@@hamoudiaboudi4462 theres not really anything wrong with the piss lightsaber, its just a color that is different from the traditional blue/green/red/purple
Exactly this. I was blinded and over excited to be in a cinema watching Star Wars again! Reliving those sweet childhood experiences thinking it’s the best thing ever and then bus ride back thinking heavily about how it all didn’t make sense and was actually garbage haha how embarrassed I feel now!
I did the exact same thing after the Force Awakens. I didn't even go see the other two, and I'm glad I didn't give them my money, because it only got worse. They basically broke the whole story, smashed every theme and plot thread star wars ever had.
Luke in the Original Trilogy: I must bring my father back to the light side of the force. I feel there is good in him somewhere Luke in the new trilogy: I must kill my padawan bacause I had a nightmare LOL.
@@kurtwagner1915 Showing it is a sizable portion of The Last Jedi. They didn’t make it a whole movie because this wasn’t Luke’s trilogy. Episodes 4-6 were Luke’s trilogy.
@@DanBlondell bs. They show him starting a school, having one bad dream and then coming a swipe away from killing his nephew. There was no explanation as to why luke went from being so optimistic he knew he could save vader to willing to kill han and leias son over a vision, much less a large chunk. Bogus. I call bs.
@@kurtwagner1915 It seems strongly implied that it wasn’t one bad dream but was closer to the nightmares of Padme’s death that Palpatine induced in Anakin in the prequels. Luke knows from Vader and from himself how strong the pull to the dark side is in his family. Then he acts on the nightmares, which action ends up creating a new Darth Vader, who once again destroys the Jedi temple - Luke brings about his own absolute worst nightmare. It’s a mirror of the events with Yoda in Empire. It’s fair to say this makes the motivations unclear to a fresh viewer, and therefore as a movie that anyone can pop in and see it falls short, but as a Star Wars movie for Star Wars fans the motivations are clear.
I absolutely HATED the ability to heal people, or even resurrect them in episode 9. One of the major parts of Anikan’s downfall was his obsession with learning how to stop people from dying!!! It was a false promised ability that was seemingly impossible. Then ray and kilo just do it so easily. SMH.
On the other back in the day when the original trilogy was in theaters literally everyone I knew expected Luke to figure out how to grow his hand back to show If Vader hadn't fallen he could have healed himself. Maybe he would have if head writer leigh Brackett ( genuine old school science fantasy writer) for the 2nd film hadn't died before the 3rd one.
@@wisgarus yeah but not to that level. You wouldn't grow back fingers and hands. More like: You heal unhumanly quickly. Otherwise Palpatine could not have swayed Anakin to the dark side.
Kylo: "I will finish what you started" Ben Solo: Literally finishes what he started and saved someone he loved from dying by sacrificing himself. Fuck you people are dense.
Think about this, imagine Hitler coming back from the dead from some ancient German knowledge, and then he pulls out an entire army out of nowhere that was somehow hidden this entire time, and then the entire WORLD gathers together in only a few hours to fight him off. That is essentially the entire plot of the rise of Skywalker and it makes no sense.
@The Eyes Of A True Demon- Anomaly Productions It's one of the biggest issues with RoS a lot of people don't focus enough on. (Let's be honest, there's so much wrong with the series that it's hard to just pick one plot hole to talk about)
They tried so hard to force fan service into the sequels but fail to see what the fan base really cares about. Just one of the thousands of things bad about the sequels
@The Eyes Of A True Demon- Anomaly Productions like, I don't know, maybe because she was trained by both of Anakin's children in life, and guided by them in death. And they probably got to know a lot about their father's history in 30 years. This isn't an issue at all! Saying Anakin would minf because SAND, though. Its laughable.
The biggest thing that always bugged me about the Force Awakens was Rey thinking Luke Skywalker was a myth. I know that seems minor, but it's just so stupid on so many levels I can't get over it. The destruction of the Empire was 30 years ago, that's nowhere near long enough for a mythical figure to form. To make things worse, Rey believed Han Solo was a real person despite thinking Luke wasn't. And before anyone brings up Han not believing in the Force in a New Hope, he never said he didn't believe in the Jedi (he had one on his ship for crying out loud). He doesn't even claim that the Jedi don't have some kind of magic powers. He's talking about the religious aspects of the Force, not the Force itself.
@@shawnschaitel838 Exactly. 30 Years = 2000 Years. You know his entire point was that there hasn't enough time passed right? Your compassion is absolutely stupid.
I remember watching Force Awakens when it first came out, thinking "you know what, this is actually kind of cool. I want to find out more about what we're being shown here" such as who is the random girl on a desert planet who was chosen? What happened to her family she was waiting for? Who is maz, how did she Luke's saber "a story, for another time". Who's Snoke, what's his motives? Who were those samurai looking guys in Rey's vision? I just remember thinking wow they're setting up a lot in the first film to be answered in the next two films. I felt cheated after Last Jedi. Kill Snoke? Seriously? After all the fan theories about possibly being Plageuis? And what they did with Hux, who was this awesome young general in the first film with so much anger, they made him a buffoon. I can go on. But it's clear there was no plan for the trilogy. So many things were reversed, retconned, or just ignored. I still to this day want to know what Rey saw in her vision at Maz castle. We'll never know
I agree, there were definitely seeds of something good there. If I were to try to pinpoint the moment it all went wrong ... I think it would have to be the destruction of Starkiller Base. They could have built a decently cool trilogy around it as the major plot point. Imagine if the rebels failed to destroy the base in The Force Awakens. They could disable it, perhaps, but it would be left as a major threat to the galaxy while remaining the First Order's base of operations. It would be their one and only tool of asserting dominance over the galaxy, but a very effective tool at that. The Last Jedi could then be about the Resistance trying to avoid being hunted down by the First Order, which would involve greater stakes with Starkiller Base looming in the background. End the movie with the base coming back online and destroying another system. The Rise of Skywalker (probably with a different title) would then feature the heroes gathering support to make a desperate push towards the final destruction of the base, and thus of the First Order. The problem with the First Order is that we don't ever get to know what they want or how they will achieve it. Starkiller Base is a major plot point in the first film, but the First Order seems to be doing just fine without it in the second one. Same goes when they lose the Supremacy, and even Snoke himself. Episode 9 has the heroes and villains in the exact same positions as Episode 7, despite two great Resistance victories in the meantime. It's like nothing of that has had an impact. They had to pull an entirely different villain with an entirely different plan out from nowhere to give the trilogy any sort of meaning, and it was rushed like heck because there's only so much that can be done within one movie.
