Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Emmartindale — 20 Dec 2017

With this new movie, the new Star Wars series is essentially reduced to this Lord of the Rings equivalent:

-Imagine a sequel to Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King where Sauron had a son that actually manages to reforge the one ring in about 30 seconds.

-Sauron's son uses the The One Ring to destroy all of Middle-Earth in about 30 seconds.

-A new hobbit, that DOES NOT have the name name "Baggins," embarks on the same exact quest to destroy The One NEW ring.

The biggest issue with this new story is that it rendered the events of 1-6 completely irrelevant. All that mattered was that a woman named Leia met a man named Han and they had a child named Ben. That is it. Everything that the characters fought for in 1-6 is blown up in a matter of seconds in episode 7. And there is no reverse course here in episode 8 - it doubles down. To accept these new films as sequels is to accept that. You can't have it both ways.

I'm not whining. It's simply a fact. And it's bad story-telling to suggest in the 7th chapter of a 9 part saga that what happened in 1-6 is not relevant.