How I Fell Out Of Love With Star Wars 

I'll will be adding to my pinned comment over time to fix mistakes. One Mistake is that this video did not come out to be my longest one by a few seconds because of parts I had to take out. At 17:17 Apparently they are not the same race, I will look into this more. At 24:30 Luke didn't use the flight simulator BUT he has experience flying his T-16 Skyhopper and it's controls are super similar to an X wing. At 28:18 Turns out Finn isn't taken out of the chines poster. He's just super hard to see. At 29:16 and 2:36:15 Turns out I was wrong, the Star Wars Galaxy isn't 100 times bigger than our own. It's only as big or a little bigger. I think someone told me it was and I just took his word on it. 1:31:34 I said Han and Poe by mistake Same video but with the robot voice: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y9XQkw4Y0jg.html I also would like to thank everyone who gave me 2$ or more on Patreon. Odd Emerald Zone Mega man vs metal sonic sweep Jenna Bear Cortez GalexiBrain DangerDan* BloodyEclispe Prop Bandit of the East Pekoni Hectorial Infection Person McPersonface Bear. net SpeedyFoxDraws CopyRite Specter Pedro Trezzi GamingNightcores Katt Chatt gypsygeekfreak17 the new 2$ or more will be added in starting next month.

“At this point I think Qui Gon actually survived getting stabbed and only died because they decided to cremate him.” -MarkoPolo1223

In the non-canon EU: "Palpatine has returned!" "How?" "He used the dark side of the Force to keep his disembodied spirit alive and then used that spirit to possess a clone made using his DNA!" In the canon Disney sequel: "Palpatine has returned!" "How?" "Somehow!"

You know what would've been a good choice for Rey's home planet? A rocky, mountainous planet. It's unique and would explain why she's such a good pilot because you would basically need to fly to get anywhere in less than a day.

The problem with Hahn in The Force Awakens is they did a character reset. All the progress he made in becoming a general, husband, and dad was out the window and they turned him back into what he was when we first met him. They went out of their way to make the original cast failures to pave the way for the new characters. What is worse they did not even explain how any of it happened.

Fun Fact: JJ Abrams was the babysitter for Steven Spielberg's children. So if you're wondering how such a mediocre director somehow launched his career over much more talented people, there you go. In Hollywood, it's not what you can do, but who you know, and knowing Spielberg is worth quite a lot.

I just started reading Star Wars legends for the first time. Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and the Last Command by Timothy Zahn are infinitely better than anything Disney and Kathleen Kennedy have ever produced. They are the real episodes 7-9.

Rey shooting lightning out of her hands is one of my biggest pet peeves. It feels like JJ just wanted to throw a hint in there that Rey is a Palpatine, but force lightning isn’t genetic it’s a dark side specific learned ability. You can’t just shoot out lighting cuz your grandpa can

Somehow Disney managed to make one of the most fun franchises of all time as appealing as homework. Forget the bad writing and all that and you’re still left with a mountain of shoes to watch so you can follow along.

Just a bit of lore fact check: Luke never went to academy training, he flew the T-16 Skyhopper (he was playing with a model of it while taking care of the droids) which has the same flight controls as the X-Wing. It would be like having always driven a Ford Focus and getting in a Mercury Sable. Same car, more bells and whistles.

One of my biggest issues with the sequels is the Resistance. The name of the faction implies that they’re the underdog and are resisting the existing group in power which up until half way through episode 7 was the New Republic. The resistance should be called the free guard or something because the new republic refused to be militarized. The name just makes no sense

Dave Filoni once said that they actually WANTED Ahsoka to be annoying at first so that she could learn humility over the span of the show, instead of just having her start out perfect from the get go

Fans did not want Rey be related to someone important, because they think that is a great story. They wanted Rey to be related to someone important, because it would kind of explain why she is so good at using the force. They did not want the force dynasties continued, they just wanted the story to make sense!

Another thing with Phasma, there was a deleted scene in The Last Jedi that gave her more character. Finn is surrounded by her and her troops when he calls out how she lowered the shields to Starkiller base. She questions who would believe that but already sees the doubt showing with her own troops, so she swiftly executes them all before trying to shoot Finn. Such a brief interaction improved her character so much, showing what kind of person she is, and they cut that scene out.

And the whole Admiral Holdo making the spy excuse to not tell anyone that she had a plan is extra stupid when you realize Poe was asking if there WAS A PLAN not for actual details of it.

OK so the idea that Kylo being hurt and in emotional pain would impede him is hillarious, considering ya know what's what dark force users feed on, the dude would have been stronger than he is normally.

Finn had the potential to be an actually amazing and compelling character. Imagine if he insisted that Rey and Po use non lethal force on the stormtroopers because he empathizes with him since storm troopers are abducted as children and indoctrinated. It would have been cool to see him humanize the storm troopers and give them a chance to redeem themselves and oppose the first order. But he is bragging and cheering while shooting down other troopers. He could have been so much more, a man who wants to liberate the storm troopers and not just gun them down.

My head cannon is that holdo wasn't trying to sacrifice herself for the resistance, she was actually just trying to get everyone off the ship so she could resell it and hit them by accident 😂 Definitely the worse character by light-years

It wasn’t that the “I hate sand” line was so bad in itself . It’s more that in the way that the scene was shot it seemed to be the line that magically made Padme change her mind about Creepy Bodyguard and instantly fall in love with him.

