Ben and Han's meeting is a replay moment for Ben after The Force Awakens. The way the scene is shot, the characters are face-to-face, and dialogue repeats. "I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it".
Actually, no it's not Han's medal - it's Luke's. "To settle his tab with Maz Kanata, Solo gave the pirate queen his medal, which she kept in her castle on Takodana. During the New Republic Era, the Force-sensitive Karr Nuq Sin traveled to Takodana to deliver a package to Kanata for Dok-Ondar. Whilst at the castle, Sin touched the medal as part of a test by Kanata, and revealed to the pirate that Solo had actually given her Skywalker's medal." - Taken from the novel "Star Wars: Force Collector". So in Disney SW canon, Han stole his best friends' medal because he sold his own for drinking money. Thanks Disney.....
Rey wasn’t projecting herself like Luke did. Her and Kylo could just see each other through their connection. They said there were two transports. Chewie was on the one that wasn’t destroyed. You can actually see them side by side when he’s captured but it’s easy to miss. It’s not 100% explicitly confirmed in the movie but Palpatine is a clone that his spirit is possessing. His evil and immense dark side power made his new body deteriorate, which is why he’s hooked up to that life support robot arm. His “son” was also a clone, _so no one hooked up with Palpy!_ Palpatine’s sith cultists tried to clone him a better body to move his spirit into, and they did, it was perfect, except that it wasn’t force sensitive, so he wouldn’t have force powers if he put himself in it. Palpatine saw him as useless for his intended purpose but kept him alive to ensure the possibility of his bloodline continuing. The clone eventually escaped and did just that, making Rey Dyads are very rare The reinforcements of just people is great…if you didn’t watch the trailer that spoiled it. Chewie getting a medal was actually remedied/retconned a long time ago in his own comic. It retcons that he did get one along with Luke and Han, though he ends up giving it away to a young woman he helps shortly after. Luke and Leia were not a dyad. Rey and Ben are the only known one
I saw this movie on its first day. I was holding back tears when Leia passed away for two reasons. One because Carrie Fisher's passing in real life before this movie and the second reason is that R2 was present for Leia's birth and her passing. My second time seeing was on a date. I took my girlfriend to see it in 4DX. When Leia passed away my girlfriend couldn't stop crying even after the movie was over when we were heading home. I'm glad you really enjoyed this film. Can't wait to see you react to more movies I love
40:47 They kill Kylo, then take it right back. They kill Rey, then take it right back. They wipe C3PO's memory, then take it right back. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
Among the voices of past Jedi are ones that you have seen in the Prequels, as well as ones from 'The Clone Wars' and 'Rebels' animated series. The voices were of the actors from the shows: Freddie Prinze, Jr (Kanan Jarrus, Rebels), Jennifer Hale (Aayla Secura, Clone Wars), Olivia D'Abo (Luminara Unduli, Clone Wars), and Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano from both Clone Wars and Rebels). In a blink and you'll miss him cameo at the end of the movie, during the celebrations is Lin-Manuel Miranda as a rebel. Among the ships that show up with Lando at Exegol is The Ghost, the main ship of 'Star Wars: Rebels'. The gunner on the Millennium Falcon who says "Nice flying, Lando!" is Wedge Antilles, the best X-wing pilot in the Original Trilogy played by Denis Lawson, uncle to Ewan McGregor.
Something I missed about that medal until I heard Kevin Smith explain it, is that was Han Solo's medal he got from the end of A New Hope. Leia was holding the medal when she was connecting with Kylo. Chewie was getting Han's medal.
21:06 Spoilers concerning the question about Rey's father Rey's father is a strandcast, an artificial being that was "cloned" from an original genetic source, i.e. Emperor Sheev Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious). Even though he was engineered from Sidious' DNA, he wasn't Force-sensitive like his "father." Because of this, Sidious hated his "son" and considered him a useless failed experiment, but he allowed the strandcast to live in the hope that he would produce a child who would inherit the Force potential of the Palpatine bloodline. This was accomplished when the strandcast fathered a daughter, Rey, whose mother was a woman named Miramir. Despite his biological link to the Emperor, the strandcast originally didn't have a name. His creators simply called him "the Abomination." He adopted the name "Dathan" after running away from Exegol. This information isn't in the movie, but it can be found in other sources such as reference books and novels, including The Secrets of the Sith and The Shadow of the Sith.
@@TDSAtlantis That's just backstory. And without good filmmakers, it could have been the worst film ever made, no matter what the story details. Don't be petty.
I'm not sure what's petty about thinking the script was insultingly weak. That should be very evident. And while I have no ill will with Adrams or his lens flares, it really is bottom-three Star Wars, and that's a total shame.
So my main thoughts on this movie. When Poe uttered the line "Somehow Palpatine Returned" it pretty much made me leave the theatre for about 10 minutes to calm down and force myself to get through the rest of this because I literally shouted "what" out loud. Next the ending made absolutely no sense to me. When Rey declares she's Rey Skywalker I literally had an image of Palatine's face superimposed over Rey's face cackling his evil Sith laugh. Because in that moment to me Palpatine has achieved his final victory over the Jedi and Anakin and Luke. His over powered descendent has somehow usurped a Jedi identity and inserted themselves as a self declared force of good. I'm imagining her now quietly going about her business accumulating power ready to step in and take over when the dark side kicks in. Finally it isn't until this movie that we get any interaction between Rey and Poe but now after two movies they've somehow bonded and become besties? Also how the actual fuck did the first order accumulate the largest star fleet ever assembled when it's nowhere near as big as the Empire was? Gawd it's such awful fan fiction pandering. I've tried rewatching this a few times because I read commentary that makes me want to rethink the film and when I see it my active hate just gets reignited when I see new things that I missed and make me actually find more that I dislike. Finally the fact that Palpatine survived and Rey had to defeat him again makes a mockery to me of Vader's sacrifice and the fact of the prophecy that he was The Chosen One. He actually failed and didn't restore balance to the force. It was all meaningless and shit over all the first 6 movies.
@@fu6817 I'm not sure I'd go that far. I've seen some of her reviews of Tarantino movies I thought were well done. I think it's more along the lines of she doesn't want to come down too hard on movies she thinks her fan base likes as she's trying to keep viewers and patrons engaged. It's all about the likes, clicks and subscriptions.
You have such a great, joyful, approach to these movies and really seem to appreciate the camp and silliness which is also a soft spot of mine. It was such a pleasure to join you on your Star Wars journey! I hope you consider the TV shows, especially Clone Wars and Rebels!
As for the dyad, the canonical explanation right now is that it's a very rare kind of force connection for two force-sensitive beings to have that has not been seen in millennia. The Sith attempted to recreate it through their rule of two approach of having only one master and one apprentice at a time, as well as it keeping their numbers small and undetectable through the force. In the novelizations of these films, a scene occurs where a child Rey senses Ben through the force before ever meeting him, with Ben also becoming aware of the presence of a little girl at the same time. This is why in The Force Awakens when Kylo attempts to read Rey's mind for the first time, she shudders and he says, "don't be afraid, I feel it too." They both finally sense that connection reigniting.
I think The Mandalorian is the best thing Star Wars since the original trilogy. I haven't seen you react to a streaming series before but I definitely recommend this one!
Something I really love about the ending: JJ and Terrio stated in an article interview that when Rey wraps the lightsabers at the end, she is doing so almost as if swaddling infants. Shes symbolically burying Luke and Leia “together, as they always should’ve been.” In effect, righting the wrong of their separation at birth, and I love that so much. Also find it beautiful that the saga starts with a Palpatine becoming a father figure to a Skywalker (The Emperor manipulating Anakin from a young age, after Qui-Gon, the would-be father figure’s death) which enslaves the galaxy in the process. The saga then ends with a Skywalker becoming a mother figure to a Palpatine (Leia mentoring Rey) and the Galaxy is freed in the process. ❤
Can I piggyback on that idea and say it would be cool if she reacted to all the Star Trek movies? The J.J. ones can be the payoff at end. Kind of like with the SW movies.
