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(Indeed, everything featuring Leia has some extra gravitas, knowing that Carrie Fisher died so soon after filming.) Moments earlier, however, seasoned fans had their minds scrambled by Luke’s glib comment about running into battle with a “laser sword.”Ī laser sword is, of course, something only a dunce would call a lightsaber, which is why it is particularly galling that George Lucas, the man who lives to aggravate Star Wars fans, says this in interviews from time to time. It’s a broad beat meant to pull on everyone’s heartstrings. When Luke rejects Rey’s plea, Artoo turns the Dejarik tables on him by replaying Princess Leia’s original hologram: “Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. Luke has been living like the Man of Aran in Ahch-To, home to the first Jedi Temple, a pretty spartan place with a very limited library. Instead I was more thrilled that this isn’t just a trace-over job The Last Jedi, truly, is its own movie.īut still, what were the best fan-service moments? Well, the biggie was R2-D2 trying to convince Luke Skywalker to get out of his gloomy place and help Rey (and Chewbacca) return to General Leia’s Rebel Base and help defeat the First Order. The callbacks, reappearances of old friends and in-jokes surely gave me what physicians of the day now diagnose as “the feels,” but they were not my favorite part of the movie. It is thrilling that this franchise, which looked like it was lumbering after some behind-the-scenes woe, is evolving in its prime storyline. While there are some solid nuggets of deep-cut easter eggs for hardcore fans, what is so extraordinary about The Last Jedi is that this is the first post-Lucas Star Wars film that feels free to dance to its own beat.

Rian Johnson, writer and director of this film, took my Star Wars reveries and served them back to me with vast improvements. More importantly, in ways far cooler (complete with tension and dramatic purpose and story advancement) than I ever could imagine. Well, with The Last Jedi I finally got to see my dreams come true.

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