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by mcphage 2407 days ago
> Episode 8 was killed by playing it safe - it was such a wasted potential.

I get that, although I'll be honest—a bit part of what I liked about 8 Ep. 8 was that it killed off all of the dumb hanging threads from Ep. 7. Episodes 4-6 had huge surprises, but they mostly came out of nowhere, not with giant neon signs pointing at them "GEE DON'T YOU WONDER WHO REY'S PARENTS ARE IT'S A HUGE MYSTERY!". Episode 8 just threw all of that out the window and I loved it for that.
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Xelbair 2406 days ago
The scene i think is the most wasted was the death of Snoke.

There are myriad ways to go forward in interesting directions(Kylo and Rey could go both dark jedi, gray jedi, swap sides(i think that it will come to that) or even go for a 3rd way, or even destroy the concept of jedi itself) yet they basically returned to status quo.

It also felt like it was heavily edited - like there were two drafts, and someone mashed them together.

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ethbro 2407 days ago
Disney's genius, more than anything else, has always been an oscillation between kid-comprehensible and parent-intriguing. In the same work.

You can see it in the details of their animated films, presumably where the workers were given a bit more artistic license.

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