RE Palpatine: in ep3 Revenge of the Sith we hear Palps tell Anakin he's trying to unlock the secret to cheating death using unnatural dark side powers of the Force. In between ep3 and ep6 Palps did unlock the secret. He had been making prototype clone bodies so that if ever he were about to die he could cast his spirit/essence out to inhabit a clone body, leaving the empty husk of the original body to die. Which is what happened in ep6 Return of the Jedi. He was tossed down that chasm and as he fell he left his body in favor of his clone waiting on exegol, and his empty husk body lands lifeless in that chasm (and then that Death Star blew up later). The dark side ritual worked but not as well as hoped, he was still weak and feeble. He had to sit on Exegol with his medical team to survive so he used a deformed prototype clone body as an avatar that he could puppet remotely using the dark side. That's what Snoke was. That's why Palps tells Kylo "I made Snoke". This all also explains with he also tells Kylo "I've died before" and he even repeats to Kylo what he told Anakin in ep3 "the dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural" as a signifier to the audience that yes he did finally unlock the secret to cheating death. Draining the life force from a Dyad (Ben and Rey) cured him of his weakened state and he was ready to rule the galaxy himself. So Rey and the Jedi of the past joined their forces to destroy the evil Palpatine's body _and_ spirit this time. So now he can never return again (because his spirit was destroyed before he could cast it out into a backup clone again).
Shanelle remember in Star Wars III that The Emperor told Anakin about the Sith Lord that could keep someone from dying and the Apprentice that learned how to do it and Killed his Master. Emperor Palpatine was the Apprentice and used that knowledge to come back. So, this happening in Episode IX refers back to Episode III without saying How.
in ep3 Revenge of the Sith we hear Palps tell Anakin he's trying to unlock the secret to cheating death using unnatural dark side powers of the Force. In between ep3 and ep6 Palps did unlock the secret. He had been making prototype clone bodies so that if ever he were about to die he could cast his spirit/essence out to inhabit a clone body, leaving the empty husk of the original body to die. Which is what happened in ep6 Return of the Jedi. He was tossed down that chasm and as he fell he left his body in favor of his clone waiting on exegol, and his empty husk body lands lifeless in that chasm (and then that Death Star blew up later). The dark side ritual worked but not as well as hoped, he was still weak and feeble. He had to sit on Exegol with his medical team to survive so he used a deformed prototype clone body as an avatar that he could puppet remotely using the dark side. That's what Snoke was. That's why Palps tells Kylo "I made Snoke". This all also explains why he also tells Kylo "I've died before" and he even repeats to Kylo what he told Anakin in ep3 "the dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural" as a signifier to the audience that yes he did finally unlock the secret to cheating death. Draining the life force from a Dyad (Ben and Rey) cured him of his weakened state and he was ready to rule the galaxy himself. So Rey and the Jedi of the past joined their forces to destroy the evil Palpatine's body and spirit this time. So now he can never return again (because his spirit was destroyed before he could cast it out into a backup clone again).
Apparently John Williams will be knighted by our new King Charles III - for services to movie music. The late Queen Elizabeth agreed his knighthood shortly before she died - as part of her last honours list.
Palpating didn’t have a kid, he had a clone. That clone broke away and tried to have a family. Even in the old books, Palpatine was a big fan of cloning himself. Palpatine in this movie isn’t the one that fell down the Death Star’s shaft, he used the force to transfer his consciousness in a cloned body.
The thing is The Emperor in Episode 9 isn't the real Palpatine he died on the second Death Star he even said so to Kylo Ren " I've been Dead Before " which tells me that he is a Clone and they show that he has been Cloning himself hence all the Snoke parts aslo Merry from Lord of the Rings also mentions Cloning and Sith Majic so did they go into detail no but personally I don't need a 5 to 20 minute flashback scene I got it without all that aslo Rey's father is Palpatine's son or actually he's a Clone who somehow didn't gave access to the Force so Rey is technically a daughter of the Clone of Palpatine
I like when Ben does the little quarter bow after Rey gives him the saber through the force. It's like they knew it was a stretch to do, and ben was like "yup, we just did that." Lol.
I LOVE that you liked this movie. I've been a longtime fan of Star Wars having been born in 1977 when the first one came out. I heard so many negative things about this movie so much that I avoided watching it. When I sucked it up and did I was so relieved. I loved it.
Same, Carrie. Also born in 1977, and never knew a time when there was NOT a Star Wars in my life. This movie really wrapped the saga for me, the voices, the music, and real emotion. 45 years for a payoff ... WORTH IT!
Same. I did watch episode I, and I thought it was actually pretty entertaining. But not _quite_ a Star Wars film, somehow. So I stopped watching after that. I've only just seen the cut version of the rest of the prequels and sequels through the reactions on this channel. And those reactions were so entertaining and enthusiastic that I've decided to buy a box set of the whole lot and watch them all in full over Christmas this year.
@@dustinkennemer5033 so glad someone of my generation agrees. I have always loved the movies and admittedly stole my brother's action figures as a kid. The Jawa was my favorite back then, but the emperor was pretty cool too. Too bad I don't still have them. 😊 I haven't watched the "extra" movies like Rogue One and Solo but as a true movie fan I need to add those to my list.
For me, Episode VIII and IX are battling for worst Star Wars movie. Yes they have great pictures, but the writing is crap deluxe. Episode VII had at least a bit nice story... I grew up with the books after Episode VI. For me the sequels are "Truce at Bakura", "The Courtship of Princess Leia" and of course the best Star Wars story ever - the first Thrawn Trilogy. Thrawn is one of the best written characters in this whole universe - Timothy Zahn is a genius. Still hope that the Ahsoka series will call this Sequel Trilogy only a possible thing in the multiverse through the "World between Worlds". Well - it's always HOPE... 😜
31:09 Spoilers about Darth Sidious' return Darth Sidious cheated death by using the dark side to transfer his essence to a clone of his original body. This allowed him to return to life after his first death in Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Sidious had been preparing contingencies for his eventual demise; his strandcast "son" Dathan was one such contingency, but because of his lack of Force power he was rejected as an unsuitable vessel for his father's essence. The body that Sidious inhabits in this movie is an imperfect clone of his original body. It basically can't sustain his spirit's connection to the dark side of the Force, which is the cause of the clone body's deterioration. Sidious needed a new host (ideally a body that could sustain his connection to the dark side) or else he would die permanently.
@@MrZackavelli In the reference book The Secrets of the Sith, Darth Sidious said he "rejected the useless creature" that was his clone/son, but allowed him to live in the hope that any child he had would inherit Sidious's power in the Force. Even though the clone itself was not Force-sensitive, his daughter Rey was strong in the Force by virtue of her genetic connection to her grandfather Sidious. This made her in Sidious's opinion the only worthy host for his spirit, which was trapped in a decaying imperfect clone body.
36:37 - Lin Manuel Miranda cameo on the right giving hug to someone. He was in England filming Mary Poppins Returns and was invited on set (he had done some SW work prior) and they glued a fake mustache on him and put him in the celebration scene.
I just figured something out. This whole series is about the alchemy principle of equivalent exchange or simply, you can't something for nothing. There must be an balance.
I’m still bummed by how this movie turned out. It has some good moments but it doesn’t come off like a complete story. It feels like a made-by-committee attempt to win back a fan base. I still hope you find something to love and I love watching you enjoy these!!
Totally disagree.. if you watch the making of doc you’ll see how much love and passion went into making this film.. Abrams and Terrio had an impossible task to wrap up an entire 9 movie saga and I think they did almost the best they could’ve done. Yes, almost, because of course i personally had ideas that would’ve in my opinion made it even better but I still think they did a fantastic job
Love your channel. Disappointed in your take on "the sequels". The Last Jedi is where Disney lost me. Continuity is important, and you'll find none of it in TLJ. It pains me to hear you compare it to Empire. That said, carry on. Like I said, I love your channel.
Shanelle was so impressed by the lesbian kiss but wait til she realizes that the actual plot of all three movies led us to a Palatine who is desperate to TRANSITION into a woman by tricking Rey into murdering him so his spirit can inhabit and take control of her body. REPRESENT!!!
