The Rise of Skywalker is Impressively Horrible | EFAP Highlight 

The rise of Skywalker truly was ambitious, they were the first film to use a McMuffin instead of a macguffin.

"They EFAP now!?!" "They EFAP now!"

27:45 "Disney doesn't know what they're doing with Ahsoka Tano" And this was 4 years BEFORE the D+ show.

"Rey, Quigon was wrong. It was you all along. The chosen one. The savior of this rebellion and our hero" - Anakin Beachwalker.

My baby brother was like 6 at the time and even he said this movie sucked

41:43 "Ships can't even go up." And the tradition lives on in the Ahsoka Tano series with Thrawn's ship not going up.

“But how did it make you ✨feel✨?”

18:10 it's criminal he didn't get to finish his joke "she gets down with the sithness"

Finn wanted to tell Rey… “I knocked up Rose, can you use Force Abort on her?”

Do you get it? In the film they say “nothing anyone old did was important” since all they did was destroy one death star when there were thousands of back up ones, and they overthrew an evil empire just for it to immediately take back over. And the film writers are saying “nothing anyone old did was important” by making the original trilogy make these movies WORSE by watching the originals.

The "cant go up" thing is so much worse than you think. Space is in EVERY DIRECTION *EXCEPT* DOWN! They can go forward, backwards, sideways... space is everywhere

That part about Ahsoka did not age well in hindsight.

I once heard that this movie was described as "a culmination of 1/10s and 9/10s that all form together to make a very average experience.". I can't for the life of me figure out what the 9s were, or even anything higher than a 2.

Finn: "I'm going to talk to the locals." Writers just gave up on creating a meaningful chain of in-world cause-and-effect and declared that the character uses the Gather Information skill.

Something I didn't think about until now. Palpatine zaps Luke in the OT for like 30 seconds straight and he lives but Rey sharts out one small zap of lightning and explodes a ship lol.

18:11 Rags' Down with the Sithness joke was actually funny, sadly didn't seem to land though.

I feel like JJ just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra when the whole "All the past Jedi/Sith live in you" was written into the story. Like being a Jedi is somehow the Avatar State and tapping into it somehow links you to every past Jedi or Sith somehow. This, as well as "Oh boy, cameos and memberberries in the finale!"

The entire stream is almost 12 hour long and its incredibly entertaining

Imagine that Han and Leia only meet for the first time in the last scene of ESB and absolutely no chemistry in RotJ. Actual insanity. Rey and Poe should have met at the least halfway through TFA.

Oh God. The fact the sequels start to make some sense when you remove the original trilogy. That's crazy.

26:45 "all the Jedi are dead due to Order 66" Disney: "Nah, just a handful of Jedi are dead, we have TV shows to make."

"Droid rights" - is a thing pushed since disney took over, it was never a thing in the OT or prequels and its all because some over sensitive PC person misinterpreted the like "no droids, we dont serve their kind here"....because it was a bar, and droids don't drink and that person decided to make droind sentience a major issue in almost every single Star Wars movie Disney made....

I remember Episode 66 releasing during the greatest week of my life, when my girlfriend at the time was visiting for the holidays. Makes me so nostalgic to see highlights from it today.

EFAP 66 was my favourite for a long while and i hope we get to remind the audience of all its great moments.

Speaking of Y-Wings, when can we see your epic rant Wolf? ^-^

Every character now treats c3po the way that Han Solo treated him

DUDE!!!! that arc at 11:44 would have MADE a whole new star wars that people would have enjoyed and could get behind with a new generation.... like damn man that sounds sooooo gooood

TROS is at least the funniest SW movie ever made

Ah, this was the episode that got me into EFAP - see, I came in after listening to MauLer's Unbridled video on TRoS, and I was curious as to where this footage was from. You guys have been a constant companion for the past four years of my life. Thank you for everything.

EFAP 66 was my introduction to EFAP and its my overall favourite of EFAP, I like it so much I've rewatched it multiple times

Every time Wolf posts a highlight I pee a little... Love ya man

Jay (kicked) but not forgoten.

Ayy Wolf killing it with the consistent and high quality uploads. Really appreciate it man. It seems like you’ve got a hell of a process down or you’re working hard as fuck(or both).

