the franchise).  I thought the structural similarities between IV and VII were a feature, not a bug.   And I’ve been all for VIII since.

 Until.  The trailers for VIII began.  Something felt… not quite right.  And yeah, feel free to insert your, “I feel a great disturbance in the Force) joke here.  I couldn’t get excited for anything I was seeing in the trailers.  

Even seeing Luke in the cockpit of the Falcon felt like the grapes of Han’s, “Chewie, we’re home” to prunes in my mouth.   I assumed Luke would die in this film.  And after we lost Carrie Fisher much too soon, it was hard accepting that IX would be without Luke, Han and Leia.  I waited for the crowds to thin a bit and saw TLJ on Tuesday after opening weekend. 70mm IMAX at the Indiana State Museum, if knowing that of trivia is fun for you.

Now, then.  I’m not a film critic and this is not a film review. I’m just a middle aged Star Wars lover and film nerd.  

 But before we get into what I disliked about it, let’s start off on a positive note!  Firstly, I do understand and respect that Rian Johnson had essentially 4 basic audiences for this film, none of whom view Star Wars the same way.  Baby Boomers what saw STAR WARS in college; we GenXers what grew up with the movies; Millennials who grew up with the Preqs; and kids today whose first Star Wars theater experience was THE FORCE AWAKENS.  That’s a heavy burden and if anything, I feel like they failed in trying to appease to these 4 quadrants of the fandom.

I loved the opening battle sequence.  It’s maybe the best star war in Star Wars.  It looks and sounds great.  There is great conflict and drama.  It has this amazing gut punch with the last bomber.  Just superb.

I still really just love the four new leads.  Those are all rich characters.

I’ve seen a lot of people grousing about Rose and specifically, the entire casino sub-plot.  Rose was great!  In a movie where people are all over the place on the emotional spectrum, Rose felt like really the only person whose emotional responses actually made sense in their given contexts.  And she delivers the theme of the film at the end, which I did enjoy.  

And the space casino heist? Are you kidding me?  James Bond in space.  Loved it.  I felt the animal cruelty and slavery beats a bit too on the nose, but that’s just a taste thing.  I think my very first reaction on the twitters was something to the effect of, “a great space casino heist film wrapped in a shitty Star Wars story.” Beneicio Del Toro was certainly memorable.  I thought they were teasing a new Han Solo-ish scoundrel but instead, he’s this great foil to Finn.  I DJ shows back up again either in IX or in Rian Johnson’s spinoff films.    

My only real quibble with the casino scene was that Justin Theroux’s high stakes gambler/slicers should have been Lando, right?  You can’t put Billy Dee Williams at a Sabacc table for 30 seconds?  Also seeing how the owner of the ship DJ stole sells to the Resistance and the 1st Order, having him still Lando’s ship would have been a nice touch.   In the absence of the Rebellion and Han, Lando is not the best version of his self. Anyway, I’m not here to write a different movie.

I also really liked Laura Dern’s Admiral Holdo and I enjoyed how she shut down Poe’s mansplaining.   I don’t understand some of the choices made with Holdo, but  more on that in a bit.   Holdo crashing the Mon Cal cruiser into the 1st Order fleet while at lightspeed was insanely cool.  That’s the stuff we only ever imagined in the old Star Wars RPG; never thought I’d see something like that on screen.

Didn’t mind the Yoda cameo. Don’t understand people who say, “bro, that should have been Obi-Wan, bro.”  I don’t agree, but whatever.  Yoda seemed perfect to me.  

I don’t think it’s the best lightsaber fight in Star Wars, but seeing Kylo Ren and Rey fight together was really cool.  Was great to see the combat training the actors have done get a few minutes to shine.

BB-8.  Big fan.  I don’t understand why BB-8 didn’t get a moment to take out BB-9e while in that 1st Order Chicken Walker.  Would have been a quick scene and very satisfying.  Oh well.

The big ground assault on the rebel base at the end was great. That’s the ground battle I expected from the trailer of ROGUE ONE that didn’t seem to be in the movie.  I wonder if there’s a connection?

All of the performances were superb.  Carrie Fisher especially.  