Fun fact #1: C-3PO's Memories ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the end of Episode III, when C-3PO and R2-D2 are handed off to Bail Organa (Leia's adopted father), he orders C-3PO's memory wiped. Unlike R2-D2 (it's almost the only time they're apart), C-3PO was present when Anakin nearly killed Padmé and Obi-Wan left him for dead. He's one of the only characters who knows about Vader's true identity, and the children's parentage, and probably a bunch of sensitive Senate secrets as a protocol droid and translator during the last days of the Republic. To protect the children, especially given C-3PO's talkativeness, Bail orders the memory wipe, and from that point on C-3PO has no memory of the first three episodes. That's why when R2-D2 has a message for Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episode IV, C-3PO has no idea who he's talking about. But R2-D2 and C-3PO are the true "chroniclers" of these movies-at least, of the Skywalker Saga. When C-3PO sacrifices his memory in this movie, he gives up everything he is and all he remembers, with no indication that he'll ever get it back. It's a huge sacrifice and I at least found it very moving. But the real payoff is when BECAUSE he made that sacrifice, R2-D2 restores his memory... and, I think, restores it COMPLETELY, not just undoing the memory wipe in Episode IX but also the one at the end of Episode III. For the first time in the whole saga, C-3PO knows the whole story. It's the first time that he's truly made whole, and I think it gives him a really nice arc of his own. It also dovetails nicely with him saying, in Episode IV, "I'm really more of an interpreter, and not very good at telling stories." We know this is not true, because in Return of the Jedi he tells the Ewoks the whole story of the Rebellion's fight against the Empire and the basic events of the Original Trilogy, and wins the tribe over. Again, C-3PO does not get much credit for his pivotal role in the Battle of Endor, but he's the one who single-handedly recruits the Ewoks to the cause and shuts down the shield generator. Palpatine anticipated the Rebel attack, and stationed "an entire legion of my best troops" to wipe out a covert strike force of the size he anticipated the Rebel Alliance would send. There's no question the Imperial garrison would have been enough to wipe out an assault team of any size small enough to sneak onto Endor. The fact that C-3PO managed to raise a sizeable local population to fight alongside them gave the Rebels numbers and strength that the Emperor did not anticipate. Yet once again, because he's annoying and kind of prissy, C-3PO never gets much attention for just how important he is in these fights.
Rey Glass!! 😂😂 loved all your SW reactions! I could nitpick things all day esp about this film but I appreciate this franchise for always delivering all the feels 💯
For a franchise that has always been about the Skywalker family line, I believe Rey taking the Skywalker name to be one of the best and most profound scenes in the entire series of movies. It's the recognition of found family rather than just strict genetics. It's powerful and beautiful and framed by the visual echoing back to Episode IV that I saw as a child in the theater for the first time. She's a true Skywalker and that's a wonderful thing.
It was awesome to watch you become a Star Wars fan in real time! I’m glad you enjoyed the sequels as much as I did and I hope you do a Solo a star wars story vid 😄
@@Coonazz791 yeah I’ve noticed. Some hate them because there’s no story which is debatable. Others hate them because of things that were supposed to be the whole point of the movie
I will never be able to re-capture the feeling of watching Luke lift his X-Wing out of the water for the first time. As soon as I heard Yoda's theme playing & I saw the very tip of the X-Wing pass those rocks, I got so choked up, tears just kept on coming. He did what he couldn’t do back in Empire! Our whole theatre cheered. Also, hearing all the voices of Jedi Past, chills!
As a Star Wars fan since August 1977, I was very satisfied. When Lando took them to the festival, he said that they only do it it every 43 years, I cheered. Think about it, I waited, as did others, 43 years to see this movie. Loved it a lot. Thank you for watching these films with an open mind and enjoying it as a movie.
Loved your reactions . I like the way you start your videos with the oldschool blue VCR screen, I remember that but I remember when we didn't even get that lol danm I'm old
Well, I just finished binge watching ALL your Star Wars reactions. As someone who saw the original in the theater (first showing at 2 pm on opening day) I really appreciate reliving first watches through your reactions. And yes, I enjoyed ALL of the movies, though some were better than others. Star Wars is like sex - even mediocre Star Wars is better than no Star Wars. ;-) I especially enjoy your trivia sections - thanks for all the uploads Shanelle!
i definitely think Kylo/Ben and Rey are the most interesting part of the entire sequel trilogy. Adam Driver carried so much through his performance and his chemistry with Daisy Ridley added a lot on screen. their dyad being a rarity was beautiful as well as poetic. ppl say that they are so called reverse anidala and i see why. the journey to bringing ben back 2-/ worth it… until he died 😢 i was heartbroken for rey, losing her dyad right as she got him back. i hope they really think about bringing him back since he was never shown as a force ghost. here’s hoping 🤞❤️💙
29:40 _Lens Flare..._ I remember my whole class in college was using that effect so much the professor banned it or points would be deducted for any project.
Don’t feel bad for falling asleep during a Star Wars movie. When my niece, sister, friend, and I went to see Rogue One it was at a 10pm showing on a day where my friend and I who worked together had spent the day working overtime, my niece had to participate in an after school activity, and my sister had had to help my mom with her dog at the vet. In essence, we were all super tired by the time we got to the movie theater to watch the film. My sister didn’t make it past the trailers, my niece dozed off within the first few minutes of the film, and my friend fell asleep not long after the main characters all get together to start the journey (so still early on). They all woke up for the final scenes, but it was just me who stayed awake through the entire film and was now super tired and had to drive everyone home! So the lesson I learned from that was: don’t buy tickets to a movie in advance....especially tickets that are for the late show! Had we not already bought the tickets a week in advance, I’m pretty sure we would have just went the next day. But at the time we bought the tickets we didn’t know that my friend and I would have to work overtime, the my mom’s dog would get sick, or that my niece’s after school activity would run so late (like it ended at 9:30pm yet was supposed to originally end at 8pm!). So even Star Wars fan can fall asleep during a movie!! I remember leaving the theater after seeing this movie with my sister, niece, friend, his sons, another friend and her daughter and we were walking to head towards the front of the theater and lots of folks were chatting about the film. As we approached this area that’s a ramp that lets you bypass the ticket and concession counters to the exit, a kid (probably like 7 or 8) with parents who looked to be in the mid-20s started talking about how excited he was for 10, 11, and 12. The parents then replied that 9 was the last film for the Skywalker saga so there wouldn’t be a 10, 11, or 12. The kid started to insist that they just had to make a 10, 11, and 12 so we could see these main characters like we saw the original trilogy characters and the parents kept trying to explain that this Star Wars story was over but that there was plenty of other Star Wars stories coming. At one point while we were all outside on the sidewalk and waiting to cross to enter the parking lot, they were standing there and I turned to the parents and said that maybe they shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the idea of films 10, 11, and 12 because when I was growing up I never thought we’d get 1, 2, and 3 until we did. Then my friend with the sons pointed out that he was a kid when 1, 2, and 3 came out and he was told then there’d never be a 7, 8, and 9 and yet here we were leaving 9. My sister then joked that maybe Disney will pull a Paramount and just not label the ones after 9 as 10, 11, and 12 since Paramount stopped numbering Star Trek films after 6. To which the parents, who turned out to also be Trek fans said that they’d be okay with that so long as Disney have a reboot of the Star Wars films set in an alternative timeline. A joke that my sister, myself, and those parents got as we are also Trek fans, but which my niece, my friends and their kids, and the parents’ kid didn’t understand as they haven’t seen any Star Trek films, old or new. Great reaction! Enjoyed both your reaction and commentary as always!! Thanks for making and sharing this video!
It was fun watching these movies again through the eyes of someone new to the franchise. I love how invested you got into the character development. If you’re hooked and want more, there’s years worth of additional material through animation: The Clone Wars (tv show), StarWars-Rebels, and Bad Batch, which provide huge Easter-eggs for all of the main canon; as well as all of the new series’ and movies. Definitely check out Solo, Donald Glovers version on Lando is amazing. Once you’ve had your fill, I feel you should try to watch the 1978 Holiday special. It’s campy and ridiculous, and overall so bad that it is almost funny. I’d love to see your reaction to it.
The novelization explains Palpatine's return: When he was falling in Return of the Jedi, he used a Sith ability that transferred his essence into a clone body, but the transference was imperfect that caused his body to become old. Also, Palpatine and his followers literally made Snoke as he is not a clone but like a genetically made Frankenstein Monster.
@ShanelleRiccio - I never watched this last one, and now I spoiled it watching it with you here. You enjoyed it, and everyone else seemed to hate it. I liked your positive takes on the whole set. PLUS I'm watching it from you a year late. I just found you, so you're picking up some new view over here!
