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> without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. 1. Luke went from the most optimistic and positive Jedi in the world, who found

> without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. 1. Luke went from the most optimistic and positive Jedi in the world, who found the good in Darth Vader, to a dude who tried to kill his own nephew without any explanation on how he got to that point aside from "I had a bad dream". Pathetic even if you ignore he also had dreams about becoming Darth Vader himself, and overcame those. 2. They completely destroyed any sense of time or speed with their "this turtle is so slow but too fast" race as the main plot point 3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying??? 4. They kept the elderly Leia around, instead of having her do a hero's sendoff at the end. Instead, they killed the only good character that was set up perfectly to be the new cutthroat cunning but likable leader of the rebellion. 5. They ruined every other fight in star wars with the hyperspace joust. Why was any other fight a big deal when they could have just rammed a few ships with jump drives into the star destroyers, or hell, the death star. 6. Rey is somehow the strongest force user now despite no training. Every other Jedi that got to be that strong had a lifetime of training and tribulations, but now Rey can just beat kylo ren, a lifelong trained Jedi Skywalker with the power of the dark side, just because she's a Mary Sue. And this is just what I can remember on my phone while sitting at this bar. If you think this movie wasn't a deep betrayal to the universe, you didn't pay any attention to it.

the_af 3y ago
I think the commenter you are replying to is saying it was a deep betrayal, though maybe their wording is not the best.
khazhoux 3y ago
> 3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying??? I didn't think she was fully unconscious. Also, "magically"? She used the Force. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. In this case, given she was in a vacuum, just a slight pull on the ship is all she needed to fly back to it. > Rey is somehow the strongest force user now despite no training Well, that is the premise, though. Luke himself grew immensely powerful with much less training than Anakin. Some people are just born with stronger Force. Something something midichlorians
- paulddraper 3y ago
  Anakin was a literal cripple
willghatch 3y ago
I think the parent poster agrees with you, but wrote somewhat ambiguously. I think he meant something like “a movie that was visually very striking, [but] without any plot fundamentals[,] that [therefore] felt like a deep betrayal to the universe.” For what it's worth, I agree with him. When I saw the movie and even just the promotional materials I thought it was visually striking and had very strong color themes. But wow, it was a train wreck in terms of plot, characters, faithfulness to the series, etc. I could go on for hours. But to be fair, I also think The Force Awakens was terrible and painted the story into a dumb direction. Instead of “what if the Nazis came back to power in Argentina”, they should have moved the story into a direction more like “the alliance against a common enemy is fractured”, like what actually happened after World War 2, or “there are now many factions of ambitious warlords rising among the widely deployed and still incredibly powerful imperial military”, or some of both. The Mandalorian did the setting much better in that sense.
- krapp 3y ago
  They should have picked a direction at all, and TFA should have been anything other than a pandering remake of ANH (except this time the Death Star is even bigger.) There was no plan for the trilogy, so it wound up being Rian Johnson sabotaging JJ Abrams, then Abrams desparately trying to salvage things, and Palpatine thrown in at the last second in hopes people would show up.
  - anigbrowl 3y ago
    (except this time the Death Star is even bigger.) Look on the bright side, it could have been 2 Death Stars and a whole bunch of bad space boobs jokes.
    - FiatLuxDave 3y ago
      Or a proper sequel to Spaceballs
krapp 3y ago
>1. Luke went from the most optimistic and positive Jedi in the world, who found the good in Darth Vader, to a dude who tried to kill his own nephew without any explanation on how he got to that point aside from "I had a bad dream". Pathetic even if you ignore he also had dreams about becoming Darth Vader himself, and overcame those. Luke was always fragile. He barely trained with Yoda, then he basically failed up to celebrity status. His weakness has always been his impatience, and his preference for the quick and easy out. He became an icon, he got old and disillusioned, he realized his naive view of the world and the Force didn't apply to reality, as he saw the Jedi being just as corrupt as the Sith, and just as the Jedi did he fell back into a rigid orthodoxy that led him to repeat the cycle of generational darkness that he never took the proper effort to address because he was never properly trained. And in the end, he regained a truer and more grounded faith in the force than he had before. What Yoda literally said would happen, happened. That isn't pathetic, it's an actual