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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

I actually loved this scene. It made me tear up, because the look on Luke's face getting that X-Wing out of the water was glorious. Acting!

In fact, I wanted it in TLJ, although the force projection stuff was better in the end.

TLJ is the best movie of the sequels because it subverts your expectations and gives us something ORIGINAL.

The conversation between Luke and Leia and the Force Projection scene were the most impactful of the new trilogy for me.

Rey’s summoning of the lightsaber in TFA is a close second.

Spoiler!

I still like Rey. Kylo was the best character in the new trilogy.

Perhaps they shouldn’t have made a last minute choice to change their entire script and keep Poe alive in Ep. 7. Because they sure couldn’t balance him and Finn in the script. John Boyega has to be disappointed he went from a main character to whatever he got reduced to - some of that may have shown in the movie.

Because of Kylo, I don’t really see any damage to Anakin’s character arc.

This movie needed to be Endgame length. It was a pacing nightmare. A lot of amazing fanboy moments between lull’s of rather uninteresting plotting - it felt like it was checking boxes half of the time.

Loved the Luke and Leia scene.

I really, really wish Disney had the billiards to have given Leia Holdo’s sacrifice in Ep. 8 and kept Luke alive after Carrie Fisher passed. Their were too many uncanny valley moments for my liking.

The fact that Kylo was controlled by Palpatine poops on Luke’s interactions with Kylo in TLJ.

I don’t know how I feel about Rey being a palpatine. It felt like a stunt to get people to the theater.

In the end, JJ tried his damndest to make Return of the Jedi despite Rian’s best attempts to prevent it.