Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is an offensively terrible movie - RFT Review

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS FULL SPOILERS
Just a few reasons why The Rise of Skywalker is a terrible movie, as well as being a terrible Star Wars movie, as well as being a terrible sequel. This is by no means a fully comprehensive exploration of every problem with Rise of Skywalker, I have only seen the film once and I wanted to articulate the most critical problems with the film as a whole.
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Movie footage used:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
All other footage is taken from trailers from The Rise of Skywalker.
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[@7Z7A7C7K7]

Best thing about Rings of Power is finding new content creators.

[@zacpasley5741]

From 1 Zac to another... I totally agree LOL

[@domeplsffs]

i even haven't actually watched RoP, but i agree xD This channel is pure gold

[@cbhlde]

Good point! ;)

[@cbhlde]

@@domeplsffs Agreed! ;)

[@zacpasley5741]

i havent watched RoP nor will I

[@lumeronswift]

One huge correction - Abrams never had any plans. He just had "mystery boxes". Johnson asked him where the story was supposed to go and was given nothing. That doesn't excuse Johnson for TLJ, but it is just another nail in the coffin. Imagine being handed one of the biggest franchises in the universe and relegating it to a few unplanned mystery boxes and then handing it off to an even less capable director.

[@charlestonjew7587]

Abrams is a perfectly fine director but don't let him anywhere near the writers' room. David Lindelof is another overrated, mystery box going nowhere excuse for a screenwriter. Both who's careers catapulted from 'Lost', an overrated show that deep-dived into absurdity in its final seasons.

[@RiylanCorma]

No, there were notes or something. I've seen video of a cast member(Ridley, maybe?) admitting Roundhead threw away all the ideas Abrams gave them. I doubt they would have been good, but they would have been better than the shizno we got from Roundhead.

[@martinbuhrer3893]

Abrams may not have had any plans, but he laid out many, many possible story threads. To not follow through on any of them was just an arrogant dick move by Johnson in my opinion. Because he fucked over the audience by not giving us anything instead. I think it's incredibly vain and ignorant.

[@Drak976]

@@charlestonjew7587 That's how us the audience remember Lost. Hollywood remembers Lost as a show that made a lot of $ @martinbhurer3893 No sorry I sat through 8 years of polar bears and smoke monsters none of it was going anywhere that's the whole point of a "mystery box" is that you fill in the blanks with your imagination. It's empty though.

[@marcuswalters8093]

I actually liked what Johnson did in TLJ. The series was almost on rails at that point and what he did was bold and exciting. There were a few weak bits, of course, but by and large I had a blast.

[@Silveirias]

I didn't want to pay for this film, so I watched a cinema recording on a dodgy website with casino ads with piñatas dropping onto the video every now and then and honestly it only improved the film.

[@jopearson6321]

Underrated comment

[@Silveirias]

@@jopearson6321 Thanks! There was also a person who left and didn't come back. Sometimes the online casino ads were money raining down on the video with text in four languages, none of them English (Hungarian and some language using Arabic script at least). Oh and this was the same night the film came out in the UK.

[@LadyDoomsinger]

I wouldn't even watch this movie pirated. Not worth the malware. Hell, if someone gave me a free copy, no strings attached - it would still be a bad bargain. I have a finite amount of time in my life, and I'm not wasting it on this crap.

[@NarcanMedic]

You sir, are a poet and a scholar.

[@brianlaferriere6326]

Man this is so funny and I know the exact ads you're talking about lol did you see the black guy putting things in a blender yet? Lol it's like a jump scare the way he comes in sometimes.

[@NarcissistAU]

This fellow is hands down the most underrated creator I've yet found. Dibs on his brain when he's done with it (which should be soonish given the content he's consuming).

[@brianensign7638]

The worst part about the guy saying, “we can’t do the Holdo maneuver because that was one in a million”… That means the purple-haired space Karen risked the lives of her crew and the continued existence of her entire faction on a plan that had a one in a million chance of success-and then she got pissy when someone dared to think that was a bad idea.

[@BWMagus]

Right, but like said, there was literally nothing else JJ could do; the idea broke the entire fucking universe of Star Wars, and all he could do is give some throwaway line of "Yeah, that can't be done again because reasons."

[@brianensign7638]

@@BWMagus I mean, I get why he had to do it. He was given a turd to polish, for sure. Doesn’t make it less ridiculous.

[@somzer]

@@BWMagus "Right, but like said, there was literally nothing else JJ could do" Hey remember when in Ep1 they talked about the midichlorian stuff bringing (then popular) science into this fiction? Yeah it was basically never mentioned again because it was recognized as a mistake that takes the mystery out of it. They could've done that. They could've pretended that scene didn't exist. It'd have only improved this one. But by even mentioning that "maneuver", they acknowledged and perpetuated its existence, and made it even worse, because now that super easy move is somehow "one in a million" (it isn't) and that also means, and I quote the guy you replied to: "That means the purple-haired space Karen risked the lives of her crew and the continued existence of her entire faction on a plan that had a one in a million chance of success-and then she got pissy when someone dared to think that was a bad idea." The should've really just ignored it wholly, instead of trying to "fix" it.

[@Soapy-chan_old]

I wondered why the move is one in a million, like, is it because you would explode but not hit the target? Or that you just land somewhere else because you would have to be so precise that a millisecond being off you travel too far? I know that JJ didnt think about this at all of course, but it really makes me wonder.

[@brianensign7638]

@@Soapy-chan_old You hit it right on the head: "JJ didn't think about this at all." The only reason the 'one-in-a-million' line is there is to reach out of the fourth wall and preempt all the thinking people in the audience who might wonder, 'why don't they just...' In-universe, there is no reason it should have worked at all, and no reason why it should be particularly difficult to execute if it does work. Not JJ's fault, but sometimes trying to address a gaping plot hole just calls attention to it.

[@WorldofElsuon]

A good review. J. J. Abrams and his minions at Bad Robot have done incalculable damage to every franchise they've touched. Their sweeping disrespect for film is now legendary. It will be extraordinarily difficult for these franchises to recover from J. J. Abrams's vanity and abuses. Regarding Force Ghosts, all good Jedi have them. There is never any indication Sith or supremely selfish people maintain their identities after death. Further, we now Anakin Skywalker was redeemed at the end of The Return of the Jedi because he appears next to Yoda's and Obi-wan Kenobi's Force Ghosts. This entire wretched trilogy would not exist if Anakin's Force Ghost merely showed up and told Kilo Ren (Ben Solo) that he had misinterpreted his (Anakin's) actions in life and not to pursue the Dark Side. That is how lazy the writing is in the abominable trilogy.