character arc. Unfortunately, people like yourself only wanted Luke Skywalker to remain a cardboard cutout. >3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying??? Leia is the sister of one of the most powerful Jedi in history. She has the Force, too. It's weird how many people completely missed that. 5. They ruined every other fight in star wars with the hyperspace joust. Why was any other fight a big deal when they could have just rammed a few ships with jump drives into the star destroyers, or hell, the death star. I've never understood this argument. Why don't we simply kamikaze aircraft and submarines into our enemies now? Why bother with guns and missiles? I mean, it's a risky (potentially deadly) maneuver that a rebellion lacking in personnel and equipment can scarcely afford to lose through normalizing. It's not something you do all the time even when it is effective. Japan only resorted to kamikaze missions out of desperation. And I'm curious what exactly you think the effect of ramming into one ship with another ship transitioning into hyperspace should be, and why it shouldn't be an effective weapon at all? No, this is just finding shit to nitpick about. >6. Rey is somehow the strongest force user now despite no training. Every other Jedi that got to be that strong had a lifetime of training and tribulations, but now Rey can just beat kylo ren, a lifelong trained Jedi Skywalker with the power of the dark side, just because she's a Mary Sue. It was established that the Force is a constant, distributed amongst all Jedi. The fewer Jedi there are, the more powerful each becomes because they have access to a greater portion of the whole. Rey was as powerful as she was because, as one of the few Force users left, she had potential access to nearly all of it. >If you think this movie wasn't a deep betrayal to the universe, you didn't pay any attention to it. I don't know, it seems like you're the one who didn't pay attention. Did you even see any of the new trilogy or just jump on the hate train when it was popular? Because I've seen all of your criticisms, verbatim, repeated ad nauseum, by people who just seem to be repeating memes.
slg 3y ago
>3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying??? >4. They kept the elderly Leia around, instead of having her do a hero's sendoff at the end. I don't want to get into a long drown out fight about Star Wars on HN so I'll ignore most of your points, but this complaint has always really bothered me because it shows such a huge lack of human empathy. A real person died, a person that was one of the 4 or 5 most important people to the success of Star Wars. And it has become the standard opinion of her "fans" that her last performance should have been largely thrown away to slightly improve the overall narrative arc of the movies. It really puts into perspective what fans care about. It is all about the product on the screen. Anyone involved in making the product is meaningless. Their only significance is in their role of servicing the product. I'm glad they didn't re-edit the movie after Carrie Fisher's death even if it created new challenges for the next movie.
- phist_mcgee 3y ago
  They gave her a bad arc. Her performance was good, but her role was bad. It's not dehumanising a person to critique the art she last appeared in.
- justincredible 3y ago
  I agree that they shouldn't have re-edited the movie based on Carrie Fisher's death IRL, but that scene is a masterclass in bad writing. Rian's intention was to demonstrate some semblance of humanity remained within Kylo. But the optics are that he is truly weak and in the end isn't even bothered much by the (for all he knows at the moment) imminent death of his mother. Had Kylo fired the shot he at least would have surpassed Vader in evilness, whether or not Leia saved herself. I agree with the "fans" that she should have died in that scene, but since Rian was too scared to snuff Leia before Luke the scene shouldn't have been written in the first place.
- darkerside 3y ago
  Want to respect Carrie Fisher? Shut down production, and give her family time to mourn, then reconsider the second half of the trilogy. Having her come back to life in a silly way after she fucking died in real life is offensive.
gota 3y ago
Solving 4. with 5. - Would make a lot more sense if it was Leia who rammed the ship and if took a huge amount of "Force" to do so (explaining why Leia _Skywalker_ could do it, but not any ordinary Joe)
knodi123 3y ago
"Lightspeed skipping" was just offensively absurd. They're teleporting around at random, but wherever they wind up, they're dodging between things on a planet's surface? Flickering through the galaxy like a slideshow? I don't even know why spaceships have chairs. You're never going to travel long enough to need to sit down. It was a fun visual spectacle that made no sense and flew in the face of all the worldbuilding and scene setting they'd been doing over the last 40 years of star wars movies.
anigbrowl 3y ago
...he ended up with a movie that was visually very striking, without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. ...he ended up with a movie that was visually very striking without any plot fundamentals, that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. Behold the terrible power of a misplaced comma, and the warped reality it inflicts upon the careless reader.