As someone also named Luke, I did also get the "I am your father" joke to no end, and still do to this day. Never in my life did I expect to hear the exact same experience from a youtuber that I didn't even realize I shared a name with. It's the little things in life, I guess.

George Lucas didn’t deserve the fans. He made many a childhood thanks to the Star Wars trilogy but once he made the Prequels fans he was legitimately public enemy #1. Slanderous documentaries and RU-vid videos were made, and worse a song and episodes of South Park were made painting him as a rapist. George rightfully couldn’t handle it and sold all of his films and company to Disney who then pissed on his legacy. I was one of the few who loved the Prequels and I have one thing to say, George Lucas, we miss you.

24:36 to add to this, Luke also owned a T-16 skyhopper, a product of Incom. The T-65 X-wing, also a product of Incom, had almost the same cockpit and similar flight characteristics. Luke mentions this, as well as flying through beggars canyon and blasting womp rats, during the briefing before the attack on the Death Star. There are also other references to his experience with flying in the movie and in official supplemental products from the time of the first movie and during the years since. Anyone who calls Luke a Gary Stu for his skills in the OT or conflates them with Rey is a fake fan, and should be called out. They clearly never paid attention to the movies, nor read any of the official tie-ins.

I still can’t get over the assassination of Finn character man. Dude has a complete new storyline in Star Wars. He was easily the CO-LEAD with Rey. He wields the lightsaber and is even teased with being able to wield the force. There’s an obvious love interest with him and Rey. Ppl were generally excited to see where his story with go. Lot of fans black and white thought we were going to see a second coming of mace windu with Finn. lol smh just to erase his character arc. Step him down from co lead and have him just scream Rey for the next 2 films. Shit was one of the saddest most infuriating arcs I’ve had the dissatisfaction of being excited for. How they fucked it up that bad is confusing.

I love how Dave Filoni wrote Ashoka to be annoying at first but become likable as she evolved as a character it's really cool the kind of foresight that requires and that he was willing to bank on people being forgiving of the character to make her even more likable than she would have been if she didn't start out annoying

The pod racing scene in Phantom Menace is important as Obi Wan said “Anakin was already a great pilot before they met” in Attack of the Clones had something we were waiting for “An Army of Boba Fett’s”

I was the target demographic for the prequels, so I naturally loved them. I remember begging my parents into getting a Jar Jar folder, thinking it was a Jar Jar book (I was like 6 years old at the time), getting home, opening it and being so upset as it was just a folder lol. Many years later as an edgy teenager, I let the youtube commentaries turn me against my own childhood. Now that I am a grown man, I see what a truly soulless cashgrab is, which is the sequel trilogy. Lucas, for all his faults, which are many (He himself directed the forgotten Ewok movies of the '80s, and they were...special...) *did*, in fact care for star wars and it shows. He laid a solid and flexible foundation and let the fans build upon it, both in the original and prequel trilogy. There was a beginning, middle and end to the story, and the fans could then build off of that however they so pleased. Heck, despite the prequels being how they were, were at least entertaining. I choose to see the prequel trilogy as a cinematically bad but entertaining B-movie cliff notes version of the entire collaboratively built clonewars saga, and it works pretty well. Disney, however, did not care any more than how much it would boost their quarterly earnings. One of the first things they did was completely obliterate the expanded universe, the combined effort of thousands of passionate fans for around 35 years at the time, from canon completely. It would take too much money and time to work around that can of worms after all. Then they would simply start cannibalizing whatever they think would make the old fans show up en masse, like Thrawn for example, simply because they had the legal right to do so. They then took the relatively open game license, which spawned many classic games, like 'Empire at War', 'Republic Commando' and 'Jedi Outcast', and gave it full exclusivity to one of the greediest and most hated companies of the 2010's, Electronic Arts. Who proceeded to do literally nothing with the freedom they were given. Seriously, look up how many star wars games were released in the entire *decade* after the Disney acquisition (not counting mobile\browser games), versus how many were released the entire decade prior. It's night and day. Disney doesn't care for Star Wars and it *really* shows, sadly that attitude seems to have fully permeated their works. They don't want to build a universe, the thing that *made* Star Wars so beloved by so many. They wouldn't have fully corporatized the games via EA exclusivity deals otherwise, which outside the movies, were the most influential Star Wars works out there. They completely gave up on world building. I'm pretty sure the Sequel Trilogy took place over the course of under one month. Canonically the entire sequel trilogy takes place in 34-35 ABY, but that's the entire depth. It could be a late December to early January scenario. Disney never bothered to specify otherwise, and considering the pacing of the films themselves, it's not unlikely either. The Original Trilogy took place over 4 whole years, the Prequels over 13 years for comparison. With galactic politics that extreme, we could make a Marvel style superhero show with the entire galaxy being destroyed and rebuilt by next weeks episode. Disney expects us to believe a fringe hermit empire, a Galactic North Korea pretty much, took complete and total control over the entire galaxy, destroying and fully occupying the entire galactic republic, then was completely destroyed afterwards within that tiny time frame. It's not by purpose mind you, it's simply that building a world that holds up to even basic scrutiny takes time, care and most importantly, money. Which for a world famous multi-billion dollar company, there's just not enough money for that kind of investment apparently. It's a shame to see something so influential to my childhood fall so far. But that's life I guess.

