u/DjRimo

As cool as it would’ve been, I think it better serves the story to have them be separated. It really felt like life happened to all three of them. Star Wars has always had fun, but also much tragedy. It added a new layer of tragedy to these characters. You can tell Han and Leia felt real trauma over losing their son, to where they went back to what they were good at, almost like a relapse to an old vice. And it really shows in the acting performances that Carrie and Harrison gave. I just thought it was an interesting and very human thing to explore.

Not to mention Mr. Skywalker, who we know shut himself off from everything in shame until Yoda talked sense into him on the island. Me personally, I value the heaviness of the grief, trauma, shame, and guilt in the background of the story rather than an MCU-esque meet up.

I’ve been listening to this entire complete soundtrack of TROS. And it’s awesome. It has many subtle callbacks to old moments in SW, even the Prequel trilogy. And it is one of the most energetic scores I have heard from John Williams that is reminiscent of Indiana Jones in some moments like The Speeder Chase and Fleeing From Kijimi. Not to mention the new title track is a really good track that reminds me of Anakin’s theme in Episode 1. If you haven’t heard the full expanded score, I would recommend it.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuSPz2swq5PFFFA7kkc-eHftD-du8Cu5L&si=Z6DeBUJnmu5s70Mz

Hate to beat a dead horse here, and maybe it’s a shot in the dark, but here’s a petition I made up, maybe if we get a lot of signatures we can get notice from someone up there.

https://www.change.org/p/urge-ea-to-release-simcity-4-source-code?source_location=my_petitions_list

Not necessarily a ranking, but the different ways I differentiate the movies to me.

Ben was towering over Rey and about to land a potentially fatal blow to her before he was distracted by Leia, like Luke was in ROTJ after subduing Vader and being distracted by Mr. Palpatine laughing. I never realized this until a rewatch.

Alright let’s hear it, does TROS do anything nicely? I’m going to try to give it a shot. I think this film nicely settles many arcs in subtle ways. In TPM, Anakin says the biggest problem in the universe is that nobody helps each other; then you have a fleet of regular people in the universe standing up to Palpatine one last time here in the last movie. Luke lifting his X-Wing after 40 years, Han and Bens final scene, etc.

Also this movie has peak C3PO.

I think the obvious answer is the visuals, but I would like to hear some other interesting ones as well. I think this movie probably introduced more interesting ways to use the Force more than any SW movie outside of the original.

These got taken down on the main SW sub, so I wanna direct the question here. What do you guys think is the thing TFA does best? I can name a few things, the pacing is the best. The movie is action packed without feeling like too much. The aerial dogfights are also my favorite in the series. I also wholeheartedly believe this movie has peak Han Solo, he is at his funniest here and has his best lines in this one. And possibly its the most fun, lighthearted SW movie to date.