It looks... alright, I guess. I'm sure it'll be better than TLJ, or at least it won't piss me off as much as that movie did.
I can't help but to wonder how much Lando's life got fucked up after the Battle of Jakku, since apparently no OT character can have a happy ending. Did he get #MeToo-ed and lost his position as administrator of Cloud City, or did he become a drunken gambler?
He's a precious minority and Disney is really weary of shitting on old and beloved characters... y'know, after they shat on Mon Mothma, Han, Luke, Ackbar, tehnically Lando in that Solo movie, etc... it seems after just a dozen such instances and fans blowing up each time, they might have gotten a clue and will treat Lando with more respect in this movie.
edit: Also, why didn't she duck under the TIE pod? Wouldn't that be easier than jumping over it?
For a normal person, ducking would be easier. But not for Rey, she can do anything.
and some of these are coming from people who hated the EU for bringing back Palpatine in the Dark Empire yet the love the idea of him coming back here and fighting Rey.
I guess cause they are desperate for this trilogy to have just some sort of villain worthy of the name. Kylo is not "main villain" material, Hux is a joke and Snoke was barely in TFA and a waste of space in TLJ. People crave a sinister villain that pulls the strings from behind. Palpy will pacify a lot of mongoloids that are just too eager to forget
how Disney treated them for over a year now.
Im still trying to figure out why they went to such extremes to make her ugly. Like did they actually try and woke-focus group shit in order to appease the specimens who whine about traditionalist beauty standards or some shit? because I honestly cant think of another explanation other than some embarrasing attempt to pander to the 0.00000001% of the viewing public who care about such petty shit
Supposedly, she was meant to be ugly, so she could have her "she was a beauty all along" moment in Canto Bight. She and Finn were supposed to switch into fancy clothes to fit in with the regular crowd of the Casinos and that's where Rose should have worn a sexy dress.
Thanks to Rian's incompetence, they forgot to do that last part, so Rose goes through the movie looking like a frumpy sack of potatos.
Also bit of a tangent but her whole character pretty solidly demonstrates why making Rey an instant expert at everything was a bad move, since it meant that Rose couldnt very well fit a role as "the engineer" of the group and thus felt extremely goddamn useless. Like this is fiction 101 when dealing with a group of protagonists in this kind of setting, give each of them a niche that is believably necessary for both group survival and plot progression.
Have Rey be some kind of force empowered combat berserker, Finn be the guy with all the knowledge about how the enemy works and be the only real soldier of the group, Poe be the pilot and "diplomat" of the group who knows enough people in enough places, and Rose be the one who fixes shit and breaks them in to places. Boom. Everyone feels necessary, nobody feels overpowered, and there are all kinds of scenarios you could cobble together by combining this skillset
Eh, the way it's split up in TFA and especially in TLJ is pretty balanced too.
Rey does everything and everybody else marvels at her for it. That's good writing, right?
