Post by Oh My Aching Ackbar-Raddus! on Sept 24, 2019 20:48:54 GMT
Sept 24, 2019 2:53:27 GMT @jakeskywalker said:
Exactly. I brought that question up earlier. Rian Johnson failed to follow what was already established with Episode 7 Luke. He left the map in two pieces with Tekka and R2. It's much better to spread the map over the galaxy instead of putting all his eggs in one basket. Doing so sounds like a calculated man who wants to live to me.
Then in 8, Rian tried to retcon this and it just fell flat. It didn't work. It doesn't make sense. His writing following what was already established just leads to a lot of confusion and questions from the audience:
A secret map that leads to Skywalker, spread over the galaxy amongst his trusted friends, and he's on an island that has an ancient connection to the Force...but he's given up on the Force. He's given up on his friends. He's given up on his own life and wants to die...but he left a map in pieces so that Kylo and Snoke can't find him easily....because if they did find him, they would want to kill him...but he wants to die...but he won't go to them to die...but he left map...yeah...
Tekka never says he found it though. See? There's no clarity in the writing. Building off of 7 could have been so great with a someone who understood Lucas' galaxy/characters/canon. Oh well.
But then a droid who never met me wanted to check R2 for it. Even though a droid who knew me for 30 years thought it was a ridiculous idea. Because, you know... his best friend has never carried secret plans before!
Poor 3PO must've caught my Alzheimer's. I guess Leia must've caught my Alzheimer's too because she didn't think to check R2 in all that time even though she once hid secret plans in R2D2 herself.
So then I go to a planet strong in the Force and decide to cut myself off from the Force. Because I want to die and never be found. Because the Jedi are a failure and it's time for them to come to an end. So I'll just wait for a padawan wannabe to show up before I decide to destroy the Jedi text. Because it makes no sense to destroy them before someone else might show up and get their hands on them.
But as soon as I try to burn them up in a drunken stupor, Master Yoda shows up laughing and dancing, even drunker than I am. And he burns up the Jedi texts before I can!
Then he tells me Rey didn't even need them anyway. Even though somehow she took them out of that fire before they ever burned, invisible to us all.
Then Yoda tells me that failure is the greatest teacher. Except ever since I started failing in this trilogy I've learned nothing. And Rey fails less than any padawan who ever lived and she teaches herself!
I am the greatest written Star Wars character in history!