They cast Samuel L Jackson because he begged George Lucas to be in the new Star Wars movie(Episode 1). He didn't even care if he was just an extra in the background, or if he was in a mask and no one knew it was him. He just wanted to be in it. George definitely granted his wish.

Im sorry but the Podracing is and will always be one of my favorite sequences. Going into the theater with no idea what to expect that was on of the highlights. Like 80 races get introduced in the first 2 minutes 9g it. The world building was exceptional. Subulba was the perfect villain for that arc. Such a well developed character for someone who only exists to loose a race lol It reminded me of this amazing anime Redline. Not as good but still cool

I gotchu on the Lea using the force out in space scene. One of the biggest flaws with that moment is when she reaches the door that leads inside the ship they open it. There is no section between them to depressurize the ship so as soon as the door opens everyone would be sucked into the vacuum of space killing everyone on board. Just something I noticed because you know there is no atmosphere in space so no oxygen. Yet no one ever points this moment out 😂

Don´t worry JAR, the Fact that you share your real Name with Prison Mate Luke is Way more embarassing than the Fact that you share it with Luke Skywalker

I almost get the impression that Luke was written to survive episode 8, then Mark Hammil said something mean to Ryan in the break room and he went, "Oh yeah, well now this is happening 😠" and killed off Luke out of spite.

From what I can remember from reading _The Han Solo Adventures_ all those decades ago, he wasn't a nobody at all. He was related to the Sal-Solos, one of Corellia's ruling families, but of course he wanted to make a name for himself on his own merits, so he left -- and joined the Imperial Naval Academy in order to become a pilot, which is what Luke wanted to do before Stormtroopers killed Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. In Han's case, he saw some Imps mistreating Chewy in the halls and decided to free him, and then run. Which is when they became friends, as well as starting out as smugglers. It's a fairly important detail that because Han saved Chewy, Chewy then owes Han a life debt, and said debt is even extended to members of his family (Leia, the kids, even Luke). So we see Chewy protecting Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin more than a few times in the books. Another difference is with the _Falcon_ . James Luceno's _Millennium Falcon_ is really good at filling in the blanks, as Han and his grand-daughter Alana retracing the ship's steps by revisiting places it has been is used as a framing device for the ship's own history. Turns out the ship accidentally had three droid brains installed on it. When a system breaks down at an odd or inconvenient time, that's the brains getting into an argument with each other. The _Falcon_ has seen many names and many owners, all of which seemed to modify it in some way. Some had good luck with the ship, and others bad. Han winning the _Falcon_ from Lando was one of the luckiest things that ever happened to him, since the ship was perfect both as a smuggler's ship and as a home-away-from-home for the New Republic general, and father. After all, it breaking down in the way it did in _Empire_ meant Han and Leia spent the time they needed together to fall in love.

Technically, Sabine from Rebels was the first with died hair, but that was a part of her look, alongside brightly painted armor, to sell her as a rebellious young woman.

Fun fact: Darth Vader never actually said "Luke I am your father", he said "No, I am your father".

One way to make the Holdo Maneuver believable without breaking the setting would be to have Admiral Holdo be some kind of hyperspace expert making extremely complicated and beapoke modifications to the hyperdrive to pull off exactly what she needed it to do, making constant adjustments as she went. Make it clear that this is the sort of thing that is impossible to do without sacrificing a 30 year expert in the field to maybe do this. Or something, still wouldn't solve her being either malicious or incompetent.

In regards to the female characters in “modern day Stars Wars”, I’ve mentioned this a lot, but the big issue that comes with these female characters (or just any character whether male or female) is that they suffer from something that I’ve learned in literature. And that’s something is called the “surrogate problem”. Now what is that you may ask? Well, a surrogate by definition is a substitute, specifically a person serving as the stand-in. In the case of storytelling, a character serves as the surrogate for the audience, as we often spend the vast majority or the entirety of the story through their perspective, rarely is dramatic irony when we know something our characters don’t utilize. Now, I’m not gonna go and say that this is a problem in every movie/tv show/video game, let alone is it a problem with characters themselves, as it is an extremely good way to make the audience empathize with your characters. Take Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series. Just like Harry and Ron, she has moments of seeing things from her perspective when she sees the Wizarding World. Her shock-and-awe is our shock-and-awe. Now, all this isn’t a problem on its own, for the most part, but it makes her actions, particularly in the first 2 books/movies very PASSIVE, instead of ACTIVE. By that, I mean rather than her being the one who pushes the story forward through her own independent actions, the plot is mostly dictated and driven by external forces. Because if Voldemort and his squad weren't there to try to take over Hogwarts, Hermione wouldn't have any reason to involve herself in helping her friends in the conflict, and would be more busy trying to skip into higher honors classes. Therefore, it creates the risk of her being a bit of a dull character (Even though as the series progresses, she does become a much more layered an reinforced character, with notable flaws like her two friends....), who doesn’t really do much unless the plot says she must, therefore she's simply a surrogate for the audience and we the audience can witness everything around them, just like Harry and Ron. One way to prevent this is by making your characters extremely REACTIVE. Take Disney’s Mulan and Moana (ORIGINAL, not remakes…) for example. As throughout the story, whatever stuff gets inflicted upon the two, it’s how they REACT to said-things, instead of actively making them happen, that defines Mulan and Moana. Another risk with surrogate characters is that they obviously lack any flaws or little personality. Basically, meaning that they’re one-dimensional. Therefore, the way to avoid this problem is by giving your characters a personality. Sarah Connor (Terminator), as many know, is a great example of this. She is certainly a surrogate character in the sense that we as the audience are stuck with her when the s**t goes down, but she’s an incredibly reactive character. She also has a defining and strong personality that makes us root for her to win in the end. Not to mention the film uses one of the greatest instances of dramatic irony to its effect. Now, why am I talking about surrogate characters and their pitfalls? Because almost all the “modern-day female Star Wars characters” suffer heavily from them. As they aren’t active characters by any means, as none of the events happen because of them. They, like the audience, find themselves wrapped into some crazy conflict and are simply along for the ride, while conveying what is happening in our mind as the viewer. They are also not active characters, because whatever stuff gets thrown at them, it really doesn’t have any influence on them or the plot. Not to mention that despite giving them some backstory to learn about our female characters, it really doesn’t have any effect on them later on in the story. As if we didn’t know that about them, would the plot have still happened, let alone the conflict? Therefore, it leads to viewers, believing that if you remove them from the story, nothing would’ve changed. Therefore, if your characters, especially if they’re the main protagonist (whether male or female), are almost completely irrelevant to the story and it’s conclusion, something has indeed gone wrong.

