THE LAST JEDI spoilers ahead!So this new criticism that The Last Jedi will be "just another ripoff," purported mostly by highly educated scholars, comes mainly from four sources:The Force Awakens and A New Hope have a really similar plot.The Battle of Crait looks like the Battle of Hoth.Rey and Luke looks like Luke and Yoda.These fans have zero imagination.Now while these concerns are valid, allow me to kindly assuage them. The Last Jedi will not be a remake of The Empire Strikes Back, and I say this with the certainty of someone backed with data.First things first: the Crait-Hoth relationship is the biggest target, so let's talk about that. Let's say Crait is a ripoff of Hoth. That makes two, because the actual early battle/evacuation-from-hidden-base scene happens on D'Qar. So one resembles ESB in plot, the other in aesthetics. Clearly neither of them are actually similar to Hoth, otherwise the other would be rendered redundant. And how similar to an older movie can a new movie be, when the new movie ends the way the old one begins, while simultaneously beginning the way the old one.... also begins? You see what I mean? It's extremely obvious that these scenes are not what they appear, because it makes no sense on an algorithmic level. It'd be like Terminator 2 if the first half was completely the same but in the second half, suddenly the twist was ignored and the cop is actually a human sent to save John after all. WHAT?Now let's look at Luke-Yoda. There are a couple of things here, and while they're not as mind-bendingly damning as the first example, they may be more interesting on a character level. First we have Luke's motivations, mainly ending the Jedi fucking Order. If that right there isn't enough to separate him from Yoda, then I don't know what is."But Permavirgin, that's just window dressing. The house is the same."You mean the house where Darth Vader follows Luke to Dagobah while already repenting and wishing he was Anakin again? Yeah, that totally happened in Episode V. And guess what, that's very likely what will happen in Episode VIII. And (this is totally my own guess) it will be possible because Kylo Ren will have an emotional encounter with General Organa during the D'Qar evacuation and get the maps from her. So unless you remember a scene where Vader meets Padme Amidala on Hoth... it's just not happening.Finally, let's talk about Rose Tico, who has about as much in common with Lando Calrissian as she seems to have with Wilt Chamberlain (I thought to myself "who looks just hilariously NOT like Kelly Marie Tran?" and he's the first person who popped up). And do I even really have to explain this one? If Rose isn't the Lando ripoff--if a downtrodden repairperson isn't a ripoff of a dashing ex-pirate entrepreneur who runs his own city--then who is? And what's the TLJ version of Bespin? Is it Canto Bight? Are you really going to try and fit Rose into the Lando role in a city she isn't from, probably has never been to, and clearly doesn't fit into as a citizen?Listen, I don't want to be rude or anything. All I'm saying is that the people who are afraid that TLJ will too strongly resemble ESB have their heads up their asses are innocently mistaken.I hope this has made the more cynical Star Wars fans a little more optimistic about Episode VIII! Bio-hexacrypt!EDIT: All right fine, don't sticky it. But don't blame me when you find yourself referencing this post eight times a day in the comment sections of every TLJ marketing post for the next three months! via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2gEBTW0
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