Symptom 135: Star Wars Episode 9
It is here! Finally! We get to see the legendary Star Wars on the big screen one more time. The culmination of 42 years of story telling and the end of the Skywalker Saga. We find out that the best way to wrap up the “Skywalker Saga” is to tell us about how awesome Palpatine’s granddaughter is…?
Yes, the final episode is all about how the Skywalker family failed to kill the Emperor, making Anakin’s sacrifice pointless, Leia lost the New Republic to the First Order and Luke ran and hide while Palpy healed up in hiding and secretly ran the first order, only to be foiled not by Ben Solo, who at least had some Skywalker blood…but by his own granddaughter Rey.
Because why should the concluding trilogy of the Skywalker Saga be about them at all? It should about everyone but them and about how they were huge failures. The prophecy of brining balance to force? Meh, Rey killed the last Sith, who was ALL the Sith. Balance Smalance.
All I can say is thank God this is over. Disney learned something from the failure of 8. Episode returned to feeling like Star Wars…but Rian Johnson left JJ in such a huge hole it was impossible to really dig out and this probably the best effort that could be made. The Mandalorian is good. The future of Star Wars is in good hands. Maybe whatever the next Trilogy is can build off that and return to being and feeling like Star Wars. Thank god this monstrosity that is 7, 8 and 9 is over. For us at Sci-Fi Malady they never happened.