Luke's struggle to lift X wing was not about power. it was about belief. Luke was plenty powerful enough to lift it but he kept doubting himself thinking it is too heavy. Yoda was teaching him to free his mind. Very similar to how Neo couldn't fly because of lack of belief.

This movie of a video criticizing Disney Star Wars will be better than the whole of Disney Star Ware

“So Palpatine was like: Attention I am going to launch a sneak attack on the entire galaxy next Monday, 12pm EST. Be there or be square. BYOB Emperor Palpatine (yes THAT Palpatine)” -Spiny

2:35:28 The crazy part is that in Ep 3, Chewie already had his iconic belt....but this movie forgot that apparently.

Gotta hand it to JAR on his assessment of Anakin's iconic line from Episode II, even though I find Anakin/Vader's memeable hatred of SAND hilarious! Still, Anakin's poor attempts at flirting with Padme are understandable given the Jedi Order taught him to suppress his emotions (I firmly believe positive emotions are necessary to wield Light Side, which is pretty much confirmed by Luke in RotJ and LEGENDs/old EU) and the fact he's a teenager! Also, they made a bad decision to cut the scenes where Anakin interacts with Padme's siblings and parents, as Padme gets teased by her siblings with her interactions with Anakin seeming more natural and with her family seeming to pick up that she does actually have feelings for Anakin, but refuses to entertain them as they both have their respective duties to the republic as Senator and Jedi, with her likely wanting to avoid a public scandal as a politician, only to decide to risk it after they both almost died at the beginning of the war! Mind you, the second animated Clone Wars series actually did a better job with Anakin's marriage to Padme and making them actually feel like a couple, along with Anakin's bond with Ahsoka showing his positive human qualities, while also showing the events that lead Anakin to his eventual fall to the Dark Side, adding to the tragedy of Darth Vader! We also have Attack of the Clones to thank for it as it essentially expands on the conflict that lead to the rise of Palpatine from Chancellor to Emperor and Republic to Empire, as well as showing the Jedi Order wasn't perfect! The Separatists & Dooku also more dynamic antagonists as they are little more than pawns of Palpatine who is using the war to create his Empire! Dooku is essentially similar to Anakin due to their connections to Qui-Gon, focus on lightsaber combat, and unfortunate falls to the Dark Side due to manipulation by Palpatine and the failings of the Jedi Order!

In my physics exam, one question asked to describe what a Gyroscope was and how it's used. Palpatine's fleet could never comprehend such power, and i got a perfect score because of it lol

The force is gonna be strong with this one.

It was confirmed that Pew was originally going to die, yet the actor suggested not to do that and well, he got to live. Honestly, Poe is one of my preffered characters from the sequel trilogy because at the very least his job at the first movie was very well executed, didn't appear for too long, and he gave Finn an excuse for everything to happen, which was alright for me. After that, Poe is literally an afterthought. It's obvious to see they didn't know what to do with him. And man... Finn was done SO dirty man...

I was a kid when the prequels came out. My dad had shown me the OT like a month before the phanton menace came out. I loved them. When i got older i watched them again with my kid and was embarrassed. After watching the new ones i have a new appreciation for the prequels

Actually. Rey getting captured is pinnacle Mary Sue, let me explain. It's a 'setback' which puts her in an advantageous position, compels Finn to help the rebels destroy Starkiller, and she rescues herself. See, writers who end up with a Mary Sue will usually try to find some 'error' they can make to point to and say, "See, she's not perfect!", but they don't want it to make them look stupid or weak, so their error, just coincidentally, improves their position. "Oh no, Rey hit the wrong wire and unleashed Rathtar on the ship! Sure hope they don't *checks notes* save the main characters from their predicament." It pops up in all the Sequel Trilogy. Rey's mistakes reward her or don't matter, her flaws never manifest meaningfully, and nothing is ever a 'challenge' for her to overcome. "Oh, cheeseburgers, I can't talk to force ghosts." -- doesn't matter until she needs to, when she can. It's bad. Oh, and watch Andor if you haven't. It's unlike all the other Star Wars from Disney, and more views will encourage them to make more like it. I do indeed speak with my wallet as best I can.