The question of Palpatine returning is explained in old comic books. I'm nut a hardcore fan and I don't care if it's canon or not, but I remember old comic books from the 90s, explaining the early years of Luke as the last Jedi master, trying to join Palpatine as his apprentice to destroy him after learning all about the sith arts. Palpatine was using the clone technology from Kamino, the same who created the clone army, but this time he created clones of his own body He got powerful enough to project his soul, like Yoda and Qui Gon, but also to occupy a new clone body and live forever. So by the time of this movie ha had possessed several of his new bodies. I watched the original movie when I was 6 in 1977. When I watched this I was like 49, I cried several times watching it, beyond the movie itself this is a lifetime story telling, and couldn't help replay my own real life, remembering the times the movies were released. Specially when C3PO says he was looking at his friends for a last time 😢
It is my favourite of the trilogy and O love that Kyle and Ray are soulmates, they have a unique connection, the force balancing back, and I got a great conclusion
I walked out of the theatre confused and disappointed. There was such a backlash against Episode 8, JJ Abrams just threw every fan service point into a cannon, shot it at a wall to see what would stick. Saying Palpatine came back IN THE OPENING CRAWL was so anticlimactic. How did he come back....why did he come back? Because......REASONS (cue Cinema Sins 'ding' here)! The planet killing Star Destroyers was just lazy writing.....not to mention a battle on the outside of one.... essentially in space. To date, this is the only Star Wars movie I saw just once in the theatre, and also don't own it on dvd.
Not the first time C-3PO didn't have a memory: it had already been wiped in the first film (which was not originally subtitled "Episode IV: A New Hope: in 1977). R2's memory was still intact but C-3PO's was not. We receive a reminder in Rogue One. On a separate note, I enjoyed the post-original trilogy sequels much more than the over-done prequels. As for the prequels and Emperor Palpatine, remember that he was the Sith who had learned how to cheat death. That's how he came back. And yes, it is true: Chewie finally received his medal for his role in destroying the first Death Star. His kind (non-human) was finally acknowledged. I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
I have been told that i cannot like these sequels if i am real sw fan.. and that they suck and etc... i am glad that your mood is about the same when i walked out of theater in opening week 🥰
A friend of mine made me go see this for a second time. Only time someone had to convince me to go see a Star Wars movie. I fell asleep, also a first. This movie is so long and boring. Things just keep happening but none of it is compelling or makes ay sense.
After I saw this, I joked with my family who hadn't seen it that it had the grossest scene in the history of Star Wars - they all went in thinking blood and gore, but all of them agreed that kiss was pretty unsettling. Other than that, I am like you - I am down for whatever Star Wars wants to give us. I haven't liked any of the series yet enough to stick with them, but all of the movies have been consistent with me. I know that some of them are better than others, but these 11 films (the Skywalker Saga 9 plus Solo and Rogue One) are some pretty magical movies, and mean a lot to me. My brother took me to see Rocky, and that is my first memory of ever seeing a movie. The second was the year after to see what will eventually be called Star Wars: A New Hope. I was 9 when I saw it in the theatre, and while I don't remember much of that first showing, Star Wars has kind of been the background of my life - along with Star Trek of course. I love them both, and hope someone on my favorite reactions list will eventually break down and go through the Star Trek films. Will it be you? :) Time will tell. Great reaction again, Shanelle...keep up the great work.
I've always approached Star Wars for 3 things: spaceship battles, lightsaber duels, and Force powers. So even though this movie hasn't aged well even in such a short time from a story perspective, that still doesn't keep me from being entertained.
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I was waiting for Shanelle to react to Rey speaking in _Parseltongue_ to the vexis, the vexis then asking “Rey who?”, and Rey replying “I am Rey… Rey Slytherin”.
Congrats on making it through all three trilogies and Rogue One, Shanelle. Your insights are always entertaining. However, you ain't good with Star Wars yet. You got one more to go, and that's Solo: A Star Wars Story! Let's go!
I really enjoy this movie. I have some issues here and there but overall it’s one of the most fun Star Wars movies to watch, and I do like it more than force awakens (tho Last Jedi is by far my favorite of this trilogy).
An aside just back from watching Avatar at a packed BFI IMAX(London) in IMAX 3D, I hope that you manage to catch it on the biggest possible screen during this short re-release.
Palpatine told Anakin about Darth Plagueis. Palpatine was obviously the apprentice of Plagueis. His lich form is the dark side version of Jedi force ghosts.
Your commentary is the only reason I would sit through this again. Your presence makes this movie better. Adam driver was the best thing about this movie. Legend. Finn had great potential. Started strong but they wasted him. Rey doesn't deserve to stand before double suns. No problem with Daisy Ridley she did her thing. But the character Rey is the worst.
When you said, "I don't believe it." And was pretty much ignoring Palpatine taking Rey and Ren's life force cos you knew it didn't really mean anything was the same way I felt about most of the movie. I found my lack of emotion to to this movie so disappointing that I only felt glad when it ended.
Sadly they weren't really able to do a lot with him because he's already very old. Showing him just sitting in the cockpit of the Falcon or standing somewhere was possible but action scenes were not. Well, better than nothing.
"Someone needs to lose an arm right now to make me happy..." Sadly, the only limb removal in the sequels is Snoke's hand. Leave it to JJ to make the only two Star Wars movies without a dismemberment.
I'm glad I watched this. This is the first Rise of Skywalker content I've watched since I first saw it in theatres and hated it. While I still have issues with some of the decisions that were made, I think I've softened on it a bit. I may need to give it another watch.
Ben and Han's meeting is a replay moment for Ben after The Force Awakens. The way the scene is shot, the characters are face-to-face, and dialogue repeats. "I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it".
I like that Han's last line in this scene is "I know!" A callback/parallel to his well-known Empire Strikes Back line.
I love the “i know” too! It infers that when Ben starts “Dad-“ and then gets too choked up to finish, that he meant “I love you.”
Maz giving Chewie the medal actually makes a lot of sense once you realize that she’s passing along Han’s medal which Leia had been holding onto.
They should’ve made that clear
@@Jjj-zz7bz To be fair, "They should’ve made that clear" applies to pretty much all of that movie. 👍
@@gregstephens 100%
The fans were passed that Chewbacca didn't get a hug from Leia after Han's death. She hugged the basically unknown Rey.
Actually, no it's not Han's medal - it's Luke's.
"To settle his tab with Maz Kanata, Solo gave the pirate queen his medal, which she kept in her castle on Takodana. During the New Republic Era, the Force-sensitive Karr Nuq Sin traveled to Takodana to deliver a package to Kanata for Dok-Ondar. Whilst at the castle, Sin touched the medal as part of a test by Kanata, and revealed to the pirate that Solo had actually given her Skywalker's medal." - Taken from the novel "Star Wars: Force Collector".
So in Disney SW canon, Han stole his best friends' medal because he sold his own for drinking money.
Thanks Disney.....
Rey wasn’t projecting herself like Luke did. Her and Kylo could just see each other through their connection.
They said there were two transports. Chewie was on the one that wasn’t destroyed. You can actually see them side by side when he’s captured but it’s easy to miss.
It’s not 100% explicitly confirmed in the movie but Palpatine is a clone that his spirit is possessing. His evil and immense dark side power made his new body deteriorate, which is why he’s hooked up to that life support robot arm. His “son” was also a clone, _so no one hooked up with Palpy!_ Palpatine’s sith cultists tried to clone him a better body to move his spirit into, and they did, it was perfect, except that it wasn’t force sensitive, so he wouldn’t have force powers if he put himself in it. Palpatine saw him as useless for his intended purpose but kept him alive to ensure the possibility of his bloodline continuing. The clone eventually escaped and did just that, making Rey
Dyads are very rare
The reinforcements of just people is great…if you didn’t watch the trailer that spoiled it.
Chewie getting a medal was actually remedied/retconned a long time ago in his own comic. It retcons that he did get one along with Luke and Han, though he ends up giving it away to a young woman he helps shortly after.
Luke and Leia were not a dyad. Rey and Ben are the only known one
@Darkstar nobody would even want to be with him.
I saw this movie on its first day. I was holding back tears when Leia passed away for two reasons. One because Carrie Fisher's passing in real life before this movie and the second reason is that R2 was present for Leia's birth and her passing. My second time seeing was on a date. I took my girlfriend to see it in 4DX. When Leia passed away my girlfriend couldn't stop crying even after the movie was over when we were heading home. I'm glad you really enjoyed this film. Can't wait to see you react to more movies I love
40:47 They kill Kylo, then take it right back. They kill Rey, then take it right back. They wipe C3PO's memory, then take it right back. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
Lens flare is a J.J. Abrahms signature. Thank you for loving the sequel trilogy as much as I did.
Among the voices of past Jedi are ones that you have seen in the Prequels, as well as ones from 'The Clone Wars' and 'Rebels' animated series. The voices were of the actors from the shows: Freddie Prinze, Jr (Kanan Jarrus, Rebels), Jennifer Hale (Aayla Secura, Clone Wars), Olivia D'Abo (Luminara Unduli, Clone Wars), and Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano from both Clone Wars and Rebels).
