LogFAQs > #914415236

I don't understand everyone talking about how "amazing" the throne room sequence was, when it was already telegraphed thirty-four years earlier in RotJ. There was a good ten minutes dedicated to Palpatine in his throne room monologuing about how Luke killing him directly would be the final step towards the dark side.

So of course they have a scene in not-Palpatine's throne room where not-Palpatine monologues about "completing his training" and "I see him turning the lightsaber to strike true" in generic enough terms that it was clearly just the same speech. All he needed was a croaking "strike me down with all of your hatred" and it would have basically been that exact scene in RotJ. Hell, I was saying that line over and over myself in the middle of his whole big speech (there was plenty of time to repeat it given how excruciatingly slow that scene is).

Though I guess after TFA was practically a shot-for-shot remake of A New Hope, nobody really thought they'd be stupid enough to keep lifting scenes wholesale from the earlier movies, which could explain why you thought it was so great.
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