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That metal thing Chewie got at the end was a medal (presumably Leia's), the same medal that Luke and Han git at the end of Episode 4, but Chewie didn't get for some reason. For years fans were asking why Chewie never got a medal, so at the end of this one they gave him one.
It was Han's medal from episode 4. When Han died, Leia kept it as a keepsake, and when she died it was given to Chewy to remember him by. And yeah, it's a little nod to the fans that he's finally got a medal, but that's not the true meaning behind it
It took me many watches before Chewie crying for Leia didn’t make me tear up. It was a reminder of all the years we spent or I spent watching and thinking about these characters in my youth with the toys.
Great video! As someone who strongly disliked this film, it’s been refreshing seeing reactions like this. Moments where others were affected emotionally or positively, make me go back and try to examine the story from a different perspective, and thorough this, I’ve found new appreciation for the film as a whole.
That's actually pretty amazing. Different perspectives can be great to see. I'm tempted to watch reactions to movies I dislike to see if that helps me appreciate the movies more
I agree. I personally felt this film was setting something else and the end was suddenly changed. I rarely get these things but in this film I got strongly the vibes they were going for different ending and backed down and that ruined it for me. Its Star Wars so naturally I own this... I perhaps should give few more tries for this trilogy. Your views have convinced me that I should try to remove myself from previous films and see if I like it better. Thank you.
You're the first one I've ever seen who figured out the emperor was coming back before even watching the movie! Great job! You called a lot of things and get this movie in ways many others don't. As far as Ben disappearing, his mom could have reached out at the moment of death and helped him. Great review.
Trivia, Carrie Fisher passed away in Dec 2016 after she wrapped filming EP8 The Last Jedi. This film started filming the later half of 2018. The footage of Carrie was taken from outakes and deleted scenes shot during Episode 7. They gave her a new outfit via CGI exclusive to this film. All with approval from her daughter who was in all 3 of these films 7,8,9. That's her daughter assisting her to her bed in this movie. (which an extra was used for stand-in of Leia in that scene from the back)
Just food for thought: halfway through the Emperor's fall down that shaft, he suddenly bursts into blue flame and it shoots out of the shaft and flies off. You'll see him shoot that "essence magic" elsewhere in a scene from something you haven't seen yet (I don't think). Basically, that clone body clinging to life on Exagol was already prepared as a vessel in the event that his former body was destroyed. And his "essence" went there. Remember in Episode III, he spoke of his former master also taking steps to cheat death--knowledge he then passed down to Palpatine. Some fans think that perhaps Palpatine's master initially created Anakin from the midichlorians for the purpose of being *his* vessel after death (hence why Anakin was so OP), but when Palpatine killed him the plan of what to use Anakin for was altered.
@@VerowakReacts i like the sequels, but one thing stops me loving it, not fans, but because daisy ridley went on the "you hate me because im a women" rant, if she hadnt done that, id love these films, but thanks to her getting bitchy about fan hate, i only "like" them
My favorite cameo is that John Williams is in a small shop. Many of the items in his shop are connected to the many scores he has created over the years.
BB-8 says "I have a bad feeling about this" in Episode VIII at the beginning (in beeps, of course), to which Leia says, "I'm with the droid on this one."
My biggest complaint about this movie is that it did everything it could to retcon things that people cried about in TLJ instead of completing the story properly. That's what made this trilogy feel disconnected in my opinion. "Rey is a Mary Sue" okay let's make her a Palpatine, that'll explain her powers. "We hate Rose, let's bully the actor until she leaves social media entirely" -great so let's write Rose out of the next movie. "Can't believe Luke just threw his lightsaber like that" -"A lightsaber deserves more respect that that" And so on. I feel like TLJ set up enough interesting things that could have been followed through on. I do like that they followed through with the force Dyad stuff nicely though. Loved all of that. Anyway, I can't wait to see the new movie with Rey they just announced.
Great reaction as always Vero! I've shared my thoughts about the movie already in the discord but I do want to say how much I appreciate the things you add in the edits too like "General Grievously injured" in this one and "garbage = rubbish" in the previous one. Your little personal touches really add a lot to it and I enjoy them a lot. As always, I'm super impressed by how much you remember of what your viewers have said and try to incorporate it into your content. It was great to see the premiere and how many people also showed up to watch it!
It's interesting because I only think of adding these things as I notice them during the edit. I love random things that people share or point out that I never thought of, like it was weird to hear Rey say garbage lol!! I love Premieres, they really are fun, I'm always glad to see people show up for them
I have a love-hate relationship with this movie. After the absolute mess that was Ep8, where Rian Johnson for some reason had total freedom storywise they had to "repair" some stuff that Johnson just scrapped, for example Rens mask, the Knights of Ren or just some small characters like Luke Skywalker. The biggest mistake for me was to bring Palpatine back because it just lessens Anakin Skywalkers sacrifice to safe his son and end the Emperor big time. The whole trilogy was just a complete mess storywise. But like you said, the movie has good moments, especially between the main characters which I absolutely liked. I just hope Disney/Lucasfilm learned from this. You cannot do a movie trilogy without any greater plans for the story. You made me so happy when you said how much you like Reys theme. 🥰
Hopefully for future trilogies they have 1 team working on all three so it's more cohesive. That seems to make the most sense. Rey's theme is often playing while I'm working now lol
I think when JJ Abrams runs out of ideas, he tends to throw in a MacGuffin hunt. Most of this movie is consumed by 2 MacGuffin hunts (The Dagger + The Wayfinder), so he must have been really desperate.
I hate they brought Palpatine back and had his granddaughter steals the Skywalker name and legacy. That’s what angers me the most about these movies. 😡😡😡
Quote is easy. Rogue One, Jyn Erso addressing the Rebellion when they’re debating going to Scariff. The medal was Han’s from A New Hope, kind of a way to make up for Chewie not getting one. I think the sequels will have a lot fledged out like the prequels did (which had their own moments of “wait, what’s the story here?”). We’re seeing some of that with The Mandalorian and The Bad Batch, setting up how Palpatine sorted out the cloning. Not the end of the story, they just announced an upcoming movie set in the future after TROS with Rey teaching new Jedi. On that note… as much as it sounds like Finn is trying to confess his love, it’s theorized he was trying to tell her he also has the Force. Which they kind of address in the LEGO holiday special, though that’s not canon. And the ghost thing… it’s just a weird thing in the lore. Anakin never had anyone teach him how to do it, but he instantly could do it when he died. I think Lucas was trying to explain why some Jedi do it and not others but forgot that Anakin did it without being taught. 😂 (Random fun thought: everyone’s body disappears but clothes stay. Except Yoda, his clothes disappear. Which means Yoda wasn’t actually wearing anything, he just projected that he was wearing clothes. And now you can never see that scene the same again.) Oh! Also random side note: the gunner in the Falcon, Wedge Antilles, was in both Death Star battles and Hoth. In the old EU, he was the only X-Wing pilot with two Death Star kills painted on his fighter.
Kylo Ben is honestly the only new character I felt anything for in these movies. Everyone else was so new and just didn't get enough development but I saw Ben as Han and Leia's Son and that had at least some weight to it.
Palpatine DID die in E6, but he had clones of himself ready. He knew how to transfer his essence/soul/spirit/consciousness into a clone body. So he died, but was resurrected in a clone body.
This is only starting to be bridged by the tv shows to fix the sequels. But when most of us saw this in the theaters it was a wtf moment. It takes away from darth vaders moment in 6th. One of the reasons I don’t like it. Vader was the chosen one to bring about balance, oh nope sorry, he wasn’t.
@@jennym2276 you have to consider how you look at balance. What we knew of the prophecy came from the Jedi who believed it could’ve been misread as Yoda himself said. Anakin was supposed to bring ultimate balance. Rey carrying on his legacy and stopping the return of the Sith is continuing to keep that balance and one day when the evil will rise again, a new champion will rise to bring back that balance again. At least that’s how I choose to see it. The words said “through him will ultimate balance be restored”, through.. not by. Anakin starting a cycle of chosen champions who will rise to stop the dark side from growing seems like ultimate balance to me. Seems way more fitting than a typical happily ever after with no more evil after Anakin kills Palpatine.
This is my least favorite SW movie. Disney overreacted to the divisiveness of TLJ, fired the director, brought back Abrams, and retconned everything I liked about TLJ. This movie is just a mess. That said, Ben's arc is my favorite element of this trilogy and Adam Driver was a highlight.
Threepio had a lot of updates along the way, and I’d bet his initial programming wasn’t written by Anakin, just scavenged. As for Star Destroyers rising from the dirt… look up the story of the Lusankya in Legends. Palpatine had a Super Star Destroyer buried on Coruscant and built over to hide it. When it took off, it killed a ridiculous number of people blasting away the construction above and around it.
"I've got a bad feeling about this" BB8 says it in the beginning of episode 8 right before poe attacks the guns on the big star destroyer with cannons.