[@balazsvarga1823]

In pre-Disney, Sith ghosts were powerful and could do this, but only near the buried body of the Sith's body. But they could not leave the tomb, or at least not the planet, so this silly ghost help situation did not come up.

[@WorldofElsuon]

@@balazsvarga1823 I might agree with you. Some clarification: are you saying "this silly ghost help situation" did not occur in the latest trilogy because Sith Ghosts were a pre-Disney element not adopted after their purchase of the franchise? Or, are you saying Anakin Skywalker was a Sith who could not project his Force Ghost the distance necessary to warn Ben Solo? If you are making the first point, I have no comment one way or the other. But if you are making the second point, it is not valid because Anakin's Force Ghost is shown in the company of Yoda and Obi-wan Kenobi indicating his allegiance to the Light Side of the Force after death.

[@balazsvarga1823]

@@WorldofElsuon I meant it did not occur in older stories because Sith ghosts could not show up anywhere they wished. They usually only interacted if you got into their tombs. The very few instances it happened outside the tomb, it was clearly taxing for the ghost to reach out and their ability to interact physically was gone.

[@WorldofElsuon]

@@balazsvarga1823 Thanks for the clarification.

[@shadowdemon2272]

I can almost, *almost* believe The Force could manifest water droplets (by condensing water vapor/humidity already around Kylo) during the Force Skype-call from TLJ, because water is at least a naturally occurring element in the air itself and it was just a few drops. But an entire necklace or lightsaber? I know it wasn't the biggest issue with this movie, by far, but AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬

[@jeremygernhaelder8783]

Found you based on your Rings of Power videos...glad to see you were making gems before you became famous 💖💎💖

[@Phier554]

Old news but JJ had no real plans. He never does. He's never made a coherent movie that I've seen.

[@kenjikune2565]

I liked Star Trek Into Darkness but hated that they didn't have the balls to commit to any major crew deaths.

[@nechocat1234]

aparebtly he had some plans or at least guidelines for the trilogy but they were thrown to the trash because subersion

[@Phier554]

@@nechocat1234 I don't really buy it. I'm guessing he had vague outlines and bad resolutions.

[@MrWill7980]

The first Cloverfield movie wasn't too bad.

[@tompatompsson]

@@Phier554 Reys actress said that RJ threw out all the plans JJ had so 🤷

[@domeplsffs]

ayyy lmfao @3:50 "the famous Leia Poppins Scene" - that line frigging slayed me. Well played, sir, well played. x'DDDD

[@peterrumi2556]

Please make a 3 hour long critique of every Star Wars!

[@big_red01027]

"That's not how The Force works!" - Ben Solo's deadbeat dad

[@Seomus]

Really enjoying your content! Autoplayed here from your last RoP review. KZbin did right for a change.

[@sloth_e]

KZbin took me back to the ep 3 review and now takes me there even after I watch something about leather working. It's still broken for me. *tear drop

[@Princess_Feona]

The jar jar Abrams refrain: Hey it looks cool so don’t think about it

[@Soapy-chan_old]

I love how after we had an entire trilogy centered around someone who only joined the dark side and became the strongest force user alive because he wanted to bring someone back to life, shown to be a sheer impossible endeveaour, we now have another trilogy in which at the end a random dude just achieves that.

[@tobsw3802]

It's even more obvious that the "And I am all the Jedi" is a blatant rip off because the line immediately follows a scene in which the "heroes" are completely outnumbered and being overwhelmed by the villains army when suddenly, at the very last moment, portals open up and an army of the heroes' allies appear to aid them. Ofcourse in Endgame its literally the culmination of decades worth of movies and every hero appear is someone that we had previously built a connection to and had lost in Infinity War. It's a triumphant rallying of beloved characters at the darkest moment. In RoS it's literally just a bunch of nobodies that we've never seen before. Great Channel btw. Binge listened to your entire Rings of Power series yesterday.

[@cm3.redeye42]

Why aren't fleets of ships "light speed ramming" each other _by accident_ when they all enter hyperspace to arrive at the location of a battle, like in Return of the Jedi, for instance...? The rebel fleet enter hyperspace in a pretty damn condensed group, many of them pointing straight at other ships, & none of them chain detonate the rest of the fleet accidentally?? It's completely absurd. Not to mention that the idiot(s) who wrote episodes 7, 8 & 9 obviously _com-_*_PLETELY_*_ misunderstand_ the nature of hyperspace. They seem to have two major misconceptions: 1) The object travelling in hyperspace makes the journey in an instant, no matter how far it is; & 2) The object in hyperspace, upon activating it, suddenly blink out of existence at the timespace coord's they're at, & pop into existence at a different set of timespace coord's which they entered & their "nav computer" (or something) understood. First, the line that Han Solo spoke in A New Hope: "Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?" completely disproves the above misconception #2. The vehicle moving at hyper-speeds in hyperspace are obviously still physical objects filling up space in physical reality, & colliding w/ something, even a molecule, at that velocity would necessarily cause an explosion f--king millions of trillions of times greater than our modern hydrogen bombs. Second, misconception #1 was disproven every time anyone travel in hyperspace in the original trilogy, OT, or "Oridge Tridge" as Michael Swaim calls it in Cracked's utterly excellent show on YT, "After Hours"... Anytime anyone travels at hyperspeeds in the God damn f--king Disney SW Trilogy they immediately arrive at their destination... instantaneously. In the Oridge Tridge - that is to say: *"REAL Star Wars,"* - characters have time to train w/ a lightsaber, play 3D hologram space chess, treat wounds, attach & run limited tests/diagnostics on a robotic (cybernetic?) hand & partial forearm, & have multiple conversations. Oh, & by the way, TIE Fighters don't have hyperspace drives, making that entire stupid sequence where they're "lightspeed-skipping" idiotic & impossible on _yet _*_another_*_ level._ Proof from the OT: Ben Kenobi: "No, it's a short-range fighter. Han Solo: "There aren't any bases around here. Where did it come from? Luke Skywalker: "It sure is leaving in a big hurry. If they identify us, we're in big trouble. Han Solo: "Not if I can help it. Chewie, jam its transmissions. Ben Kenobi: "It'd be as well to let it go. It's too far out of range. Han Solo: "Not for long. Ben Kenobi: *_"A fighter that size couldn't get this deep into space on its own."_* I'm gonna leave it there.