It's like they took everything The Force Awakens was trying to set up, and just flushed it down the toilet with The Last Jedi, and for nothing. We didn't even get M. Night Shyamalan jumping out to exclaim "what a twist!"
For me I wish Finn would've been force sensitive and have him trained by Rey (Or anyone) in the ways of the Force (A good example of what I'm talking about is in KOTOR 2 where you can train some of your crew how to use the force one of these characters being Atton)
@@Christian-be6eg Apparently, the stuff Finn kept wanting to tell Rey about in RoS was that he was Force sensitive. It never made a lick of sense and never went anywhere, but at least it was mentioned somewhere. Not sure if it makes anything any better, though.
@@jlw35cudvm I agree. The force awakens, while some complain about it being too similar to a new hope (which is kinda true), was a good solid introduction. It properly introduced all the new characters, set up some plot points and questions to be answered later, without being too risky. However, things completely fell apart in episode 8. And while episode 9 tried to fix the mistakes of 8, there’s only so much you can do. Tbh, JJ abrams should have directed the entire trilogy instead of jumping back and forth between directors
It was set up alright. Episode 7 set up a lot of storylines that left the fans wanting more. Then Episode 8 came around and said “Ya know all those plotlines you’ve invested yourself in and have been pondering for the last 2 years? Well they aren’t going anywhere!” and then by Episode 9 people didn’t give a shit anymore because Episode 8 made you feel like a chump for caring about where this was going.
"Cloning... Secrets only the sith knew." Except cloning was not a secret only the sith knew. The planet of Kamino made millions of clones _for_ the Jedi order. The Jedi knew about cloning.
@@Miss.6ixEdits actually iirc in episode 3 some of kenobis clones have different helmets and i think i heard somewhere that its because they are different clones from the jango clones
The fact that they didn’t even bother to have a full fleshed out plan for the trilogy is a huge slap in the face and that fact alone discredits this trilogy entirely. Passion drives Star Wars. George’s passion to bring a space epic to the big screen is what started it all. In 1977, people were blown away by the world building that would inspire movies to come. The audience saw what was happening on screen, but were also left wondering about the fall of Anakin and the clone wars that Ben Kenobi spoke about. I’m convinced Lucas had the whole trilogy planned out from the beginning and even had loose story threads that would go on to become the prequels. The prequels aren’t written very well. The cgi is questionable and the most important part, Anakins turn to the dark side, was rushed and didn’t feel like it was developed enough. But the prequels had, just like the original trilogy, amazing world building. You can still see the passion that was put into those movies. Without the prequels, we wouldn’t have had the tv show clone wars. Both the original and prequel trilogies were filled with expansive lore. In the sequels, it’s nothing NEW. Discount stormtroopers in the form of the first order, and discount Darth Vader in the form of Kylo Ren. If discount Darth Vader is the best character in your trilogy, you’re doing something wrong. There was no passion. No plan. Just the guaranteed dollar signs of a beloved franchise being brought back is what motivated them. Force awakens is passable at best, and knowing where the trilogy would go after it just makes it unwatchable for me. When I decide to sit down, and watch the story from the beginning to where it is now, I don’t watch the sequels. I go prequels, clone wars tv show, rebels tv show, rogue one, original trilogy, and then mandalorian as sort of an epilogue. Hell I even watch solo. But the sequels I have completely omitted from my head canon. Terrible movies where the big wigs just tried to capitalize on the fan base.
I don't believe that they had the fan base in mind, unless it's the story of the golden goose. They got some money from me but killed all hope of future sales.
Lucas planned Star Wars in 1973, he didnt finish it till 1976, and then did some edits for the prequels. If yoy ever look at old notes Lucas wrote, youll find stuff that would have shown character backstories and the history of many of the worlds they visit.
@@pondzischeme6430 I’m mad they told a shit story and the protagonist had little development at all. At first she was a nobody. At the end, she’s still a nobody. But with the last name Skywalker. What great storytelling and a worthy use of my time watching. How they made it and what they made goes against what Star Wars is. How about that?
By far the biggest disappointment of the Sequel Trilogy was Luke Skywalker. No character's return has ever been so eagerly awaited, but then so disappointingly executed. I'm so glad we got to see the Luke that we all wanted to see in The Mandalorian Season 2. Star Wars was always supposed to be a 9-part story, but what has transpired needs to be erased and redone again
Exactly! I waited 2 years to see what was gonna happen when Episode 7 finished with Rey handing Luke his/Anakin’s blue lightsaber… and what does he do? He takes it and throws it over his shoulder. I waited 2 years… for that?!
Luke, Leia and Han were all mismanaged. Such a missed opportunity. All 3 had meaningless and unnecessary deaths. It was not fitting given their contribution to the franchise.
But that's the thing. Luke isn't supposed to be some powerful and noble hero in the sequels. He turned into just an old hermit who's barely recognisable anymore. Hell, he even tried to kill his own nephew! I think this is great because it shows that nobody is perfect. Even one of the greatest heros in all of media isn't perfect. It's a good subversion of expectations and is far more compelling than watching Luke immediately rejoin the battle and become a noble hero who always does the right thing from the get-go. He needs time to cope with his situation before facing the First Order.
I hope Disney will make the sequels legends and re write the canon story with good TV shows like The Mandalorian. From a business perspective I think it would make sense for Disney to do that too as it would make fans more invested in the TV shows and would allow for more far fetched stories to take place in Legends.
Mando directly leads into the Sequels. Hell, Luke made the same mistakes as the Old Jedi Order did with Grogu, by forcing him to choose between his attachments and the Jedi way.
each and every time i watched a sequel film for the first time i didnt actually think they were that bad at first, but each and every time, consistently, i would start to think about it 30 minutes after the film ended, immediately realizing how poorly written, contrived, and downright bad each and every plot of the sequel films are. The sequel trilogy are like transformers movies, you watch them for the flashy visuals and good effects and cool star wars iconography before you realize that they are actually awful movies.