The Palpatine thing illustrates my main criticism of the Sequel Trilogy pretty well. Thematically it makes sense, as in the OT we got a mere name-drop in IV, a hologram in V, and then in VI we got the full character in the flesh, while in the PT, we got to see him go from just another senator to Supreme Chancellor in I, to manipulating the senate into granting him emergency powers in II, to becoming The Emperor™ in III while the characters found out that the Sith persisted in I, that there was one manipulating galactic politics in II, to the big reveal in III. But, they flubbed the execution by not giving any clues, whatsoever, to his existence in VII and VIII, just dropping him out of the sky in the opening crawl in IX. Because, contrary to all the noise they made about having a Story Group to ensure cohesion in the storyline between the different projects being worked on by different directors, their approach with the ST was to violently change trajectory with each movie in response to audience feedback instead of following any kind of plan. So what we got was three movies with a lot of good ideas that were jumbled together in a way that was less than the sum of its parts.
The Last Jedi was already written and very little changed, if at all, in the script, before The Force Awakens was released. So TLJ was not a response to the criticism that TFA was too safe.
It was a pleasure to watch you take this cinematic journey. I hope you as a new person to Star Wars sticks with it and passes along the tradition of watching this amazing series to others in your life. It's the only way future generations will be able to experience it themselves. Your first time watching Star Wars is memorable but the real fun begins when you dive deeper and you may see things totally differently each time you go back.
They needed to either give the entire sequel trilogy to JJ or to Rian. They are very different filmmakers and I feel like we saw their creative competition play out, badly, in these movies. We saw them sweat.
@@VerowakReacts It's still extremely unlikely they were not working quite close together. It seems often as if a narrative was created, due to the Episode 8 blowback, that Johnson went 'off script', and Abrams retuned it later. But I and others remain unconvinced.
This movie, was better then the last one, but still not good. The fact that the Skywalker and Solo blooodlines are just dead is just upsetting. And the fact a Palpatine carries it, is just is insulting. And the fact she buried Anakin’s/Luke’s and Leia’s lightsaber in sand is an abomination. And on Tatooine a planet that none of the Skywalkers liked. Should have been Naboo. But that’s option anyway. Hope you enjoyed it. Definitely need to check out Obi Wan, Rebels, and The Mandalorian.
I appreciate your perspective. I appreciate these reactions. I appreciate how you did them. Like them or not they don't make or break an entire franchise and I hoped you agree. Even if didn't respond well to this film, I didn't either. But the franchise is so much bigger. Much more too like.
That's exactly it! It definitely didn't make or break the franchise, and it's fine to dislike or hate movies, but there are other movies that are enjoyable. The universe is huge!
That's it. Three really bad films don't destroy the whole franchise, but it could have been so much bigger and better, if they had the REAL story, or at least people develop something new, that had nothing to do with the "old" storyline.
I have to disagree with comment about not breaking the franchise. They have lessened my enjoyment of the originals and prequels. Nothing over the top, I still enjoy first 6 films, but the sequels do lessen the whole, satisfying 'chosen one' arc of Anakin and his redemption by Luke. His struggle, and Luke's, ultimately achieved nothing; the Skywalker bloodline ends and a Palpatine emerges victorious...but calls herself a Skywalker for no real reason that I can fathom. This is just how I feel and if you feel different that's okay with me but I can't change how the sequels make me feel.
@@rexwilliams7643 And this is why movies are subjective. Some people enjoy certain ones, others don't. I've had a lot of people adamant that anything made after the original trilogy is straight up garbage for them and doesn't exist.
@@rexwilliams7643 I have to say nothing can lessen my love for the originals, you can always take them as their own trilogy. That is how it remained for a long time, anyway.
Thanks, Verowak! 🙂 I'm glad you've heard about the new movies announced yesterday! DAWN OF THE JEDI, set 25,000 years before the original era... that should be very unique. HEIR TO THE EMPIRE will be a culmination of events covered in THE MANDALORIAN, THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT and AHSOKA (those occur 25ish years before THE FORCE AWAKENS). And, of course, Daisy Ridley will return as 'Rey' in NEW JEDI ORDER, set 15 years after THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. I'm thrilled for all of them. #VerowakReacts #StarWars #TheRiseOfSkywalker
I think you're going to love the live-action tv series. Most of them are fairly consistent with the movies... but ANDOR is noticeably more adult (and I love it the most, I think). But all of them have treasures awaiting you.
I turned to my friend in the theater when Rey blew up the ship in the sky with the lightning, and just mouthed "Palpatine?!!??!!?!!!?", realizing that Rey was a Palps. That was the big reveal to me, instead of at the end when Kylo tells her. That was just confirmation by that point. I love the connection (the dyad) between Rey and Kylo Ben. Call me a Reylo (whatever). It made the trilogy though. Adam Driver is the goat. I love/hate this movie as well. It's heavily flawed, but I love to focus on the positives of it. A lot of shoulda, coulda, woulda in the movie but it is what it is. Ben Solo......well, no one is ever really gone.
That was Han’s medal Maz gave to Chewie. There was a running joke since 1977 that Chewie didn’t get a medal at the end of A New Hope. They righted that wrong. :-)
The only reason why it's not as good is because they spent almost half the movie retconning Rian Johnson's new ideas instead of adding to the Rian Johnson lore.
The lady with the French braids who says "We'd be no more than bugs to them" during the meeting before going to Exegol is Carrie Fisher's actual daughter who has been by her side the whole movie.
there's so much that just doesn't make sense when you think about it. a massive fleet of Star Destroyers built with no visible shipyard or raw materials to build them with, a massive army to man them that's somehow found its way to the secret planet you need a Sith wayfinder to find except there aren't any left, just sitting around in their perfectly aligned ships for god knows how long & that big-ass fleet of "just people" showing up all at once seems equally unlikely.
Thanks to your entertaining reactions, I have finally seen how SW: Ep. IX ends -- better than I anticipated. I like the bit with all the Jedi voices, and Chewbacca finally gets his medal, only eight movies late.
Now you see parts of what I tried to convey in previous reactions. This movie had a lot of "Why?" followed by "Because!" There wasn't a lot of effort to follow the rules of the established universe or explain why anything was happening. Great for new watchers, not so much for long-time fans. Also, space horses.
At the end, when Maz gives Chewie that medal, it was a gift from Leia. Back in A New Hope, when Luke, Han, and Chewie blew up the Death Star, only Luke and Han got medals. People have been saying for over 40 years that Chewie kinda got ripped off by not also receiving a medal. So, 42 years later, after all his friends were dead, he finally got that medal (even though it was probably just Luke or Han's old medal being repurposed).
In the Last Jedi, it was BB-8 near the very beginning of the film, Poe's attack on the dreadnaught, who has the line "I have a bad feeling about this." Of course, he says it in astromech, so you don't realize it at first, but Leia replies, "I agree with the droid," to help the audience to understand what BB-8 just said.
Figure 3PO couldn’t translate Sith cause when Palpatine was in power he made all droids get an update that kept them from translating so he could grow more powerful. Max gave Chewy Han’s medal from Episode 4 that he never got.
From what I’ve seen, only Ahsoka has me interested. After the recent decline of a loved series I had to break my rule when I watched a trailer to see if it would raise any interest. I can’t trust that a project will be even attempted to be done well anymore.
I think the reason this movie struggled along with 7 and 8 is that there was no cohesive idea of what these movies were supposed to be from the start. Each movie felt like it had a very different path planned and no cohesive storyline, plus there was a lot of retcon thrown in at the end.
I've spent the day watching your reactions to the Star Wars movies with a break between 8 & 9 to watch Ahsoka 1 & 2. Very much enjoyed your reaction and intuition. I look forward to watching more of your reactions. Thank you for the smiles and cries.
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed them!! I'm also really glad that someone finally stopped a ship with the Force 😂 I hope you enjoyed Ahsoka, I still have a lot of Clone Wars and Rebels and Mando to watch before I see it
Ye the medal at the end. In star wars 4 han and luke get a medal at the ceremony, after destroying the death star and chewie didnt get a medal. Which is odd since he was there too, but its like whatever. And some fans were upset because of that, and i guess they thought to give chewie a medal this time..
