LogFAQs > #892837258

before watching the last jedi, i watched rogue one

R1 loses me near the end with the continuous string of ass-pulls to get out of tight spots
it's important to give all the characters something critical to do, but having everyone pull through beyond reasonable odds felt very unreal. TLJ was opposite in this regard where you see characters repeatedly screw up royal, in a very reasonable fashion. I'll remind you that most rebel plans were basically suicide missions

like if you were looking for the template hero film:
Holdo would hand over the fleet to Poe, and he would ass-pull his way into a rebel victory
Rey would go through her training montage under Luke, turned Ben and killed Snoke
imagine if you would like that film.

as TFA is a re-hash of ANH, we expected a rehash of empire
problem is in trying to rehash empire. do you copy the play-by-play? or do you copy the part where they messed with ppl? is "I am your father" significant because it's important to the story that Luke is related to Vader? or is it because we never saw it coming?

i'm quite happy with what we got