Sure, Palatine did come back in legends But in legends Luke was there to stop him, and so he did, Luke and his family helped defeat the Yuuzhan Vong bringing balance to the galaxy , Luke Skywalker and Jaina Solo defeated Darth Kaedus bringing balance to the galaxy, Luke Skywalker defeated Abeloth(who's power was a direct threat to the entire galaxy) . Anakin's descendants kept the balance that Anakin brought in the first place. In a way Legends respected Anakin, which is why in legends his descendants kept the chosen one's legacy alive for generations. Anakin made all of this possible when he made that one choice to save his son in ROTJ.
That was always one of the worst and most controversial aspect of Legends. It was only fitting that Disney chose to make that the focus of the third episode of the sequels.
@@bchristian85 I just explained why Legends did it right. I would like to know your point of view on why it is controversial, so that I can understand your point of view.
I do think that Legends did a better job of Palpatine's return than the sequels did, but still, the idea of him returning in general was always controversial. To me, there's absolutely no way he should have survived ROTJ.
@@bchristian85 OH, well I see your point there. In legends it is explained that he cloned himself and was able to transfer his consciousness from clone to clone. But yes, the idea of bringing him back does tilt a lot of heads. I agree with you on that
Sequal Trilogy wasn't thought out. Even Daisy Ridley said this in an interview. They didn't know who her parents were until basically the first day of shooting.
@@typhlosion4493 haha no the writers didn't know. Theory had a video about this problem. But JJ had to basically undo whatever crap Johnson did to the film's and they kept going back and forth about who Rey's parents should be. This is poor planning. This is a multi billion dollar company, they should have known back when the Force awakens comes out who Rey's parents are and what direction this trilogy should go. Instead they made it up as they went. I'm not oppose to improvising in film, but it doesn't work with Star wars. These movies were made just to get a quick buck. They didn't actually have a plan for the future of star wars, plus the writers don't actually know anything about star wars, the expanded universe or any of the lore. Thankfully now it looks like Disney may have learned from their mistakes. If it weren't for Favreau and Filoni star wars would be dead by now.
My opinion is that ultimately Star Wars just doesn't have the scope for this - it's not The Lord of The Rings. Every attempt to make more movies that expand a fun space adventure into something expansive has been a disaster. We can't just blame George Lucas anymore- not for this fact, anyway. It worked when they effectively did a soft reboot or something that was purely a veneer of fan service. The best way for them to make money out of owning Star Wars is make different stuff 'in the universe'. It can feel 'like Star Wars' without having all the same stuff again- the endless books etc. and The Mandalorian are proof of that. I don't think either is brilliant, but they have the artistic merit the sequels and particularly the prequels just don't have at all.
The problem wasn’t not only the didn’t plan the trilogy but they had different directors for it. JJ copied a new hope but it had some mysteries for the next 2. Rian Johnson just undid what episode 7 was setting up to be. KK and Disney have him the right for his own trilogy b4 episode 8 came out. The original director for 9 quit so JJ had to make something out of nothing after Rian Johnson burned it all up but 9 was slightly better but nevertheless a disappointment for me. To make a trilogy or even a decent one like the original one or the prequels you need the same exact director, more time between the movie for fan feedback, no politics it, a FUCKING PLAN, and consistency through the whole thing. The prequel(which I liked) had some hate had consistency throughout the whole trilogy. Disney didn’t have that and they deserve to lose there rights to Star Wars
@@Edward_Nebiolo "no politics it" What does this mean? Also, the problem wasn't the directors, it was the writing. JJ is a perfectly acceptable director (or at least in the context of Star Wars movies.. ahem), but his writing sucks.
I think a really important lesson Kathleen Kennedy needs to learn from this, since she for some reason wasnt fired, is that quite clearly planning your story is incredibly important. It doesn’t matter if the prequel movies are flawed or people don’t like bits of them because at least they contribute to the overall story of what led up to the events of the Original Trilogy. The Sequels, on the other hand, are highly flawed, feel completely disjointed and like all they really ended up being was a mess of a trilogy caused by two men acting like children and actively destroying, sidelining and retconning things the other one had set up
Its totally clear that a story arch was not planned out ahead of time for 7, 8, & 9. It's all over the place. They developed each one in isolation and it shows. 1, 2, & 3 had many flaws, but at least the story arch made sense with the original franchise.
She didn't learn a damn thing. Instead, she claims that people only hate the movies, because female protagonist, and completely closes discussion of all the legitimate criticism being flung at the movies. I have seen over a thousand complaints about the trilogy, and only 1...ONE was about the protag being female... She is ignoring all the criticism, because of 0.1% of the complaints...
@@LineOfThy well, it could be a decent "wake up call", if we for example get an explanation why he couldn't appeared earlier to him (maybe Snoke or Palp somehow protected Kylo from him), and then Kylo finally sees the man, who he always want to be, his idol... And get hit by "dude, wtf are you even doing? You don't get anything from my story? Being a bad guy is bad, you know? Even I understand that"
what bugs me most is that palpatine kept his mouth shut for 23 years to finally take over....and in the final film palpatine straight up broadcasts his return and gives them JUST enough time to win
@@willscorner8423 You forgot Clonewars, Solo, Mandalorian and Rogue One. Rebels too, but I think it's animation and explanation style is a bit childish.
The remake of a new hope was hilarious in the theater. When the death star version 3 first appeared the audience literally shared a laugh. That was the point I stopped thinking about leaving because of how bad it was and actually wanted to stay because of how comically bad it was.
"So, it's another death star." "Yeah, but this one's bigger." I had to laugh at that. (Those probably aren't exact quotes; I saw it once, a long time ago.) What surprises me is that so many people didn't realize how bad things were until "The Last Jedi" came out. For my part, I stopped watching before seeing that one.
For me it was when Hux first walked on screen. I was like really? These guys are the antagonist? The people who used to get wedgies or heads dunked into toilets at school? My issue isn't really the actor since I looked him up (and he definitely can pull the unhinged young one trying to prove something off), but his appearance is... we went from Vader to this?
Anakin brought balance to the force by turning to the dark side. After order 66, there was only 2 jedis and 2 siths. At least that's what I always thought.
