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Some feel that the humor also seems too reminiscent of recent Marvel movies, like Lucasfilm was trying to take a few notes out of their playbook. All too often, the humor feels forced, too long and too over-bearing, undermining and getting in the way of the narrative. From Luke throwing his lightsaber over his shoulder to Finn wearing the leaky suit, every attempt at humor lands with a thud. Some fans feel the juvenile humor is not only cringe-worthy, but it undermines the fear the audience is supposed to have for the First Order and General Hux. What detractors will say: The Last Jedi opens with Poe Dameron prank “holding” for General Hux. While at the moment Leia’s floating to safety scene might have been such an unbelievable shock that it rubbed fans the wrong way, I think with the knowledge that she was trained, the scene doesn’t come across as cheesy or forced anymore. Now, thanks to The Rise of Skywalker, we know that Luke did train Leia in the Force and that she mostly put that life behind her, but eventually helped train Rey too. This is a survival moment for Leia, a one-and-done experience that forces her to muster all her strength to crawl back into the fight. He likened it to stories about parents with a toddler caught inside a car and they suddenly have superhuman strength to rescue the child. It’s assumed that Leia has been trained in the Force by this point.įor Rian Johnson, this scene is less about her extreme power and more about the survival instinct. In Return of the Jedi, Luke tells Leia she has the Force too. Even Rian Johnson admitted that he expected it to be a stretch with different audiences. If Leia is this powerful in the Force, why is she looking for Luke at all? Why doesn’t she use her own powers against the First Order when they’re invading Crait? Nothing about this scene works except as a deus ex machina story device to save Leia from dying.Ĭounterpoint: This scene with Leia is certainly unexpected and controversial. It also raises a lot of questions and problems. As a result, it’s a tease with a flimsy solution. Her ability to survive the vacuum of space and fly through it to safety feels like it came out of nowhere.

There were only a few hints of Force sensitivity, like in The Force Awakens, when she sensed Han Solo’s death. The special effects are bad, the look of her flying through space with her arm stretched out his laughable, and any special moment they tried to create fell flat.īefore this, we were never given any indication that Leia was officially trained in the Force. What detractors will say: The scene where Leia is blasted out into space and supposedly dies, but then miraculously comes back to life and flies through space, like Mary Poppins, is cheesy to some fans. Leia’s Space Mary Poppins Force Move Is Cheesy Rian Johnson knew the only way to give Star Wars fans something different and new was to subvert the false expectations they’d been building for years. Star Wars fans build up these expectations with theories and fan fiction, but by doing so, they steal the thunder of the storytellers trying to give them something fresh and special. We were kind of tipped off from the beginning that something must be wrong with Luke if he’s hiding out somewhere.Īlso, Luke Skywalker not being what we want him to be is the point of The Last Jedi. But The Force Awakens never gives us any indication that should be an expectation.

We all wanted to watch Luke continue his hero’s journey. I understand the expectation that Luke Skywalker should have been running into the fray to fight the Dark Side. He’s spent, he’s done and he’s not wasting any more time in the fight. It makes total sense why Luke Skywalker would feel defeated after spending around 30 years of his life training Jedi only to see it all come crumbling down. Wracked with guilt for being the reason Ben Solo turns into Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker goes into exile. Ben Solo slaughtered Luke’s apprentices and burned the temple to the ground. Luke Skywalker is a different person when we meet him again in The Last Jedi, especially because of the traumatic events that happened to him at the Jedi Temple.