38:24 Another reason that argument doesn't hold weight is because pain, both physical and emotional, fuels the Dark Side. So if anything, Kylo should have been stronger than he normally would be.

I loved episode 7 and it got me so excited … only to be repulsed by 8 and I almost walked out of 9, it was so hard to watch. I’d hoped Rey was one of Luke’s Jedi (raised alongside Ben until he destroyed her whole world, perhaps unable to directly kill her bc he cares about her, he assumes she dies in the temple,but she got left on a desert planet for her own safety presumably to keep her away from Ren, just like Luke had been hidden from Vader. Her memory is either wiped by Luke or she’s so traumatized she can’t remember. But something went wrong and she was left there all alone and Luke was stranded far away. I thought her Finn and Poe would be the new trio we audiences could learn to love bc of their friendship and bravery and loyalty. It could have all been so awesome. But we got … green milk Luke and “somehow palpetine returned”. Sigh. I’m still not over it.

Can we talk about how they had multiple routes to take with EU material that were already well written and didnt need much adaptation from books and graphic novels to make fantastic movies? Like the Chiss Ascendancy story or the Fel Empire? The latter of which is by far my favorite since it denies the dichotomous struggle between Jedi and Sith and tells its own unique story that isn't so full of holes it couldn't hold water.

Actually, Mark Hamill DID know about the twist! They told him on set so his reaction would match the final line! Mark has told this story a few times in interviews!

I have ZERO problem with Admiral Holdo for a few legitimate reasons: 1.An admiral doesnt have to explain themselves to ANYONE, especially during a war or battle. For example: Admiral Thrawn, Captain Ramius (Hunt for Red October), Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman, in Crimson Tide), Grand Moff Tarkin, Darth Vader, Col. Moore (We Were Soldiers), and Col. Jessup (A Few Good Men) never never NEVER explained themselves to their men, much less insubordinates like Poe. And if an un underling TRIED to question him, then, like Captain Ramsey, you say "Mr COB (Chief of Boat), please escort Mr. Hunter off the bridge, under guard, to his quarters. " In fact, Admiral Holdo's plan of secret evacuation would have COMPLETELY worked, except that Finn and Friends spilled the beans to a bounty hunter, who sold the information TO THE ENEMY, resulting in SO MANY deaths of the ENTIRE fleet personnel, that the survivors can ALL fit in the Millennium Falcon. How many can the Falcon hold? 2 dozen? 30? The protagonists got everyone killed but 30 people!!! That's practically a war crime. How could Finn have possibly known the secret plans to tell the bounty hunter? Oh yeah, the Admiral told everyone when one of her pilots yelled at her in public. The reality is that IF Admiral Holdo had kept her plan to herself, then the info would never have leaked and all those people would still be alive. Her plam (secret evacuation), her method of leadership (dont tolerate insubordination), and her handling of crew (dont tell underlings your plan) were all 100% correct. The good guys in the sequels got HUNDREDS of their own side killed.

The story behind the red arm C-3PO has is super interesting. Basically C-3PO was on board a ship transporting a first order droid named Omri. The ship crashes with the two along with a few other droids surviving. All the droids die one by one until Omri and C-3PO are left. 3PO gets attacked and he and Omri take cover from the acid rain. The two then have a super deep conversation about how their memories are in the hands of their makers, with Omri having bits and pieces of what he thinks are his previous lives. Omri then sacrifices himself to activate a beacon in order to save 3PO, his paint melted off to reveal a red coat underneath, proof of Omri's previous lives. All that was left of Omri was his hand and thus 3PO took that hand, in order to remember the sacrifice of the droid. I probs didn't do this story justice. The book is called Star Wars: C-3PO 1# and absolutely recommend checking it out.

I’ve been considering rewriting the entire Sequel Trilogy. I’ve had a few ideas, from Rey being Ahsoka’s apprentice, Finn being the main character, Luke actually being a good guy, the First Order is more of an underground mafia than an all powerful empire, Hux is a genuine threat, Snoke is an actual character, etc.

The problem with that free extreme power trope in Rey, is that there's no down-side to any of it. IF they ABSOLUTELY needed this boss "lady" for a main character, I'd have made her struggle with the insane overdose of force power she has. I'd have her have difficulties controlling it, being a danger to her friends and herself, hell to the force itself, fleeing, eventually going so far out of whack that she turns to the dark side, pretty much like a Dark Phoenix arch and maybe have LUKE fcking SKYWALKER bring her back... Might be a rehash of Anakin's path but everything else is a copy of Lucas' films, so why the hell not use the opportunity to do something a bit more exciting with it... Instead we got this clusterfck... I don't think there's many OG fans out there that are capable of writing something worse than what the sequel trilogy turned out as. Terrible movies and even worse SW cannon...

As someone who’s also named Luke I relate to the beginning, and everyone is confused when I say that’s not the line

One annoying thing is how people don't understand the cringy romance between Anakin and Padme. It was SUPPOSED to be cringy and awkward. Hes a sort of monk with NO experience with the fairer sex. She was raised to be a statesmen and probably never so much as held hands with a guy in her life. George Lucas made them awkward and cringy because hes a genious, who over-estimated his audience.

