Thread:Mesektet/@comment-24469175-20180305001935/@comment-3581997-20180817081514

No, I think it was better than Empire Strikes Back. After The Force Awakens was a very close rhyme to A New Hope, I was sort of expecting a similar turn with Last Jedi, I was quite pleased that it was an unapologetic meta-narrative about Star Wars Fandom in-universe. I like that Rei and Ben are basically the light and dark-side of fandom. I did not mind the casino planet like everyone else did, it helped give some much needed background on the sort of schmucks who make the New Order possible and that while truly evil people benefit from it, it's investors are basically just callous rich jerks looking to indulge their vices. I also like they took the time in that scene to raise some doubt on the Resistance having the same sort of jerks just in time to possibly validate Poe's concerns back at the base, right before the reveal work at the beginning of the third act. My only real criticism would be what happens at the end of the Rei - Snoke interrogation scene, I mean, I think we all know what Ben was going to do, assuming he had any balls left.