Chat corner 105: The Rise of Skywalker

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week the topic is the movie “The Rise of Skywalker”, the last of the Sequel Trilogy and the as-yet-still last Star Wars film.

Yes? No? Rather not talk about it? (And reminder, you’re welcome to speak your opinions, whatever they are, but be kind to the others here who might not share them.)

If you don’t feel like talking TRoS itself… it isn’t that long since 2019, is it? How did the SW fandom change for you since that time? Did it change at all?

Comments

I loved it! 10/10 would recommend

[extrapenguin]

Oh hey, my favorite Star Wars movie! I absolutely love how this is all about Leia's legacy and how Leia trained Rey. Words cannot describe how well that pushed my buttons. I was a bit annoyed at how Poe got to do so much Resistance stuff (I always considered him a bit extraneous) that should've been Leia's speech to give, but, well, RL happened. And the way Rey spared and healed Kylo because that was her Jedi Master's son while Kylo immediately stopped killing Rey because his Mom reached out to him and Rey was his Mom's student as excellent.

Palpatine was also great ("Master Luke Skywalker was saved by his father. The only family you have here is me.") and I absolutely loved his and Rey's final battle, cheesy though it might have been. Also the fact that, after the Resistance didn't get any help in TLJ, the entire galaxy rallied under the banner of Fuck Palpatine In Particular was hilarious. Poe's speech at the end was great, too.

If I got to change anything... Well, a) Rey Organa, not Rey Skywalker, and b) Rey gets a saberstaff! Also, as pointed out by someone else somewhere, c) Finn should hold a speech to the stormtroopers so that at least some of them defect.

(This movie also has the dubious distinction of making much more sense if you've played through KOTOR and SWTOR. All of the Final Order ships were obviously made by the Star Forge, and Palpatine's plan with Rey was originally [spoilers for KotFE & KotET]!)

Oh, and Zorii Bliss was cool. I think she got a crush on Rey for beating her ass.

Re: I loved it! 10/10 would recommend

[sathari]

Ooooh, it's my favorite too!!!! :D :D :D :D :D Yay, another TROS fan!!!! :D :D :D

that should've been Leia's speech to give, but, well, RL happened

This is how I feel about a LOT of TROS... and frankly why I love it so much; if they'd made a lot of the same choices with Carrie Fisher alive, I would... well, not. But they did the best they could under the circumstances.

the way Rey spared and healed Kylo because that was her Jedi Master's son while Kylo immediately stopped killing Rey because his Mom reached out to him and Rey was his Mom's student as excellent.

COSIGNING THIS SO HARD.

And I too like "Rey Organa" as opposed to "Rey Skywalker" although I understand that as being Leia's birth surname. And SO MUCH YES to wanting Rey to get a saberstaff! :D :D :D :D

Also cosigning the love for the "Dunkirk armada" at the end with the entire galaxy rallying. And it kinda makes sense to me that Lando would be the one to do it and not Leia--- I think I said something about this somewhere in this comm before, in fact. It makes sense to me--- we see in TLJ that there are some assholes playing both sides against the middle and making bank on it... and I suspect that Princess and Senator Leia Organa would have gone "straight to the top" in her bargaining for allies, and dealt with... well, the kind of people who would hedge their bets, planetary leaders and the like, the kind of people who would figure that their wealth&&power would let them survive whoever landed on top politically and weren't going to risk themselves for a lost cause--- or, even if they personally might have wanted to, they learned the object lesson Tarkin was handing out with Alderaan and perhaps felt they had a more immediate duty to their subjects/citizens/employees/etc. not to get them blown up. Lando, on the other hand, probably knew just how to get hold of anyone who had just enough means to own a ship, or even a fleet, of their own, and who was low enough on the wealth-and-power totem pole that the powers-that-be in a dictatorship would not only not have to play nice with them but would actively crack down on them. So Lando is definitely the one to recruit a grassroots army.