Thanks for the reminder! I need to listen to this complete epi again. I wish I could remember the first EFAP epi I listened to. But it’s def around this time, when I needed to find a harmonial community in regards to DSW. 😊

Ironic, episode 66 is when star wars order 66'd itself. It only went down from here.

The Force Awakens was worse The Rise of Skywalker was worser The Last Jedi was worsest!

ah, fond memories watching in it while doing midterm internship and losing my shit laughing, one of the GOAT episodes of the show

I bet they dropped the Finn x Rey thing to appeal to a certain country that is not very fond of such a relation but has a very big paying audience.

The 10 hr version of this is one of my favorite videos on RU-vid. The group of voices you collected to discuss this silly movie was fantastic. Thanks

The comments on the potential of Asoka, heard again years later, after the series, are quite comical... 😂

Ashoka was killed then resurrected in Rebels which takes place before the original trilogy. Then she goes off looking for Ezra and disappears until her show.

One of the top tier EFAP episodes, delving into a horrible movie straight from the poop dimension.

Exactly their mission: …marketing to girls who would prefer George Lucas Star Wars. Jar jar abrams has zero business in this industry if he writes like this and neither does rian Johnson

I can't be TOO mad at JJabrams. The Last Jedi literally set everything on fire and left nothing to work with

That desert world scene is also absurd. I once worked out that funding the exact ground opening at the exact time of the festival was roughly 1 in 1.5 sextillion chance, or in the same broad ballpark as finding a specific grain of sand. That's not even including the odds if Lando being in the right place at the right time either...

Why now? The original is 4 years old... all this reminds me of is that Jay Exci is still not back after half a year. I miss them, I hope they are OK, wherever they are.

If kylo was trying to kill her, why is he going 40mph in his "Spaceship?" Why is he not going mach 7

This entire EFAP is a highlight.

I’m listening to this on an early morning shift and I heard the word “McMuffin” so much during this I just ordered one 😂

The more I listen to this episode the more I think "they don't know which way is up out there" was meant to be a figure of speech and everyone took it literally.

The *only* things from this movie that I liked was the new Y-Wing Fighter design and the TIE Dorito. That’s it. I’m so glad that I never once watched this pile of putrid piss puke.

"I am all the Jedi" why do I get the feeling someone was bit into the Legend of Kora?

OGs remember the bulging eyeballs in the thumbnail from the before times. God, that was a blast from the past. Lol

But if you skip the OT, you'd never watch any of the rest of the movies on purpose.

10:42 Great idea but wouldn't sell toys

41:57 dogs can’t look up

Remember the good ol' days of *checks callendar* 2019 when a product as recent as Fallen Order reminded us even hyperspace can take days and weeks when crossing the galaxy? I remember that.

This is infinitely funnier now that Mauler and Fringy have seen Ahsoka. I wonder if Fringo still would want Ahsoka in the sequel trilogy now 😅

Suggestion: add the date of the original stream in the description (or title)

What's even more insane is how, to this day, audience score on rotten tomatoes for this movie is STILL 86% !!!

Those Star Destroyers managed to fly up through the ground by moving upward, as soon as they break the surface they go “ooooookay and which way now??” ……….🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I don't know if I or others have pointed this out yet, but what's Shad is essentially suggesting on the 11:00 mark (about Rey being the main antagonist and Finn being the unexpected hero) was done in Star Wars before, with the KOTOR series. Revan was the former dark lord turned mysterious protagonist trying to save Bastilla, a prodigy Jedi who succumbed to the dark side, mostly because of him. Like Revan, Finn would be the grim, scarred war veteran finding a deep connection with the untouchable flower girl, as he tries to save that one person that saved him from the brink as well. In fact, the dyad pish with Rey and Kylo is just the force bond between Revan and Bastilla. JJ and LucasFilm had a blueprint staring right at their faces and all they achieved was just a discount version of Revan's posse.

Imagine if the sequel trilogy had been phenomenal. The ramifications would be felt to this day. Everyone not named Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac would still have careers. Galaxy’s Edge would be packed every day. The franchise wouldn’t be irrelevant. Disney wouldn’t be reliant on key jangle to make fans excited about new projects.

honestly i was hoping that finn would be the non force sensitive sparing partner for rey, he'd use the one storm trooper melee weapon and she'd use the light saber, or they'd use other things and switch it up.

