The Last Jedi: Evil Hugh Hefner says hi

[nineveh_uk]

Anticipating a busy week, and having discovered that the Odeon is £6 Mon - Thursday, I decided that I would pretend to be doing something while actually just sitting in a comfy seat and bought myself a ticket to the final showing of The Last Jedi. This turned out to be a particularly good idea as I came down with a slight cold, and anticipating

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[sonetka]

The Rey/Kylo scenes were brilliant and by far the best parts of the movie for me (OK, not "by far", Luke was also excellent). I was rather disappointed that she rejected his offer so quickly -- I had been hoping that she'd decide to hell with it, killing the past is her best option after all, she'll do it. Then the third movie could be the others trying to get her back from a mental prison, just as ROTJ had Our Heroes trying to get Han back from his physical prison. The gambling planet/find the tracker plot just seemed to go in circles; not a bad way to pass some time but you just end up right where you started. I am really wondering how they're going to manage to the last movie, though; the Resistance has approximately 20 people and unless they're going to do CGI Leia for the whole thing, it's going to be all new cast now.

[nineveh_uk]

I enjoyed those scenes the first time round, I really, really enjoyed them this time. I suppose that we haven't really been given a reason why Rey would feel any conscious pull to the Dark Side, at least when it comes with the First Order, the subconscious allure notwithstanding. She might be curious, but they haven't set her up to choose it. If Kylo had done a "you and me, babe, let's run away together and leave the FO and Resistance to it while I get my head straight" I can see her being tempted to think that was a good way to bring him back to the light side and then find later that it wasn't that simple.

It'll be interesting to see what they do wit the next film. Assume that actually there is a Resistance rescue on its way, they were just caught up in a fleet action somewhere else when Leia called?

Luke was indeed excellent. That wsan't an easy part to pull off at all, but Hamill did it extremely well.