The Last Jedi General Discussion

Okay, here's the question. At the end of TLJ, exactly how many people were left on the Millenium Falcon, and exactly who were they? All I can say for sure is that I counted 12 in the last shot (plus a Porg, plus the droids), but it seems like there have to be more. It seems like it should be easy to find the answer, but I have had SO much trouble... lots of different conflicting opinions everywhere... and I really need to figure this out for the setting of the fic. Thoughts? Ideas?

It doesn’t concern only TLJ but I don’t know where to put it. They counted how many times the force is mentioned in the movies. The result is surprising because the movie that mentions it the most is the one that has no force sensitive character - one could be seen as an untrained one though and he is the one mentioning it the most.

@Moonlight13

Where can I get that??

@Man Without A Star wrote:@Moonlight13

Where can I get that??

@Man Without A Star
I'm not sure, I saw it on Tumblr,  but I did a quick google research and apparently you can buy it on Ebay.

Star Wars fan HelloGreedo did a countdown of his top five lightsaber fights. 5 and 4 are from TLJ

sorry I posted it in the wrong place ...



Mom and daughter

@Teo oswald - Awhhhh thanks for sharing Teo Oswald!

Rewatching TLJ yet AGAIN over Easter, something occurred to me.
Both Rose and Finn had an epiphany. Finn's of course, was going from a man prepared to run at the first sign of trouble into one prepared to sacrifice himself for others. Rose meanwhile, started off the movie as a bit of a fanatic who was tasering anyone thinking of jumping ship (understandable considering the circumstances) to someone who truly understood the importance of life.
Their story is one of love and learning to atone for your mistakes. Kylo and Rey haven't learned this yet. Hopefully in RotS, they will.

I knew that I needed Rey and Kylo to talk during the course of the film.
I knew that I wanted to develop a relationship between them. - Rian

I want antis to realise that JJ is not going to unpick everything Rian did. It was JJ who started Reylo, after all. And although the recent Darth Vader comic gave me the creeps.....
I wonder if it's intention all along was to show how different Ben is to Vader. Vader rejected love, because he had lost the love of his life and wanted nothing to do with another person offering it, in addition he'd replaced love with power.
Ben craves love, now he has power and it doesn't take away that need.

By the way, see how Rey actually holds Ben's hand in that gif?

@motherofpearl1 wrote:I want antis to realise that JJ is not going to unpick everything Rian did. It was JJ who started Reylo, after all. And although the recent Darth Vader comic gave me the creeps.....
I wonder if it's intention all along was to show how different Ben is to Vader. Vader rejected love, because he had lost the love of his life and wanted nothing to do with another person offering it, in addition he'd replaced love with power.
Ben craves love, now he has power and it doesn't take away that need.

By the way, see how Rey actually holds Ben's hand in that gif?

@motherofpearl1

I actually like the hand touch in the gif better than what we got in the movie.  In the gif Rey is actually holding his hand.  In the movie they only pressed their hands together.  I always wished the movie showed them actually holding hands.

I think I remember reading that they didn't use that shot because when they viewed it it looked instead like they were shaking hands. (All those people who insist they are only platonic business partners would have had a field day with that. )

@melismatic wrote:I think I remember reading that they didn't use that shot because when they viewed it it looked instead like they were shaking hands. (All those people who insist they are only platonic business partners would have had a field day with that. )

@melismatic

Oh, that's interesting.  I didn't know that.  That wouldn't have occurred to me.  I think the hand touch in that gif looks very sweet.

But I guess, of course, antis would see things differently.

They see what they want.
There are now some people convinced Rey is the reincarnation of Anakin Skywalker
Sigh.....┐( ∵ )┌

@motherofpearl1 wrote:They see what they want.
There are now some people convinced Rey is the reincarnation of Anakin Skywalker
Sigh.....┐( ∵ )┌

@motherofpearl1

True.  And there are still some people who think she is Luke's daughter.  I've even seen people who think she could still be Han and Leia's daughter.

It's because they don't like the idea of Kylo as the last Skywalker. I think a lot of old time fans see the OT characters throughout the sugar coating of time. If you go back and watch them again, it's amazing what complex characters they were. Luke, the idealist with a temper. Leia, an almost fanatical revolutionary. Han, whose priority was himself.
I remember in the novelization of RotJ, at the end after almost killing his own father, Luke realised what he hated was not Vader or Palpatine but the darkness in them. And in himself.
Shades of grey, not whiter than white. Han would always be at heart a pirate. Leia would always put the greater good first. And deep inside, Luke was still afraid of the darkness....in himself as well as others.

please this is a  spoiler if you haven't seen episode 3 of Game of thrones

parralels Got 8 and The Last Jedi
so cool!!!!

https://66.media.tumblr.com/e0235e774422f173af70d355066745ff/tumblr_pqqqi8CwVL1rz2cbjo1_400.gif

https://66.media.tumblr.com/f2377835fba04fe7726cef05b6dc947d/tumblr_pqqqi8CwVL1rz2cbjo2_400.gif

Source: https://twitter.com/sleemo_/status/1123659189350490113

Has anyone here seen the hate TLJ has on YouTube?
Toxic fandom at its worst.

Youtube comments make those at Twitter, Reddit look like a picnic.

I have to restrain myself from commentating TBH, because it's impossible to have a reasonable debate with these people.

Okay.....they didn't like TLJ. Fine. I hated Avengers Age of Ultron and Thor Ragnarok, but making cruel comments about the cast and sending death threats to the director is way out of order.

nooo

Eerily like Rey's TRoS outfit.