As Jar Jar once said, "Mesa gotta baaaad feeling about this... Bombad!" Palpatine in this flick is like Harrison Ford and Alec Guinness before him, simply begging the filmmakers to kill him off before the series gets any worse... P.S. Verowak, your reactions are terrific, so thank you for creating this channel! I also want to say that not *all* of the hate for the sequel trilogy is coming from "toxicity" -- though some of it surely is. Like you, I never got the hate for Rose. Sure, the character could be better written, but she has some good moments and potential (the more I think about it, the more I think it's scandalous the way Disney practically wrote Rose out of Episode IX, caving to the most toxic fans). What I'm trying to say is that some of the so-called "hate" is coming from that place we call LOVE. Consecutive generations came to *DEARLY LOVE* this fantastic galaxy, far, far away, and the characters and creatures and wonders that populated it. So when the corporation that was responsible for bringing the most beloved series in cinema history to its rightful conclusion fumbled the franchise so badly, some of us took it to heart. This is our childhood Disney's been messing with (though, to be fair, not entirely -- I enjoyed some of the first season of The Mandalorian, I love Rogue One almost as much as Episodes IV and V, I enjoyed Solo, and I'm thrilled with Season 1 of "Andor"). But the sequel trilogy mostly broke the hearts of OG Star Wars fans like me. Color me silly, but I believe that corporate hacks snuffing out the magic and tainting cherished childhood memories -- and bona fide religious experiences like seeing STAR WARS in the theaters in 1977 at the age of ten after waiting with my family for blocks to get into the Cine Capri Theater with its huge screen and elegantly gathered curtains signaling that the show was about to begin -- well, IMHO that's something to get passionate about... angry, even... Kylo Ren angry (granted, it's funnier when *he* flips out than when we hypersensitive fanboys vent and kvetch, but we iron our pants with our space-age irons one leg at a time, just like he does).
This is one of the times I preferred the old EU. There Palpatine turned Luke to the Dark side and tried to transfer his essence into Leia's infant son. That said the EU wasn't perfect. The did kill Chewie...
For me, it's my least favorite Star Wars Movie. My ranking: Episode V > Episode VI > Rogue One > Episode III > Episode IV > Solo > Episode II > Episode I > Episode VII > Episode VIII > Episode IX I grew up with IV-VI, and the books after Episode VI. For me, the sequels are still "The Truce At Bakura", "The Courtship Of Princess Leia" and of course the Thrawn Trilogy "Heir To The Empire", "Dark Force Rising" and "The Last Command". Aaaaand everything that followed after that. If someone never has read these books, then they will never understand, why most of us "old fans" don't like what Disney had done, when they declared all of it as "Legends", and made these sequels... At least they did some things right with most of the TV-Series (only "Resistance" is bad as the sequels), and some of the new Canon Books are good too. But still nothing compared to all that came out before Disney took over. I see the sequels only as an alternate timeline, wich is possible because of the World between Worlds, that we have seen in "Rebels", and maybe in the upcoming "Ahsoka". So Han and Leias kids are still Jacen, Jaina and Anakin, and Luke and Maras kid is named Ben. 😜
Finn was trying to tell Rey as he was sinking that he is Force-sensitive too. Admiral Pryde was a former Imperial who had been secretly funneling resources from both the Empire and the First Order to Exegol for decades, somehow without a Sith Wayfinder, and was the only First Order member to know that Palpatine was alive the whole time. The dagger was able to map the location of the Wayfinder aboard the Death Star from that specific spot on that specific hill that Rey randomly happened to be standing on, because the dagger was crafted by Sith who had visions of that moment but didn’t understand, yet still managed to make the dagger to those specifications. Palpatine had no son, he had a clone who separated from his progenitor and later had Rey. All of this rather relevant information was not in the movie, and was divulged after it came out, mostly as Twitter posts, to cover up things in the movie that didn’t make sense. Also, all of the Exegol star destroyers are identical to the star destroyers you see in the original trilogy, because they’re just the same CG models for star destroyers from Rogue One, but upscaled in size by 50% and given big cannons on their underbellies. This upscaling was basically done with a slider in editing software, with no design changes, so everything down to the last lightbulb and window on the destroyer is 50% larger too. (A little goofy.) In fact, every single ship in the massive hero fleet at the end was just a copy-paste of whatever random CG models Disney had on hand. They didn’t design new ships for this final battle, because that would cost money. A little disappointing after all the work that went into making new ships for battles in all the rest of the films. This movie has great and memorable scenes in it, but even treating it by itself without comparing it to other Star Wars movies, it’s just so many little things in it that add up to make it less than it not only should have been, but very well could have been. I’m glad you liked it. I personally enjoyed it more than The Last Jedi.
BB8 actually tweets "I've got a bad feeling about this" when Poe attacks the dreadnaught at the beginning of episode VIII, which kinda sucks because it's only something you'd know if you were nerd-researching.
I loved the lightsaber fight on the ocean. It's raw and realistic and the emotion feels real. A professional swordsman analysed it on TH-cam and said it was one of the more realistic ones in the saga.
Guess that depends on who is reviewing it. I have seen another analysis to that fight scene that said it was one of the worse sword fighting scenes. th-cam.com/video/sn91cj_C4b8/w-d-xo.html
The biggest problem the Sequel Trilogy had was lack of planning ahead. JJ Abrams had a basic idea of who these new characters were and where he wanted to go with them. Then the studio hired Rian Johnson and let him write the story for the middle of the trilogy however he wanted, and as a result he killed Snoke (who JJ intended to be the villain of the entire trilogy) and proclaimed Rey was the daughter of nobodies and was therefore herself a nobody. When JJ returned as writer/director of the third film, he had to reverse the major changes Johnson had made and it just created a bigger mess that would have meant a 6 hour film to get all the information out that was really needed. Fortunately, it seems the Star Wars Disney+ shows are attempting to fill in some of the background to help the sequel trilogy make a lot more sense in retrospect, and the recently announced Rey creates the New Jedi Order film announced this past weekend will hopefully wrap up any lingering plot threads.
Palpoten was a clone in the rise of Skywalker, when Ben / Kyleo first went to Exigol there was at least 3 failed attempts at cloning him. Darth Maul did die in episode 1, the events of Solo were just before episode 1
Han Solo was either not born or a baby during the events of Episode 1. Solo took place before episode 4 (I'm not sure of the exact years, but it's definitely between Episode 3 and Episode 4)
@@stanleywiggins5047 That's not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying that your timeline is wrong, the events of Solo happened before Episode 4 (not episode 1)
Nobody actually said "I have a bad feeling about this" in the Last Jedi. Well, not in any recognizable language the audience could understand. Rian Johnson said it's one of BB8's beeps. Facing off against the First Order armada in the opening scene, BB-8 nervously says, “I have a bad feeling about this” in binary. Poe responds with “Happy beeps here, buddy, come on.” Now, there's no way we can know for sure if BB8 said those exact words. Also, since none of us can understand it, I'm not sure it counts as saying it. So, officially, "I have a bad feeling about this" has been said in every Star Wars movie made so far, but you can only hear it recognizably in 10 of the 11.
J.J. abd Terrio wanted to do 2 parts for this movie, but Bob Iger didn't let them. Rose was cut cause she had scenes with Leia, and cause of problems with technology they couldn't complete Carrie's parts. Leia uses the Force since Episode 5: She can hear Luke, she remembers Padmé, she feels Han's dying, she pushed her body using the Force, and then she created a distraction for Kylo to be killed by Rey. Palpatine IS DEATH. His body looks like Chancellor Palpatine, when talked with Anakin about Darth Plagueis. It is a cloning lab (Beaumont mentions it). Rey's father is not Palpatine's son, he is a clone. The Force made a dyad between a Skywalker and Palpatine's blood as a trap for him. Without the dyad resurrecting Palpatine he couldn't be killed. Rey resurrects with the life of the last Skywalker, that is why she rises as Rey Skywalker. The dyad is literally one self at the end.
Sure if you noticed but when Rey heals Ben's stab wound his scar across his face also disappeared. Also like that Ben's theme is a heroic version of kylo rens theme. When Ben revived Rey he truly finished what his grandfather started saving the woman he loved from death😢.
I think Ben disappearing is justified by his knowledge of the force and strength with it. Since his last act was sacrificing himself for good he was accepted by the force after he died. Prior to Ep. 8, Obi Wan was the only Jedi to disappear without seeing them die first.
Yeah. I hope that they explain that he didn’t die but something else happened because of his life force transfer. As Vero said, it doesn’t really make sense for him to do something that took the rest of them that disappeared a lifetime to learn. I’m just glad he wasn’t a force ghost at the end, it gives me hope that he could come back.
I liked it a lot more after a couple of rewatches than initially in the theater (partially because I REALLY liked TLJ, and was coming off that high). Most of the problems stem from the film needing to be simultaneously a conclusion to the sequels, the entire 9-episode saga, AND the IV-IX fragment; cementing Palpatine as the overarching villain throughout is one way to do it -- and the part I liked least initially, Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter, would be much worse (and have much less reason for it) if Palpatine himself wasn't there.
I definitely don't envy having to make a conclusion to everything. Unless they did a story for fan service, I feel like a lot of people would always be upset no matter what the story was. It's good that you were able to like it a lot more after a couple of rewatches though! The real winners are those who can enjoy a movie instead of dislike it, since it brings joy or happiness lol
@@VerowakReacts -- On the other hand, I've long said that life is too short for bad books and even bad films. Your reactions are delightful, but IMO the "real winners" are the folks who try to be discerning in what art/cinema/literature they experience. (I probably wouldn't be so emphatic on the subject, but I've recently had some vision problems, so I've had to ration my viewing/reading/writing/time over the last six weeks -- listening to your reactions is helping me get through this patch, where most of my screen time is reserved for paying the bills.)