The film was a series of several, often disconnected moments, that I thought were really good.

Now the bad stuff.  I find it insanely annoying and not a little condescending to allege that people who do not like THE LAST JEDI are obsessive fanboys who cannot let go of the past.   Or that we don’t understand the goals and themes of the film.  I get it.  Conceptually, I’m on board.  I’m VERY ready for the formula of STAR WARS to be reinvented.   I don’t need to see rehashes of Sith vs Jedi, Empire vs Rebellion, Skywalker vs Skywalker.  It’s tired. I know.   Dudes wanna fly off half-cocked into conflict when they should listen to the counsel of wiser women.  I KNOW.

Just… be good at doing those things.

So here’s what I hated:

The film doesn’t actually move the story forward.  The movie ends with the same status quo as the beginning:  

the 1st Order has the New Republic Resistance on the ropes and is assaulting their base.

Rey doesn’t have a teacher.

The 1st Order is exactly as effective with Snoke cut into pieces as it was when he was alive.

The Resistance is exactly as effective when a demoted Commander leads a mutiny against a Vice Admiral as it was with General Leia in charge.  

This film sets on fires many dangling plot points set-up by JJ in VII only to return the story to the same position.

And so on.  You get it.  It’s the illusion of change.  

I hated every scene with Luke Skywalker.    Man, just one huge bummer after another.   And again, conceptually, I can by that he’s at least a Grey Jedi now and believes both the Sith and Jedi are wrong in the possessive perspectives on the Force.  I can buy that he went off to Ach-To to cut himself off from the Force and die.  I can buy that he, in a moment of weakness, could not figure out how to save Ben Solo from the Dark Side and was tempted himself to take the quick and easy path.  He did, after all, cut Darth Vader’s hand off in the Death Star II Throne room.

But all of those things were executed in a clumsy way that seemed to have little regard for the character. It was a gigantic bummer.  Would have also been nice if someone had bothered to tell Luke that his best friend died at the hands of his own son.  Maybe that’s what Chewie told him?  Or Artoo?  But I dunno.  It’s not clear and they gave Mark Hamill nothing to work with in those moments.  

I absolutely hated his hero moment at the end.  Why set up Old Logan Luke who doesn’t want to face down the entire 1st Order with a laser sword in the 1st Act if he does it but not really in the 3rd Act?  There’s a wishy-washy desire to have things both ways in this film that drives me nuts.

Also, Luke on Denouement Planet was the clunkiest “misdirect” of the entire film.  I’ve only seen the film once and at my first viewing, it was obvious to me that this was not actually Luke.  

A) We’ve just seen three different flashbacks of Jedi Master Luke from his New Jedi Academy days after RotJ. And Denouement Luke looks exactly like Jedi Master Luke and not the Wild Man of Borneo from the first two Acts.

B)  the movie makes a big deal of showing us that the slightest disturbance to the surface crust of that salt pan will reveal the red dust underneath (which was a rad visual element).   And when Kylo Ren sets his foot in Sith Action Pose, we see the red underneath.  Whereas Luke is clearly NOT disrupting anything.  

C) How dumb is Kylo Ren that even though he just destroyed Anakin Skywalker’s blue lightsaber 10 minutes before landing, Luke is somehow wielding it?  I think there’s an argument to be made that Luke intentionally chooses a younger visage of himself (of the last time Ben Solo saw him) and is also using his own legacy against him (Anakin’s lightsaber) to put him off balance. But the film does not convey this.

All combined, these three elements rob all the underlying drama tension from that conflict because it’s obvious he isn’t there.

The dialogue was troublesome for me.  I legit sat there, stunned, at the end looking for a Diablo Cody writing credit. Remember how I loved the opening battle? Everything but that bit with Poe and Hux.  It was funny the first time.  The, “Holding for Hux” part after Hux did his nefarious monologue.  But they kept hitting that same beat.  Over and over.  I would have not batted an eye had Poe called Hux, “homeslice” in that moment. Thus, Diablo Cody.  

Also, Snoke’s “spunk.” line. Lolwut?  Though I had a chuckle and thought to myself, “… and wriggling” after Andy Serkis said, “raw.”