[@michelecastellotti9172]

Apparently something to do with the shield of the raddus, makes no sense still tho

[@brianensign7638]

I’m sure there are defenders of SW Star Wars still coming up with theories to explain how this can be possible. But any explanation or reconciliation of these obvious contradictions is irrelevant, because… None of it is in the movie!

[@alexmartin3143]

Later TIEs did have hyperspace engines but it was never stated onscreen…

[@TheJammerman]

The “Holdo Maneuver” existing means that if Han Solo had screwed up his entrance into Starkiller base at the third act of Force Awakens, everything would have been fine because the Falcon would have hit Starkiller base at warp speed and destroyed the base. Mission would have been over, a complete success and nobody else would need to do anything.

[@brianensign7638]

Yeah. I think this is the sort of thing that people mean when they say that sequels should be written by “fans“ of the original movie. It should be written by people who care enough about the franchise to notice inconsistencies like this, and change their own story accordingly.

[@kenjikune2565]

Watched Episode VII in theaters & saw how the rest of the trilogy would go down. Saved a whole 20 schmackeroos.

[@53prime]

What did you spend the money you saved on?

[@kenjikune2565]

@@53prime Can't remember but lets say getting the og Battlefront 2 on steam with mods was worth $20 & then some.

[@jawinter1818]

This was a great review! You deserve move views and likes.

[@shadowdemon2272]

"Fvck you that's why" could be the tagline of this movie and it would work spectacularly. Btw love your channel 💙 my begrudging thanks to RoP for leading me to it.

[@kazekamiha]

No, that's TLJ's motto. XD

[@Jeartozer]

Alternatively "it looks cool: dont think about it" is another good possible title

[@DeRockMedia]

i literally laughed out loud when he said that, i felt it too much haha

[@SweetDeeJay]

My favorite line of his was from The Hobbit when he said “There’s 13 of these MotherF*ckers!!!” 😂

[@clpearson991]

But why isn't there more hate directed at the execs who decided swapping between directors with totally different visions and storytelling was a good idea for one of the most beloved franchises in movie history?

[@belegur8108]

you mean we fans do not critizise Kathleen Kennedy enough? She, who is the greatest problem at Lucas Films and who George Lucas himself thought, would keep his legacy intact? well, at least "The Force is Female" now...

[@mori1bund]

Yeah, right, why has no one ever critizised Kathleen Kennedy... ^^

[@nat3416]

Imagine this, instead of Palpatine, it should of been Darth Plagueis the wise.

[@randomft]

natalie yeah, that is indeed true, but Plagueis doesn’t bring in the big bucks...

[@seeinred]

Also Plagueis supposed to be killed by old Palps before prequels Oh wait, those aren't canon anymore...

[@PhonesHQ]

Having just arrived at the 15 minute mark, I do briefly want to correct you about force healing. Whilst never performed on camera during the OT or the Prequels, Palpatine does essentially tell Anakin that his former master Darth Plageuis did have the ability to heal using the force. Something Palp describes in episode 3 as “having the power to prevent those he loved from dying.” Abrams actually went on record saying that the scene this line is from was his favorite scene in all the prequels, “the Story of Darth Plageuis,” which to me always hinted that JJ had always intended to reveal that Snoke was Plageuis.

[@BWMagus]

I was wondering that too; maybe Palpatine's old master didn't die but took decades to put himself back together or something. Interesting if difficult to pull off convincingly. But you're right that Force healing is mentioned...as an ability the Jedi can't do, and something beyond even Palpatine's ability, which still basically makes it impossible for Rey and Kylo to both figure out how to do it on the fly.

[@brianensign7638]

I was always under the impression that Palpatine was lying. He was obviously trying to manipulate Anakin, and he lied about many things. I wouldn’t take him at his word about what’s possible and what isn’t. But even if healing with the force is possible, how on earth does Rey know how to do this? Why would she even think that it’s possible? We never see her practicing this ability, she just does it. Out of nowhere. I guess she’s just better than the Sith lord who spent his entire life trying to figure this out? Less than a week ago she thought the force was a myth, and now she’s the strongest force user in galactic history?

[@drakkonahn8544]

I'm so happy to see this review, right from the start you were perfectly explaining my main issues. This is a movie (while totally bad) is understandably bad because of the arrogance of director put in charge of the middle movie, who went out of his way to shut down all the questions and plot points for this movie, so you just know as the final movie its going to suck, while i think the last jedi is a better standalone movie than the rest of the movies in the trilogy, it is my most hated star wars film for the sheer arrogance that destroyed this trilogy. Not going to lie the hyperspace jump was epic visually, but this is a galaxy that has existed a long long time ago, cannot have inconsistencies where your primary galactic threat is a single moon-to-planet sized threat that can so simply be destroyed by a solution you didnt care about. I don't need star wars to be realistic, I'm okay with CIS robots operating turrets on spaceships, its looks cool, as long as you keep it consistent, but using hyperspace to blow up shit single handedly shit on star wars and I'm not over it. Thank you for this fantastic review.

[@kazekamiha]

The whole Sequel Trilogy would have been better if it was done by Michael Bay. Think about that.

[@sebastianlea6362]

Great video. After the hobbit you should do a full EFAP length series covering the sequels

[@SandraOrtmann1976]

I have to admit that I discovered this formidable video a bit late. For myself, I choose to ignore the ST storywise. One thing: if Palpatine managed to sit as a clone on his behind - then I demand the same for Jango Fett. What appeared to be Boba's dad was instead a 1:1 clone of Jango, but with the usual accelerated aging and the appropriate training (maybe that a part of the deal with Dooku we did not know of?). Boba was instructed by Jango and Dooku beforehand to act the way he did (Boba did not have to pretend much, because he loved his father dearly and hated Windu even for his attempt at murdering his father. So the story can go on as it did. Meanwhile, Jango took off to a quiet, remote planet (maybe tending his garden or something nice), his son can visit him in secret from time to time and receive further training. If Palpatine gets this treatment, then Jango as well. Period.