- darkerside 3y ago
  Careless writer
  - makapuf 3y ago
    the sexy saxophone is heard in the background...
monksy 3y ago
Dear hyperhopper .. please get out of my head and where did you get that recording of ranting about this movie to my friend drunk at a bar in 2018ish?. :) Don't forget about the pointless plot of the animal racing with John Boyega's character that went no where. Also, don't forget the whole dressing down of Poe Dameron by Leia and Vice-Admiral Holdo as lol guy dumb. But the action gets ignored because she decides lol ship danger ram into bad guy. I found that I hated the movie more and more as I explained the plot to a friend. I went from this is a solid dud to I really hated this when I went and described the action in the film.
thedrbrian 3y ago
0. they're running away in space and the imperials can't catch up. unless the two ships are exactly the same then at some point there will be a power to weight difference and one will catch up or get away. fuel was never an issue in any other SW story. also why didn't the imperials just hyperspace jump in front? 7. why bomb the base they're escaping from and not the ship they're flying to? 8. they only launch about 5 tie fighters against poe at the beginning and the ship only has about 6 self defence lasers. Rogue One showed us just how many Tie fighters could be launched to defend an important base. 9. the rebel bombers. nuf said. there's so much wrong with that film.
NiloCK 3y ago
re: 6. Isn't Luke the same story? He went from zero to Darth Vader rival in a couple of years maybe? Yoda thought that kid Anakin was already too old for training, but Luke was a young adult. Rey's rise was sillier still, but both heroes are the story of an "even more special individual" superseding the efforts of prior generations by virtue of their intrinsic personal connection with the force - pure genetic destiny.
- hyperhopper 3y ago
  Luke went to dagobah for training with Yoda for a long time, then spent years more training after that. And then then he was no match for Vader and palpatine, they were still toying with him just trying to turn him to the dark side. What he really did was make Anakin look inward and redeem himself by killing the emperor. He became a competent Jedi but never became stronger than everybody else before him like Rey did.
- paulddraper 3y ago
  > isn't luke the same story Dude lost his entire hand for his arrogance
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dnh44 3y ago
You misread the comment you responded to; OP agrees with you. > without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. There should be a comma between “fundamentals” and “that”
- Jagerbizzle 3y ago
  I believe it should have actually been a semicolon.
  - dnh44 3y ago
    It would have read a lot nicer with the semicolon and also if “that” were changed to “this”
BLKNSLVR 3y ago
I'm picturing someone else at the bar, watching you as you furiously, dejectedly type away on your phone whilst your facial demeanour slowly degrades... "Say, man, what's up?" "Someone just made me think about the myriad ways in which The Last Jedi not just sucked, but sucked the rest of the life from the 40-year history of Star Wars" "oooof! Here, I'll shout you a bottle of Jack's, but I know it's not enough by far".
meroes 3y ago
1. Luke had a knack for hitting things right where it matters most, a product of his ability to focus. Forget the long winded rituals and attack the target dead on. That’s Luke above everything. In spite of the weight of the galaxy, he doesn’t loose focus. Him thinking about killing his nephew was almost his failure in keeping target. He knows something else is more important to focus on which this won’t solve. He has a focus no one else in the story does. It’s again seen in his last moments of force projecting. No other user sustains that amount to focus in the movies, look at his face and for how long he did it. I’m tired of this innocent always positive Luke trope. That’s not his main quality. He was a crack shot and that’s his method of the force. Him reconciling with Vader is mainly about a one on one, how to topple the Empire with a single interaction, he just has to get close enough. Not goodness, which of course he does have. Only Sidius has comparable focus. Luke’s time in seclusion is rest and preparation for past and future unsustainable effort.
goto11 3y ago
The general audience does not care about any of that though. Star Wars is beyond ridiculous in the first place - I mean how does "light-sabers" make any sense? What matters to the general audience is there are relatable characters doing cool stuff which feels plausible in the moment. The space ramming was cool and emotionally satisfying, so it works. For most of the audience, if they know Luke at all, it is as the whiny kid with the bad haircut from the old movies. So its fun to see him as old and grumpy. They do not care if he is some kind of space-Jesus in the expanded universe or whatever. A "deep betrayal to the universe" of Slave Leia, Jar-Jar Binks, C3PO?
- hyperhopper 3y ago
  Jar jar was also a low point, and the biggest crime is that the big bad villain of the sequel trilogy wasn't Darth Darth binks