@@vesha6274 There is no Canon anymore. SWU has gone to bonkers of a scrap of a normality. Only particular parts are now, what is going to matter. Disney's destroyed the fondness and palpability of the SWU as a whole, and they've Sithed Out a NSF - New Fractured Space (...also sometimes with parts of the meatballs on a toothpick).
i can't remember a specific scene but im pretty sure i remember some sort of healing scene in TCW series but I may be wrong. my biggest issue with episode 9 isn't healing, its the bringing people back to life. the whole saga & reason anakin became vader revolved around this rumoured ability to resurrect people using the force and now ben solo for no good reason has achieved this.
I've loved Star Wars my entire life. I'm even one of the few people that occasionaly log into SWTOR to get some good ol' Star Wars feel. But after seeing a hyperdrive being used as a weapon. I shut down the movie (which I allready had a hard time getting myself to pay attention to, due to the... Disney-fication) I haven't watched any "new" Star Wars (Mandalorian included) after that and I don't plan to do so. The new Star Wars films are for people who don't care if things make sense, and who will watch anything and say "It's just a movie, just enjoy it for what it is" without giving a bother to any shred of chronological order or logic. Damnit Disney... You know, I was actually really exited when I heard there was gonna be new movies! But this... Dredge, this bile, this blatant cashgrab... Urgh... Can't muffing believe they make great money on these films..
I agree with you entirely that episode 7, 8 and 9 are nauseating bilge - but the Mandalorian and the Book of Boba Fett are genuinely good shows, and I recommend that you give them a try.
Likewise, I stopped following the franchise after episode 8. It was not just outrageously bad, it was insulting, you clearly feel that the authors of this movie despise you as a viewer.
Because JJ doesn't know how to create original ideas. He needs to borrow, steal, reboot, and copy things that came before in order to fill a 2 and a half hour movie. His original ideas were used up after he made Star Trek
This implies that movies are at all driven by fanatical passion. They're bland, forgettable, and passionless milking machines dressed in movie clothing.
Not to mention that the Rule of Two only existed for a thousand years prior to Episode 1, there probably couldn't have been more than a few dozen sith lords (a hundred at most) that had contributed to this "I have the power of every sith lord" moment Palpatine exposits.
The sequel trilogy might be one of the biggest missed opportunities in cinema history. The incompetence across the board with these films is simply mind boggling. The films should be retconned from canon, or at minimum Lucasfilm should distant themselves a galaxy far far away from them.
I sincerely hope that they completely decanonize these films one day after they're done milking them for everything they've got. They've completely put me off anything Star Wars related that came out since Disney bought the franchise.
They would have done a better job taking Zahn's 'Heir' series and adapting it into VII, VIII & IX. There was a lot of reskinning with both his work and the Cannonized movies, but at least Zahn's stuff made sense.
You forgot the scene where Admiral Holdo jumped to hyperspace to destroy an entire fleet. They could’ve just done that to the Death Star. Also Leia floating through space using the “force” was so stupid I laughed out loud in the movie theater when it happened.
I think the Anakin prophecy on him balancing the force was completed when he turned to Vader, which led to order 66. Him killing the emperor wasn’t about the prophecy, he just wanted to save his son. Luke knew there was good in him, he felt it. Not about a prophecy of him killing the emperor
Palps never wanted luke to kill him, he knew vader would defend his master like the obedient apprentice he was. He taunted luke to strike him in anger and hate to turn him to the dark side, which he hoped would make Luke many times stronger than vader and eventually kill him. Afterwards, he would take luke in as his apprentice. He never intended to die or break the rules of two, he just wanted a stronger apprentice
Minor precognition is a BIG part of all force user abilities, they all experience the "suprise attack" earlier in premonitions of different kinds, meaning that Pals would have know beforehand if the attack would be blocked. Feels often that people forget that trained force users fight in the "future", scanning for opportunities while trying to not be distracted from the saberfight in the present.
In Ep. VI you can never see Death Star entirely obliterated. You just see an explosion cloud - that's it. Moreover - total annihilation in explosion is very, very unlikely. Usually explosive stuff (like core in that case) is causing exploding object being ripped into pieces - what we can see now. And comparing to the size of whole DS2 (160km of diameter) that pieces are tiny
Most of the things occuring in the sequels makes the PT and OT storylines pointless, which I why have chosen to mentally put the ST in a non canon Disney basket of rotten tomatoes. I think when Rey used the healing the first time, on that snake, was to make us go “wow” and simply forget the fact that she had just landed on some random planet, being chased into a random spot in the desert, where they’re shot down by some random goons, falls into a random hole of quick sand, walks through some random tunnels and “Ta-daa” finds The Dagger which is the only clue in the universe to find the next clue to… well, whatever they were looking for. I don’t even think that R2 can give you the odds for that.
@@ponglenis9273 The biggest problem on the internet is that no one knows how to read. Maybe you should go back and try again, because what I said has everything to do with the original comment.
"hasn't watched half of the star wars movies" Don't forget that this was the intention, until they managed to make a folly all of their own! Star Wars: One of the biggest franchises ever and only a third of it is any good.
8:20 just one nitpick: Qui Gon wasn't the first, but the first in a long time. When talking to Yoda in Dagobah, he says that he is "one of the few" who learned it.
@@DerrickRG no that’s not it. I think what Arlankels is trying to say is that the video doesn’t really present any plot holes. Everything can be explained through cannon. It might not be explained well but there’s something there.