The Exogol thing blew my mind. Dude you're in a spaceship! Look out the window, if you see no planet just go, you'll be fine thats space. And dont get me started with the horses lol...just roll the ship and they'll fall off.

Waste of potential, I really thought Poe and Finn had more chemistry together than Rey, a story of a Rebel member joining forces with an ex Stormtrooper that could become a new Jedi had a lot of potential. But unfortunatelly Finn was not a KK self insert so he had no chance of getting the spotlight.

I think this was the first stream I caught Live after discovering who EFAP were

What episode was Wolf’s last episode?

Another suggestion for these shorts. In the weird off chance anyone is interested in the visuals or the chat of the clips, maybe instead of blurring the entire screen to show a time stamp, you can put a large tab on the top or side like on a filing folder. You can have a simple tab with the time stamp come down, and still with the stock sounds as a "notification", then have it go back up or out or something.

"Somehow Palpatine returned." - Jar Jar Abrams, the next Spielberg.

That thumbnail confused me and I was expecting a pitch-meeting.

Another annoying thing about finn not becoming a jedi is before the 7th movie, a book was written and came.out before the film called "star wars: before the awakening" it was about ray, finn, and poe and what they were doing before the film. In the book finn is a hand to hand/ melee weapon specialist. They establish that finn is the best in his whole unit when it comes to fighting up close and personal. Meanwhile in the films he always is weilding the lightsaber like an utter bafoon. Mind he isnt trained in the force and whatnot, his saber technique sould be significant

I don't think they ever would have let Finn beat evil Rey, but it would have been super cool to see the final movie/fight being 1v2: Rey/Kylo being evil pair and Finn bringing her back to the light side so it's 2v1 with their friendship being the focus (choose your family vs. lackluster focus on Skywalker bloodline, which to be fair, I guess was her choosing her family posthumously?). Would also be nod to the Darth Maul 2v1 fight from the prequels. I guess her being brought back to the light side is similar to Ben's rushed 3rd movie arc, but def remove the force healing turncoating. I suppose in 2nd movie, you could have similar, but from that scene where Luke sees her reaching for the darkness, she actually succumbs by the end of the movie, so then a truly disheveled Luke in 3rd movie has to get over that 2nd failure (compounds his mistake with Ben at the academy even though that probably needs to be reworked still for the sake of Luke's legacy; I am a fan, however, of even the most noble heroes falling at some point, so I'd probably keep the betrayal but not make it attempted murder, just he misstepped in his mentor role to Ben badly somehow) and train Finn to become a Jedi to win his friend back and right Luke's wrong. Then if you want to go bonkers, you have the projected Luke from end of TLJ make it a 2v2 final fight for a short time (projection broken to save Finn, nod to Obi death in OG?): Finn/Luke vs Rey/Kylo (latter nod to throne room fight which I'd like to keep, but probably rework to be part where she accepts Dark Side by taking Kylo's offer). Perfect world, have the final fight at that planet from 1st movie fight at nighttime in the snow again, or in the crater that broke up her and Kylo's 1st movie end fight, but I honestly don't remember if that planet/scene was still in play; it's been a while. My pitch probably also banks on less nostalgia, as I'm mostly using Luke, but I suppose Chewie is still helping out with the Falcon/Poe, Leia is still Commander. Force ghost or whatever Han I think definitely gets cut, makes his death more impactful. Maybe his voice somewhere in final fight if Ben is also brought back to the Light Side. Knights of Ren could also be used more in 3rd movie if it's Evil Rey and Kylo leading them. Would have to do my research, but I just got hyped thinking of what could have been (granted, we've seen these tropes before, who hasn't).

41:01 they could've logically explained this slightly with his backstory. The ship is the First Order Star Destroyer, while the sith Star Destroyers obviously look like the Empire's Star Destroyers. Of course Finn would point out that ship since he's familiar with the design (not to mention Finn and Poe escape the same type of Destroyer in TFA). But oh well, he had a feeling

11:23 Oh wow. That's Shad? So cool...

