Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker instal the new version for apple

Perhaps the biggest retcon though is undoing how The Last Jedi established the cold, emotionless detachment of the Jedi as being just as bad as the rage and hatred of the Sith. Whether it's reducing Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico to a background character with the occasional line, or undoing the deeper, philosophical changes the last film wrought, the whole Star Wars universe feels weaker for it. In essence, Abrams took the lazy route, relying on decades of media tropes rather than showing how these characters actually gel.Ībrams' greatest cinematic sin in The Rise of Skywalker though may be in the callous erasing of some of The Last Jedi's boldest and most interesting additions to the saga. While the time gap between the films is currently indeterminate, viewers shouldn't have to chase down whatever comics or books the three bonded in order for this film to make sense. Character work is, like Palpatine's presence, pre-supposed, with the trio acting like best friends despite Rey and Poe in particular only meeting for the first time at The Last Jedi's denouement.

The core cast of the new films – Daisy Ridley's Rey, John Boyega's Finn, and Oscar Isaac's Poe – often feel like passersby in their own finale. It's not just the characters returning from George Lucas' original trilogy that get short shrift though.

Here, he pulls a too-convenient save, then all but disappears, ostensibly gathering allies off-camera because the script has nothing else for him to do.

It's fan service, an appearance for the sake of it, and betrays a great character and actor who arguably did have reason to return before now, but was left out in the cold. It's messy, and feels like a last minute change to appease those who see the classic films as scripture Space Satan returns for the final battle thus it was once, so must it ever be.Ī similar fate awaits Billy Dee Williams' Lando Calrissian, ignored for the first two films in the modern trilogy only to show up here to.

Bar a throwaway line about Palpatine 'creating' Supreme Leader Snoke (remember him?), the audience is just meant to accept that he's been the big bad all along, despite being incinerated in Return of the Jedi.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker instal the new version for apple