In a blink and you'll miss him cameo at the end of the movie, during the celebrations is Lin-Manuel Miranda as a rebel.
Among the ships that show up with Lando at Exegol is The Ghost, the main ship of 'Star Wars: Rebels'.
The gunner on the Millennium Falcon who says "Nice flying, Lando!" is Wedge Antilles, the best X-wing pilot in the Original Trilogy played by Denis Lawson, uncle to Ewan McGregor.
Something I missed about that medal until I heard Kevin Smith explain it, is that was Han Solo's medal he got from the end of A New Hope. Leia was holding the medal when she was connecting with Kylo. Chewie was getting Han's medal.
21:06 Spoilers concerning the question about Rey's father
Rey's father is a strandcast, an artificial being that was "cloned" from an original genetic source, i.e. Emperor Sheev Palpatine (aka Darth Sidious).
Even though he was engineered from Sidious' DNA, he wasn't Force-sensitive like his "father." Because of this, Sidious hated his "son" and considered him a useless failed experiment, but he allowed the strandcast to live in the hope that he would produce a child who would inherit the Force potential of the Palpatine bloodline. This was accomplished when the strandcast fathered a daughter, Rey, whose mother was a woman named Miramir.
Despite his biological link to the Emperor, the strandcast originally didn't have a name. His creators simply called him "the Abomination." He adopted the name "Dathan" after running away from Exegol.
This information isn't in the movie, but it can be found in other sources such as reference books and novels, including The Secrets of the Sith and The Shadow of the Sith.
So a better movie happened offscreen.
@@TDSAtlantis That's just backstory. And without good filmmakers, it could have been the worst film ever made, no matter what the story details. Don't be petty.
I'm not sure what's petty about thinking the script was insultingly weak. That should be very evident. And while I have no ill will with Adrams or his lens flares, it really is bottom-three Star Wars, and that's a total shame.
@@robertreichle1 It's pretty damn near close to that as it is 🤣
They *did* explain how Palpatine returned. “Somehow”
You should give "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" a watch..... now THAT's fight choreography.
So my main thoughts on this movie. When Poe uttered the line "Somehow Palpatine Returned" it pretty much made me leave the theatre for about 10 minutes to calm down and force myself to get through the rest of this because I literally shouted "what" out loud. Next the ending made absolutely no sense to me. When Rey declares she's Rey Skywalker I literally had an image of Palatine's face superimposed over Rey's face cackling his evil Sith laugh. Because in that moment to me Palpatine has achieved his final victory over the Jedi and Anakin and Luke. His over powered descendent has somehow usurped a Jedi identity and inserted themselves as a self declared force of good. I'm imagining her now quietly going about her business accumulating power ready to step in and take over when the dark side kicks in. Finally it isn't until this movie that we get any interaction between Rey and Poe but now after two movies they've somehow bonded and become besties? Also how the actual fuck did the first order accumulate the largest star fleet ever assembled when it's nowhere near as big as the Empire was? Gawd it's such awful fan fiction pandering. I've tried rewatching this a few times because I read commentary that makes me want to rethink the film and when I see it my active hate just gets reignited when I see new things that I missed and make me actually find more that I dislike. Finally the fact that Palpatine survived and Rey had to defeat him again makes a mockery to me of Vader's sacrifice and the fact of the prophecy that he was The Chosen One. He actually failed and didn't restore balance to the force. It was all meaningless and shit over all the first 6 movies.
I think the issue was trying to continue a story that already had an ending.
Gotta love people who give a darn
@@fu6817 I'm not sure I'd go that far. I've seen some of her reviews of Tarantino movies I thought were well done. I think it's more along the lines of she doesn't want to come down too hard on movies she thinks her fan base likes as she's trying to keep viewers and patrons engaged. It's all about the likes, clicks and subscriptions.
You have such a great, joyful, approach to these movies and really seem to appreciate the camp and silliness which is also a soft spot of mine. It was such a pleasure to join you on your Star Wars journey! I hope you consider the TV shows, especially Clone Wars and Rebels!
Can't wait for you to watch the Mandalorian... Way different in tone and hits the feels.
As for the dyad, the canonical explanation right now is that it's a very rare kind of force connection for two force-sensitive beings to have that has not been seen in millennia. The Sith attempted to recreate it through their rule of two approach of having only one master and one apprentice at a time, as well as it keeping their numbers small and undetectable through the force.
In the novelizations of these films, a scene occurs where a child Rey senses Ben through the force before ever meeting him, with Ben also becoming aware of the presence of a little girl at the same time. This is why in The Force Awakens when Kylo attempts to read Rey's mind for the first time, she shudders and he says, "don't be afraid, I feel it too." They both finally sense that connection reigniting.
A part of me thought that because of his hand placement Ben gave Rey a baby via the force.
Please watch STAR TREK! Give it a chance! 🖖
What that emoji is a real thing🖖🏻oh my gosh it is
I think The Mandalorian is the best thing Star Wars since the original trilogy. I haven't seen you react to a streaming series before but I definitely recommend this one!
More like The Manda-bore-ian.
@@waytospergtherebro Everything since the original trilogy was more boring.
@@matthalaboo6694 I'd argue Mandalorian is second only to Rogue One, but I like that the Force is a more subtle, well, force in those projects
I both love and hate this movie, but I have nothing but love for your Star Wars journey! Thank you for your reactions, and your positive outlook! 💖
"somehow palpatine returned 🙄"
This line and delivery perfectly captures how bad and phoned in this movie was 🤣
i get the feeling a lot of hate comments were deleted
As they should be
Something I really love about the ending: JJ and Terrio stated in an article interview that when Rey wraps the lightsabers at the end, she is doing so almost as if swaddling infants. Shes symbolically burying Luke and Leia “together, as they always should’ve been.” In effect, righting the wrong of their separation at birth, and I love that so much.
Also find it beautiful that the saga starts with a Palpatine becoming a father figure to a Skywalker (The Emperor manipulating Anakin from a young age, after Qui-Gon, the would-be father figure’s death) which enslaves the galaxy in the process. The saga then ends with a Skywalker becoming a mother figure to a Palpatine (Leia mentoring Rey) and the Galaxy is freed in the process. ❤
If you haven't seen them, and like JJ's camera work, you can stay in space theme and react to the three-movie Star Trek reboot he did.
Can I piggyback on that idea and say it would be cool if she reacted to all the Star Trek movies? The J.J. ones can be the payoff at end. Kind of like with the SW movies.
"Someone needs to lose and arm right now to make me happy" lol Things we could only ever hear in the Star Wars fandom
RE Palpatine: in ep3 Revenge of the Sith we hear Palps tell Anakin he's trying to unlock the secret to cheating death using unnatural dark side powers of the Force. In between ep3 and ep6 Palps did unlock the secret. He had been making prototype clone bodies so that if ever he were about to die he could cast his spirit/essence out to inhabit a clone body, leaving the empty husk of the original body to die. Which is what happened in ep6 Return of the Jedi. He was tossed down that chasm and as he fell he left his body in favor of his clone waiting on exegol, and his empty husk body lands lifeless in that chasm (and then that Death Star blew up later). The dark side ritual worked but not as well as hoped, he was still weak and feeble. He had to sit on Exegol with his medical team to survive so he used a deformed prototype clone body as an avatar that he could puppet remotely using the dark side. That's what Snoke was. That's why Palps tells Kylo "I made Snoke". This all also explains with he also tells Kylo "I've died before" and he even repeats to Kylo what he told Anakin in ep3 "the dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural" as a signifier to the audience that yes he did finally unlock the secret to cheating death. Draining the life force from a Dyad (Ben and Rey) cured him of his weakened state and he was ready to rule the galaxy himself. So Rey and the Jedi of the past joined their forces to destroy the evil Palpatine's body _and_ spirit this time. So now he can never return again (because his spirit was destroyed before he could cast it out into a backup clone again).
