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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I actually preferred The Last Jedi to the Rise of Skywalker, for several reasons. Rian Johnson took the series in a very "non-Disney" direction with TLJ - he challenged beliefs and expectations for how this series is supposed to play out. Disney didn't like it, which is why JJ came back for the third one.

I particularly hate that JJ Abrams changed the story of Rey's lineage. What made her special was that she [i]wasn't[/i] special - she didn't need to be a descendant of some quasi-incestuous, highly exclusive lineage (the Skywalkers, Kenobis, Palpatines, etc.) in order to have the power of the force. As Luke taught her on the island, the force isn't some "superpower" - it is an ever present and constantly evolving force in the world around it, keeping harmony. It isn't some gift that only select families might possess. A scavenger from Jakku could be force-sensitive just like the grandson of Anakin Skywalker could. JJ Abrams undid this unique perspective on the Force by making Rey a Palpatine, thus minimizing the magnitude of her gifts and suggesting that she is only of any sort of value because of her grandfather. He took the one truly unique aspect of the sequel trilogy and made episodes 7-9 essentially rehashes of both the prequels and the original trilogy.

Truly, they messed up with the directing situation. JJ Abrams should've directed all 3, or he shouldn't have come back for the last one. He seemed to have no true interest in maintaining any sort of continuity with the creative liberties that Johnson took in TLJ, making the entire sequel trilogy feel disjointed and messy. Had they made a plan for how this story would play out from the beginning, these movies could have lived up to their true potential.

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Is your only evidence that she wasn’t special that Kylo said it? Why are we assuming he had any idea what he was talking about or that he was telling the truth?![/quote]

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