Why do they keep wasting Gwendoline Christie as Phasma?  Have they not seen GAME OF THRONES?  Are they unaware of the jewel in their crown?

The editing.  This film needs a good once-over to trim about 20 minutes out.  Do we need to see Luke milking a Watto-Cow or spearfishing?  Did we need to see Luke’s X-Wing parked underwater when it’s just an unnecessary head-fake?  As much as I did enjoy the casino bit, it felt over-stuffed.  

The wishy-washiness. Oh man.  This is the ultimate dealbreaker for me.  Look, I don’t mind Rey is the daughter of a couple Trump voters from Jakku with no connection to the Skywalkers.  The scene where Kylo Ren tells her, “You don’t even belong here. No one cares about you but me.” is fantastic.  I loved it. I love their relationship and I hope to all the cinema gods they stick to their guns and don’t reveal that Ben and Rey are just Jacen and Jaina Solo lite.  

Don’t waste our precious film time in VII making a huge mystery deal out of who Rey is and who her parents are in VII just to reveal in VIII that she’s nobody from nowhere one-hundredth of her name.  And don’t especially get pissy at me because I’m frustrated that you wasted my time on a non-mysterious mystery.  That’s false drama, breh.  And a really hacky way to “deconstruct” a story.

If you’re going to really deconstruct what we know about this story and these characters, then do it.  “Flip you. Flip you, for real.”  Don’t try to have your space cake and eat it too.    

Luke is done with this mess and isn’t going to show up and play the hero.  Until he does.  But not really.  

Kylo Ren has good in him, but not really.

Rey has darkness in her, but not really.

Now, this is not the same thing as a character arc.  I don’t lump this in with Poe being a brash self-centered pilot at the beginning but a real leader by the end.  I’m for that.  

I’m talking about if LAST JEDI were broken into numerical values, for every 1 there is a -1 and the story of the movie feels like a sum of 0.

Now, there are a lot of nitpicky things I’ve shared with the people in my life (most of whom are glad I’ve turned my focus to the internet).  Like, “what’s the deal with Snoke?  Who is he and what does he want?”  That’s just subjective, “season-to-taste” stuff that grates on me but I don’t feel objectively bad.   “Who is Snoke and what does he want?” was not a focal point of the previous film.  

Samey-same with Holdo not sharing her plan.  Finn’s plan actually not accomplishing anything.  If they knew they were being tracked and had two jumps left and a 6 minute window, why not prepare the transports, jump the old rebel base, unload the transport and jump again in 5 minutes?  That kind of thing.  You know, things people call, “plot holes” on the internet that are not actually plot holes.

Leia Force Flying through space after the bridge exploded.  Just looked dumb.  If there was any excuse for Leia to bust out a lightsaber, this was the moment.  That would have been choice.    Tangential to this: the unceremonious death of Admiral Ackbar.

But those are digressions.

I would probably like this story much more if it were the last half of FORCE AWAKENS rather than a movie all unto itself.

That said, I think this petition to remove TLJ from the canon of SW films is idiotic.  This film is going to make a billion dollars by New Years and Disney appears to be giving Rian Johnson his own spinoff franchise. So yeah, this movie isn’t going anywhere.  

I also think its real low class to jump on twitter and be a raging dickmunch to Rian Johnson.  I’ll never understand why people punish creators for being easily accessible.   Or to people who loved the movie.  I’m not here to convince you that you shouldn’t love THE LAST JEDI or tell you you’re a dumb-dumb if you did.  I simply find it difficult to like for Star Wars movie reasons and movie-movie reasons.

I actually look forward to Johnson’s spinoff film because he seems much more comfortable with new characters.  I think he’s a person like Zahn who will add a lot of new hated and loved characters. But unlike Zahn, I don’t think he has a steady hand with legacy characters.

So that’s it.  6 pages on a Word document later (assuming you stuck around).  Feel free to hit me back on the twitterbox to tell me how both right and wrong I am!

May the Force be something or other.  But probably not.  

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I need more pics of Logan in that flannel though

They have the purest father and daughter relationship. The way they are looking at each other with so much love. I think I'll cry.