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So, at the height of the Emperor's powers, not only was he HAVING SEX, he had a son, and somehow this kid got away? And also had his own offspring? The whole thing isn't believable to begin with, and with zero explanation, it's even less believable. |
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I'm not suggesting he lost his son at the height of his power, just the opposite. I'm suggesting he could have lost him at the low point of his power after Vader threw him down the shaft & he lost control of the armies of troops at his disposal. And again I'm not sure why the Emperor wouldn't want to have sex, but if you think it's unbelievable that the most powerful person in the galaxy would want to have sex I don't know what to say other than I disagree. You're right though, the issue is they didn't bother to explain any of it. A reasonable explanation could be made, they just didn't. I understand they were already trying to cram too much into the movie as is in order to attempt to salvage a story out of where TLJ left them. But even a note in the opening crawl explaining Palpatines basic backstory could have helped a lot Last edited by ScareCrowe; 12-26-2019 at 05:30 PM.. Reason: Edited to address edit in quote |
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12-26-2019, 05:33 PM | #170 |
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It's like saying "when did Voldemort get it on?" Uh, probably didn't, bub. More important, evil things to be doing. Also, the actor playing Palpatine's son is 30. So him being 20 when Palpatine dies doesn't jive. It's not believable at all to me that after Palpatine died his son wouldn't throw in with the remnants of the Empire and raise the granddaughter of Palpatine to serve the bad guys. Also, WHO THE **** DID PALPATINE BONE? WHERE THE **** WAS SHE? https://screenrant.com/star-wars-pal...er-birth-when/ Quote:
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At this point it's about to become the sci-fi version of the Halloween franchise. I wish they had just let the Marvel people do all of the Star Wars, too. Favreau has ****ing NAILED the Mando. |
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Finally saw this last night. Overall mixed obviously. Some random first thoughts below:
Overall I could just about deal with Palpatine but think they could’ve done it a lot better - like he could maybe have been a Sauron/Voldemort spirit and needed Rey and Ren’s power to restore him. I guess that’s been done in LOTR and HP so maybe thought it was too obvious I could deal with Rey being a palpatine but they should have figured that out from the start. She was a Skywalker in TFA, nobody in TLJ and the Palpatine in TROS. Also like everyone says above, the emperor never banged anyone so maybe she should’ve been a niece or something Some seriously bad acting at times. Finn and Poe together are awful. In general I don’t like Poe - trying to be Han but not fit to tie his cleats Finn was a waste of time and should have died in the last one There was no real character development for Rey. They should’ve figured out if she was untrained and not ready, or nearly trained and needed a final mission to finish, or just a fully trained badass ready for emperor lightning skills/yoda jumping. She lost to Ren quite easily, leia saved her. They should’ve done a lot more with her resisting the dark side. I didn’t mind Ren/Ben in this one. The thing with Han was pretty well done. People dying/ coming back was stupid shit. Chewy dead for one minute was pointless Lando was disappointing and creepy at the end Everyone turning up in battle craft was too random and unnecessary C3PO’s memory should’ve stayed wiped or gone back in with R2’s attitude added Dark side Rey should’ve been seen more The power ranger woman was pointless as were all the othe new characters that they’ve just put in for spin off movies Overall it felt like Disney just wanted the original saga over with so they can get on with milking new stories. I think Han and Leia came out of these 3 films unscathed but Luke was messed with a bit too much. His ending in TLJ was ok for me though. I think the film was a bit too ‘glossy’ I liked some of the stuff in TFA that abrams did which had a grittier feel. Although there were some nice shots in this one - the rolling scene in the star destroyer with Poe and Finn was excellent, if only it was with someone other than the worst 2 characters in the film 6/10 |
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Agreed. That is "Star Wars". Mando is the best "Star Wars" universe thing since Rogue One.
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