the_af 3y ago

I think the commenter you are replying to is saying it was a deep betrayal, though maybe their wording is not the best.

khazhoux 3y ago

> 3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying??? I didn't think she was fully unconscious. Also, "magically"? She used the Force. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. In this case, given she was in a vacuum, just a slight pull on the ship is all she needed to fly back to it. > Rey is somehow the strongest force user now despite no training Well, that is the premise, though. Luke himself grew immensely powerful with much less training than Anakin. Some people are just born with stronger Force. Something something midichlorians

paulddraper 3y ago
Anakin was a literal cripple

willghatch 3y ago

I think the parent poster agrees with you, but wrote somewhat ambiguously. I think he meant something like “a movie that was visually very striking, [but] without any plot fundamentals[,] that [therefore] felt like a deep betrayal to the universe.” For what it's worth, I agree with him. When I saw the movie and even just the promotional materials I thought it was visually striking and had very strong color themes. But wow, it was a train wreck in terms of plot, characters, faithfulness to the series, etc. I could go on for hours. But to be fair, I also think The Force Awakens was terrible and painted the story into a dumb direction. Instead of “what if the Nazis came back to power in Argentina”, they should have moved the story into a direction more like “the alliance against a common enemy is fractured”, like what actually happened after World War 2, or “there are now many factions of ambitious warlords rising among the widely deployed and still incredibly powerful imperial military”, or some of both. The Mandalorian did the setting much better in that sense.

krapp 3y ago
They should have picked a direction at all, and TFA should have been anything other than a pandering remake of ANH (except this time the Death Star is even bigger.) There was no plan for the trilogy, so it wound up being Rian Johnson sabotaging JJ Abrams, then Abrams desparately trying to salvage things, and Palpatine thrown in at the last second in hopes people would show up.
- anigbrowl 3y ago
  (except this time the Death Star is even bigger.) Look on the bright side, it could have been 2 Death Stars and a whole bunch of bad space boobs jokes.
  - FiatLuxDave 3y ago
    Or a proper sequel to Spaceballs

krapp 3y ago

>1. Luke went from the most optimistic and positive Jedi in the world, who found the good in Darth Vader, to a dude who tried to kill his own nephew without any explanation on how he got to that point aside from "I had a bad dream". Pathetic even if you ignore he also had dreams about becoming Darth Vader himself, and overcame those. Luke was always fragile. He barely trained with Yoda, then he basically failed up to celebrity status. His weakness has always been his impatience, and his preference for the quick and easy out. He became an icon, he got old and disillusioned, he realized his naive view of the world and the Force didn't apply to reality, as he saw the Jedi being just as corrupt as the Sith, and just as the Jedi did he fell back into a rigid orthodoxy that led him to repeat the cycle of generational darkness that he never took the proper effort to address because he was never properly trained. And in the end, he regained a truer and more grounded faith in the force than he had before. What Yoda literally said would happen, happened. That isn't pathetic, it's an actual character arc. Unfortunately, people like yourself only wanted Luke Skywalker to remain a cardboard cutout. >3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying??? Leia is the sister of one of the most powerful Jedi in history. She has the Force, too. It's weird how many people completely missed that. 5. They ruined every other fight in star wars with the hyperspace joust. Why was any other fight a big deal when they could have just rammed a few ships with jump drives into the star destroyers, or hell, the death star. I've never understood this argument. Why don't we simply kamikaze aircraft and submarines into our enemies now? Why bother with guns and missiles? I mean, it's a risky (potentially deadly) maneuver that a rebellion lacking in personnel and equipment can scarcely afford to lose through normalizing. It's not something you do all the time even when it is effective. Japan only resorted to kamikaze missions out of desperation. And I'm curious what exactly you think the effect of ramming into one ship with another ship transitioning into hyperspace should be, and why it shouldn't be an effective weapon at all? No, this is just finding shit to nitpick about. >6. Rey is somehow the strongest force user now despite no training. Every other Jedi that got to be that strong had a lifetime of training and tribulations, but now Rey can just beat kylo ren, a lifelong trained Jedi Skywalker with the power of the dark side, just because she's a Mary Sue. It was established that the Force is a constant, distributed amongst all Jedi. The fewer Jedi there are, the more powerful each becomes because they have access to a greater portion of the whole. Rey was as powerful as she was because, as one of the few Force users left, she had potential access to nearly all of it. >If you think this movie wasn't a deep betrayal to the universe, you didn't pay any attention to it. I don't know, it seems like you're the one who didn't pay attention. Did you even see any of the new trilogy or just jump on the hate train when it was popular? Because I've seen all of your criticisms, verbatim, repeated ad nauseum, by people who just seem to be repeating memes.