[@robinthrush9672]

I saw Solo in a small town theater. I saw it for free, like Rise of Palpatine because I'm part of lightsaber choreography groups. There were 2 or 3 people besides my troupe in the theater for Solo. I think our pre-movie skits were better than the movies. Do you know how bad a movie has to be to make a guy with a glorified flashlight dressed as a knock-off Sith dumbfounded? I found out during RoP when I looked over at my friend as a woman shot a stormtrooper out of the sky with a bow and arrow.

[@lefteron6804]

I assumed that what happened with Palpatin is that they pulled from dark empire and he had a clone in a tube somewhere so when he died his spirit possessed the clone.

[@Ale-dd3ek]

Among all EU stories there were, they chose the worst One And made It worse

[@lefteron6804]

@@Ale-dd3ek I agree with both those statements and I haven't even read dark empire.

[@tmanwattsutube]

Your sense of humor and commentary are both on point and hilarious. PLEASE keep 'em coming. There's SO MUCH material out there for your to take apart.

[@Princess_Feona]

Here’s the thing about a mystery box. I think it’s OK to have one and the viewer may not necessarily ever know what was in it. But the writer DAMN well better know what is in it from the get-go. It informs the entire story. Take pulp fiction. If the briefcase contains money we have this cool crime organized crime story. But if it contain nuclear material then all the sudden we’re dealing with a military/spy thriller type of a movie. And if it contains body parts we might be dealing with a horror/mutilation porn type of movie. It only becomes a cheap gimmick when the author is using it as an excuse. Which of course is the Bad Reboot substitution for actual creativity.

[@sloth_e]

Im a big fan of these reviews. I use them to save my own breath and frustration by sending them to family and workmates who are super normies. BTW, are you Australian or English? You have this perfectly in-between accent.

[@randomft]

I am English, I have been told I have a strange accent before though. People have called me Canadian, American, Australian and New Zealander. But nope, I am English!

[@sloth_e]

@Random Film Talk Im Australian and think you sound like a well spoken Aussie lol.

[@adamheywood113]

The whole damn trilogy is awful. I almost* feel bad for JJ. He set up multiple threads in the first film of a trilogy, probably one of the only times such flagrant use of mystery boxes is acceptable, only for RJ to (possibly literally) throw away the notes he was given. Ep 8 repeatedly insists that if you, the audience, expected anything, what you expected was dumb, and you were dumb for expecting it. Anyone remember RJ's "Your Snoke Theory Sucks" selfie? There was a lot of anticipation for what he'd come out with. But he didn't have any theory whatsoever. Colin Trevorrow, another overrated hack who isn't as deep as he thinks, was supposed to make Ep 9. Part of his story was a fight scene with Luke and Snoke, which obviously became impossible. He either left or was fired, and then the studio had only two years to find someone else to write something else from scratch. Two years is not a long time in filmmaking, certainly not on the scale of a Star Wars film which is laden with effects, multiple locations, multiple characters etc. *Yes, I say almost JJ could have done anything, literally anything, he was given _carte blanche,_ and he chose to do a retread of Ep 4 and make the originals meaningless. I don't even like Star Wars.

[@tyresewilson7399]

here the reason : somehow palpatine returned

[@kaptcha]

Great video sir, I've thoroughly enjoyed the level of detail, the quality and the humor in all your videos. You're very meticulous and I believe you always do your best to try to like things that you end up shitting on, not just because you want to, but because you're looking at them honestly. Keep up the good work

[@DimaRakesah]

I found the idea that the dagger matched the outline of the wreck to just be very strange. I guess it looks cool visually but like... it just feels very contrived and unlikely to make any sense. Did someone literally carve the wreck's outline into the dagger as the clue? What if the wreck changed over time due to erosion or damage or something? It's just such an odd way to do things.

[@lukeulibarri3924]

Stop exercising rational thought and mindlessly enjoy the film! You're just a hater!

[@jspaingreene6350]

I'm looking forward to more film critique from you!!! You can't escape your destiny....

[@SuodethSnake]

On the topic of lightspeed ramming(sigh), iirc in Rogue One near the end of the movie, a few rebels are trying to escape in their fighters/bombers and as they are going into lightspeed/hyperspace a star destroyer suddenly appears infront of them and the smaller craft just either blows up or bounces off the larger ship. If we're to believe The Last Jedi, those smaller ships should have been able to atleast do some damage to the star destroyer.

[@belegur8108]

well, in the battle for the first deathstar, an A-wing crashes into the bridge of a star destroyer and took it out, so there is precedence

[@Nick-ue7iw]

That's not hyperspace rimming, that's just a plain old crash.

[@WalkingLISAsterArea]

I am so lucky to have find your channel. Thanks Rings of Power, I guess 🙃

[@adrianseguras.9659]

There's something about the uncanny, tired skepticism in your voice that reminds me so much of my inner voice, much too often... nearly all the time. And when I listen to your reviews, it is almost as if I was listening to myself trying my own hand at these impossible reviews. The internetz.... so thankful.

[@balazsvarga1823]

In ancient times of the franchise, high ranking Sith could do it, and their ghosts could interact as well... but only around the body.

[@jamescam04]

I would happily have watched a 4-hour RFT critique of this film. But I like what there is. Though I do miss the character summaries that are such a feature of the videos analysing ROP. Great fun.

[@F1rstWorldNomaD]

From what Ive heard from people who ACTUALLY know the Star Wars lore of the extended universe, there is a dark side force ability called "soul transfer". First invented by Darth Plagueus, this is whats refered to when Palpatine talks to Anakin about "preventing death" in Revenge of the Sith. Suppesedly this is how Palpatine survived at the end of Return of the Jedi. Its still stupid. Its sounds like an ability that would take alot of preparation and setup to pull of, pulling it off mid air while falling literally screaming to your death doesnt seem very plausible. But there IS actual precedence for this ability.

[@Guilherme-ow3wb]

Soul Transfer happens way before Plagueis, though. In the books Darth Bane ends up studying and ultimately using it in the Darth Bane trilogy, the story that establishes the Rule of Two - that the Sith should work from the shadows in just a pair of Master and Apprentice instead of trying to be numerous like the Jedi. This was many generations before Plagueis.

[@alexandertsamourlidis646]

@@Guilherme-ow3wb And not canonically anymore, but back thousands of years ago Vitiate did that to survive for EONS

[@F1rstWorldNomaD]

Fair enough, I was just passing on what Ive heard from others. I have no first hand information on this at all.