@Bert Rogan Ok, I'll bite. 7. Either Anakin was the chosen one or the chosen one prophesized has not shown up yet. A prophecy passed down through generations using flowery poetic language leaves much room for interpretation. For instance, Palpatine could be the chosen one who "balances" the force by eliminating the bloated Jedi order. This seems to drop the Jedi into the same "Rule of two" territory as the Sith, which is arguably more balanced than completely eliminating one side. As for the "what good is balance if it doesn't last" BS, ever try to balance anything? Tips pretty easily. Restoring balance is nothing more than reset to zero. 6.What did Palpatine want? Power, duh. As stated in pretty much everything he ever says. He asks Luke to strike him down to turn Luke to the dark side. He could either peace out to his clones or possibly take over Luke's body as he planned to do with Rey while he was struggling with his turn to the dark side. "Taunting Rey to kill him just as he did to Luke" is a self-defeating argument in the guise of an additional point. This shows that his plan has obviously not changed, he was just set back by Vader's betrayal. As for Snoke trying to kill Rey when Palpatine wanted her alive, Sith betray each other constantly so it's pretty much par for the course to go against the boss's orders. 5. Presumably one would have to be in touch with the light side of the force to contact force ghosts. At a guess, it isn't a one way communication and requires input from both parties to work. This explains away all these points as Kylo wouldn't be trying to contact a Jedi ghost (it appears Anakin returned to being a Jedi after betraying Palpatine as evidenced by him only force ghosting in his Jedi form). This is the general problem with invoking magic, be it space magic or otherwise. It is ill defined with tons of wiggle room for whatever a script need. So chalk this all up to "space magic reasons". 4. Force healing has been around in games forever because healing factor always exists in games. Easy to mash the force into the for "space magic reasons". Jedi have extremely varied powers and not all Jedi can use all force powers. It could easily be a rare gift that few possess. We only see 3 people able to perform it, so why would you expect to see it used constantly? As mentioned, only 3 people use it so following universal movie logic you can assume that those are the only 3 people that have been onscreen that even could use it. They did not have to learn this ability from anyone. Who taught Rey to Jedi mind trick in Ep 7? Who taught Qui Gon to force ghost? They can be taught abilities, but most of the time they appear to use abilities as they become aware of them, usually by accident as we are repeatedly shown. 3. It looks like the death star is completely destroyed. Except you are showing the explosion with notable glowing debris (it's the purple bits in case you were wondering). For the scale of the death star these relatively small bits could easily account for the size of debris shown. As for the throne room surviving, doesn't it make sense that the Emperor's man cave would have some extra structural integrity similar to a panic room? You also can't see a shaft and assume it goes straight to the core. I'm sure they would have learned their lesson about shafts open to sensitive areas at this point. Even allowing that they would be dumb enough to port the core directly to the Emperor automatically closing bulkheads exist, so engineering to the rescue. 2. I could be lazy and say "space magic reasons" here as well but since I've shaken out a hand cramp already let's give this a shot. Qui Gon was "one of the few" as mentioned above. Yoda, Obi Wan, Anakin, & Qui Gon are all easy. Qui Gon learned it first and the other 3 have all obviously learned it since they are shown as force ghosts. The rest as far as I can tell were all prequel Jedi. I get to options from this. Option 1, Yoda knew about Qui Gon shortly after Ep 1 and was letting all of the Jedi masters know about it so they could learn. Option 2, since they seem to exist beyond death it is entirely possible that once Qui Gon learned how to communicate with leaving Jedi they were able to teach it to any Jedi who has or will ever die. Either way it is still entirely plausible within the established universe to have all of these force ghost voices pop up. 1. You're asking how a Sith Lord in control of an entire galaxy, who is smart enough to plan an entire galactic civil war in order to seize control was able to get a group of followers? It was most likely a contingency plan already in place when he was in power. Hence why he was so confident in trying to get Luke to strike him down. Especially given how often Sith turn on each other it would only make sense to have this back up if he has the ability to send his life force elsewhere. The Sith Eternal could also have been the native inhabitants. If they weren't capable of space travel yet and a dude shows up firing lighting bolts it would be very easy to ascend to god status on that planet and keep the planet secret so that no one finds your crazy cultist group. Uggh, "the fact that kind of power could only be contained in a space station". Mind citing the scientific journal you found that in? Since the weapon is shown in star destroyers then obviously it is possible. The Empire loves giant imposing weapons. By this logic you could see an AT-AT shooting laser bolts and then whine that it's impossible to fit lasers into a blaster, despite being shown otherwise. The simple explanation? Death star one blows up, they start building death star 2 since they already have working plans and it is large and imposing. My guess is the star destroyer fleet was already being built in secret alongside death star 2. You already have plans for a death star so all of the design team involved is shifted into improving and miniaturizing the planet-destroying laser. Starkiller base could derive from having different design intentions gearing towards making it larger and capable of multiple simultaneous firings. It could have also been built to sate the desire for something large and showy while the destroyer fleet can be dispersed across a larger area and not susceptible to a single attack. It could also be misdirection. Look at this giant show of force you've seen before instead of looking for the real weapon which is the fleet. TL;DR there are so many possible explanations for all for this if you just think about what you are shown. If you were given every single connecting fiber, engineering choice, and character thought that drives an entire galaxy across 9 movies it would be boring as shit. Movies are meant to be entertaining, go along for the ride and let your imagination fill the gaps as needed.
Regarding Force healing: That one I personally don't argue with, given that the Force generally can be used without learning it from another person (there wasn't always a Jedi Order with Masters to teach it anyways) and it is known that some Force wielders have exotic or even unique powers they did not learn from anyone wielding them, because there was no one around who had those specific powers.
@@utube8008 well it's a game bruh. With that same logic you can look at KotOR 2 and Darth Nihilus' "planet-devouring" ability. Can't think of that as canon
@@utube8008 idk why I should repeat this - but those abilities are not canon. Force is pretty much defined, and everything that's out there is taught in the academies. Whether it's a Jedi or a Sith one - they all share basic principles, like pull, push. You can take extreme examples, like Palpatine and his long-distance "relationship" with Anakin's mother, but those are 1 in a 10000000 skills, and are built upon dozens years of learning of the force. Even Anakin didn't have any unrealistic abilities, but great fundamentals after years of training. Cal, Kylo and Rey using "unique" abilities is just a plot armour, and denying that is either stupidity or attention seeking
The Kenobi series implies that a force user needs to learn/grow to see force ghosts. Qui Gon exclaims that he was always by Kenobi's side but he wasn't able to see him.
“And it’s something that a galaxy far, far away is just going to have to live with.” Me who has been editing, reworking, and reimagining the Star Wars universe in my head and on paper since I was 8 years old and now have plans to infiltrate Lucas film and work my way to the top: “No, I don’t think I will.”
George Lucas in a recent interview punked the disney sequels. Saying it was unecessarily done as the first three and three prequels he did explained the empires beginning and end fully. And that the current ones didnt follow his vision.Too right.😁
To be fair, Lucas' original vision for the sequels included a lot of Midichlorians. Not sure if we would have liked it any better. But hey, at least it would probably have given us some new Star Wars imagery, instead of trying to copy the look of the original trilogy. Say what you want about the Prequels, at least you can tell their unique look at a glance at almost any shot. The problems Lucas describes don't seem too overwhelming on a conceptual level. There are good ideas to be had about an Imperial remnant seeking to return to power after building their forces in the Unknown Regions over many years. The Expanded Universe even ran with a story quite like that. I think they could have written a quite gripping story with the characters and themes featured in the sequel trilogy. But alas, they seem not to have done any planning whatsoever, and it all failed grossly in the execution.