Shanelle remember in Star Wars III that The Emperor told Anakin about the Sith Lord that could keep someone from dying and the Apprentice that learned how to do it and Killed his Master. Emperor Palpatine was the Apprentice and used that knowledge to come back. So, this happening in Episode IX refers back to Episode III without saying How.
in ep3 Revenge of the Sith we hear Palps tell Anakin he's trying to unlock the secret to cheating death using unnatural dark side powers of the Force. In between ep3 and ep6 Palps did unlock the secret. He had been making prototype clone bodies so that if ever he were about to die he could cast his spirit/essence out to inhabit a clone body, leaving the empty husk of the original body to die. Which is what happened in ep6 Return of the Jedi. He was tossed down that chasm and as he fell he left his body in favor of his clone waiting on exegol, and his empty husk body lands lifeless in that chasm (and then that Death Star blew up later). The dark side ritual worked but not as well as hoped, he was still weak and feeble. He had to sit on Exegol with his medical team to survive so he used a deformed prototype clone body as an avatar that he could puppet remotely using the dark side. That's what Snoke was. That's why Palps tells Kylo "I made Snoke". This all also explains why he also tells Kylo "I've died before" and he even repeats to Kylo what he told Anakin in ep3 "the dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural" as a signifier to the audience that yes he did finally unlock the secret to cheating death. Draining the life force from a Dyad (Ben and Rey) cured him of his weakened state and he was ready to rule the galaxy himself. So Rey and the Jedi of the past joined their forces to destroy the evil Palpatine's body and spirit this time. So now he can never return again (because his spirit was destroyed before he could cast it out into a backup clone again).
Shanelle, Don't forget to add this vid (and your reaction to The Last Jedi) to your Star Wars playlist
yes made them harder to find
You somehow made me enjoy this film again! Thank you for the fun reaction! 💜
Apparently John Williams will be knighted by our new King Charles III - for services to movie music.
The late Queen Elizabeth agreed his knighthood shortly before she died - as part of her last honours list.
Wow, cool factoid! Didn't know that.
Palpating didn’t have a kid, he had a clone. That clone broke away and tried to have a family.
Even in the old books, Palpatine was a big fan of cloning himself. Palpatine in this movie isn’t the one that fell down the Death Star’s shaft, he used the force to transfer his consciousness in a cloned body.
Yeaaaah but "somehow Palpatine returned" just sorta sums it up a lot easier
@@GuyDudeman yeah, because they had to do something since it wasn’t setup in the previous movies. 🤦♂️
It is a rip off from Dark Empire.
@ yes, having a Palpy clone was the most pre-Disney Star Wars thing Disney could have done
@@merchillio yeah, but it’s how they did it that’s the problem.
Best two moments to kylo ren destroying knights of ren to help Rey confront the ^Emperor and Landos arrival with the fleet.
no one screams in sorrowful pain like Chewie 😭
If you like a McGuffin hunt, then this is your film.
The thing is The Emperor in Episode 9 isn't the real Palpatine he died on the second Death Star he even said so to Kylo Ren " I've been Dead Before " which tells me that he is a Clone and they show that he has been Cloning himself hence all the Snoke parts aslo Merry from Lord of the Rings also mentions Cloning and Sith Majic so did they go into detail no but personally I don't need a 5 to 20 minute flashback scene I got it without all that aslo Rey's father is Palpatine's son or actually he's a Clone who somehow didn't gave access to the Force so Rey is technically a daughter of the Clone of Palpatine
Someone pointed out that R2-D2 was present when Leia was born at the end of Revenge of the Sith and also when she died in this movie.
Tech in the Star Wars world clearly didn't have planned obsolescence.
I like when Ben does the little quarter bow after Rey gives him the saber through the force. It's like they knew it was a stretch to do, and ben was like "yup, we just did that." Lol.
I took that as a total Han Solo move. He stopped being a bad Skywalker and was totally his father's son in that moment
@@Owlyross never thought about that before, but that totally makes sense and I love it!
And it's not like it was totally out of nowhere, they built up to it.
Cringeworthy gesture.
I LOVE that you liked this movie. I've been a longtime fan of Star Wars having been born in 1977 when the first one came out. I heard so many negative things about this movie so much that I avoided watching it. When I sucked it up and did I was so relieved. I loved it.
Same, Carrie. Also born in 1977, and never knew a time when there was NOT a Star Wars in my life. This movie really wrapped the saga for me, the voices, the music, and real emotion. 45 years for a payoff ... WORTH IT!
Same. I did watch episode I, and I thought it was actually pretty entertaining. But not _quite_ a Star Wars film, somehow. So I stopped watching after that.
I've only just seen the cut version of the rest of the prequels and sequels through the reactions on this channel.
And those reactions were so entertaining and enthusiastic that I've decided to buy a box set of the whole lot and watch them all in full over Christmas this year.
@@Varksterable good for you! Enjoy your Star Wars Christmas in a galaxy far, far away...😊🌲
@@dustinkennemer5033 so glad someone of my generation agrees. I have always loved the movies and admittedly stole my brother's action figures as a kid. The Jawa was my favorite back then, but the emperor was pretty cool too. Too bad I don't still have them. 😊 I haven't watched the "extra" movies like Rogue One and Solo but as a true movie fan I need to add those to my list.
@@carriesmith742 oh dude, DEFINITELY check out Rogue 1. You'll love it 🙂
For me, Episode VIII and IX are battling for worst Star Wars movie. Yes they have great pictures, but the writing is crap deluxe. Episode VII had at least a bit nice story...
I grew up with the books after Episode VI. For me the sequels are "Truce at Bakura", "The Courtship of Princess Leia" and of course the best Star Wars story ever - the first Thrawn Trilogy. Thrawn is one of the best written characters in this whole universe - Timothy Zahn is a genius.
Still hope that the Ahsoka series will call this Sequel Trilogy only a possible thing in the multiverse through the "World between Worlds". Well - it's always HOPE... 😜
31:09 Spoilers about Darth Sidious' return
Darth Sidious cheated death by using the dark side to transfer his essence to a clone of his original body. This allowed him to return to life after his first death in Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
Sidious had been preparing contingencies for his eventual demise; his strandcast "son" Dathan was one such contingency, but because of his lack of Force power he was rejected as an unsuitable vessel for his father's essence.
The body that Sidious inhabits in this movie is an imperfect clone of his original body. It basically can't sustain his spirit's connection to the dark side of the Force, which is the cause of the clone body's deterioration. Sidious needed a new host (ideally a body that could sustain his connection to the dark side) or else he would die permanently.
But why did Sidious just let this imperfect clone of his go out in the galaxy? Why didn't an evil guy like Palpatine just kill him?
@@MrZackavelli In the reference book The Secrets of the Sith, Darth Sidious said he "rejected the useless creature" that was his clone/son, but allowed him to live in the hope that any child he had would inherit Sidious's power in the Force.
Even though the clone itself was not Force-sensitive, his daughter Rey was strong in the Force by virtue of her genetic connection to her grandfather Sidious. This made her in Sidious's opinion the only worthy host for his spirit, which was trapped in a decaying imperfect clone body.
@@noname01xr Ah, another plothole being patched up by the novel. Thats not good enough.
Dead IP walking! With this movie SW officially sank to level of the now kaput Terminator, Predator, Star Trek & Dr Who franchises.
Shanelle: "Ok, explain that."
Movie: "No."
lol
36:37 - Lin Manuel Miranda cameo on the right giving hug to someone. He was in England filming Mary Poppins Returns and was invited on set (he had done some SW work prior) and they glued a fake mustache on him and put him in the celebration scene.
I just figured something out. This whole series is about the alchemy principle of equivalent exchange or simply, you can't something for nothing. There must be an balance.
I’m still bummed by how this movie turned out. It has some good moments but it doesn’t come off like a complete story. It feels like a made-by-committee attempt to win back a fan base. I still hope you find something to love and I love watching you enjoy these!!
Disagree
Totally disagree.. if you watch the making of doc you’ll see how much love and passion went into making this film.. Abrams and Terrio had an impossible task to wrap up an entire 9 movie saga and I think they did almost the best they could’ve done. Yes, almost, because of course i personally had ideas that would’ve in my opinion made it even better but I still think they did a fantastic job
@@captainfilip7188They didn't have to make both previous Trilogies pointless.
@@tritonk1759 well then it’s a good thing they didn’t, isn’t it? 😊
@@captainfilip7188 They did...
Love your channel. Disappointed in your take on "the sequels". The Last Jedi is where Disney lost me. Continuity is important, and you'll find none of it in TLJ. It pains me to hear you compare it to Empire. That said, carry on. Like I said, I love your channel.
Shanelle was so impressed by the lesbian kiss but wait til she realizes that the actual plot of all three movies led us to a Palatine who is desperate to TRANSITION into a woman by tricking Rey into murdering him so his spirit can inhabit and take control of her body. REPRESENT!!!