[@nilsnyman6767]

I was there on May 25th 1977 for the opening of Star Wars and was confused when the opening crawl screen said "Episode 4" but more on that later. I then stole money feom my foster mother's purse and bought tickets to see it again Thursday and Friday night. I couldn't get tickets after that because people were going crazy and i had no more money. Needless to say i was hooked. I saw both episodes 5 and 6 on their opening nights. When Lucas "fixed" them i bought the DVD set and loved them. When episode 1 released i absolutely hated Jar Jar but lived everything else. Episode 2...not so much. Episode 3...meh! I went to the theater to see episode 7 and swore i would never, EVER ,see episodes 8 and 9. I'm happy to say i haven't and won't.

[@Unhandled_Exception]

I saw "Rise of Skywalker" in the theater solely to get it over with. As a kid I saw "New Hope" in the theater and like everyone else... loved it. But I saw RoS to simply end it all... like shooting a lame horse.

[@michelecastellotti9172]

Dear god this trilogy was garbage. At least we still have the ot and pt which can exist on their own. Also, its not quite the biggest, we have the zakuul eternal fleet, but that is legends stuff.

[@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69]

You cannot collide at light speed, because you are going so fast nothing interacts with you so you would straight through them. And if they were near the speed of light the explosion would be about at least a billion times larger than a regular nuclear blast. RIP Fleet and any solar object nearby.

[@peterjacobsson]

I heard somewhere that in one of the books that of the expanded universe Palpatine was back and the explanation was that he had a lab with clones of him self and after he died, he possessed one of the clones. I don’t know if it is true, I have not read it myself, but it seems like a typical Sith ting to do and more plausible then he is in the movie.

[@abcrasshadow9341]

I think the force ghost are actually a reference to the lego starwars games where they are the absolute best characters for no reason other than 'reasons' and they can interact with the world just fine in that series!

[@SeviathTheHumanDrago]

Hey RFT, just a little correction. In SW, at least how it USED to work, hyperspace worked via sending the ship through a wormhole in a separate dimension to get from point a to point b quicker. So the "One in a million" line makes sense as without precise calculations to be able to know when to speed the raddis up into hyperspeed so as to actually hit the enemy ships and not just go into hyperspace accidentally, she was either very lucky, a genius mathematician/astrophysicist, or was indeed a coward trying to run away that got super unlucky trying to escape. Either way that's a sin on the movie for one needing outside knowledge in order to justify a single line of dialogue.

[@Sinewmire]

Hux being the mole actually sort of works - he's not trying to defeat the first Order, he's trying to take down his political rival, the new Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren, so he can overthrow him and take his place.

[@BWMagus]

That's not what he says, and his actions would not accomplish that, so...I'm going to disagree.

[@Sinewmire]

@BWMagus "I don't want you to win, I need Kylo Ren to lose" also in the previous film he was going to shoot him when he was unconscious, and in TFA, he was clearly a rival. Believe what you want of course, but it seems pretty straightforward.

[@jwb_666]

It's a crime against humanity that in this trilogy the OGs did not have ONE scene together

[@nikolatasev4948]

I got curious about Rian Johnson, and checked him out. He did Looper, which wasn't a bad movie, and also did work on Breaking Bad. So he has seen good work done (unlike, for example, the creators of the Rings of Power). Why The Last Jedi was such a mess I have no idea, but maybe Disney had a hand in that. I would also expect after The Last Jedi nobody would let him near a movie. Instead he was given two more movies to create, and I haven't seen them but have good Rotten Tomatoes ratings. Curious. Anyway, for me Star Wars died with The Force Awakens. I was excited to see it, and it wasn't all bad, but I did not find anything original, or emotion-producing. It was just repeating old stuff with new actors. Ok, that's not entirely true, the cringe outbursts of Kylo were new, but not exactly an improvement.

[@Talyrion]

Thing is, while the Last Jedi was divisive (to say the least), I wouldn't say it was a disaster. Some parts kind of worked, and some might have worked given a few tweaks. Star Wars probably wasn't the best franchise to experiment on, but all in all, I can at least respect the intent, and I'm not surprised Ryan Johnson was given other works afterward. On the other hand, there's absolutely nothing to save from the Rise of Skywalker. It was actually this impressively bad.

[@nikolatasev4948]

@@Talyrion Rise of Skywalker failed more than it should have, because it was painted into a corner by The Last Jedi. Most of the mystery boxes were opened and were full of trash before it even started. Without that, it could have been a mindless mass-market movie like The Force Awakens. With it, it was indeed impressively bad.

[@hrodvithit]

I think the Kylo saying force telephoning someones brain is too powerful of a move to Rey, is so when Leia decides to force telephone Kylo's brain you get to instantly go "Ohh damn Leia just did the thing that is too powerful so will most likely die." That's my take on what the writers were thinking anyways.

[@waltergold3457]

I very much appreciate all of your hard work - thanks so much for it!

[@Princess_Feona]

The minimum crew a Star Destroyer requires is 5000 people so multiply that by thousands. How did all those guys get past the space cancer and arrive at Palpatine‘s planet? They can all be clones. All I can say is that’s a lot of damn Wayfinders. But it looks cool so don’t think about it…

[@inquisitorMence]

How did you miss the chance to just say 'Hux machina'? I mean, really...

[@marcuswalters8093]

2:32 I _loved_ The Last Jedi. It subverted all expectations. And the first trilogy didn't answer a bunch of questions. We never knew who The Emperor was originally (we didn't even have a name for him).

[@enjibkk6850]

Regarding sending lightnings to the fleet ... why didn't he do it either in return of jedi?

[@ageoflove1980]

I actually think Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie after the original trilogy. Its the only one where I can awnser the question "If this had nothing to do with Star Wars, would it be enjoyable? with yes. Now thats a pretty low bar, I know, but it was just refreshing to see a SW movie that actually takes itself seriously and doesnt lean 100% on milking the IP to the very last drop. The final battle is also one of the best action sequences in the entire series. I was very surpirised they actually stuck with the plot without some sort of last heroic "deus ex machina" moment that made absolutely no sense story-wise. The theme of the movie : "personal sacrifice for a higher cause", was actually completely consistent untill the very end.

[@TheDefend3r]

The part that too this day literally annoys the absolute dog shit out of me is that the soth dagger would only work from exactly 1 very specific position on the planet, and relies entirely on the death star remains not shifting several feet over the years while sitting in a damn ocean. Yet the characters land at the exact spot that allows this thing to work. I hate this so much..