slg 3y ago

>3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying??? >4. They kept the elderly Leia around, instead of having her do a hero's sendoff at the end. I don't want to get into a long drown out fight about Star Wars on HN so I'll ignore most of your points, but this complaint has always really bothered me because it shows such a huge lack of human empathy. A real person died, a person that was one of the 4 or 5 most important people to the success of Star Wars. And it has become the standard opinion of her "fans" that her last performance should have been largely thrown away to slightly improve the overall narrative arc of the movies. It really puts into perspective what fans care about. It is all about the product on the screen. Anyone involved in making the product is meaningless. Their only significance is in their role of servicing the product. I'm glad they didn't re-edit the movie after Carrie Fisher's death even if it created new challenges for the next movie.

phist_mcgee 3y ago
They gave her a bad arc. Her performance was good, but her role was bad. It's not dehumanising a person to critique the art she last appeared in.
justincredible 3y ago
I agree that they shouldn't have re-edited the movie based on Carrie Fisher's death IRL, but that scene is a masterclass in bad writing. Rian's intention was to demonstrate some semblance of humanity remained within Kylo. But the optics are that he is truly weak and in the end isn't even bothered much by the (for all he knows at the moment) imminent death of his mother. Had Kylo fired the shot he at least would have surpassed Vader in evilness, whether or not Leia saved herself. I agree with the "fans" that she should have died in that scene, but since Rian was too scared to snuff Leia before Luke the scene shouldn't have been written in the first place.
darkerside 3y ago
Want to respect Carrie Fisher? Shut down production, and give her family time to mourn, then reconsider the second half of the trilogy. Having her come back to life in a silly way after she fucking died in real life is offensive.

gota 3y ago

Solving 4. with 5. - Would make a lot more sense if it was Leia who rammed the ship and if took a huge amount of "Force" to do so (explaining why Leia _Skywalker_ could do it, but not any ordinary Joe)

knodi123 3y ago

"Lightspeed skipping" was just offensively absurd. They're teleporting around at random, but wherever they wind up, they're dodging between things on a planet's surface? Flickering through the galaxy like a slideshow? I don't even know why spaceships have chairs. You're never going to travel long enough to need to sit down. It was a fun visual spectacle that made no sense and flew in the face of all the worldbuilding and scene setting they'd been doing over the last 40 years of star wars movies.

anigbrowl 3y ago

...he ended up with a movie that was visually very striking, without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. ...he ended up with a movie that was visually very striking without any plot fundamentals, that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. Behold the terrible power of a misplaced comma, and the warped reality it inflicts upon the careless reader.

darkerside 3y ago
Careless writer
- makapuf 3y ago
  the sexy saxophone is heard in the background...