@@VerowakReacts -- Thank you. Initially, I had recurrent episodes of double-vision over 36 hours or so, but it hasn't happened since. That said, I've adopted some very strict protocols to avoid another episode. I miss all of the screen time I used to enjoy outside of work, but I'd rather not ever go through that experience again. I hope to get back to work in the studio soon, but I'll wait until 2024, just to be on the safe side (my paintings involve a lot of fine detail work/eye strain).
Despite this being the worst Star Wars movie I will give credit where credit is due. Such as the way handled after Carrie Fisher’s death, Adam Driver’s performance, Han Solo, the lightsaber transfer, the shot of all the ships arriving, and the acting in general
Regarding Chewbacca and the medal. He was told he was getting a medal but allegedly said "I don't want no fcuking medal! What I did, I did for The Rebellion". That's canon in my eyes.
Sequels allow for more predictions. I love how someone seeing it for the first time still ends up giving spoilers in the form of what is suspected to happen, based on what has happened so far.
9:32 "Can she heal?" Yes. Just like Obi-Wan healed Qui-Gon. Just like Anakin healed his mother, Shmee. Just like Luke healed his father. Oh, wait. No. Just Rey.
Hi Miss Verowak!🙂Emperor Palpatine did die in "Return of the Jedi". Palpatine says the dark side of the force can be unnatural. He meant that he has come back by cloning experiments. This will be explored later, or earlier in the timeline, so to speak. Nice reations to this Star Wars film that has its moment, Miss Vero!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Jyn Erso in Rogue One for quote trivia. Yes, I am one with the nerd force. P.S nice accent lol ;) Also, in "The Last Jedi" BB8 beeped "I have a bad feeling about this" to Poe
To me force healing was always in the movies from Ep. 4. (Examples: Obi finding Luke the first time and the Emperor finding Vader burned) Every time a force user came across an injured or unconscious person they put their hand on the injured person’s forehead or temple area.
Which is totally ironic that Anakin went dark side to have the ability to save Padme but healing is a light side power. Dark side has the power to drain others to save yourself. Light side is about draining yourself to save others.
And finally, Palpatine and his minions used cloning tech and the dark side to create Snoke as an experiment to try and eventually clone himself in an attempt to live forever (Sith can’t become one with the Force like Jedi can as Force ghosts, so this was his attempt at immortality).
The thing is, since I stopped comparing this one with the other episodes, I started to like it. This works for all trilogys.😁 Thank you for the amazing reaction, also loved your final thoughts.♥
Palpatine's return was kind of a throwback to a storyline in the old cannon, where he had a place hidden away that had clones of himself, and when he died, his spirit would inhabit the body of the clone. "The Rule of Two" book trilogy (about Darth Bane and the starting of the 'aways two there are, a master and an apprentice') and the book "Darth Plagueis" go into more detail about how the Sith learned to transfer their spirits into other bodies. Sadly, the new movies don't explain that.
I also didn't like Finn or even Captain Phasma (from the 1st two movies). They hyped up Finn as being the 1st black character to be a lead in a Star Wars film, but then they didn't DO anything with the character. And that is the fault of the writers, not the actor. Same thing with Phasma. Hyped as the first female Stormtrooper in the films, but they didn't do anything with her. You have to read the book "Phasma" in order to find out that she really is an evil badass, but the movies fail to show that.
You've made to the end of what's known as the "Skywalker Saga". This is a decent movie. Like with "The Last Jedi" I did find parts of this movie that I liked. For example: I absolutely loved seeing the return of Lando Calrissian. Loved seeing the Force Ghost Luke lift his old X-Wing ship out of the water on Ahch-To to the same theme music that played when Yoda lifted the X-Wing out of the water on Dagobah in "The Empire Strikes Back". And seeing Harrison Ford back as Han Solo in that one scene. Fun Fact #1: Due the the real life passing of Carrie Fisher(RIP always), all of Leia's scenes where reworked deleted scenes from the previous two movies. Fun Fact #2: The stand in actress for Leia during the flashback scene of her training with Luke was Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd. Chewie's reaction to Leia's death always breaks my heart every time I watch that scene. Can't wait for you to start on the "Star Wars" Disney+ shows next. Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊
Love your star wars reactions.i really like this one,my favourite of this trilogy,love the scene with Luke's force ghost.poignant moment with r2d2 who was there when Leia was born was also with her when she died❤
29:20 I think he can be still alive. Anakin was the chosen one he was supposed to destroy the Sith. But somehow Palpatine survived 2 explosions including the death star explosion. How? The movie won't tell you, the book will. Basically, Palpatine transferred his consciousness to the clone. That's the logic, how can we be sure he didn't do it again?
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I'm looking forward to seeing more Rey in action! I hope there are three more movies with her, lol
Looking forward to the Mandalorian movie. And maybe the origin of the Jedi. The Rey movie could care less for.
The Ahsoka trailer was released yesterday and it looked fantastic.
The movie joining all the Mandoverse characters will be awesome, like Avengers end game.
Quote Trivia: that was by Jyn Erso in Rogue One
That metal thing Chewie got at the end was a medal (presumably Leia's), the same medal that Luke and Han git at the end of Episode 4, but Chewie didn't get for some reason. For years fans were asking why Chewie never got a medal, so at the end of this one they gave him one.
It was Han's medal from episode 4. When Han died, Leia kept it as a keepsake, and when she died it was given to Chewy to remember him by. And yeah, it's a little nod to the fans that he's finally got a medal, but that's not the true meaning behind it
They serviced the fans?
It took me many watches before Chewie crying for Leia didn’t make me tear up. It was a reminder of all the years we spent or I spent watching and thinking about these characters in my youth with the toys.
Great video!
As someone who strongly disliked this film, it’s been refreshing seeing reactions like this.
Moments where others were affected emotionally or positively, make me go back and try to examine the story from a different perspective, and thorough this, I’ve found new appreciation for the film as a whole.
That's actually pretty amazing. Different perspectives can be great to see. I'm tempted to watch reactions to movies I dislike to see if that helps me appreciate the movies more
I agree. I personally felt this film was setting something else and the end was suddenly changed. I rarely get these things but in this film I got strongly the vibes they were going for different ending and backed down and that ruined it for me. Its Star Wars so naturally I own this... I perhaps should give few more tries for this trilogy. Your views have convinced me that I should try to remove myself from previous films and see if I like it better. Thank you.
You're the first one I've ever seen who figured out the emperor was coming back before even watching the movie! Great job! You called a lot of things and get this movie in ways many others don't. As far as Ben disappearing, his mom could have reached out at the moment of death and helped him. Great review.
shes seen this before
"Somehow Palpatine returned" 🙄😒
@@arobin6695 yeah if you didn't know how something happened that would pretty much be what you'd say lol.
when i first watched return of the jedi i said it would be cool if Palpatine came back. I figured his spirit moved on when he died!
@@mitchellmoulson2070 Bruh, the sequels are literally a copy of the originals and there are people who find that amazing....?
It was a running gag that Chewie didn't get a medal in ANH. Here he finally gets a medal, Han's medal.
Trivia, Carrie Fisher passed away in Dec 2016 after she wrapped filming EP8 The Last Jedi. This film started filming the later half of 2018. The footage of Carrie was taken from outakes and deleted scenes shot during Episode 7. They gave her a new outfit via CGI exclusive to this film. All with approval from her daughter who was in all 3 of these films 7,8,9. That's her daughter assisting her to her bed in this movie. (which an extra was used for stand-in of Leia in that scene from the back)
Ahh, that's so unfortunate. It's great that her daughter was in all three movies though!!
Just food for thought: halfway through the Emperor's fall down that shaft, he suddenly bursts into blue flame and it shoots out of the shaft and flies off. You'll see him shoot that "essence magic" elsewhere in a scene from something you haven't seen yet (I don't think). Basically, that clone body clinging to life on Exagol was already prepared as a vessel in the event that his former body was destroyed. And his "essence" went there. Remember in Episode III, he spoke of his former master also taking steps to cheat death--knowledge he then passed down to Palpatine.
Some fans think that perhaps Palpatine's master initially created Anakin from the midichlorians for the purpose of being *his* vessel after death (hence why Anakin was so OP), but when Palpatine killed him the plan of what to use Anakin for was altered.
I’m glad you enjoyed these and didn’t let the OG trilogy fans ruin this experience can’t wait for the rest of the universe🙌🏻
I'm really excited for more Star Wars content! I don't let anyone influence my experience of movies :D
@@VerowakReacts i like the sequels, but one thing stops me loving it, not fans, but because daisy ridley went on the "you hate me because im a women" rant, if she hadnt done that, id love these films, but thanks to her getting bitchy about fan hate, i only "like" them
the thing i really dislike about this movie are the uncountable plotholes. there are so many things that dont make sense.