[@brentcrosby7109]

Force ghost-- mmmm I dunno. Fans already accepted TLJ as a terrible one-off, and so Luke's force ghost move with the light saber was enjoyed by fans since it was on knock on TLJ. Leia distracting Kilo and then just plopping over like a piece of dead wood is LOL JJ. You'd have to show how all these flaws from Rian's movie impaired TROS. And that's where my criticism of Rian stops and JJ's begin. There's just a lot of magic to resolve every situation. The sand pit scene followed by discovering the thing to get the thing which leads to healing the snake which moves and some boulders tumble down so they can get out of the cave. That's on JJ, and there isn't any logic or reason within each scene. As a big tent production it's a disaster in writing and existing within the boundaries of reason. As a self-contained movie it's just bad.

[@SpacklerStudios]

I still remember how low my expectations were for this before the trailers even came out. Considering how much of a trainwreck The Last Jedi was, I had no idea how they'd even finish a story that had been written into a corner in such a godawful manner. I watched Rise of Skywalker with a friend a week or so after it came out in a local theater, and it had me convinced to believe that it was good by making me turn off my brain halfway through (this was around the point that Rey went to Ach To). I had a feeling that I had somehow been scammed when I left the theater in that semi-braindead state, and there are very few movies that have left me feeling empty after the credits start rolling. It took me a few days to comprehend what I watched, but I eventually realized that I practically paid to waste several hours of my day on one of the worst films I had ever seen in my entire life. I don't consider the Sequel Trilogy canon for a reason, and the dumpster fires that are The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker are shining examples as to why I have this viewpoint

[@michaeldavis2001]

Vajayjay Abrams gave us a bundle of mystery boxes and a Mary Sue. Ruin Johnson s**t on said boxes, spit on Luke Skywalker. Abrams came back and, without explanation, brought Palpatine with him. Together they both climbed to a great height and crapped on Star Wars (and the fans) from there. As for plot holes, quicksand doesn't hover above open caves. Abrams is a hack and gets no by from me.

[@KurticeYZ]

"Hyspace travel aint like dusting crops boy" han says something to that effect. Indicating holdo maneuver was indeed always an option. Its definitely hinted at in the 1st Theatrical released starwars film. But i appreciate jj abrams nipping it in the butt saying its a 1/1,000,000,000

[@Dazgul]

Star wars pretty much died for me with the release of the special edition original trilogy which ruined it. I'm surprised to hear you loved the force awakens.

[@randomft]

I made this video three years ago, I would say at this point that it doesn’t exactly hold up.

[@Dazgul]

@@randomftI did enjoy the video. I came to it after watching your Rings of power videos which I would like to commend you on.

[@ThAaTRAGEmachine]

So 1 reys parents had no force so why were they murdered before and why did the empire not murder the lady he impregnated 2 why didn't they drop her off with trusted people instead in a desert like why

[@remrad4315]

Ryan Johnson actively sabotaged star wars. They should have fired him for his crime against film, said hey guys this guy just wasted our time and money. There will be an episode 8 but it will take time.

[@TacticalRick507]

See the strange thing is, I litterally only watched "The Rise of Not A Skywalker" just to see the dumpster fire that I knew it was going to be. And to know of there was any hope left at all. Frankly I could use A new Hope, ( movie wise). But with Evil wicked cheese fracker mickey mouse and Disney, and Kathline Kennedy not unemployed. I have no hope for Star wars. I think as sad as this is to say, star Trek Picard is actually more enjoyable now. And that's because I have no expectations they can ruin.

[@davebeattie9573]

With regards to the Holdo Manoeuvre. It worked once because no-one was firing at the Radus. After the First Order had learned that the Resistance were eveacuating their most precious resource, its sentient beings, in stealthed shuttles, the First Order retuned there sensors to register the stealthed shuttles, and began firing at them, ignoring the Radus, as they believed that it was all but abandoned and therefore was no longer a threat. In various EU works (canonicity questionable) it is stated that hyperdrives have built in safety features that actually prevent this sort of thing. Had the first order not ignored the Radus then the Holdo Manoeuvre would not have happened and the Radus would have been destroyed during its turn, before trying to initiate the hyperspeed ram. Note that the ground work for the Holdo Manoeuvre was set up in episode 7 by JJ, when he had the Millenium Falcon drop out of hyperspace inside Star Killer base's shields. Yet this was not done in episode 6, instead they sent an infiltration team in a stollen shuttles. Got the Empire to lower the shields. Land on the planet. Blow up the shield generator. Another problem with the Holdo Manoeuvre is distance. When a ship jumps to hyperspace it races forward in real space for a bit, and then transitions into hyperspace. Try it from too far out and and you're in hypersapce before hitting what you're aiming at. Get too close and you're in firing range, and therefore probably yanking and banking, trying not to die. If you're plodding along in a straight line, or turning in place (as the Radus was doing) then you get blown to pieces, unless the plot calls for the enemy to ignore you, as with the Radus. With regards to Liea's death. It was the same reason as Luke's death. Projecting yourself across the galaxy is very taxing to a mortal body. Both Luke and Leia did this, and both died. No idea why Kylo and Rey did not, but I'm assuming it had something to do with the connection that SNoke created between them. Not trying to solve this inconsistancy, but rather explain why Liea died. With regards to Yoda's force ghost being able to able to interact with the real world. The ground work for this was first laid out in episode 4. Kenobi warns Vader, that if he (Vader) strikes him (Kenobi) down, then he (Kenobi) will become more powerfulpossible than he (Vader) can possibly imagine. As for why force ghosts don't help anyone before this is, up for debate, but may be linked to why Yoda refused to help Luke face Vader in episode 5, the reasons for which are also up for debate. Yoda being able to do stuff as a force ghost is the pay off to that line. With regards to Rey, or anyone else for that matter, using force abilities without training. Many characters in the entirity of Star Wars canon have been shown to use force abilities without being trained to do so. Anakin uses force abilities to help him pod race without any training. Luke manipulates two torpedoes in flight, slowing one down (or speeding one up or a mix of the two), and course correcting them into the exhaust port. He further force pulls his lightsaber to him on Hoth, even though he is only taught how to do this later in the same film, but given his torpedo trick in the previous film, I guess a lightsaber in snow is an easier task. He further force chokes two Gamorean Guards. Force choking is linked to the dark side. In the novelisation of Return of the Jedi (which is considered canon) it conveys that Luke senses himself straying to the dark side as he does this, even wondering if you can tap into it and then walk away afterwards. This helps explain why he's so certain he can turn Vader away from the dark side. Ezra Bridger uses the force no less than five times in the opening story of Star Wars Rebels. All of these events preceeded episode 7 in terms of air dates. Even if you ignore all these characters doing so, you are still left with the chicken and the egg problem. If you can't use force abilities without training, then who taught the first force users how to do stuff. Or to put it another way. Most people when they are sick go to a doctor. Doctor's get taught how to do what they do, typically in a medical school, but there was a time when someone did something for the first time and then taught others. Track it back far enough and there was a time before anyone believed in any type of medine, let alone practiced it. As for why RJ didn't follow JJ's story plans. He didn't have to. RJ consulted with the LFL (Lucas Film Ltd) story group which was set up to ensure continuity between the various works. It is also why the majority of the EU was turned into legends, not that Lucas himself considered these works as canon. So either JJ didn't tell the LFL story group these story ideas, or the LFL story group didn't pass on these story ideas to RJ, but both RJ and memebers of the LFL story group have all stated that RJ consulted with them in regards to his story, episode 8. Therefore blaming RJ for not following JJ's story ideas is a bit of a stretch as he did consult who he was supposed to consult, the LFL story group. JJ's insistance that RJ ignored him when he (JJ) tried to propose his ideas to RJ, would seem, at least to me, that JJ hadn't passed on his ideas to the LFL story group, or that he had and the LFL story group had rejected those ideas. While I think episode 7 is a meh retelling of episode 4, episode 8 is a badly written mess, and episode 9 is just a mess, I don't dislike episode 8. Or rather I like elements of it but dislike that it is badly written, but I can at least see that RJ did follow on from what JJ had established in episode 7, as well as other works in the franchise.

