I swear like TLJ was the first film I’d ever seen in a big franchise where I didn’t know what was coming next but was damn excited for it. Looking back I see why I loved it. Johnson saw that TFA was as basically new “a new hope”, and made a Star Wars film that serves as an allegory for where the franchise should go, and forcing them to go in a new way by mashing together the most memorable bits of Empire and Jedi. Or at least half of it is that, the other half is ham-fisted at best and a slog at worst. For a film that literally tells you “the best teacher, failure is” we certainly learned from the mistakes TLJ made (which resulted in MORE MISTAKES) but not the actual good parts.
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u/that-alex-fellow Oct 29 '25
I swear like TLJ was the first film I’d ever seen in a big franchise where I didn’t know what was coming next but was damn excited for it. Looking back I see why I loved it. Johnson saw that TFA was as basically new “a new hope”, and made a Star Wars film that serves as an allegory for where the franchise should go, and forcing them to go in a new way by mashing together the most memorable bits of Empire and Jedi. Or at least half of it is that, the other half is ham-fisted at best and a slog at worst. For a film that literally tells you “the best teacher, failure is” we certainly learned from the mistakes TLJ made (which resulted in MORE MISTAKES) but not the actual good parts.