Killing one person is a purge? Hardly. Last Jedi didn’t look like Empire at all-it had similar elements but was definitely its own story. So many amazing moments-Snoke’s death was a surprise, Luke’s astral projection, Luke
‘s story with Kylo, Dern’s death-so cool!!-great moments I think yourself and many others were disappointed because the Last Jedi didn’t follow the regular format of films-it was surprising and thusly, brilliant. Force Awakens was a copy of New Hope, you type bitched. Last Jedi was wholly original, you bitched. Maybe show us on the doll where Disney touched you? 🙂

There was one jedi remaining and over 20 years to rebuild the order. And Luke tried to do it in new canon. But we received Jedi Purge 2: Electric Boogaloo instead. Disney tries so hard to make sequels look like original trilogy that it completely denies any possibility of setting development. I bet that that we are going to see the same x-wing in the nearest 10 films as the main fighter for any good guys which are going to be called “Liberation” or so on.

Lucas said he wanted a modern fairy tale for Americans, one that would “reach the child in the adult, and the adult in the child”. You may dismiss them for being thus for children and therefore “not serious of writing a novel about” but there are doctoral dissertations done on the Alice books, and that’s not due to a paucity of imagination or an overwhelming amount of prevention on the part of the Ph.D. candidates. It’s because there’s something actually there worth discussing. And what I posted is not even close to being flash fiction, let alone a novel. Then again, in this age of texting-limited attention spans, when people are proud to be unable to read more than 100 word entries at a time, I guess it would seem to be a novel to some.

Actually, Disney made no decision to “kill all jedis”-when they took over the franchise there was only one jedi remaining. So, they decided to kill the “Last Jedi”, hence the title. Its a good decision, the idea that the force is just focused in one family is a small so Im glad they are opening up the entire world to the force as seen at the end of TLJ 🙂

…What are you doing with your life?

Aren’t these movies just space adventures made for children?
I mean, I was definitely a child when I saw the original trilogy and, despite seeing every film in the franchise, they haven’t exactly been given any room to grow.
At least not to the point where I’d write a novel like that about them in the comments.

By the way, LOVED you on Seinfeld.

The fight scene quality is a debatable. You may like it and I may not. And about Jedi – this is a fictional universe that doesn’t have any restrictions on facts. It was a decision by Disney to kill all jedis once again in order to mimic original trilogy. It will take a similar decision to restore a presence of cool dudes with a lightsabers.

The Kylo and Rey fight scene in the throne room was the opposite of lackluster. Since all Jedis except one is dead there obviously wouldn’t be any Jedis in the new films…

True, and people who look upon the old days as some halcyon time of G-rated perfection do so while ignoring films like the brutal old Bond flicks as well as such things as the Dirty Dozen and the like. However, in those early Bonds, you’re looking at the dying of the Hays Code influence (hence the more cruel nature) while also seeing the mindset of “well, they’re the bad guys, so they deserve it.”
This obviously creates a more complex moral scenario than the Hays Code intended (especially when you factor in films like Detour or Double Indemnity with their doomed protagonists), and my initial post was not to be ultimately dismissive of the era. Rather, it was to address the superficial dismissiveness of guys like tomkat8960, who look upon today’s cultural interests with disapproval and make a silly pronouncement, much as initial cultural critics did in the earliest days of cinema (or really, at every form of pop culture in any decade). Granted, sometimes the criticism is warranted, but here he’s looking at one film in one franchise and condemning everything.

James Bond straight up cruelly murders some folks in the early Bonds. Star Wars is Greedo shot first good guys vs bad guys.

No more so than in the ’60s, when the equally simplistic James Bond franchise reached its peak popularity, or during the Hays Code years, which mandated a simplistic, black and white moral universe (i.e. infantile) in films. But hey, today’s stuff is new without decades of analytical articles and books devoted to it; therefore we can dismiss it in our simplistic mindset.

stay inside, disassemble fortifications or forget why to destroy the frost

go outside, camp and learn how to make a fire.