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ParanoidObsessive posted...

So while I tend to instinctively think Knives is probably right in that particular tete-a-tete with Cyborg, I can't actually say anything definitively until I actually bother watching it.

I should note that a fair amount of my problems with it actually have nothing to do with how Star Wars-y the film is, or how it meets my particular expectations of what Star Wars should be. A good deal of it is what I feel to be inexcusably poor story and creative/directional choices, which would be bad no matter what the film was about. The other half of my complaints are indeed Star Wars-y related.

That said, if anyone remembers, I was basically pessimistic, indifferent at best towards the new trilogy the very moment it was announced, so the fact that TLJ failed to win me over is basically a giant "meh" at this point. Sure, the return of Mark Hamill and still having the movie be a let-down for me sucks, but I wasn't exactly basing my fandom over the new trilogy, anyways.

That, and since TFA was a giant boring ANH rip-off,we basically all agreed that the only salvation the new trilogy had was going to be based off TLJ. Since it failed at that for me, it basically makes it impossible for IX to be any good, and I can consider this new trilogy basically a wash.

Don't worry, I won't be signing any petitions or declaring the Prequels are now OK by comparison. That said, I at least knew what the Prequels were about, and what the point was. 2 films into this new trilogy, I have no idea what the point is, besides some nebulous sense of "new era of Star Wars."
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