Before the Dark Times

"When the Force Awakens came out I wrote a 14,000 word essay on its bad points. Way too much to get into but I'll say this. Many things that point to Rey being a Mary Sue are overlooked like people trusting her. Maz trusts her with Luke's lightsaber. As #1 says Leia trusts her to get Luke alone. Finn trusts her to get involved with the war. Han trusts her with a job offer. Ugh... I could go on until I can't type..."

~ Entertainment Hacker

"It's at best a parody tribute to Star Wars and frankly Robot Chicken does a far more respectful job of doing that. Random Rey was not the reason people went to see TFA. We thought it would be the continuation from ROTJ. We were deceived. They didn't continue the saga, but destroyed it and left it in darkness. Star Wars was a noble wonderful story. Before the dark times. Before the (so called) sequels."

~ Dark Jedi Knight


I find the prequels a mess only to be more than matched in failure by the sequels of Disney. The OT works on its own because it gives the correct mix of what the audience needed to know to care about what is happening at the time, the Force, the Jedi, the Rebels, and the Empire - we aren't overloaded with details.

The prequels, on the other hand, are overloaded with these details and things aren't clicking here. Ben told Luke his father was a great pilot, didn't say he met him as a boy, nor did he say he was a slave or was the chosen one, created by the Force itself and on top of that his grandmother was left to die as a slave, that the Jedi would take children from their parents - wow - this is real crap storytelling here. So many of these factors weren't factors in the OT. The stories in the EU talked about Sith having many members, but in Ep.1 it was stated that only two that they are.

This is not in the least how I thought the story would unfold from the get-go - all those times I saw the OT. Anakin should have been the same age as Ben, not some boy-Jesus character that mistakenly wins the day, that's a load of crap, completely sets the wrong tone and in the end, his mom is killed because no one lifted a finger to save her from slavery in what, 10 to 12 years, that's like dropping a watermelon on a carton of eggs in my shopping basket and hoping for the best.

The only difference between the prequels and the sequels is that the prequels was constructed to fall completely and utterly apart along these common rough lines and the sequels failed to make any conceivable plans at all.

When it is all said and done it would take nothing less than a 900-page book to really get into this sequel trilogy. I don't know if I could write it because that would mean watching the last chapter, which can't be turned around as that would be like saving the Titanic, which was too big and moving much too fast to not hit an icy wall of death. Each step of a process is very important.

Stories are broken in three parts, what is the climax going to look like when you fail the intro and the build-up, which would be like making a cake and forgetting some key ingredients, like the eggs and the sugar. Would it be perfectly fine to continue and just try to cover over your mistake with chocolate icing?

For some reason, professional critics have turned a blind eye to such a degree that this notion that they are "professional critics" should be called into question. When characters become timeless and their stories are retold, doesn't mean they can be messed with to the point of taking "Pride and Prejudice" and adding zombies to them, and regarding "Pride and Prejudice" there are about a dozen writers who have continued that story, but will those books be remember as the original, maybe not and it might not matter that the authors were trying to follow in the footsteps of the source material whereas Disney did not and now these Star Wars chapters look disjointed and ununiformed like they were put together by someone who has a severe learning problem.

As badly as the prequels don't snap to the original trilogy the new trilogy has done something on the level as adding Zombies to "Pride and Prejudice", completely gone crazy here and this trilogy will not be remembered well, Disney has gone so far to remove movies and cartoons because it puts them in a bad light. What happened to "Song of the South"?

Disney doesn't care if they lost the only chance to have Mark, Carrie, and Harrison in a movie, it was only a tease, as they failed to write a script that was halfway decent, as that was a major part of Star Wars, each film these characters come together and the main point is that they were given a history from the first film yet in the new trilogy they are forced to come together all over again needless when the desire is to what they have been up to all these years, as mentioned Han needs to find his ship and then he finds Leia and then he dies on film and Carrie Fisher dies in real life, but this is meaningless to Disney as they keep moving new products off their assembly lines like that terrible "Beauty and the Beast" (Live Action) so far gone are the times they can keep releasing their old features.

Then there is the world market, so even if they bomb in America market it doesn't even matter, especially with Star Wars. My brother-in-law who lives in the Middle East, "The Last Jedi" is the only Star Wars film he has ever seen, he thought it was great. Simply people aren't bothered by a villain with new powers that uses a weapon that has a handguard made of two blades that are known to slice through almost anything. On a regular sword, the handguard is made of a smooth metal that would protect you from cutting your hand on your own blade, with the villain's weapon it is mostly a danger to himself, which is just another symbol of pointlessness and cheap gimmicks when they should have invested in continuing the story in a faithful manner.