monksy 3y ago

Dear hyperhopper .. please get out of my head and where did you get that recording of ranting about this movie to my friend drunk at a bar in 2018ish?. :) Don't forget about the pointless plot of the animal racing with John Boyega's character that went no where. Also, don't forget the whole dressing down of Poe Dameron by Leia and Vice-Admiral Holdo as lol guy dumb. But the action gets ignored because she decides lol ship danger ram into bad guy. I found that I hated the movie more and more as I explained the plot to a friend. I went from this is a solid dud to I really hated this when I went and described the action in the film.

thedrbrian 3y ago

0. they're running away in space and the imperials can't catch up. unless the two ships are exactly the same then at some point there will be a power to weight difference and one will catch up or get away. fuel was never an issue in any other SW story. also why didn't the imperials just hyperspace jump in front? 7. why bomb the base they're escaping from and not the ship they're flying to? 8. they only launch about 5 tie fighters against poe at the beginning and the ship only has about 6 self defence lasers. Rogue One showed us just how many Tie fighters could be launched to defend an important base. 9. the rebel bombers. nuf said. there's so much wrong with that film.

NiloCK 3y ago

re: 6. Isn't Luke the same story? He went from zero to Darth Vader rival in a couple of years maybe? Yoda thought that kid Anakin was already too old for training, but Luke was a young adult. Rey's rise was sillier still, but both heroes are the story of an "even more special individual" superseding the efforts of prior generations by virtue of their intrinsic personal connection with the force - pure genetic destiny.

hyperhopper 3y ago
Luke went to dagobah for training with Yoda for a long time, then spent years more training after that. And then then he was no match for Vader and palpatine, they were still toying with him just trying to turn him to the dark side. What he really did was make Anakin look inward and redeem himself by killing the emperor. He became a competent Jedi but never became stronger than everybody else before him like Rey did.
paulddraper 3y ago
> isn't luke the same story Dude lost his entire hand for his arrogance
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dnh44 3y ago

You misread the comment you responded to; OP agrees with you. > without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe. There should be a comma between “fundamentals” and “that”

Jagerbizzle 3y ago
I believe it should have actually been a semicolon.
- dnh44 3y ago
  It would have read a lot nicer with the semicolon and also if “that” were changed to “this”

BLKNSLVR 3y ago

I'm picturing someone else at the bar, watching you as you furiously, dejectedly type away on your phone whilst your facial demeanour slowly degrades... "Say, man, what's up?" "Someone just made me think about the myriad ways in which The Last Jedi not just sucked, but sucked the rest of the life from the 40-year history of Star Wars" "oooof! Here, I'll shout you a bottle of Jack's, but I know it's not enough by far".

meroes 3y ago

1. Luke had a knack for hitting things right where it matters most, a product of his ability to focus. Forget the long winded rituals and attack the target dead on. That’s Luke above everything. In spite of the weight of the galaxy, he doesn’t loose focus. Him thinking about killing his nephew was almost his failure in keeping target. He knows something else is more important to focus on which this won’t solve. He has a focus no one else in the story does. It’s again seen in his last moments of force projecting. No other user sustains that amount to focus in the movies, look at his face and for how long he did it. I’m tired of this innocent always positive Luke trope. That’s not his main quality. He was a crack shot and that’s his method of the force. Him reconciling with Vader is mainly about a one on one, how to topple the Empire with a single interaction, he just has to get close enough. Not goodness, which of course he does have. Only Sidius has comparable focus. Luke’s time in seclusion is rest and preparation for past and future unsustainable effort.

goto11 3y ago

The general audience does not care about any of that though. Star Wars is beyond ridiculous in the first place - I mean how does "light-sabers" make any sense? What matters to the general audience is there are relatable characters doing cool stuff which feels plausible in the moment. The space ramming was cool and emotionally satisfying, so it works. For most of the audience, if they know Luke at all, it is as the whiny kid with the bad haircut from the old movies. So its fun to see him as old and grumpy. They do not care if he is some kind of space-Jesus in the expanded universe or whatever. A "deep betrayal to the universe" of Slave Leia, Jar-Jar Binks, C3PO?

hyperhopper 3y ago
Jar jar was also a low point, and the biggest crime is that the big bad villain of the sequel trilogy wasn't Darth Darth binks