[@BWMagus]

What are you trying to do here? Some of your facts are wrong, some of your connections make no sense, and many of your explanations boil down to "because reasons." You seem to recognize it's shit, but then offer half-baked arguments for some of the flaws. Are you just trying to steel man the movie? Even if you are, you're not doing a great job, as you rely on things pulled out of your ass.

[@marcuswalters8093]

25:48 I'll say this; when I walked out of The Last Jedi, I said this, "I don't get it, how is it people are complaining about this film?" I genuinely enjoyed it the most of any Star Wars film. It was the first time I had been genuinely thrilled by the series. I was excited to see where this series was going, because for once I had no theories, no expectations. More fool me, I suppose.

[@TheSonsaku]

Just IMO, but i don't think that OG Palpatine being a clone completely diminishes heroics of Vaider. On a character level it is completely irrelevant and for worldbuilding - it is still an act of redemption of a sith, wich is less than redemption + slaying emperor, but still an achievement. Nevertheless, great video, liked every minute of this!

[@RobotsEverywhereVideos]

So after finally watching Rise of Skywalker in full, here's my little rant about it: It's a cosmic horror story in which Rey Palpatine does exactly what she was made to do, including succeeding Sheev Palpatine in Sith tradition by killing him. She tricked everyone, including the spirits of the Jedi, into thinking that she was the good guy. Now she has no competition in the Force -- at all -- and a good reputation to bank on. All she has to do is wait a few years for the New Republic to rebuild itself, and then she'll have a very easy time taking it over. Basically, she's the ultimate evil, disguised as an angel of mercy. Why does she get more and more powerful as things go? Because there's fewer and fewer trained force users total. And now she's basically standing alone.

[@yamochanchan]

Force Heal and ForceDraim does actually have some precedent. It is used in one of the old Games. Jedi Knight: Jedi Academi. By now both were used in the same movie Im actually fairly sure that where they it out of...

[@BWMagus]

That's fine, but Disney explicitly said those are not canon.

[@alexgeorge2993]

I also saw the first Star Wars at the cinema when it came out and of course all the others including Solo, What they have done to the show is sickening, I do not know anyone that was happy with this butchering of such a fantastic story, All I can say is thank goodness the trolls were wrong and they did not make Jar Jar into a Jedi. 🤣

[@belegur8108]

if you take into account the expanded universe, that was built around the original trilogy with its tech manuals of ships and ttrpgs and crpgs and so on, one can read a lot about how George Lucas had envisioned his "working of hyperspace". Take the Interceptor class imperial destroyers for example, who project a gravity shadow into hyperspace to pull out ships, hitting that area, then PREVENTING them from re-entering hyperspace, because obviously, near gravitational bodys ( real ones like planets and artificial ones like the projected field of the Interceptors) make it IMPOSSIBLE to enter Hyperspace. Jar Jar Abrams first destroyed that fact in E7 with the Falcon dropping out of HS INSIDE the atmosphere of the planet killer and since then that fact was ignored (Lightspeed skipping my behind... also what nonsense... entering / leaving hyperspace at random and hitting the atmosphere of a planet EVERY SINGLE TIME, but what are the odds? Well, it looks exciting i guess, but please do not use your brain for inworld consistency and immersion

[@enjibkk6850]

If that is the only saving grace of the movie... that's telling 😞

[@danieldeclue1466]

Anyone else notice how dumb it was that the dagger matching up to the crashed death star was just a rip-off of The Goonies??? Smh

[@rman88]

Feel like pointing this out. The Fleet of miny death star star destroyers. Has an even bigger issue when you realize that the death star laser requires a massive Kiba crystal. You know the thing that is used to make light sabers. This is why palpateen used his influence within the senate to take back control of the worlds that contain said crystals. So somehow he found a few thousand giant magical crystals and used that to make a few thousand ships..

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

To be fair, the first Death Star exploded in A New Hope (which we old-timers simply call Star Wars), and it's wreckage was still hanging around for Return of the Jedi ... so the second Death Star being both exploded and kind of not exploded is consistent.

[@Jeartozer]

When did this happen? I dont recall

[@chasjetty8729]

Excellent work.

[@pigpuke]

I hate the expression "subverted the viewers expectations" - that is what is attempted, not achieved. Usually what is achieved it merely "shitting on the audience" with no subversion of anything. Hell, most of the time it's obvious there is NO attempt to "subvert expectations" and it's CLEARLY "shitting on the audience."

