Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (spoilers obviously)

Because he's not a Skywalker or married to one.

What about everyone else then?

Lando hits that sweet spot of being just distant enough from the Skywalker personal drama that he's spared from the crap that comes with it while still being close enough to the spotlight that the audience cares about what happens to him.

Edited by M84 on Mar 4th 2021 at 4:33:02 AM

It's still funny to think about how Lando outlived the Trio.

By doing the smart thing and staying the heck away from Kylo.

Which goes back to the whole "staying away from Skywalker drama" thing I mentioned.

Droids must have some amazing resistance to that drama.

The Force looks out for them, they just can't feel it.

Oh no, the droids aren't spared the crap either. C-3PO has had to have so many limbs replaced. And poor R2-D2 went into a friggin' droid coma due to being abandoned by Luke.

C-3PO also has to deal with being the No-Respect Guy. Everyone makes fun of him, even R2-D2. Especially R2-D2.

Edited by M84 on Mar 3rd 2021 at 11:23:17 PM

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Honestly it almost comes off like they are actively trying to one up the awful

People Hated Jacen turning evil...

Ben will turn evil for EVEN DUMBER LESS EXPLAINED REASONS and TAKE most of the family down with him!

oh gawd they are gonna make the Rey's pregnant with Kylo's force baby a thing

Edited by FrozenWolf2 on Mar 3rd 2021 at 9:25:09 AM

At least they didn't try to bring the Sun Crusher into canon.

...I just jinxed it, didn't I.

Quick, sacrifice M84 to the Ewoks to reverse the jinx.

I wouldn’t be surprised at this point.

To be fair, the Sun Crusher makes more sense as a terror weapon for a group with reduced power. Smaller, stealthier, etc.

The problem is that it's completely ridiculous, overly powerful and nigh indestructible.

It's what a 5-year old would come up to win an imaginary space fight against their peers.

You could argue that the Sun Crusher was when the superweapon craze in Star Wars truly jumped the shark.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Mar 3rd 2021 at 8:37:58 PM

They could also re-canonize the Myth that caused Jedi to outlaw romantic love.

The one with the two horny twins who raged over a woman so hard they ended up blowing up an entire planet.

The only doomsday device of SW (post death star) that I find moderately interesting is the Star Forge, in part because it just plain makes sense (it's basically a souped up version of a weapons factory) and it isn't "let's blow up planets" 2.0.

It's also basically a Dark Side nexus, if I recall correctly.

... I'd wonder why Abrams didn't bring that thing back to explain Palpatine's Offscreen Villain Dark Matter, but there are only so many ways I can say "JJ Abrams is a hack who refuses to explain the shit he puts into movies" without sounding repetitive.

The big rumor for the while WAS the Star Forge. And it made perfect sense to put this Dark Side powered factory in the nexus of the Dark Side in Exegol. Make of that what you will.

A scene was cut featuring Kylo torturing Chewbacca. Adam Brockbank, another Star Wars concept artist, also shared an image from a scene that was cut from the film. This piece of art showcases Rey and Kylo battling it out in the sandy deserts of Tatooine, specifically the ruins of the old Lars homestead.

I recall people saying that scene with Kylo and Chewie was in the novelization, with Kylo trying to probe his mind and being hit by memories of them playing when he was small.

Why, though?

Nostalgia?

Luke’s old home has turned into a major tourist attraction and Rey and Kylo are fighting for the last ticket.

Or the writers just moved one of the plot MacGuffins there.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Mar 9th 2021 at 10:20:02 AM

I mean outside of that.

Neither Rey nor Kylo have any connection to the Lars family.

The only person who did is Luke because he actually grew up there - Owen is his father's step-brother.

It's also why the lightsaber burial scene bothers me so much. None of the Skywalkers had any love lost for that planet.

Anakin hated it due to a) growing up a slave on it and b) losing his mother to it, Luke always wanted to get away from and it and the only really positive factor holding him back (his family) got murdered by the Empire - and Leia's experiences with the planet are being captured by Vader above it and being enslaved by Jabba on it.

Burying the lightsabers on Tatooine might actually be the most disrespectful thing Rey could have done with them.

It's a wonderful concept... in a completely different movie. The story and pacing as a whole just didn't leave any room for that kind of raw, emotionally dense scene that ultimately doesn't serve an immediate plot purpose. I'm kind of glad it wasn't included. I thought a nice little moment was Rey calming down the snake creature and using the force to heal it, but the story came to an abrupt halt to have that scene. I wouldn't want the same thing to happen with an Uncle Chewie flashback.

It is hard to defend a Lars Homestead fight, Luke himself was perfectly fine moving on from Tatooine and having a completely separate character with no connection to it doesn't do much for the nostalgia anyway.

Edited by EmeraldSource on Mar 9th 2021 at 10:46:32 AM