the Last Jedi (spoilers)
(stream of consciousness thoughts without any organisation whatsoever)
it felt like Empire Strikes Back by way of the Two Towers, kind of? i liked most of it a great deal; i need to process more; if we'd lost Finn or Rose at the end I WOULD HAVE BROKEN UP W A FRANCHISE bc the hell w that, but i guess congrats on eliciting a genuine emotional reaction and surprising me; i held it together until the dedication at the end, Carrie was so good and mortality sucks; loved Holdo & that they subverted the Weir vs McShep vibe she was getting w Poe to start w; Rey was wonderful; Poe was so fucking trained by Wedge Antilles oh my god; still don't care about the space Nazis, space Nazis must die; my god a lot of this movie was ridiculously beautiful. i spent a lot of the movie with that viral tweet in my head of "so help me god if I have to watch Luke Skywalker die with my own two eyes" and then i fucking relaxed and thought "oh, i guess they're not gonna--" and then they did but idk, it wasn't as crushing as TFA somehow. also jfc bits of this movie are brutal. like, there's enough hope i wouldn't begin to call it grimdark but also ouch. also i spent like 5 minutes mentally shrieking again about how Leia is a fucking Jedi too why do people always forget that and then they DIDN'T (although as a deus ex machina I don't love the heavyhandedness of that bit), my biggest complaint is 1) HYPERSPACE DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT WHAT THE FUCK SIGH i realise that battle was lost in TFA anyway and 2) ugh Kylo's everything although i did enjoy our theatre of ppl kind of collectively recoiling from him at one point, ha.
fuck, i need to go to bed.