@@YezaOutcast same could be said about that crap og trilogy🤷🏻♂️
The sequels ARE NOT CANON!!!!
My favorite cameo is that John Williams is in a small shop. Many of the items in his shop are connected to the many scores he has created over the years.
I'm going to have to go back to notice this. That's pretty awesome that he has a cameo
BB-8 says "I have a bad feeling about this" in Episode VIII at the beginning (in beeps, of course), to which Leia says, "I'm with the droid on this one."
My biggest complaint about this movie is that it did everything it could to retcon things that people cried about in TLJ instead of completing the story properly. That's what made this trilogy feel disconnected in my opinion.
"Rey is a Mary Sue" okay let's make her a Palpatine, that'll explain her powers.
"We hate Rose, let's bully the actor until she leaves social media entirely" -great so let's write Rose out of the next movie.
"Can't believe Luke just threw his lightsaber like that" -"A lightsaber deserves more respect that that"
And so on. I feel like TLJ set up enough interesting things that could have been followed through on. I do like that they followed through with the force Dyad stuff nicely though. Loved all of that. Anyway, I can't wait to see the new movie with Rey they just announced.
Great reaction as always Vero!
I've shared my thoughts about the movie already in the discord but I do want to say how much I appreciate the things you add in the edits too like "General Grievously injured" in this one and "garbage = rubbish" in the previous one. Your little personal touches really add a lot to it and I enjoy them a lot. As always, I'm super impressed by how much you remember of what your viewers have said and try to incorporate it into your content.
It was great to see the premiere and how many people also showed up to watch it!
It's interesting because I only think of adding these things as I notice them during the edit. I love random things that people share or point out that I never thought of, like it was weird to hear Rey say garbage lol!!
I love Premieres, they really are fun, I'm always glad to see people show up for them
I have a love-hate relationship with this movie. After the absolute mess that was Ep8, where Rian Johnson for some reason had total freedom storywise they had to "repair" some stuff that Johnson just scrapped, for example Rens mask, the Knights of Ren or just some small characters like Luke Skywalker. The biggest mistake for me was to bring Palpatine back because it just lessens Anakin Skywalkers sacrifice to safe his son and end the Emperor big time. The whole trilogy was just a complete mess storywise. But like you said, the movie has good moments, especially between the main characters which I absolutely liked. I just hope Disney/Lucasfilm learned from this. You cannot do a movie trilogy without any greater plans for the story. You made me so happy when you said how much you like Reys theme. 🥰
Hopefully for future trilogies they have 1 team working on all three so it's more cohesive. That seems to make the most sense.
Rey's theme is often playing while I'm working now lol
Absolutely. By the way, "The Scavenger" is a pretty good track from Episode 7 as well. We can hear it when we see Rey for the first time.
I think when JJ Abrams runs out of ideas, he tends to throw in a MacGuffin hunt. Most of this movie is consumed by 2 MacGuffin hunts (The Dagger + The Wayfinder), so he must have been really desperate.
@@WolfPlaysGames2 And the prime example that shows JJ can start a great series but is terrible at finishing them: Lost.
I hate they brought Palpatine back and had his granddaughter steals the Skywalker name and legacy. That’s what angers me the most about these movies. 😡😡😡
Quote is easy. Rogue One, Jyn Erso addressing the Rebellion when they’re debating going to Scariff.
The medal was Han’s from A New Hope, kind of a way to make up for Chewie not getting one.
I think the sequels will have a lot fledged out like the prequels did (which had their own moments of “wait, what’s the story here?”). We’re seeing some of that with The Mandalorian and The Bad Batch, setting up how Palpatine sorted out the cloning.
Not the end of the story, they just announced an upcoming movie set in the future after TROS with Rey teaching new Jedi.
On that note… as much as it sounds like Finn is trying to confess his love, it’s theorized he was trying to tell her he also has the Force. Which they kind of address in the LEGO holiday special, though that’s not canon.
And the ghost thing… it’s just a weird thing in the lore. Anakin never had anyone teach him how to do it, but he instantly could do it when he died. I think Lucas was trying to explain why some Jedi do it and not others but forgot that Anakin did it without being taught. 😂 (Random fun thought: everyone’s body disappears but clothes stay. Except Yoda, his clothes disappear. Which means Yoda wasn’t actually wearing anything, he just projected that he was wearing clothes. And now you can never see that scene the same again.)
Oh! Also random side note: the gunner in the Falcon, Wedge Antilles, was in both Death Star battles and Hoth. In the old EU, he was the only X-Wing pilot with two Death Star kills painted on his fighter.
Something that kills me every time is that Leia waited for her son before she too disappeared so they could cross into the Force together 😢
For 40+ years fans have complained that Chewy didn't get a medal in the first movie. Only Luke and Han did. This is Chewy finally getting his medal.
It was Han's no doubt
Maybe it's against his culture or he had personal reasons not to accept one
Kylo Ben is honestly the only new character I felt anything for in these movies. Everyone else was so new and just didn't get enough development but I saw Ben as Han and Leia's Son and that had at least some weight to it.
I absolutely love Adam Driver as Ben. Didn't care that much about him as Kylo Ren for some reason.
Palpatine DID die in E6, but he had clones of himself ready. He knew how to transfer his essence/soul/spirit/consciousness into a clone body. So he died, but was resurrected in a clone body.
This is only starting to be bridged by the tv shows to fix the sequels. But when most of us saw this in the theaters it was a wtf moment. It takes away from darth vaders moment in 6th. One of the reasons I don’t like it. Vader was the chosen one to bring about balance, oh nope sorry, he wasn’t.
@@jennym2276 It's funny that a Palpatine brought balance.
@@jennym2276 you have to consider how you look at balance. What we knew of the prophecy came from the Jedi who believed it could’ve been misread as Yoda himself said. Anakin was supposed to bring ultimate balance. Rey carrying on his legacy and stopping the return of the Sith is continuing to keep that balance and one day when the evil will rise again, a new champion will rise to bring back that balance again. At least that’s how I choose to see it. The words said “through him will ultimate balance be restored”, through.. not by. Anakin starting a cycle of chosen champions who will rise to stop the dark side from growing seems like ultimate balance to me. Seems way more fitting than a typical happily ever after with no more evil after Anakin kills Palpatine.
She gave Chewie Han's medal from the ending of episode 4.
This is my least favorite SW movie.
Disney overreacted to the divisiveness of TLJ, fired the director, brought back Abrams, and retconned everything I liked about TLJ. This movie is just a mess.
That said, Ben's arc is my favorite element of this trilogy and Adam Driver was a highlight.
John Williams is the bartender when they go see babu frick .
17:38 The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
the Minnow would be lost. 🎶
31:32 The medal that he never got in Episode IV.
My favourite bit is when C-3PO can't translate the sith language. When 9-year-old Anakin made him, he clearly made that a priority.
My favorite part was when the Emperor raised like a zillion fully manned Star Destroyers up from under the dirt.
My favourite part is when the dagger perfectly aligned with the wreckage, meaning it didn't break further at all.
Threepio had a lot of updates along the way, and I’d bet his initial programming wasn’t written by Anakin, just scavenged.
As for Star Destroyers rising from the dirt… look up the story of the Lusankya in Legends. Palpatine had a Super Star Destroyer buried on Coruscant and built over to hide it. When it took off, it killed a ridiculous number of people blasting away the construction above and around it.
@@madpolitico Got us. I of course really liked the part where they fell through the quicksand and found the exact dagger they needed.
I loved it when the so called fans stopped whining about films that are years old!
Oh wait.
"I've got a bad feeling about this" BB8 says it in the beginning of episode 8 right before poe attacks the guns on the big star destroyer with cannons.
I feel like that doesn't really count if someone has to tell us about it outside of the movie lol
14:20 … he's on the run
Confusion in his mind, the blind leads the blind 🎶
The Palpatine thing illustrates my main criticism of the Sequel Trilogy pretty well. Thematically it makes sense, as in the OT we got a mere name-drop in IV, a hologram in V, and then in VI we got the full character in the flesh, while in the PT, we got to see him go from just another senator to Supreme Chancellor in I, to manipulating the senate into granting him emergency powers in II, to becoming The Emperor™ in III while the characters found out that the Sith persisted in I, that there was one manipulating galactic politics in II, to the big reveal in III. But, they flubbed the execution by not giving any clues, whatsoever, to his existence in VII and VIII, just dropping him out of the sky in the opening crawl in IX. Because, contrary to all the noise they made about having a Story Group to ensure cohesion in the storyline between the different projects being worked on by different directors, their approach with the ST was to violently change trajectory with each movie in response to audience feedback instead of following any kind of plan. So what we got was three movies with a lot of good ideas that were jumbled together in a way that was less than the sum of its parts.
