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Canto Bight could've been really interesting, but the execution of that whole plotline in relation to the rest of the film made it stand out to me, and not exactly in a good way. It may have been just me, considering we were transitioning to Finn and Rose searching for a codebreaker in between the scenes of Luke and Rey and all that emotional weight on Ahch-To. The latter really drew me in, Finn and Rose's story didn't. And just when I was getting really immersed in the mystery behind the "new" Luke Skywalker and Rey's training, we were back on Canto Bight, in the middle of looked like the Chocobo races from Final Fantasy. The film needed that kind of emotional levity but the way it was executed made moving back and forth between them jarring, and just comparing the content of each, I wanted to stay with Luke and Rey. A lot of really necessary points to bring up (the war profiteering, the children) but it just needed to be handled a bit better.
I like Luke in this film too, and the thing I think the writers got right about him was that Luke was never a "perfect" Jedi to begin with. Entering Jabba's Palace in ROTJ he uses the Force to choke two guards out before trying to straight up murder Jabba with a blaster when the negotiations break down. He was never going to be like Obi-Wan or Yoda, and that he would take such a drastically different path into old age not only made a lot of sense but it was also great for his arc.
I like Luke in this film too, and the thing I think the writers got right about him was that Luke was never a "perfect" Jedi to begin with. Entering Jabba's Palace in ROTJ he uses the Force to choke two guards out before trying to straight up murder Jabba with a blaster when the negotiations break down. He was never going to be like Obi-Wan or Yoda, and that he would take such a drastically different path into old age not only made a lot of sense but it was also great for his arc.
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