MauLer: .. finding McMuffin 3, that leads to McMuffin 2,.. Rags: it's all very complicated 17:32 Misheard that as "it's all very cupcake" and had to double check - would have been such a Rags thing to say 😂

Maybe Rise of Skywalker is Finn's dying brain fart as he breathes his last on the salt plains of Krayt after Rose Tico has crashed into him, and just before a gorilla AT-AT crushes his corpse.

Does Fringy just pace around his room, talking at his mic from varying distances? I swear that dude went into an antique shop and picked up a surplus military mic set from an AC1 Sentinel Tank.

Holy shit i just realized is this channel run by wolf?

JJ Directing is Tim Curry at the end of Clue?

"toward the end of my TFA series" yeah...

I swear to god, malicious bad will always be leagues worse than incompetent bad. Rise of Skywalker was disappointing, Last Jedi just made me furious. The Rise of Skywalker was the twist of a knife, but the stab wound done by the Last Jedi so big and severe that I was long dead by that point.

The face of a child says it all. Especially the mouth part of the face.

Something that’s always annoyed me about the ships not being able to just go up, it implies that in a universe where FTL is a very common technology the basic concept of a gyroscope is nonexistent. It’s literally a general rule of physics, it’s how even a basic bicycle stays up right. Even submarines have been using them for decades for underwater navigation, and JJ believes in a world where light sabers exist no one has thought to install a spinning wheel to tell them which way is up

I don't care what they would've done with the plot. Either way, it has nothing to do with Star Wars, at least the main saga, it's a reboot under the guise of a sequel. It makes the OT moot, and only brought the original 3 back to be able to market it as a return to the beloved characters. They pushed TFA as a Han Solo focused movie to start off the completion of the saga, with promises that Luke would eventually have his triumphant return. And then we get 10 seconds of Luke looking like a Jedi master, AND ... never getting to see it.

The movie should have ended with Rey saying, "Rey. Rey Dameron."

Reminder that TO THIS DAY Rise of Skywalker on Rotten Tomatoes AUDIENCE RATING did not inch a percent. You can find videos and clips of it being 86% with 10k reviews, or 20k reviews in the first month of movie's release. Its up to 50k reviews these days, and still its not 87%, not 85%. Not changes. It was just that good huh.

A highlight that is only a mere hour long? I expected more from the fabled "Man of Long"

I loved the way the star destroyers came out of the ground, Just like in Star Trek into darkness when the enterprise comes out of the ocean. Jj abrams knows nothing about how STARships work They can't fly in an atmosphere That's why they are built in space 😂

I bailed on Star Wars after TLJ. I’d listen to this 100 times before watching ROS. Great video!

The discussion over which was worse, TLJ or TRoS, is still pretty fascinating. I think that TRoS was actually a worse film, but my visceral hatred still belongs to TLJ. And I think that the difference is the perceived motive behind the films. TLJ felt personal. It felt like an intentional deconstruction of both the beloved original characters and the interesting elements in TFA. As flawed as TFA was, I still carried investment in where the story was going. Watching TLJ felt like someone had vandalized my favorite childhood toy and left it on my doorstep. In contrast, TRoS just felt like general incompetence and apathy toward a story that had already derailed in the prior installment. I was already demoralized and pessimistic, and I could almost sense the same attitude from everyone involved in making the movie. No thought was given to telling a reasonable story, no attention was given to the existing lore, no consideration was given to how this movie affects the original story. So yes, TRoS was a far worse, more damaging film within this franchise. But TLJ will forever be the personal insult that I cannot forgive. All these years later, and I still can't wrap my head around the way that this trilogy was so dismally mismanaged.

30:00 The whole saga went from being Anakin's story to being Palpatine's story, we get to see is pre emperor life, then how he reigned in the OT and finished with how he controlled "everything" from the shadows. Its not great, but I prefer that to some of the other possibility.