Fun fact #1: C-3PO's Memories
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At the end of Episode III, when C-3PO and R2-D2 are handed off to Bail Organa (Leia's adopted father), he orders C-3PO's memory wiped. Unlike R2-D2 (it's almost the only time they're apart), C-3PO was present when Anakin nearly killed Padmé and Obi-Wan left him for dead. He's one of the only characters who knows about Vader's true identity, and the children's parentage, and probably a bunch of sensitive Senate secrets as a protocol droid and translator during the last days of the Republic. To protect the children, especially given C-3PO's talkativeness, Bail orders the memory wipe, and from that point on C-3PO has no memory of the first three episodes.
That's why when R2-D2 has a message for Obi-Wan Kenobi in Episode IV, C-3PO has no idea who he's talking about.
But R2-D2 and C-3PO are the true "chroniclers" of these movies-at least, of the Skywalker Saga. When C-3PO sacrifices his memory in this movie, he gives up everything he is and all he remembers, with no indication that he'll ever get it back. It's a huge sacrifice and I at least found it very moving. But the real payoff is when BECAUSE he made that sacrifice, R2-D2 restores his memory... and, I think, restores it COMPLETELY, not just undoing the memory wipe in Episode IX but also the one at the end of Episode III. For the first time in the whole saga, C-3PO knows the whole story. It's the first time that he's truly made whole, and I think it gives him a really nice arc of his own.
It also dovetails nicely with him saying, in Episode IV, "I'm really more of an interpreter, and not very good at telling stories." We know this is not true, because in Return of the Jedi he tells the Ewoks the whole story of the Rebellion's fight against the Empire and the basic events of the Original Trilogy, and wins the tribe over. Again, C-3PO does not get much credit for his pivotal role in the Battle of Endor, but he's the one who single-handedly recruits the Ewoks to the cause and shuts down the shield generator. Palpatine anticipated the Rebel attack, and stationed "an entire legion of my best troops" to wipe out a covert strike force of the size he anticipated the Rebel Alliance would send. There's no question the Imperial garrison would have been enough to wipe out an assault team of any size small enough to sneak onto Endor. The fact that C-3PO managed to raise a sizeable local population to fight alongside them gave the Rebels numbers and strength that the Emperor did not anticipate. Yet once again, because he's annoying and kind of prissy, C-3PO never gets much attention for just how important he is in these fights.
Rey Glass!! 😂😂 loved all your SW reactions! I could nitpick things all day esp about this film but I appreciate this franchise for always delivering all the feels 💯
For a franchise that has always been about the Skywalker family line, I believe Rey taking the Skywalker name to be one of the best and most profound scenes in the entire series of movies. It's the recognition of found family rather than just strict genetics. It's powerful and beautiful and framed by the visual echoing back to Episode IV that I saw as a child in the theater for the first time. She's a true Skywalker and that's a wonderful thing.
It was awesome to watch you become a Star Wars fan in real time! I’m glad you enjoyed the sequels as much as I did and I hope you do a Solo a star wars story vid 😄
yesss wanna do Solo!!
Why aren’t their more comments like this one
@@ShanelleRiccio Yes Solo is a good movie, and after you need to have a desert - Spaceballs!! 🤣🤣🤣👌
@@Jackferrett6781 because there are a ton of ppl that don’t like the sequels. Lol
@@Coonazz791 yeah I’ve noticed. Some hate them because there’s no story which is debatable. Others hate them because of things that were supposed to be the whole point of the movie
When chewie got his medal, someone chopped fresh strong onions at the theater. & again every time I've watched since.
I will never be able to re-capture the feeling of watching Luke lift his X-Wing out of the water for the first time. As soon as I heard Yoda's theme playing & I saw the very tip of the X-Wing pass those rocks, I got so choked up, tears just kept on coming. He did what he couldn’t do back in Empire! Our whole theatre cheered. Also, hearing all the voices of Jedi Past, chills!
There was so much terrible in this movie. JJ should have stayed home.
As a Star Wars fan since August 1977, I was very satisfied. When Lando took them to the festival, he said that they only do it it every 43 years, I cheered. Think about it, I waited, as did others, 43 years to see this movie. Loved it a lot. Thank you for watching these films with an open mind and enjoying it as a movie.
You have to watch "Star TREK"! 🖖😊
I 2nd the motion! 😃
It’s only logical. 🤨
Start with Star trek 2 wrath of Khan or just watch the first one promising to watch the second
0:34 - Lucasfilm's owned by Disney. They haven't finished running the franchise into the ground just yet. 😉
You know, Han's 'I know' was a reprise, for Kylo's unspoken line. That gave _me_ chills.
Loved your reactions . I like the way you start your videos with the oldschool blue VCR screen, I remember that but I remember when we didn't even get that lol danm I'm old
When Ben Solo encounters the Knights of Ren, I would have paid money to hear him mutter under his breath: "Didn't we just leave this party?"
Well, I just finished binge watching ALL your Star Wars reactions. As someone who saw the original in the theater (first showing at 2 pm on opening day) I really appreciate reliving first watches through your reactions. And yes, I enjoyed ALL of the movies, though some were better than others. Star Wars is like sex - even mediocre Star Wars is better than no Star Wars. ;-)
I especially enjoy your trivia sections - thanks for all the uploads Shanelle!
I insist on enjoying this movie. Thanks for letting me revisit it with you!! ⭐🤟🏻
Yay!! I love your reaction and your analysis at the end! Thanks again for your video and your review!
i definitely think Kylo/Ben and Rey are the most interesting part of the entire sequel trilogy. Adam Driver carried so much through his performance and his chemistry with Daisy Ridley added a lot on screen. their dyad being a rarity was beautiful as well as poetic. ppl say that they are so called reverse anidala and i see why. the journey to bringing ben back 2-/ worth it… until he died 😢 i was heartbroken for rey, losing her dyad right as she got him back. i hope they really think about bringing him back since he was never shown as a force ghost. here’s hoping 🤞❤️💙
@Darkstar k 🤨
There's a classic movie that you might enjoy from 1995 called Major Payne starring Damon Wayans. It is a comedy and I think worth a watch
"The Dead Speak!" may be the worst opening words to a Star Wars crawl.
29:40 _Lens Flare..._ I remember my whole class in college was using that effect so much the professor banned it or points would be deducted for any project.
Don’t feel bad for falling asleep during a Star Wars movie. When my niece, sister, friend, and I went to see Rogue One it was at a 10pm showing on a day where my friend and I who worked together had spent the day working overtime, my niece had to participate in an after school activity, and my sister had had to help my mom with her dog at the vet. In essence, we were all super tired by the time we got to the movie theater to watch the film. My sister didn’t make it past the trailers, my niece dozed off within the first few minutes of the film, and my friend fell asleep not long after the main characters all get together to start the journey (so still early on). They all woke up for the final scenes, but it was just me who stayed awake through the entire film and was now super tired and had to drive everyone home! So the lesson I learned from that was: don’t buy tickets to a movie in advance....especially tickets that are for the late show! Had we not already bought the tickets a week in advance, I’m pretty sure we would have just went the next day. But at the time we bought the tickets we didn’t know that my friend and I would have to work overtime, the my mom’s dog would get sick, or that my niece’s after school activity would run so late (like it ended at 9:30pm yet was supposed to originally end at 8pm!). So even Star Wars fan can fall asleep during a movie!!
I remember leaving the theater after seeing this movie with my sister, niece, friend, his sons, another friend and her daughter and we were walking to head towards the front of the theater and lots of folks were chatting about the film. As we approached this area that’s a ramp that lets you bypass the ticket and concession counters to the exit, a kid (probably like 7 or 8) with parents who looked to be in the mid-20s started talking about how excited he was for 10, 11, and 12. The parents then replied that 9 was the last film for the Skywalker saga so there wouldn’t be a 10, 11, or 12. The kid started to insist that they just had to make a 10, 11, and 12 so we could see these main characters like we saw the original trilogy characters and the parents kept trying to explain that this Star Wars story was over but that there was plenty of other Star Wars stories coming. At one point while we were all outside on the sidewalk and waiting to cross to enter the parking lot, they were standing there and I turned to the parents and said that maybe they shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the idea of films 10, 11, and 12 because when I was growing up I never thought we’d get 1, 2, and 3 until we did. Then my friend with the sons pointed out that he was a kid when 1, 2, and 3 came out and he was told then there’d never be a 7, 8, and 9 and yet here we were leaving 9. My sister then joked that maybe Disney will pull a Paramount and just not label the ones after 9 as 10, 11, and 12 since Paramount stopped numbering Star Trek films after 6. To which the parents, who turned out to also be Trek fans said that they’d be okay with that so long as Disney have a reboot of the Star Wars films set in an alternative timeline. A joke that my sister, myself, and those parents got as we are also Trek fans, but which my niece, my friends and their kids, and the parents’ kid didn’t understand as they haven’t seen any Star Trek films, old or new.