[@UnitSe7en]

The "Holdo Maneuver" was never proposed in previous movies, not because it's not possible, but because IT'S BULLSH*T WRITING! We know you can collide with objects while at light speed in the Star Wars universe. But other, much better writers knew how to write a story. _That's_ the real problem with it and the _real_ reason why it's never been done before. And it leads to the conclusion of that ultimate question..

[@hyper2high]

Charlie your reviews are some of the best . Loved your ring of power the most hope you do more frequentky👍oh i aint watched anything you review 👍

[@53prime]

Are we gonna just ignore the fact that 10 year old (or less) Anakin apparently knew Sith language well enough to program it into C-3PO and also had the foresight to program "him" wipe his own memory if he ever spoke it/read it/translated it? Into a droid he built to help his mother carry out her slave labor duties while he was also a slave?

[@scumbaggaming9418]

And all that contributes to my opinion that the Sequel Trilogy is glorified fanfiction. I do not consider those movies canon.

[@spencertaylor-mrliltay]

Would love a series for all the main Star Wars saga! I’m watching this after watching the “Hobbit isn’t very good” videos.

[@GreatGreebo]

I have a bunch of yard work to do and needed a good laugh. I’ve watched your Rings of Power videos to death so….THANKS FOR THE Star Wars LAUGHS🤣🤣

[@Princess_Feona]

We don’t normally disagree with you, but even taken alone this film is a mess. It’s essentially a three hour series of video game fetch quests glued together with nonsensical plot contrivances. The tenuous threads that connect cause-and-effect are more fragile than Jennifer Lawrences self-esteem.

[@rickardroach9075]

14:54 Force Ghost Obi-Wan says to Luke in _TESB_ that he "cannot interfere". 🤦‍♂

[@jakkuhl6223]

You know, somebody's working on a movie series of the Thrawn trilogy. Based on the Timothy Zan books. From before the dark times. Before the mouse. I've seen the first film here on YT and it was decent. My friend I watches it with didn't want to turn it off. Maybe give it a watch and take a break from hollowwood crap.

[@balthazarasquith]

In the old xbox one game Knights of the Old Republic, one could heal using the force 😊

[@TallisKeeton]

hi Random :) well, the idea with Palpatine's clone seems not as bad to me as its to you. I actualy assume that Luke and Anakin fight with Palpatine was not meaningless even though they could not known that it was his clone. IMO this idea can be assumed as smt like we can see often in Tolkien's Arda world - as evil beings often take another form and strike again or smt to that meaning. Evil is ethernal. It changes forms to strike again. And if cloning was smt specificaly done with the powers of the dark side, well thats also very tolkienian - as overuse of high tech or machinery and esp to modify natural world, and to corrupt humans (like changing them into orcs) are seen as some of the most evil deeds. Corruption begins on Arda when created beings (Valars, elves) wanted to be creators themselves. So cloning in the case of Palpatine could be interpreted as both the mockery of divine creation and as bad use of technological power (or use of powers of dark side), to cheat death by Palpatine.

[@elizabethtaylor8428]

In the end Rey Palpatine committed Identity Thief

[@dennisknie4844]

Actually Force healing is something what Sith Lords could accomplish. Palpatine baits Anakin with that promise that he knows how to defeat the death itself in Episode 3.

[@chadhoy7489]

It made me want to jump off my couch and put my boot thru my TV

[@Barnesofthenorth]

I do wonder how much of Rise of Skywalker was because of Ryan Johnston throwing out all his ideas so he had to start fresh, and how much was stuff he wanted to do but just had to rush into it. As honestly Palpy coming back would never have been good, magically making ships again would never be good, but I just don't know, was that crap just because he needed a well known baddy as he didn't have time to build one up now? or was that always the plan.

[@thecrimsonknight3033]

Not only did I call it back in 2012 when Disney bought Lucasfilm, I used the word ruin specifically and that's exactly what they did and keep doing.

[@darkage5]

The number one problem with this movie was that it was made to try and un eff something that was so thoroughly broken. it was not going to be fixed. The only way they could have done this was to make a 2 part episode 9 that completely redacted the events of episode 8. just make Part one the new episode 8 and part 2 the actual episode 9. The last 3 movies were made in such a way they were supposed to ignore cannon (Star Wars legends). You have to have knowledge of the cannon to make sense of a lot of the questions you raise in this videos. Palpatine has a cloning facility on a planet called Byss. His force ghost was so powerful. His essence went back to Byss and went into one of the bodies. It was supposedly destroyed by a force storm that Luke and Leia created battling Palpatine. So of course he had a backup. So basically JJ had to fall back on Cannon to fix what Rian had so thoroughly wrecked. The last 3 movies also require you if you want to make sense of them. You have to read the books and the comic books and in some cases the video games. I.e. The Matrix awakens. Certain events between the second and third movie are only revealed if you played the game. They are alluded to in the third movie which leave you scratching your head. This is the same thing. This to me is extremely lazy. I go to see a movie. Make the movie so that i don't have to go to a side source to understand what is going on. This is of course how you make your videos. They stand on the merits of the movie not the source material. That's the purpose of it being an adaptation. One thing i am kind of surprised that you didn't mention. The woman in the helmet that never took it off. Her character was beyond useless. She was more of a McGuffin than the Sith dagger. Her only purpose was to give Poe some credential and that was it.

[@sharksbreath7]

I believe Leia died from a cocaine overdose.

[@natethegamer45]

in regards to force ghosts, it is still a reletively new concept as far as more current jedi are aware. qui gon learned of it but wasnt fully trained by the time he died so he was an incomplete force ghost. he taught obiwan after his death, obiwan taught yoda, and yoda taught luke. each progressively becoming more powerful. this was established long before the sequal trilogy. thats why theres not a bunch of force ghosts running around able to help the jedi in the movies and other media. that being said, this movie definitely rubbed shit in the face of that with all the jedi from other movies talking to rey at the end because by all accounts of everything we know about force ghosts, they should not be able to do that and should have faded into the life stream after death. although im an autistic nerd who reads too much into star wars lore, and bits of this could have been made non canon without me being aware so take that with a grain of salt. in regards to using lightspeed to ram through the enemy ships, it always could have been done as its been established that hyperlanes need to be made and upkept to make sure theres not debris or other such things in them because ships will hit them. its not like theyre phasing through space. this is kind of how blockades are done in universe as you can literally block the hyperlanes like you would a road. i am in no way trying to defend this movie, i just want it to be as fair of a criticism as possible and it seems to not be at times.