Actually his music playing over Snoke in TLJ was a foreshadow, as was Rey's fighting style
The Last Jedi was already written and very little changed, if at all, in the script, before The Force Awakens was released. So TLJ was not a response to the criticism that TFA was too safe.
It was a pleasure to watch you take this cinematic journey. I hope you as a new person to Star Wars sticks with it and passes along the tradition of watching this amazing series to others in your life. It's the only way future generations will be able to experience it themselves. Your first time watching Star Wars is memorable but the real fun begins when you dive deeper and you may see things totally differently each time you go back.
They needed to either give the entire sequel trilogy to JJ or to Rian. They are very different filmmakers and I feel like we saw their creative competition play out, badly, in these movies. We saw them sweat.
It really would have been great to have either one for all three. I hope for future trilogies they have 1 team working on all three
@@VerowakReacts I think that is probably the best way to do it.
@@VerowakReacts It's still extremely unlikely they were not working quite close together.
It seems often as if a narrative was created, due to the Episode 8 blowback, that Johnson went 'off script', and Abrams retuned it later.
But I and others remain unconvinced.
This movie, was better then the last one, but still not good. The fact that the Skywalker and Solo blooodlines are just dead is just upsetting. And the fact a Palpatine carries it, is just is insulting. And the fact she buried Anakin’s/Luke’s and Leia’s lightsaber in sand is an abomination. And on Tatooine a planet that none of the Skywalkers liked. Should have been Naboo. But that’s option anyway. Hope you enjoyed it. Definitely need to check out Obi Wan, Rebels, and The Mandalorian.
The quote was Jyn Erso in Rogue One when trying to convince the rebel leaders to raid Scarif and steal the Death Star plans.
It is, yes!!
I'm glad you enjoyed these films. Thank you so much for taking part in this Star Wars Journey. May the force be with you.
Thank you! I'm so glad I got to see these, and that they'll be making more movies
I appreciate your perspective. I appreciate these reactions. I appreciate how you did them. Like them or not they don't make or break an entire franchise and I hoped you agree. Even if didn't respond well to this film, I didn't either. But the franchise is so much bigger. Much more too like.
That's exactly it! It definitely didn't make or break the franchise, and it's fine to dislike or hate movies, but there are other movies that are enjoyable. The universe is huge!
That's it. Three really bad films don't destroy the whole franchise, but it could have been so much bigger and better, if they had the REAL story, or at least people develop something new, that had nothing to do with the "old" storyline.
I have to disagree with comment about not breaking the franchise. They have lessened my enjoyment of the originals and prequels. Nothing over the top, I still enjoy first 6 films, but the sequels do lessen the whole, satisfying 'chosen one' arc of Anakin and his redemption by Luke. His struggle, and Luke's, ultimately achieved nothing; the Skywalker bloodline ends and a Palpatine emerges victorious...but calls herself a Skywalker for no real reason that I can fathom. This is just how I feel and if you feel different that's okay with me but I can't change how the sequels make me feel.
@@rexwilliams7643 And this is why movies are subjective. Some people enjoy certain ones, others don't. I've had a lot of people adamant that anything made after the original trilogy is straight up garbage for them and doesn't exist.
@@rexwilliams7643 I have to say nothing can lessen my love for the originals, you can always take them as their own trilogy. That is how it remained for a long time, anyway.
Palpatine: " I am all the Sith!"
Rey: "And I...I'm Iron man" ... oops, wrong franchise ;)
Thanks, Verowak! 🙂 I'm glad you've heard about the new movies announced yesterday! DAWN OF THE JEDI, set 25,000 years before the original era... that should be very unique. HEIR TO THE EMPIRE will be a culmination of events covered in THE MANDALORIAN, THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT and AHSOKA (those occur 25ish years before THE FORCE AWAKENS). And, of course, Daisy Ridley will return as 'Rey' in NEW JEDI ORDER, set 15 years after THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. I'm thrilled for all of them. #VerowakReacts #StarWars #TheRiseOfSkywalker
I'm just excited for more Star Wars!! I will gladly watch whatever comes out :D
I think you're going to love the live-action tv series. Most of them are fairly consistent with the movies... but ANDOR is noticeably more adult (and I love it the most, I think). But all of them have treasures awaiting you.
I turned to my friend in the theater when Rey blew up the ship in the sky with the lightning, and just mouthed "Palpatine?!!??!!?!!!?", realizing that Rey was a Palps. That was the big reveal to me, instead of at the end when Kylo tells her. That was just confirmation by that point.
I love the connection (the dyad) between Rey and Kylo Ben. Call me a Reylo (whatever). It made the trilogy though. Adam Driver is the goat.
I love/hate this movie as well. It's heavily flawed, but I love to focus on the positives of it. A lot of shoulda, coulda, woulda in the movie but it is what it is.
Ben Solo......well, no one is ever really gone.
Palatine "It's harder than I could have possibly imagined to get someone to strike me down."
That was Han’s medal Maz gave to Chewie. There was a running joke since 1977 that Chewie didn’t get a medal at the end of A New Hope. They righted that wrong. :-)
This film is not nearly as bad as some people say. It's not fantastic, but it's pretty good.
The only reason why it's not as good is because they spent almost half the movie retconning Rian Johnson's new ideas instead of adding to the Rian Johnson lore.
This movie is amazingly stupid. I do enjoy it, but as a so bad it's good type of movie.
I don't see the point of people continuing to spew their hate. They can just, not watch it again lol
The lady with the French braids who says "We'd be no more than bugs to them" during the meeting before going to Exegol is Carrie Fisher's actual daughter who has been by her side the whole movie.
Yeah she was in Episode 8 too, right? That's pretty awesome
@@VerowakReacts She was also in Episode 7 as well in the room when they were talking about Death Star 3.0 destruction. She had the Leia Hair Buns.
The quote was from Gyn Erso to the Rebellion leaders in "Rogue One"
Yes!! 🤩
@@VerowakReacts and you did a great job with the accent too!
there's so much that just doesn't make sense when you think about it. a massive fleet of Star Destroyers built with no visible shipyard or raw materials to build them with, a massive army to man them that's somehow found its way to the secret planet you need a Sith wayfinder to find except there aren't any left, just sitting around in their perfectly aligned ships for god knows how long & that big-ass fleet of "just people" showing up all at once seems equally unlikely.
Thanks to your entertaining reactions, I have finally seen how SW: Ep. IX ends -- better than I anticipated. I like the bit with all the Jedi voices, and Chewbacca finally gets his medal, only eight movies late.
Now you see parts of what I tried to convey in previous reactions. This movie had a lot of "Why?" followed by "Because!" There wasn't a lot of effort to follow the rules of the established universe or explain why anything was happening. Great for new watchers, not so much for long-time fans.
Also, space horses.
A nice touch, that im not sure if youve noticed, but after rey heals ben, the scar on his face disappears
I didn't notice that at all! I'm going to have to look at that
@@VerowakReacts you can check it in your video too! at 19:21 you can see ben's scar on the left. and at 19:46 theres no scar!
@@Csaba__ That's such a neat detail!!
At the end, when Maz gives Chewie that medal, it was a gift from Leia.
Back in A New Hope, when Luke, Han, and Chewie blew up the Death Star, only Luke and Han got medals.
People have been saying for over 40 years that Chewie kinda got ripped off by not also receiving a medal.
So, 42 years later, after all his friends were dead, he finally got that medal (even though it was probably just Luke or Han's old medal being repurposed).
In the Last Jedi, it was BB-8 near the very beginning of the film, Poe's attack on the dreadnaught, who has the line "I have a bad feeling about this." Of course, he says it in astromech, so you don't realize it at first, but Leia replies, "I agree with the droid," to help the audience to understand what BB-8 just said.
"Happy beeps here, buddy."
What Chewy was given was the medal he WASN'T given at the end of IV
Figure 3PO couldn’t translate Sith cause when Palpatine was in power he made all droids get an update that kept them from translating so he could grow more powerful. Max gave Chewy Han’s medal from Episode 4 that he never got.
I just saw a headline treat says Daisy Ridley will return for another Star Wars movie.
Yes! I'm just excited for more movies lol
From what I’ve seen, only Ahsoka has me interested.
After the recent decline of a loved series I had to break my rule when I watched a trailer to see if it would raise any interest. I can’t trust that a project will be even attempted to be done well anymore.
I think the reason this movie struggled along with 7 and 8 is that there was no cohesive idea of what these movies were supposed to be from the start. Each movie felt like it had a very different path planned and no cohesive storyline, plus there was a lot of retcon thrown in at the end.
I've spent the day watching your reactions to the Star Wars movies with a break between 8 & 9 to watch Ahsoka 1 & 2. Very much enjoyed your reaction and intuition. I look forward to watching more of your reactions. Thank you for the smiles and cries.
