rose_griffes: Sarah from "Labyrinth" reading a book (reading)
rose_griffes ([personal profile] rose_griffes) wrote 2020-05-19 02:15 am (UTC)

*looks at article title*
Well, that's certainly one take.

from the article: Abrams left him with an ellipsis, a “to be continued” that felt like a specific path. And Johnson takes a hard left turn in his land speeder, breaks through a fence, and goes off track into the wilderness.
Accurate.

Star Wars has gone off the rails. Either you’re going to be on board for the bumpy ride to a new place or you’re not. But the intentions are made early and they’re made perfectly clear.
Mostly accurate. I would quibble with the idea that anything Rian Johnson intended to do was actually clear.

Perhaps that’s why The Last Jedi is such a jarring experience, one that feels specifically built to make audiences work through their feelings about this universe.
Jarring? Yeah. Work through my feelings about Star Wars? Pfft. (My brother-in-law's ONLY statement about TLJ: "It confirmed all of my worst fears about Disney buying LucasFilm." He hasn't said a word about Star Wars since then. And he's one of the biggest sci-fi nerds I know.)

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