Man. I keep seeing take after take after take on The Last Jedi that alternate between confirming my own biases about what made the movie notable and pointing out things I hadn’t thought of and that make me appreciate it even more.
As opposed to, you know, take after take after take that argue Rey is Obi-Wan Kenobi’s stepsister’s niece because look at what was in the background in that scene on Jakku, or crap like that. (Not that there isn’t lots of crap like that too. You’d think after what TLJ did to all the fan theories, they’d know better.)
I don’t recall that I’ve read and enjoyed this much of this sort of commentary about any movie in a long time, which I think suggests we have something special (to me, anyway) here. Anyway, gonna link to some of them below, and I expect to update this list in coming days. I’m not saying I give five stars to all these posts, but I think they’re all worth a look.
- ‘The Last Jedi’ Doesn’t Care What You Think About ‘Star Wars’ – And That’s Why It’s Great by Jacob Hall
- The Last Jedi: Promises, Pitfalls, and What Sticks With You by Kameron Hurley
- A List Of Some Of The Times The Last Jedi Told The Older Star Wars Movies To Eat Shit by Albert Burneko
- The Last Jedi‘s best moment is a “fuck you” to George Lucas and J.J. Abrams by William Hughes
- How The Last Jedi Fixes the Star Wars Saga’s Biggest Mistake by Michael Arbeiter
- In The Last Jedi, the Resistance Keeps Making the Same Tactical Mistake by Angry Staff Officer
- This is not going to go the way you think: The Last Jedi and the necessary disappointment of epilogues by Sean O’Neal
- The Last Jedi and the Problem With Fan Theories by Carly Lane
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi Ushers in the Future of Storytelling by Lauren Jernigan
- Star Wars’ Vice-Admiral Holdo and Our Expectations for Female Military Power by Arkady Martine
- Luke Skywalker Isn’t Supposed to Be “Nice” by Emily Asher-Perrin
- Canto Bight thread by Bryan Young
- Moving Forward with The Last Jedi by Michael Moreci
- Laura Dern’s Interpretation of the Force Is Exactly What Star Wars Needs by James Whitbrook if only for this sentence: “But it’d be a welcome addition if it was actually added into canon, because the Star Wars galaxy could really use more Force users that interpret that ability in ways beyond running around in bathrobes and waving deadly glowsticks at each other.”
Of course you can’t omit these:
- MRAs Make 46-Minute Cut Of ‘The Last Jedi’ That Edits Out All The Women by Ben McLeay
- The Men of The Last Jedi Had the Best Reaction to the All-Male MRA Edit by Charline Jao