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed them!! I'm also really glad that someone finally stopped a ship with the Force 😂 I hope you enjoyed Ahsoka, I still have a lot of Clone Wars and Rebels and Mando to watch before I see it
Fun fact: Moz gave Chewie one of the medals from the end of A New Hope.
Ye the medal at the end. In star wars 4 han and luke get a medal at the ceremony, after destroying the death star and chewie didnt get a medal. Which is odd since he was there too, but its like whatever. And some fans were upset because of that, and i guess they thought to give chewie a medal this time..
As Jar Jar once said, "Mesa gotta baaaad feeling about this... Bombad!" Palpatine in this flick is like Harrison Ford and Alec Guinness before him, simply begging the filmmakers to kill him off before the series gets any worse...
P.S. Verowak, your reactions are terrific, so thank you for creating this channel! I also want to say that not *all* of the hate for the sequel trilogy is coming from "toxicity" -- though some of it surely is. Like you, I never got the hate for Rose. Sure, the character could be better written, but she has some good moments and potential (the more I think about it, the more I think it's scandalous the way Disney practically wrote Rose out of Episode IX, caving to the most toxic fans). What I'm trying to say is that some of the so-called "hate" is coming from that place we call LOVE. Consecutive generations came to *DEARLY LOVE* this fantastic galaxy, far, far away, and the characters and creatures and wonders that populated it. So when the corporation that was responsible for bringing the most beloved series in cinema history to its rightful conclusion fumbled the franchise so badly, some of us took it to heart. This is our childhood Disney's been messing with (though, to be fair, not entirely -- I enjoyed some of the first season of The Mandalorian, I love Rogue One almost as much as Episodes IV and V, I enjoyed Solo, and I'm thrilled with Season 1 of "Andor"). But the sequel trilogy mostly broke the hearts of OG Star Wars fans like me. Color me silly, but I believe that corporate hacks snuffing out the magic and tainting cherished childhood memories -- and bona fide religious experiences like seeing STAR WARS in the theaters in 1977 at the age of ten after waiting with my family for blocks to get into the Cine Capri Theater with its huge screen and elegantly gathered curtains signaling that the show was about to begin -- well, IMHO that's something to get passionate about... angry, even... Kylo Ren angry (granted, it's funnier when *he* flips out than when we hypersensitive fanboys vent and kvetch, but we iron our pants with our space-age irons one leg at a time, just like he does).
This is one of the times I preferred the old EU. There Palpatine turned Luke to the Dark side and tried to transfer his essence into Leia's infant son.
That said the EU wasn't perfect. The did kill Chewie...
It was rushed because the original episode 9 was scrapped because of the fans complaining of episode 8. This wasn't supposed to be JJs movie.
I would have liked to see what JJs movie would actually be.
For me, it's my least favorite Star Wars Movie.
My ranking: Episode V > Episode VI > Rogue One > Episode III > Episode IV > Solo > Episode II > Episode I > Episode VII > Episode VIII > Episode IX
I grew up with IV-VI, and the books after Episode VI. For me, the sequels are still "The Truce At Bakura", "The Courtship Of Princess Leia" and of course the Thrawn Trilogy "Heir To The Empire", "Dark Force Rising" and "The Last Command". Aaaaand everything that followed after that.
If someone never has read these books, then they will never understand, why most of us "old fans" don't like what Disney had done, when they declared all of it as "Legends", and made these sequels...
At least they did some things right with most of the TV-Series (only "Resistance" is bad as the sequels), and some of the new Canon Books are good too. But still nothing compared to all that came out before Disney took over.
I see the sequels only as an alternate timeline, wich is possible because of the World between Worlds, that we have seen in "Rebels", and maybe in the upcoming "Ahsoka". So Han and Leias kids are still Jacen, Jaina and Anakin, and Luke and Maras kid is named Ben. 😜
C-3PO and R2-D2 are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the entire Star Wars saga, something hidden within 10 of the 11 movies.
Quote is Jyn from Rogue One (2016)
Yes it is!!
Finn was trying to tell Rey as he was sinking that he is Force-sensitive too. Admiral Pryde was a former Imperial who had been secretly funneling resources from both the Empire and the First Order to Exegol for decades, somehow without a Sith Wayfinder, and was the only First Order member to know that Palpatine was alive the whole time. The dagger was able to map the location of the Wayfinder aboard the Death Star from that specific spot on that specific hill that Rey randomly happened to be standing on, because the dagger was crafted by Sith who had visions of that moment but didn’t understand, yet still managed to make the dagger to those specifications. Palpatine had no son, he had a clone who separated from his progenitor and later had Rey.
All of this rather relevant information was not in the movie, and was divulged after it came out, mostly as Twitter posts, to cover up things in the movie that didn’t make sense.
Also, all of the Exegol star destroyers are identical to the star destroyers you see in the original trilogy, because they’re just the same CG models for star destroyers from Rogue One, but upscaled in size by 50% and given big cannons on their underbellies. This upscaling was basically done with a slider in editing software, with no design changes, so everything down to the last lightbulb and window on the destroyer is 50% larger too. (A little goofy.) In fact, every single ship in the massive hero fleet at the end was just a copy-paste of whatever random CG models Disney had on hand. They didn’t design new ships for this final battle, because that would cost money. A little disappointing after all the work that went into making new ships for battles in all the rest of the films.
This movie has great and memorable scenes in it, but even treating it by itself without comparing it to other Star Wars movies, it’s just so many little things in it that add up to make it less than it not only should have been, but very well could have been. I’m glad you liked it. I personally enjoyed it more than The Last Jedi.
BB8 actually tweets "I've got a bad feeling about this" when Poe attacks the dreadnaught at the beginning of episode VIII, which kinda sucks because it's only something you'd know if you were nerd-researching.
yeah, I don't think that counts. Having a droid beep and bloop the line isn't the same at all lol
It was implied when Poe responded, BB-8, happy beeps
I loved the lightsaber fight on the ocean. It's raw and realistic and the emotion feels real. A professional swordsman analysed it on TH-cam and said it was one of the more realistic ones in the saga.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As if ANY of these are realistic.
Guess that depends on who is reviewing it. I have seen another analysis to that fight scene that said it was one of the worse sword fighting scenes. th-cam.com/video/sn91cj_C4b8/w-d-xo.html
@@swe-timberwolf3642 very balanced, honest review. Like this guy
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@@swe-timberwolf3642 worth checking out on the OT
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The biggest problem the Sequel Trilogy had was lack of planning ahead. JJ Abrams had a basic idea of who these new characters were and where he wanted to go with them. Then the studio hired Rian Johnson and let him write the story for the middle of the trilogy however he wanted, and as a result he killed Snoke (who JJ intended to be the villain of the entire trilogy) and proclaimed Rey was the daughter of nobodies and was therefore herself a nobody. When JJ returned as writer/director of the third film, he had to reverse the major changes Johnson had made and it just created a bigger mess that would have meant a 6 hour film to get all the information out that was really needed.
Fortunately, it seems the Star Wars Disney+ shows are attempting to fill in some of the background to help the sequel trilogy make a lot more sense in retrospect, and the recently announced Rey creates the New Jedi Order film announced this past weekend will hopefully wrap up any lingering plot threads.
Palpoten was a clone in the rise of Skywalker, when Ben / Kyleo first went to Exigol there was at least 3 failed attempts at cloning him.
Darth Maul did die in episode 1, the events of Solo were just before episode 1
Han Solo was either not born or a baby during the events of Episode 1. Solo took place before episode 4 (I'm not sure of the exact years, but it's definitely between Episode 3 and Episode 4)
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So you are saying Palpoten had Darth Maul cloned,??
@@stanleywiggins5047 That's not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying that your timeline is wrong, the events of Solo happened before Episode 4 (not episode 1)
Nobody actually said "I have a bad feeling about this" in the Last Jedi.
Well, not in any recognizable language the audience could understand.
Rian Johnson said it's one of BB8's beeps.
Facing off against the First Order armada in the opening scene, BB-8 nervously says, “I have a bad feeling about this” in binary. Poe responds with “Happy beeps here, buddy, come on.”
Now, there's no way we can know for sure if BB8 said those exact words.
Also, since none of us can understand it, I'm not sure it counts as saying it.
So, officially, "I have a bad feeling about this" has been said in every Star Wars movie made so far, but you can only hear it recognizably in 10 of the 11.
J.J. abd Terrio wanted to do 2 parts for this movie, but Bob Iger didn't let them. Rose was cut cause she had scenes with Leia, and cause of problems with technology they couldn't complete Carrie's parts. Leia uses the Force since Episode 5: She can hear Luke, she remembers Padmé, she feels Han's dying, she pushed her body using the Force, and then she created a distraction for Kylo to be killed by Rey.
