And don't forget how they brought back Lucas as a "consultant", either!

Can't hurt. Christ, VIII was so bad it was like Jar Jar wrote it.

Well, more like Jar Jar's angry lesbian sister wrote it.

How can anyone not like the sequel trilogy? ****. What an amazing scene this was.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D76xm6bWsAEq5EM.jpg:large

And resulting story will be reerunation beyond your wildest dreams.

This is correct.

I kinda like Episode 8 now that I can just fast forward through the whole Canto Bight sequence.

Plenty of poor films have amazing scenes.

If only the story of TLJ was even half as good as the visuals were.....

It's not like the story of the original trilogy was anything that amazing, the amazing part was how well the characters worked together. They were real, flawed people. The prequel trilogy was a mess because of the choice of actors. No chemistry between them and not much to relate to. The sequel trilogy has similar problems, there isn't anything to care about in the characters. Rey isn't even remotely human, has no flaws, doesn't have any romantic interests, knows everything about everything and uses the force better than anyone.

She is like Superman that is immune to kryptonite. There is never a worry that anything will happen to her.

I've never cared less for Star wars characters in my life. That's how poorly written this new cast is. And when you have to go and dig palpatine up from the grave? I mean come on...

Sidious will return in spirit form inhabiting the body of British actor Matt Smith who plays a new crimson lightsaber wielding villain.

Ian was on set during all scenes shot with Smith providing voice work in the background for Adam driver to interact with. It is unclear whether Smith was a secret apprentice or simply a tool to be used but it has been somewhat confirmed that snoke was indeed the dark presence that Sidious felt in the unknown regions. It is also speculated that there will be video recordings or holograms shown depicting sidious recruiting snoke as his apprentice to overthrow Vader between the time of empire and Jedi.

When the studio is copying bad ideas from the EU, you know they are scrambling.

(It's still more creative than anything in TFA)

Matt Smith isn't even in the movie.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lucasfilm Removes Matt Smith From Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Cast List <a href="https://t.co/sQzJqGz4Pn">https://t.co/sQzJqGz4Pn</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/ComicBook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ComicBook</a></p>&mdash; Raghu Seetharaman (@rags751) <a href="https://twitter.com/rags751/status/1133866656663592960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In any case, when posting potentially spoilery material, use spoiler tags.

He may be out as the actor, but the all hooded scenes where Ian was present are very much filmed.

In any event, we're clearly back to sloppy fan service.