Why was a navigation tower built on a First Order Star Destroyer, and NOT ANY of the sith Star Destroyers in the Final Order

Me rewriting EP 7 open text crawl to make the entire sequel trilogy better: (Very loosely based on Legends canon, but I fudged some things for dramatic effect, as many movies are prone to do, and will inevitably do. It may be a bit long, but its easier to subtract and parse down then to add, I find.) STAR WARS: EP 7: The Phantom Menace A galaxy on the precipice! After many losses to the newly formed Rebublic, fractured Imperial warlords are called to serve the new Emperor; a clone of EMPEROR PALPATINE. The new "DARK EMPIRE" strikes, devastating worlds in their wake. Through the bravery of the New Republic fleet and efforts of LUKE SKYWALKER and LEIA ORGANA SOLO, PALPATINE and his legacy of darkness ends aboard his flagship, the ECLIPSE. On his secret fortress world of BYSS, datalogs from the Clone Wars are found in the Emperor's private sanctum, describing a secret project named "OUTBOUND FLIGHT", along with recordings of an unknown voice, warning of grave danger. Before more is discovered, BYSS is destroyed, along with PALPATINE'S cloning facility. Victory is declared, and these omens fade from Galactic thought. 14 years later, the New Republic holds tenuous control over the majority of the Galaxy. Imperial loyalists occupy the Galactic north. Facing economic stagnation, internal division, and a military spread thin, the strained New Republic receives S.O.S signals from Imperial space; the first coming from a science outpost in the BELKADAN System. Fearing civil war, or a sinister Imperial threat, The New Republic senate secretly sends it's most trusted operatives to the source of the distress beacon, desperate for answers... (Text crawl fades. The Camera pans down to show the planet Belkadan, a lush rainforest world. However, something is wrong. The lush trees are now patchy when viewed from space, and new fauna seems to have taken hold, looking sick and discolored from space as it encroaches on once green biomes. Smoke billows pepper the surface of the planet. What look like large brown pustules from space rise from the planet's surface. All of this is visible in the wide shot. A ship enters camera left, and flies toward the planet's horizon. Based on how the scriptwriters want to handle the story, this ship can be the Millennium Falcon, or any other Republic ship. I'd prefer it to NOT be the Falcon though. One of the crew members is a Bothan. The stage is now set, and the writers can work off this foundation.) DIRECTOR NOTES: EP 7 should be shot as a horror film; A mystery unravelling, with emphasis on the discovery of the scope/nature of the threat on Belkadan, to set up the characters and the world for future films, so they can increase to a larger scope. EP 7 will not only be set in the onset of this crisis, but contain flashbacks to Outbound Flight, Palpatine talking to Thrawn or the Shadow Council on Byss about the unknown threat, and initial encounters of the threat at Vector Prime. If I was writing it, I'd lean into the "Palpatine did nothing wrong" angle of his character, emphasizing that he saw a threat and was preparing the galaxy to resist it militarily by any means necessary, by forming the Empire. ...one can dream :)

My head-cannon is that at the end of the film, Rey should have force-sacrificed herself to save Kylo, not the other way around.

What’s sad is that Kylo could’ve survived his crash landing in the TIE fighter if Disney didn’t do everything in their power to nerf Jedi/Sith. A Legends powered Kylo could’ve survived but the one we got should be pasted by their own rules

Finn: "You have to snap out of it, Rey! This isn't you!" Rey: "Wrong. For the first time I feel like my life makes sense! Join me, Finn! Come to the Dark Side and then you can let *others* clean the floors of Star Destroyers for you!"

Need I remind anyone that in the Star Wars universe even small craft are able to routinely navigate across the vastness of space? I know Abrams got handed a turd but couldn't he have come up with a better way to polish it?

Why no Shadiversity in the description?

I was just thinking through how much of the series you could skip if we accept the ST’s canonicity. You need some critical information about who the OT cast is so you can’t completely skip the OT. And, to understand who the Emperor is, you can’t really skip the PT. I think you’d watch The Phantom Edit for the PT, watch episodes 4 and 5, learn that Vader and the Emperor somehow died but then the Emperor somehow came back, then watch episode 7, learn that Luke and Snoke died, then 9. Phantom Edit cuts out most of TPM and AotC so basically 1.5 movies, cut out episode 6 for another, cut out episode 8 for another. So out of the 9 episodes, you wouldn’t need to watch over a trilogy worth to get the complete story. That’s depressing.