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You can just tell that they really wanted to rely heavily on the speculated source material, but did it in such a hammerfisted way that it came out really bad. Almost seemed like some weird 7 samurai in space movie, but without any stakes because you stop caring about the characters about 20% of the way through.
It was definitely odd that he tried to halfheartedly inject some of the jedi/sith mysticism, but did nothing to explain it why it was meaningful to his story. Like oh, here's a person with swords and probably a cool back story that we won't touch on at all, cool right? Here's a ripoff scene from Avatar, but our guy has a lot of spray tan and muscles, cool right? Here's this cool resistance leader (Definitely NOT Saw Gerrera, and I can't stress that enough) that we forgot to explain why we should care about and be invested in.
It was definitely odd that he tried to halfheartedly inject some of the jedi/sith mysticism, but did nothing to explain it why it was meaningful to his story. Like oh, here's a person with swords and probably a cool back story that we won't touch on at all, cool right? Here's a ripoff scene from Avatar, but our guy has a lot of spray tan and muscles, cool right? Here's this cool resistance leader (Definitely NOT Saw Gerrera, and I can't stress that enough) that we forgot to explain why we should care about and be invested in.
