Thread:EchoEmpire/@comment-29977256-20181111000830

Hey Echo, here is your rant on the Last Jedi. I'm afraid your nitpicks are lost forever though.

May I ask what channel the discord server was for?

"@TFoEX You... Did... Not. I used to be in a Discord server for a Star Wars YouTube channel. Pretty gresy community. Every how and then, somebody would try to defend The Last Jedi. People would say, "Wait for Echo". This is because I had a rant prepared from the first time I went off on it and could copy-paste it. Unfortunately, I have lost said rant. Guess I'll have to do this off the top of my head. Let's get into the major problems before I start nitpicking. Holdo and Poe subplot- So we've got pink hair lady. Poe thinks she's being stupid because she doesn't have a plan. Poe decices to go to the extreme and form a mutiny. However, its revealed that she DOES have a plan! She was just TOO STUPID ENOUGH TO NOT TELL ANYONE, THUS CAUSING THE SPACE MUTINY IN THE FIRST PLACE. Lightspeed ramming- Pink hair lady rams her ship into the First Order command ship at lightspeed, thus killing everybody on board. This raises a multitude of questions. Why didn't the rebels do that to the Death Star? Or the second Death Star? Oh, don't worry about that droid factory, I'll just ram into it at lightspeed! Hmm? Starkiller Base? WHOOPS, IT'S GONE! What? Mandalore has begun a galaxy-wide conquest and their winning? GUESS I'LL JUST LIGHTSPEED RAM THIS INTO THE CORE OF THEIR HOME PLANET! In short, this one element undermines every other piece of Star War literature ever created. There is no longer tension. Ever. Luke's characterization- Luke is a symbol of hope. Luke is the man who didn't give up on Darth Vader! Yet one little bad dream and he goes "Psycho" on his NEPHEW, for God's sake! And now he's a little hermit who doesn't believe in good or hope. WHAT?! It's just weak storytelling. The movie is boring- There are no real stakes. We know the main characters are going to live. There's really nothing else to be said. And now... The Demon. Rose Canto Bight subplot- Honestly, this character could have been cut from the movie and it wouldn't have made a difference. This whole subplot could have been cut from the movie. However, since everybody has already gone into excruciating detail over this, I'm going to focus on one thing. Near the end of the movie, Rose saves Finn. You know this. Right when Finn's character arc is almost complete, right when he is going to have meaning, right when he's going to save The Resistance, WHAM! It's like a slap in the face to the audience. And she does it because she "loves him". What?! She could have killed them both! And now, Finn has to drag her unconscious ass all the way back to the fortress under heavy fire from the AT-AT's on steroids! Not only that, but she's damned the remaining Resistance members without plot armor! She's helped kill hundreds of people! Ugh. This movie. I'm going to put my nitpicks in another reply." 