>it pisses on the mythological elements of the original pretty
>frivolously, I feel.
>
>Instead of building up new characters/stories/mythology we
>care about, it just shits on the old ones, hard.
>
>The movie is essentially an attempted reset of the franchise
>that seems to be proud of hating the franchise, lol.
>
>A big part of why Star Wars worked IMO was the fact that it's
>chock full of comparative global mythology. It's filled with
>all kinds of overt nods to myths that resonates, cuz humans
>like their stories.
>
>This movie repeatedly says "all that's dumb, it don't matter."
>
>Ok, that's fine, but what do they replace it with?
>Really bland themes of general individualism, along with weird
>tokenism. Oh, and don't forget "kill the past".
>So in movie 8 of 9, you tell me fuck everything both STORYWISE
>and THEMATICALLY in films 1-7? And most GLARINGLY, 7, which
>ended on about as literal a cliffhanger you could get?
>
>So, nothing about the story and themes of the other films
>matter...including the film preceding this one, which is the
>reason this flick exists?
>Why should I care about anything in *THIS* film, much less
>anything that comes after this one?
>
>It's an oddly nihilistic flick, and the franchise really
>suffers for it.
>I got no idea where you go from here, story wise. Cuz you just
>said 40 years of story don't matter and the characters were
>lies and you more or less ended the rebellion, apparently.
>
>The more I think about it, Kylo Ren and this movie got the
>same problems, lol. They mad about what they can't be, lol
>
>
>>Do you mean it tosses out the religious/spiritual
>>concept or something else?
>>I don't mind spoilers either, because I'm not invested
>>in Star Wars like that. I moreso just enjoy analyzing
>>it, and hearing what you have to say will just make
>>that more fun when I do finally see it lol.
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