@@Codraroll why do people hate Midichlorians tho? One of the bigger problems I have wtih Star Wars is how vague Force and all of it's history is. They need to add some logic into it. Midichlorians seems like a decent way to say "There's these creatures in the universe that are Supposed to be good with the Force", having absolutely anyone randomly being able to use the force seems weird
@@MikeSandersonVideos in a movie where they've created a whole world they do need to explain everything. If nothing matters than fuck it, add a third group and call them Jedith. They're mutated Jedi and Sith hybrids that are more powerful than everyone ever, why do they exist and why are they so powerful??? "not everything needs an explanation :)"
@@MikeSandersonVideos Star Wars is science fiction. Of course everything needs to be explained. The Force being the only thing in this series that seems like magic is a little weird and out of place. Might as well give it a little science to fit the setting.
The "balance in the force" is so often misunderstood. It doesn't mean absence of war or sith/jedi. The Jedi had a stranglehold on the force, banning the teachings of the dark side and indoctrinating force sensitive children into their dogma. They caused an inbalance and thought "balance" meant peace. When Palpatine rose to power and created the Inquisitorium, now the dark side practitioners killing and turning force sensitives to serve the dark side. Again, a group trying to take control of the force. When Anakin killed the Emperor and subsequently died, Luke didn't seek to control the force or the destiny of all force sensitives. The sequel movies didn't really deal with the balance in the force but more on the character level. The balance within Rey and Kylo. It didn't really succeed at making it good, but balance as a whole had been restored when the empire fell. The sequels didn't change that fact. If Palpatine had created his new Empire, of course he would've destroyed the balance again, but that was prevented, and that's why Rey got the help from the force. Lame, but nothing in it contradicts the original movies or creates a plothole.
I personally think that Palpatine didn't come back from death fully; I think he lost his sanity and returned mentally fractured, much like the Lazerus pit does in the DCU. He still executed a lot of his prior planning he had from before his death, but in a disorganized and insane manner. He wanted Rey dead, but not really. He wanted Kylo as an apprentice, but not really. He wanted Snoke to be in charge, but not really. He wanted the first order to take over, but it was too small to defeat the New Republic outright despite inheriting much of the old Empire's assets. Its flippant and chaotic, unlike his usual cunning, patient, and surgically precise self. I think he was so ruined by his hatred and thirst for vengeance that he just started lashing out indiscriminately at the galaxy. His star destroyer fleet seemed to be designed to tear the galaxy apart rather than to subjugate and rule it. At least, thats the best head cannon I can come up with.
@@prowrestlerfighter The prequels were good in their own right, the Clone Wars redeemed the prequels by adding more to the story and fleshing out the characters!
I remember when we didn’t know what happened after ROTJ and we just read about it in dope books, man I miss those days. Those stories were already written and they were sick, then these sequels came along and just couldn’t have done any worse haha man they messed up so so so so so bad :( it almost makes me wanna cry!!
@@man_without_fear6518 Except that's kind of the thing. They already bought it. It's just that using the content of any writer that helped build this franchise means that those writers actually get paid a decent amount for their ideas, and disney fucking hates that.
A sequel is something that comes after. New Hope can't be a sequel to itself, nor can the original films be a sequel to themselves. When you buy LucasFilm from Disney, you can decide what remains and what doesn't.
@@jayo1212 That is my point. Disney owns this IP. They get to decide how to use it. We as consumers get to decide if we give them our money for it, but we don't get to decide how Disney should use their IP.
The force healing was found in the ancient jedi texts, not taught by a previous force user. Rey actually bothered to read them and Luke may have found them locked up in an old vault somewhere when he was scouring the galaxy. He admitted that he had never read them to Yoda. They may have needed some level of translating, which Rey was willing to do as she was desperate to learn. Kylo could use force healing because he was in a diad with Rey, learning from her just as they had done for the rest of the movie.
That's probably the best theory as to what happened. The problem is movies need to show these things. Even a simple scene with Rey looking on a page where it shows a figure closing a wound on someone. But they don't explain it in the movie.
That is more "damage control" writing than actual good writing. Convinent discovery of a convinent power in an "ancient" jedi text that was conveniently stored and kept by a jedi master who had given up on the jedi, and convinently never bothered to read the very texts he went through the effort of preserving. And somehow this ancient text was convinently unknown to the jedi order (convinient from the perspective of the lore writers that is). There is alot of conveniences here just for a untrained force sensitive to obtain an incredibly powerful force power just because she read a book, like it's some sort of videogame
He also said, “strike me down” to Luke in ep vi to complete his journey to the dark side; also, in ix, he specified that when he died he would pass into her which is a method of immortality - he changed this once realizing he was able to use the life force of ben and rey to revitalize himself
@Shravan Sriram that literally makes no sense say what you will about the prequels but at least they have a coherent story. Episode 7 was good but you can clearly see the struggle in direction with 8 & 9.
@Shravan Sriram then I guess that’s your opinion lol I just don’t see how you could pick something that literally has no direction what’s so ever they didn’t even know who reys parents were going to be until they made ep 9 but hey if you enjoy incompetent content then that’s you.
@Shravan Sriram don’t take it so hard man it’s the internet you’re going to have disputes but I don’t know how old you are but you’re pretty mature to come to this conclusion. I will say this though I don’t hate the sequels necessarily it’s just the force awakens set up a lot of cool things that I would have loved to see pulled of correctly but imo they just didn’t deliver but the sequels definitely have a lot of cool moments.
