First, disclaimer: I love Last Jedi. Liked it the first time I saw it, and have only grown to like it more and more. Even with all the negativity around it, I find myself wanting to watch randoms scenes. I just like the movie, even if I have some issues with a few things.Anyway, I watched Force Awakens and Last Jedi back to back, and I think it makes a lot of the continuity questions and concerns fade. The idea that Rian Johnson completed diverted from J.J. Abrams setup doesn't hold up as much when you watch them together. I think that feeling was borne out of two years of speculation and talk about what Last Jedi would be, rather than what Force Awakens actually set up. The narrative of Force Awakens is quite clear really, but got twisted a bit by theories and speculation.And I think the original trilogy would probably have suffered the same thing had most of us not watched them on VHS all together. We had the luxury of following A New Hope up with Empire quickly, and Return of the Jedi right after that, getting the answers to questions before we really had much of an opportunity to even ask them. It was just what the story was, period the end. No YouTube fan theorizing, no social media backlash about plot holes. It was just The Story.Had I seen A New Hope, spent two years talking about it, then seen Empire, there probably would've been some saying "WTF?!?!" about the narrative side-step it pulled.Anyway, not that anyone cares, and who really needs another post about this crap, but I was thinking about this and wanted to get it off my chest. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/2Gt8fTq