I think Rey should have struggled a lot more. Having her be so strong and good from the beginning makes me feel like execs were afraid of showing a woman as weak. But that's how growth happens. Two of the strong women I remember from my childhood were Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor. I remember first seeing Ellen Ripley as this terrified woman who got walked over by superiors, but through learning how to overcome that fear in order to survive she was taking charge and commanding a marine platoon on how to survive in Aliens. Sarah Connor started as just some stereotypical 90s woman. Terrified, panicking, not willing to fight. But by the end of the first movie SHE was the one telling Reece to "move it soldier." Showing a strong woman IMO requires showing the same type of weakness strong male characters go through. Like Luke, Rey SHOULD have fallen victim to her emotions, she should have been allowed to get booty-clapped by a Sith. These downfalls allow the character to overcome challenges and emerge a stronger and wiser character than where they started. But giving Rey the Captain Marvel treatment just makes the character so fucking boring. Even all the strong male characters in the MCU had SOMETHING they had to overcome. Tony with his existential dread and obsession with being the sole protector. Captain America losing all this friends, family, love of his life, and waking up to a different time/culture. Thor needing to learn how to ascend to someone worthy of being Thor/wielding Mjolnir and losing his father/killing his sister. Hulk overcoming his fear of his alter-ego like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. There's so much more but you get my point.

2:24:58 - One thing I really liked about Rogue One I don't see mentioned too much. the costumes. Seeing all the costumes from the original Star Wars done up and being more detailed just really makes them pop. Like those rank pips on the Imperial uniforms just look really good and distinct here and you've got several different versions costumes from various guards in the rebels which shows how cobbled together they are as a force and it all looks great.

when you said that shooting cameras will only make the shooters easier to detect, now it makes me wanting a gag where an entire stealth mission is going on, the heroes shoot out all the cameras, and they get to the right room flawlessly... only have an ambush and when they ask how were they found out, the villian says "because you shot the cameras making a trail to this room"

Adding to the miniscule chance of everything aligning for Rey to find the mcguffin, looting wreckages is big business in the galaxy so the mcguffin still being there is also unlikely. And there must have been someone who knew where it was for that dagger to be made. So, why did they even leave it there?

The beginning of Force Awakens would make much more sense if Poe was the one flying the Millenium Falcon... and the one leading Rey and Finn to it - as him part of the Rebellion's secret mission might have an escape route available. Much better than the explanation the film gives.

"Since when has the Force ever killed its user?!?" Well, a couple times tbh. But, most of those examples reside in the part of SW that Disney declared non-canon. Check out the name Darth Nihilus (spelling may be wrong) from KOTOR 2. His ability to drain life eventually turned him into a dark-side husk whose spirit resided in his mask with a will of its own. He had to eventually devour entire worlds to feed his Force hunger, leading to him killing almost the entire Miralan race.

To be fair, a major part of ESB was Han's inability to fix the Millennium Falcon's hyper drive. Lando's people and R2 were the only ones to get it to work.

Disney just ruins everything they touch.

I die everytime i hear that oddly accurate Mickey impression.pure gold JAR.

I think the main problem with the sequel trilogy is the focus on Story and not character. Which is a mistake a lot of people make about Star wars, they get swept up in the adventure and forget its about a deadbeat absentee dad with a mental disorder and his relationship with his offspring.

Just adding by saying: yes, yard sales are still a thing. Where I live in Norway, there's basically a plot near the local supermarket dedicated to people hosting yard sales, and there's one every summer that rotates vendors based on what people are available to sell and what-not. It's surprisingly well organized in that matter.

On Anakin's sand line - I mean, yeah. That's... pretty much it. Padme talks about her childhood and ends it with "I love the water". Anakin then reminisces of his own and talks about how he hates sand. It's almost as if context matters.

When Rey fought Kylo for the first time, I thought she was going to lose and have to run away. Then, she would attach the lightsaber to her staff and boom! She would be able to hold her own since she has been shown to be far more familiar with her staff. Lost opportunity to sell a lightsaber staff, Disney, all I’m saying.

"I hate sand..." after being deployed to the desert 3 times, I now how a new appreciation for that line.

Something I thought of right away with the dagger alignment scene is that it's straight up from "The Goonies" when they are looking for the treasure. Haven't come across anyone mention it but in theaters that's what popped into my head. At least they had a map to get them close to the spot to use it.

There was a story from the set of TLJ, saying that during the filming of the scene of the Jedi Academy burning, Mark Hamill ended up on his hands and knees, crying, and when Johnson came over he said "this isn't why I became an actor". Later, a behind the scenes clip came out of what appears to be that happening exactly as described, just too far back to hear what was said. You can even see his shoulders shaking. Johnson walks away and leaves him there Thats The Last Jedi to me. Its one of the nicest people on the planet, someone who adores the fans, the story, Luke Skywalker and who shaped my childhood, on the ground crying because they were destroying all of those things. _F*ck_ TLJ

To be fair to Solo, there were some books in the seventies, han solo trilogy, where Han does wire a droid into the Falcon. I think his name was Blue Max. So throughout the 80's and 90's it was cannon that the falcon had a droid brain working with the main computer. Lines up nicely with C-3PO in Empire mentioning the Falcon's 'peculiar dialect'

Apparently, Poe survived the crash pretty much the same way Finn did. He just got thrown out much further away, and thus it took him a while to catch up. The movie REALLY should have done a better job explaining that, though. It smacks of deliberately keeping a plothole to justify the existence of comics that don't even get marketed. As for being given the name "Solo" in the movie, the galaxy had no shortage of orphans, many of whom likely didn't know their surnames. "Solo" may not be the "Smith" of the galaxy, exactly, but it may be a name that orphans commonly take up when they have nothing else to go by. Though that's my own theory, not something I can confirm as canon. Still, I can understand a recruiter with a quota to meet bending the rules and giving a street urchin a name to run with, in an era where the on-paper doctrine is peace through strength.

