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News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a surprise ruling, the Supreme Court has overturned the entire Star Wars sequel trilogy, rendering episodes VII through IX non-canon.
“The entire trilogy has been a travesty,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the 9-0 majority opinion. “It nullifies many of the accomplishments of the original trilogy while being a thematic mess that adds nothing itself.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was just as harsh in her concurring opinion. “You basically had two directors fighting each other over three movies. This can’t stand as the last word about the Skywalker saga.”
One might have predicted the ruling from the Justices’ intense questioning about the trilogy. Even Justice Clarence Thomas, who rarely asks any questions, had numerous inquiries about who exactly the “New Order” were, since he thought “that the Empire had been defeated in Return of the Jedi.”
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I’ve said before that I think the Rey/Kylo Ren story arc works if it’s Leia and Luke and the third trilogy is about the redemption of Luke Skywalker. But it’s too late by 34 years for that story to be told.
The biggest waste of the sequels was the failure to develop the character of John Boyega’s Finn, the storm trooper who mistook his own conscience for cowardice. That could have been a story worthy of it’s own TV show. As it is, they would have been better of leaving him dead dead instead of mostly dead at the end of The Force Awakens, and given that movie some meaning.
Star Wars lost me a long time ago, after the first movie…so i don’t really care about the prequels, sequels, etc., not having seen them…take that back: had to see 2 and 3 with the kids. Many trips to the lobby to buy popcorn, etc.