Great reaction! Enjoyed both your reaction and commentary as always!! Thanks for making and sharing this video!
It was fun watching these movies again through the eyes of someone new to the franchise. I love how invested you got into the character development. If you’re hooked and want more, there’s years worth of additional material through animation: The Clone Wars (tv show), StarWars-Rebels, and Bad Batch, which provide huge Easter-eggs for all of the main canon; as well as all of the new series’ and movies. Definitely check out Solo, Donald Glovers version on Lando is amazing.
Once you’ve had your fill, I feel you should try to watch the 1978 Holiday special. It’s campy and ridiculous, and overall so bad that it is almost funny. I’d love to see your reaction to it.
In the comic for the first Star Wars, it says that Chewie gets a medal too, only later as he was too tall for Leia to reach
The novelization explains Palpatine's return: When he was falling in Return of the Jedi, he used a Sith ability that transferred his essence into a clone body, but the transference was imperfect that caused his body to become old.
Also, Palpatine and his followers literally made Snoke as he is not a clone but like a genetically made Frankenstein Monster.
@ShanelleRiccio - I never watched this last one, and now I spoiled it watching it with you here. You enjoyed it, and everyone else seemed to hate it. I liked your positive takes on the whole set. PLUS I'm watching it from you a year late. I just found you, so you're picking up some new view over here!
This is the one where Rey literally pushes an amputee to the ground in order for women to become stronger.
The question of Palpatine returning is explained in old comic books. I'm nut a hardcore fan and I don't care if it's canon or not, but I remember old comic books from the 90s, explaining the early years of Luke as the last Jedi master, trying to join Palpatine as his apprentice to destroy him after learning all about the sith arts. Palpatine was using the clone technology from Kamino, the same who created the clone army, but this time he created clones of his own body He got powerful enough to project his soul, like Yoda and Qui Gon, but also to occupy a new clone body and live forever. So by the time of this movie ha had possessed several of his new bodies. I watched the original movie when I was 6 in 1977. When I watched this I was like 49, I cried several times watching it, beyond the movie itself this is a lifetime story telling, and couldn't help replay my own real life, remembering the times the movies were released. Specially when C3PO says he was looking at his friends for a last time 😢
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"Offer me money! [...] Power, too. Promise me that! [...] Offer me everything I ask for."
It is my favourite of the trilogy and O love that Kyle and Ray are soulmates, they have a unique connection, the force balancing back, and I got a great conclusion
Great to see Denis Lawson as Wedge again doing what he do.
I walked out of the theatre confused and disappointed. There was such a backlash against Episode 8, JJ Abrams just threw every fan service point into a cannon, shot it at a wall to see what would stick. Saying Palpatine came back IN THE OPENING CRAWL was so anticlimactic. How did he come back....why did he come back? Because......REASONS (cue Cinema Sins 'ding' here)! The planet killing Star Destroyers was just lazy writing.....not to mention a battle on the outside of one.... essentially in space. To date, this is the only Star Wars movie I saw just once in the theatre, and also don't own it on dvd.
"Win the war".
Voiced by Mark Hamill.
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"On that note I'm gonna go eat…. And you should too"
It's 18:35 now.. haven't had breakfast yet... You're probably right
Not the first time C-3PO didn't have a memory: it had already been wiped in the first film (which was not originally subtitled "Episode IV: A New Hope: in 1977). R2's memory was still intact but C-3PO's was not. We receive a reminder in Rogue One. On a separate note, I enjoyed the post-original trilogy sequels much more than the over-done prequels. As for the prequels and Emperor Palpatine, remember that he was the Sith who had learned how to cheat death. That's how he came back. And yes, it is true: Chewie finally received his medal for his role in destroying the first Death Star. His kind (non-human) was finally acknowledged. I thoroughly enjoyed this one.
Yes! Exactly as I felt! Thank you, Shanelle! 😁 👍
I have been told that i cannot like these sequels if i am real sw fan.. and that they suck and etc... i am glad that your mood is about the same when i walked out of theater in opening week 🥰
Rule number 1: Do not listen to Star Wars fans as they do not know what the fuck they are talking about
Longtime Star Wars fans have roasted this and Last Jedi on TH-cam. It’s the newbies who think these movies are fine.
31:08 They did explain! Weren't you listening... they said "somehow". 😐
A friend of mine made me go see this for a second time. Only time someone had to convince me to go see a Star Wars movie. I fell asleep, also a first. This movie is so long and boring. Things just keep happening but none of it is compelling or makes ay sense.
After I saw this, I joked with my family who hadn't seen it that it had the grossest scene in the history of Star Wars - they all went in thinking blood and gore, but all of them agreed that kiss was pretty unsettling.
Other than that, I am like you - I am down for whatever Star Wars wants to give us. I haven't liked any of the series yet enough to stick with them, but all of the movies have been consistent with me. I know that some of them are better than others, but these 11 films (the Skywalker Saga 9 plus Solo and Rogue One) are some pretty magical movies, and mean a lot to me. My brother took me to see Rocky, and that is my first memory of ever seeing a movie. The second was the year after to see what will eventually be called Star Wars: A New Hope. I was 9 when I saw it in the theatre, and while I don't remember much of that first showing, Star Wars has kind of been the background of my life - along with Star Trek of course. I love them both, and hope someone on my favorite reactions list will eventually break down and go through the Star Trek films. Will it be you? :) Time will tell.
Great reaction again, Shanelle...keep up the great work.
I've always approached Star Wars for 3 things: spaceship battles, lightsaber duels, and Force powers. So even though this movie hasn't aged well even in such a short time from a story perspective, that still doesn't keep me from being entertained.
I was waiting for Shanelle to react to Rey speaking in _Parseltongue_ to the vexis, the vexis then asking “Rey who?”, and Rey replying “I am Rey… Rey Slytherin”.
29:07 - VERY astute observation! Yes, and though in some scenes a bit forced or rushed, they conveyed that magnificently.
Congrats on making it through all three trilogies and Rogue One, Shanelle. Your insights are always entertaining. However, you ain't good with Star Wars yet. You got one more to go, and that's Solo: A Star Wars Story! Let's go!
The ewoks were played by Warwick Davis (Wicket W Warwick) and his son
Chewie got a medal: never even realized that was a thing... until _just_ before she mentioned it.
I really enjoy this movie. I have some issues here and there but overall it’s one of the most fun Star Wars movies to watch, and I do like it more than force awakens (tho Last Jedi is by far my favorite of this trilogy).
An aside just back from watching Avatar at a packed BFI IMAX(London) in IMAX 3D, I hope that you manage to catch it on the biggest possible screen during this short re-release.
Palpatine told Anakin about Darth Plagueis. Palpatine was obviously the apprentice of Plagueis. His lich form is the dark side version of Jedi force ghosts.
Your commentary is the only reason I would sit through this again. Your presence makes this movie better. Adam driver was the best thing about this movie. Legend. Finn had great potential. Started strong but they wasted him. Rey doesn't deserve to stand before double suns. No problem with Daisy Ridley she did her thing. But the character Rey is the worst.
When you said, "I don't believe it." And was pretty much ignoring Palpatine taking Rey and Ren's life force cos you knew it didn't really mean anything was the same way I felt about most of the movie. I found my lack of emotion to to this movie so disappointing that I only felt glad when it ended.
Billy Dee Williams is so cool. I wish they had more of him in all the Star Wars movies.
Sadly they weren't really able to do a lot with him because he's already very old. Showing him just sitting in the cockpit of the Falcon or standing somewhere was possible but action scenes were not. Well, better than nothing.
"Someone needs to lose an arm right now to make me happy..."
Sadly, the only limb removal in the sequels is Snoke's hand. Leave it to JJ to make the only two Star Wars movies without a dismemberment.
I'm glad I watched this. This is the first Rise of Skywalker content I've watched since I first saw it in theatres and hated it. While I still have issues with some of the decisions that were made, I think I've softened on it a bit. I may need to give it another watch.