#1 I think this one comes down to what you determine balance to the force means. I've found solace in the belief that the balance was actually the ideology and customs of the Jedi and how at the time of Episode 1 the Jedi had lost their way and subsequently forgot how to live a balanced life as well as hold balanced views and emotions. Most specifically I would reference the Jedis opposition to attachment. It was this ability to have attachment and still remain capable of love which ultimately dictated whether there was balance in the force. Anakin, had he not been forced to hide his attachment would've shown that you very well can remain a Jedi and have attachment and love as a balanced part of your life. The attachment he had with his son Luke was ultimately what brought down the empire. #2 I think Palpatine is a Master manipulator, and whilst there was undoubtedly some mistakes by the creators of these films I think it's safe to say that knowing how Palpatine is can explain away those faults into a way that makes it seem as if it was intended all along. Who knows, perhaps they were. Whilst technically the Spirits of Sith do technically live on in the newer generations, let's be honest, he had no interest in death. I believe he knew the probabilities of success each time he asked to be killed, whilst he also knew the probabilities Snoke & Kylo had of actually killing Rey. Personally I think he always imagined being in that situation with Rey and that she wouldnt strike him down. I also think he sensed the unreliability of Kylo remaining a sith and therefore anticipated he may very well be able to harness all that power from the two of them, thus completing his revitalisation. Clearly, as seen in the originals and the sequels, he doesn't account for everything and Rey's connection to the force was so strong she was able to call on the strength of fallen Jedi Spirits to catch Sidious' by surprise. Something I don't think anyone other than Rey would've been able to do, and something she could do only because she was a Palpatine.
@@jamesthompson9959 Well, they're the same asshats who have been bitching since the early 2000s. The prequels are widely loved, get over it prequel haters.
@Bill Wurtz 2 Luke was okay but there are other characters better than him he was always too naive for my liking he should've killed his father instead of believing that a man who killed thousands would have a shred of humanity of course in the end it paid off but it could've easily gone the other way. Side note I hate the fact that the dark side of the force is used as something that corrupts you instead of you being able to use it because you are corrupt. When they finally come back to the light I'm supposed to feel like they redeemed themselves or deserve my sympathy. I only watched the first movie but some people wanted kylo to stay alive as if he wouldn't be sentenced to life or executed for genocide
They ruined Han and Leia too. So much character regression. Making Han a smuggler again and wiping out the Jedi and Republic and bringing back the emperor made the OT pointless
I think the whole force ghost thing is mostly a thing that happens to all the Jedi, but was just mostly forgotten, and few can actually manifest themselves as ghosts while the rest stay in the nether world of the force.
Obiwan actually uses force healing on Like in his first scene in a New Hope. It shows up multiple times throughout the saga, it’s just not used as a major plot point.
@@rogue9230 it was though, because it had never been done before, needed the Raddus’s experimental shielding and a massive ship to do it, a vital resource that would have to be sacrificed and evacuated. It also needed the enemy to be oblivious as to what was happening. As they were in the last Jedi. Hux tells them not to shoot the ship down because it’s empty and is just trying to distract them. There was ample time for them to shoot it down and the manouver would have been useless. Take all of those things out of the equation and it would have been stopped the minute the ship started to turn towards them. And like I keep saying, the ingredients have always been there. If you stick your hand into a blender, you’re going to get it ripped to shreds. Now just because nobody in Star Wars has ever tried sticking their hand into a blender, it doesn’t mean it won’t ever happen and the results won’t be exactly the same. What do you expect to happen if you fire a ship at the speed of light into another ship? Like seriously? It’s not Rians fault that nobody tried it before. And it doesn’t break any logic as like I say, what would you expect to happen?
@@obiwankenobi687 when the Rebel fleet attempts to attack the second Death Star, they are forced to abruptly break off when they realize the shield is still up. The implication here is that when a ship runs into the shields, it destroys the ship.
@@gileshambleton2901 well yes it would because the Death Star is the size of a moon and the rebel ships currently didn’t have the experimental shielding of the Raddus
How would destroying the Sith bring balance to the force? I never understood that. I have always assumed that the "prophecy" was being shown to us through the perspective of the Jedi, who believed that this was the case. In reality, at that time there were thousands of Jedi and only a handful of Sith. Bringing balance would mean wiping out the Jedi, so there are only a few force users on either side. This is exactly what Anakin and Palpatine did with order 66 and the slaughter at the temple. If anything, the problem is that the Sith have now apparently been wiped out but there are still Jedi. The force is now out of balance again.
To be completely fair with The Rise of Skywalker, Palpatine did not want Rey to simply kill him and that would be it, he would have taken over her as she has his same power so he would have a new and healthy body as opposed to a crippled rotting one.
Which is exactly what he wanted Luke to do. “Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your anger and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete.”
Didn’t they decide to introduce a different and/or branching canon, than from the “Original Six” and/or the expanded Star Wars universe or parts that included many books, comics, games, etc. Personally I liked some things better overall the way they used to be “BD: Before Disney”
9:25 i LOVE how there's an entire arena filled to the brim with drunken fans in the rqdioactive wreckage of the deathstar in the exagol ocean cheering sheev on XD
I dabbled in screenplay writing in the past and what's so unbelievable about the sequel trilogy is that it completely ignores the most basic of story-writing rules. Weren't the writers, produces, and studio personnel behind the new Star Wars movies professionals? Haven't they written screenplays before? Haven't they studied the craft of writing? How did it come out so bad?
The problem is that 7 added absolutely nothing and did very little for the characters, 8 tried its hardest to lead the franchise in a new direction and 9 tried to undo it.
yeah, also the force ghost thing problem is that most republic era jedi are not really connected to the will of the force because they are too involved in their dogma and their position, and such is why they lack a lot of the abilities that the force can grant. Qui gon, being a critical member of the order, letting himself be guided by the force is the vessel it uses to exact its will.
You realize anakin fully fulfilled his destiny as chosen one when he brought the sith back to power by becoming Vader and changing the sith from their forced rule of two. He very much brought balance to the force and destroyed the sith before he died. That singular sith
for all the problem's people have with them, they didn't break canon and even expanded on Anakin and Palpatine. Anakin goes from being just a base villain to a tragic hero character, someone who made the wrong choices for the right reasons and lost everything (or, at least, he thought he lost everything). The video goes over how the prequels expanded Palpatine's character better than I can paraphrase it XD. There are some slight plot holes, but nothing big
My top 3 are 1) Revenge of the Sith 2) Rogue One 3) Return of the Jedi. (I actually liked episode 7 when it came out it was my #3 at first there was mystery with Rey, a Stormtrooper who defected to the Resistance which sounds like it would be amazing to explore, Luke was potentially back, mystery of Snoke, Kylo Ren I still think is pretty cool just being a Vader fanboy with anger issues, but then 8 and 9 just throw away all the potential with horrible writing and confusing decisions)
I never understood why Sith wanted to control the galaxy. Rulers have to be fair to their subjects or they rebel and they lose their empire, so they end up having to compromise with their subjects. They just end up being a regular king with no familial heir, no family, no need for money or resources, but with all the headache of being a ruler with none of the upside. You're better off being a moisture farmer on Tatooine.