I mean, a lot of the story beats from Rise of Skywalker came directly from the Dark Empire comics series. In it palpatine becomes a darkside force ghost (which were actually canon at the time) and possesses someone who flys through the region where the second death star exploded. Then he goes to a secret cloning facility that he had prepared because he had intended to possess his own clones, ending the rule of 2 and becoming the eternal emporer of the Empire. There was even a star destroyer with a death star laser. There was only one because it outsized the super star destroyer and the laser was only 1/3 as powerful so it would breach the mantle of the planet but wouldn't destroy it, only render it uninhabitable. Since this took place right after Return Luke was still the focus character and he turned to the Darkside in order to get close to Palps and figure out how to finally destroy him for good, Leah had to save him from the darkside. Honestly I think Abrams was trying to recreate Dark Empire only with new focus characters cause Mark, Carrie, and Harrison were too old to reprise their roles in the era of Dark Empire. Throw in executive meddling from Kathleen turning the new focal character into a Mary-Sue (and I'm convinced Holdo was her self-insert oc do not steal) and Ryan Johnson deciding to throw a wrench in the whole machine you turn a decent story (I enjoyed Dark Empire) turned into an abomination that only people bought into wokism will enjoy ( not that they'd enjoy it enought to go see it).

I would argue the opening to RotJ serves a pretty decent purpose. It establishes that Luke has grown a lot more powerful and also shows that he's starting to drift closer to the dark side, which is his main conflict throughout the movie. He's dressed in all black and the first thing we see him do is force-choke someone, something we'd only ever seen Vader do up until that point.

The best theory for Snoke early on was that he was a fallen Mace Windu who had survived Anakin's betrayal and went back to his dark side infused home world where he fell to the dark side. I loved that theory.

"Luke had a brief moment of weakness" yeah man... Trying to murder your nephew is not a brief moment of weakness that's an inexcusable evil.

Let's be real, Samuel L Jackson made Mace Windou iconic. The purple lightsaber is my jam, and the fact that he's one of the strongest Jedi ever just tickles me.

Yeah, you missed the important part about the Leia merry popping herself back into the ship. *That door opened directly to space* Everyone should have been *dead* as the air yoinked them all back out, including her. Her using the force was still silly, but I could at least accept it as her being a skywalker and Luke helping her. Surviving *direct exposure to space* less so.

"No, Obi Wan destroyed your father" is actually a pretty dope line, all things considered.

Honestly the title can applied to anything because nowadays it's either half assed with people who dont know what they are doing or they're trying to make as much money as possible

Disney made Star Wars extremely uncool tbh.

Luke owned a Skyhopper, it was established in canon very early that the skyhopper and the x-wing were both produced by Incom and the Skyhopper was used to train pilots, hence they had pretty much the same controls.

Random note regarding the death star destroyers from the last movie: It honestly would've been a lot cooler if they have brought out a fully constructed Eclipse-class ISSD and basically said that the final order was actually a ton of hand picked stormtroopers and original imperials + workers from the Kuat driveyards brought to this secret resources rich location to complete the construction of the Eclipse as a second project running parallel to the second death star's construction. Having a ground battle on the hull of a single Eclipse-class dreadnought (with some hand waving to explain that the ship is so large that it has an actual atmosphere along it's hull) would've actually been really cool. Especially if it was capable of fighting back against the fleet sent to destroy it instead of just sitting there like the final order fleet did... But yeah, every time I see starkiller base I cringe... the first order not only had less resources and manpower than the empire, but also would've had to try a LOT harder to keep stuff secret... but somehow they built a larger and MORE POWERFUL death star...