Palpatine IS DEATH. His body looks like Chancellor Palpatine, when talked with Anakin about Darth Plagueis. It is a cloning lab (Beaumont mentions it). Rey's father is not Palpatine's son, he is a clone. The Force made a dyad between a Skywalker and Palpatine's blood as a trap for him. Without the dyad resurrecting Palpatine he couldn't be killed.
Rey resurrects with the life of the last Skywalker, that is why she rises as Rey Skywalker. The dyad is literally one self at the end.
Sure if you noticed but when Rey heals Ben's stab wound his scar across his face also disappeared.
Also like that Ben's theme is a heroic version of kylo rens theme.
When Ben revived Rey he truly finished what his grandfather started saving the woman he loved from death😢.
I think Ben disappearing is justified by his knowledge of the force and strength with it. Since his last act was sacrificing himself for good he was accepted by the force after he died. Prior to Ep. 8, Obi Wan was the only Jedi to disappear without seeing them die first.
Rian Johnson claims that BB-8 said, "I have a bad feeling about this.", at the beginning of the last movie.
I don't think that counts lol
Whenever Snoke comes up in conversation, I just think of Snorks...
I've never heard of Snorks before. Movie would have been very different if Snoke was a Snork 🤣
Wow, I am amazed with your insight. Really. because I could not guess it would be Palpatine.
New Rey Skywalker movie announced yesterday. Hopefully Ben Solo comes back too, and not just as a ghost.
I'm just excited that there will be more Star Wars movies!!!
Yeah. I hope that they explain that he didn’t die but something else happened because of his life force transfer. As Vero said, it doesn’t really make sense for him to do something that took the rest of them that disappeared a lifetime to learn. I’m just glad he wasn’t a force ghost at the end, it gives me hope that he could come back.
"Somehow, Kylo returned."
I liked it a lot more after a couple of rewatches than initially in the theater (partially because I REALLY liked TLJ, and was coming off that high). Most of the problems stem from the film needing to be simultaneously a conclusion to the sequels, the entire 9-episode saga, AND the IV-IX fragment; cementing Palpatine as the overarching villain throughout is one way to do it -- and the part I liked least initially, Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter, would be much worse (and have much less reason for it) if Palpatine himself wasn't there.
I definitely don't envy having to make a conclusion to everything. Unless they did a story for fan service, I feel like a lot of people would always be upset no matter what the story was.
It's good that you were able to like it a lot more after a couple of rewatches though! The real winners are those who can enjoy a movie instead of dislike it, since it brings joy or happiness lol
@@VerowakReacts -- On the other hand, I've long said that life is too short for bad books and even bad films. Your reactions are delightful, but IMO the "real winners" are the folks who try to be discerning in what art/cinema/literature they experience.
(I probably wouldn't be so emphatic on the subject, but I've recently had some vision problems, so I've had to ration my viewing/reading/writing/time over the last six weeks -- listening to your reactions is helping me get through this patch, where most of my screen time is reserved for paying the bills.)
@@jamesodonnell3636 Sorry to hear about your vision problems I hope it's something that can improve
@@VerowakReacts -- Thank you. Initially, I had recurrent episodes of double-vision over 36 hours or so, but it hasn't happened since. That said, I've adopted some very strict protocols to avoid another episode. I miss all of the screen time I used to enjoy outside of work, but I'd rather not ever go through that experience again. I hope to get back to work in the studio soon, but I'll wait until 2024, just to be on the safe side (my paintings involve a lot of fine detail work/eye strain).
@@jamesodonnell3636 It's good that you're taking steps to avoid more episodes, and that you're taking things slow for now
Despite this being the worst Star Wars movie I will give credit where credit is due. Such as the way handled after Carrie Fisher’s death, Adam Driver’s performance, Han Solo, the lightsaber transfer, the shot of all the ships arriving, and the acting in general
Regarding Chewbacca and the medal. He was told he was getting a medal but allegedly said "I don't want no fcuking medal! What I did, I did for The Rebellion". That's canon in my eyes.
I'm watching this on my break at work.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this..
Oh, the trivia quiz answer is Rogue One/Jyn Erso
Yes Jyn Erso from Rogue One. Such a fantastic movie
27:25 I saved all the galaxy...again...you are welcome.
HIGH GROUND!! (ROBOT CHICKEN) LOL😆
Sequels allow for more predictions. I love how someone seeing it for the first time still ends up giving spoilers in the form of what is suspected to happen, based on what has happened so far.
9:32 "Can she heal?"
Yes.
Just like Obi-Wan healed Qui-Gon.
Just like Anakin healed his mother, Shmee.
Just like Luke healed his father.
Oh, wait.
No.
Just Rey.
'I don't know what that is.' She gave Chewie the medal he 'famously' did not get in Ep IV..
Vero, the pyramid box isn't called a wayfinder, it's called a Sith Holocron, and Jedi Holocrons are cubes
They call it a wayfinder in the movie, so I call it a wayfinder
Hi Miss Verowak!🙂Emperor Palpatine did die in "Return of the Jedi". Palpatine says the dark side of the force can be unnatural. He meant that he has come back by cloning experiments. This will be explored later, or earlier in the timeline, so to speak. Nice reations to this Star Wars film that has its moment, Miss Vero!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Jyn Erso in Rogue One for quote trivia. Yes, I am one with the nerd force. P.S nice accent lol ;) Also, in "The Last Jedi" BB8 beeped "I have a bad feeling about this" to Poe
Yes it was Jyn!! Being one with the nerd force is great, definitely something to be happy about. I think the accent gave away the quote, right? 😂
.......maybe........ :)
To me force healing was always in the movies from Ep. 4. (Examples: Obi finding Luke the first time and the Emperor finding Vader burned)
Every time a force user came across an injured or unconscious person they put their hand on the injured person’s forehead or temple area.
Which is totally ironic that Anakin went dark side to have the ability to save Padme but healing is a light side power.
Dark side has the power to drain others to save yourself. Light side is about draining yourself to save others.
And finally, Palpatine and his minions used cloning tech and the dark side to create Snoke as an experiment to try and eventually clone himself in an attempt to live forever (Sith can’t become one with the Force like Jedi can as Force ghosts, so this was his attempt at immortality).
The thing is, since I stopped comparing this one with the other episodes, I started to like it. This works for all trilogys.😁 Thank you for the amazing reaction, also loved your final thoughts.♥
I feel like nothing sticks in this movie, nothing should matter. Every significant action at one point is shortly erased at another time.
Palpatine's return was kind of a throwback to a storyline in the old cannon, where he had a place hidden away that had clones of himself, and when he died, his spirit would inhabit the body of the clone. "The Rule of Two" book trilogy (about Darth Bane and the starting of the 'aways two there are, a master and an apprentice') and the book "Darth Plagueis" go into more detail about how the Sith learned to transfer their spirits into other bodies. Sadly, the new movies don't explain that.
I also didn't like Finn or even Captain Phasma (from the 1st two movies). They hyped up Finn as being the 1st black character to be a lead in a Star Wars film, but then they didn't DO anything with the character. And that is the fault of the writers, not the actor. Same thing with Phasma. Hyped as the first female Stormtrooper in the films, but they didn't do anything with her. You have to read the book "Phasma" in order to find out that she really is an evil badass, but the movies fail to show that.
There are aspects of each movie that are good, but for me, the few good parts don't make up for the uncoordinated storytelling of the trilogy.
You've made to the end of what's known as the "Skywalker Saga".
This is a decent movie. Like with "The Last Jedi" I did find parts of this movie that I liked. For example: I absolutely loved seeing the return of Lando Calrissian. Loved seeing the Force Ghost Luke lift his old X-Wing ship out of the water on Ahch-To to the same theme music that played when Yoda lifted the X-Wing out of the water on Dagobah in "The Empire Strikes Back". And seeing Harrison Ford back as Han Solo in that one scene.
Fun Fact #1: Due the the real life passing of Carrie Fisher(RIP always), all of Leia's scenes where reworked deleted scenes from the previous two movies.
Fun Fact #2: The stand in actress for Leia during the flashback scene of her training with Luke was Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd.
Chewie's reaction to Leia's death always breaks my heart every time I watch that scene.
Can't wait for you to start on the "Star Wars" Disney+ shows next.
Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊
Love your star wars reactions.i really like this one,my favourite of this trilogy,love the scene with Luke's force ghost.poignant moment with r2d2 who was there when Leia was born was also with her when she died❤
Nooo! I missed the premiere… Watching now though. :)
Yoooo, love your reactions💯 starwars is a great journey
no body screams in anguish like Chewie 💔
First time wearing an oxygen mask: this ground doesn't feel like rock.
'... no more than bugs to them.' Ben's 'half-sister?'
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I think he can be still alive.
Anakin was the chosen one he was supposed to destroy the Sith. But somehow Palpatine survived 2 explosions including the death star explosion. How? The movie won't tell you, the book will.
Basically, Palpatine transferred his consciousness to the clone.
That's the logic, how can we be sure he didn't do it again?