No. The senate wouldn't make that mistake again and create clones. It was Palpatine that wanted them created, and then had them 'hacked' and they were not made by the Senate either, they were ordered. It's not that only the Sith knew, they didn't know... watch Mandalorian. :)
@@canningmatthew I do watch the Mandalorian and with my comment I ment to say that lots of people should know about the existence of Clones and that there are species/people who know the secrets to creating them. So I'm not really sure what you're trying to say right know..? But that could of course just be me reading your comment wrong...
@@11thriddler17 no, just that by the end of Clone Wars (series) they realise that there are ethical issues with creating clones just to do others dirty work. Hence some of the clones breaking from their training, including rex. It's not that others can't, it's likely they dont want to or cant afford to. The Empire is doing it quietly and hidden. The universe as we see it in Mandalorian is like the old west. Not many factions around to be able to afford cloning even if they wanted it.
@@canningmatthew he, I'm starting to realise that now. I might have been binge watching Clone Wars lately... But I think you mean by this that only a group or a person as powerful as the sith could start an operation as this again. And I fully understand that. It just bothered me that the movie kind of forgot that the clone wars where a thing. And I don't believe that the New Republic tried to cover up that big piece of history. So I just found it rather odd how the movie seemed to have forgotten about the Clone Wars. That's all
Cloning and cloning force sensitive persons are two completely different things. Kaminos aren't the only cloners Just "Damn Good Ones" as stated by Dexter Jettster. The goal in The Mandalorian and also with Snope and Emperor is to clone powerful force sensitive clones. Mof Gideon has his agenda and Palpatine has his. Just a regular clone would burn up if Palpatine put his force energy in them. He needs one that has connections with the force.
Episode 7 was always supposed to be set up work for the new trilogy, while the overall story was a bit too copy and paste from the first two trilogies, it did introduce a new set of fairly interesting characters, and raised plenty of questions that fans would expect to be answered over the next two films. Episode 8, said screw your questions, intentionally rendering many of them pointless, or not addressing them at all, while largely going nowhere. They claimed to have taken many risks, but didn't really. They tease many plot twists that never pay off, and waste time with Kanto Bite and pretty much anything involving Finn or Poe. Episode 9, being hampered by a lack of setup from Episode 8 not really doing anything significant or leaving any direction forward, this film has to do a lot of its own setup. The first half seems rushed as it tried to fit everything that should have been in the last Jedi but wasn't. In the end it is more of a sequel to the aftermath books than it is to the previous two films. With odd pacing, poorly explained plots and no real plan on how it was going to play out.
Exactly. If you build a shoddy foundation (Episode 7) and put crooked walls (Episode 8) atop it, there's nothing you can do with the roof that would save the house. Somebody should have realized after Episode 8 that the story had spun into such a mess they needed more than one movie to fix it, but I guess a bunch of contracts had already stipulated that three movies would be made, so there was no turning back. Episode 9 was doomed from the set-up alone, or rather lack thereof. It could not possibly have been that good.
it probably didnt help that disney decided after episode 7 to completely change the whole directing staff. episode 8 had different directors and different writers. Then episode 9 had part off the episode 7 team back and they just tried to fix the things that the episode 8 writers ruined but by attempting so ruined stuff even further.
@@Codraroll I feel like if disney kept all of the same writers and directors that worked on episode 7 and had 1 more movie to close all of the plot holes than they would've succeeded with these movies
@@hencefernande721there was an explanation, they just are very bad at communicating it. basically palps had a backup plan for if he died, and activated “operation: cinder” (look that up later, too long to explain here). at the same time, sith cultists on exegol were worshipping palps and they starting cloning him as part of his plan. most were failures, as seen with snoke, however snoke was useful in a way. he helped lead kylo ren to become the heir to the sith. during the entirety of the saga since ROTJ, palpy’s ghost and his sith dudes have been training an army called the sith eternal. they also made ships????(thats the only thing that isnt explained well) anyways yadda yadda yadda ROS happens TL;DR, Palpy made a backup plan and sith dudes cloned him and made funny army, clone palps is not the real palpatine
The only thing I’ll say about Rey hearing many Jedi voices is that I thought she was on the brink of death at the point, so was closer to them all to hear. Like she was one foot in the netherworld of the force herself and in a meditative state.
There's also theories that palpatine used force healing on anakin when he found him lying near the lava bed of mustafar after his duel with obiwan. He could just be comforting him though.
@@Julian-pw5mv That's the thing.... It's a dark side power, palpatine literally mentions Darth Plagueis having the difficult dark side power to "keep the ones he cared about from dying".
@@Missingno_Miner In the books, the Emperor used a dark side power that supplanted one person's consciousness into the body of another being. This is most likely the power he referred to having learned from Plagueis. He most commonly used it to (1) keep himself alive by inserting his essence into physical clones of himself and (2) to torture his enemies well past death for as long as he wanted. That's not the same thing as healing, and it's justifiably dark.
I know this isn't exactly a big plot hole or anything, but one thing about the sequels that always peeved me off was how Finn was a Storm Trooper that revolted against the First Order and I thought that he might sort of be a way of sympathizing with the Storm Troopers (since they technically did join the First Order against their wills) but then throughout the rest of the trilogy he's just going full blown genocide on every Storm Trooper in sight! And then when he meets those other rogue Storm Troopers he's like "ThErE ArE MoRe oF Us?" WELL MAYBE THERE'D BE MORE ROGUES IF YOU DIDN'T GO AROUND KILLING EVERY STORM TROOPER THAT YOU SAW AND LET THEM RETHINK THEIR ALLIANCES A LITTLE BIT!!
I think the basic problem with the sequels is that episode 6 is a glorious end for the main story so there is no point in adding another trilogy after this because everything important that had to be told was already told. The problem with the sequels os not just that they're inconsistent but also that it would not be possible to surpass or even get close to the other films since it would be either conflicting with the rest or just not at the same level. From the beginning on, there was no way that the sequels could be really good...