Before I watch this video, which intrigued me because I have also fallen out of love with Star Wars, I would like to share my thoughts to see if we have any of the same concerns. I have loved SW as long as I can remember. My dad had grown up with the series and to this day is an avid collector--although it has been harder since the quality of toys have downgraded so badly. I don't even remember when the first time I saw the OT was--that is how engrained the films are to me. I do remember going to see each of the PT in the theater and loving them. They were the ones that I grew up with too and I got to experience the absolute pandemonium of toys and merchandise and hype that came along with them. And then I grew up--and I still loved SW. I still collected toys when I found ones that were cool, or were a slightly different variation of what I had at home. I still rewatched the OT and the PT. I will admit that when I got older I got a little snooty about the PT, but I came back to it and appreciated it more when I discovered the Clone Wars as a show and it helped inform my opinion of the PT and helped me appreciate it even more than when I was a kid. Then the ST came out--the first one was fine, it was interesting. I thought that it was weird that our old friends/heroes were so sidelined, but I thought Rey was cute and that Finn was a very interesting character (a storm trooper!?) Then the second one came out and upon first watching I was astounded how disjointed it was, upon second watch I gaslit myself into liking it, upon the third watch I could not believe how stupid it was. The 3rd one was just ridiculous--I was not the only one laughing at the contrivances out loud in the movie theater. On top of that, the toys that Disney Star Wars produced for the ST was dog shit. Absolutely terrible. Then came the shows--and a glimmer of hope. The final season of Clone Wars was a triumph, the first season of Mandalorian as well. But then the writing became absolutely terrible. The contrivances of the ST, along with bad and annoying characters came out in abundance. They would make bold story choices--like Grogu going with Luke to train--and then back track so that nothing mattered--when this was reversed in the finale of Boba Fett. The last straw for me was Kenobi. They had it all. They had it all--Ewan and Hayden. There was no room to fuck up. But they did. They fumbed the ball so bad. They fumbled the ball so bad that if you take the show at its word (or acknowledge it exists) it ruins the original Star Wars. How is it possible that Ben would leave Darth Vader alive when he had the opportunity to end it--again? How much blood is on Kenobi's hands that he didn't finish the job. Also--he abandons his post protecting Luke--his one fucking job and reason for being a hermit. Also, apparently he knows Leia--what a fucking joke.Don't even get me started on Reva. The poor girl who played her was such a terrible actress. She was in no way intimidating or held any type of pathos. I couldn't do it anymore after that. After that I had to come to terms with the fact that my investment in this fictional universe is not worth the sadness it now gives me. Not only do the powers that be have the power to create great stories but don't--they make stories that are antithetical to the IP I have loved for all my life. I wish they would just let the stories end, instead of creating new ways of puppeteering the corpses of George Lucas's original creation. So no matter how much people tell me "andor is so good, you should watch!", I won't. I am tired of it all.

IIRC J. J. Abrahms was quoted as saying something along the line of "Fuck It!" when asked about being resistant to coming back to make the last movie and only having a few months to write it. I think that explains a lot.

If you watch Attack of the Clones closely you would notice the infamous sand comment is a subtle setup. Yes, we all know how much Anakin hates sand, but, watch his mothers funeral. As he's on his knees he grabs a big pile of sand and just holds it, embracing his hate. Darth Vader is his hatred incarnate, he is like sand; he is course, rough and he can get anywhere.

One of the Longest videos I edited on and thank you JAR for having me on

17:20 Actually, Ventress is Rattataki (extra-galatctic Night sister species who colonized Dathomir) while the Zabrak are the native dathomirians. The fact that some Zabrak have these dark tattoos while some don't is due to the influence and affilitiation of these Zabrak with the Night sisters

In Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars Clone Wars series, Disney has kept some of the arcs as canon. Since they do give foreshadowing to future plot points to Episode III and some the arcs were referenced in The Clone Wars series. I personally love Tartakovsky's Clone Wars show, since it was the closest thing to Samurai Jack. But The Clone Wars is a much better show overall.

Yup, the line about sand is a contrast with the line Padmé says right before, about how much she loves water because of her happy memories on Naboo, before politics and before the war. She loved her past life, he hated his own, and they use contrasting elements with water and happiness contrasted with sand (earth) and suffering, but in the end, Anakin tells her that when she's with her, he feels at peace, because everything is smooth like her skin, in total opposition to the roughness of sand which represents his dark past as a slave.

I watched the Disney films, that’s how I “fell out of love with Star Wars”

The irony of media and people saying the United States is so racist towards black people, and the fans of Star Wars in the United States (probably elsewhere too) being excited to learn about Finn, while the virtuous Disney, who will lead us into an enlightened age with their propaganda, I mean movies, disrespectfully handled Finn is off the charts.

Finn had the most potential to be a Jedi with how he activated Luke's Lightsaber just like Han did, showing even he had small traces of Force Sensitivity Also love how you used KotOR's music in the background JAR

the return of the jedi was great. Firstly, they saved Han then they showed off luke's Jedi capabilities although poorly done with the bone instead of a light saber but back then Jedi weren't OP af in the movies. Lastly we got slave leia which still to this day gets halloween costumes and cosplay. But yeah it was definitely crucial to the movie.

The entire sequel trilogy is plot convenience after plot convenience. Also, Han Solo's backstory is in the EU novels. Han couldn't speak the Wookie language, but, he could understand it. And Chewie couldn't speak English (Basic in Star Wars terms) but, Chewie could still understand it

For me, the prequel trilogy holds a special place in my heart because it was my introduction to Star wars. I started in chronological order not in order for release and Star wars has touched something that nothing else really has. Yes it's generic. Yes, it's basic downright but it's a good story and I like seeing the fall of Anakin. Yes it was done poorly but it did give us the clone wars saga and the TV show which greatly expanded on Anakin and Obi-Wan and gave us ahsoka and all of the colognes we got to taste of it with the the second movie but not really. We didn't get much of their personalities in Disney. Disney doesn't understand any of Star wars as of adult and a very big fan of the s***** prequels. I hate the new trilogy. I despise everything it has done to the characters that I grew up loving and the franchise that I read countless books on I wish Disney would sell Star wars off and hopefully a fan would actually get a hold of it

Admiral Ackbar staying on the bridge of the ship getting the First Order to board, and ramming it into the flag ship laughing manically and shouting "Its a trap!"... would have been the most gloriously stupid moment in Star Wars that no one would complain about.

Probably your best video yet boss, I'm not the biggest star wars fan, I would say I'm a casual one, after all, I managed to comprehend the story and it's themes via the Lego games along with seeing the 2 clone wars shows, it's sad to see what has become of this franchise, even with the few gems that are dug up from the grave.