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the first half of probably my least favourite scene in rise of skywalker, luke's island adventure

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There’s an odd set of symmetries here that don’t quite resolve into anything meaningful: Rey arrives in Kylo Ren’s TIE and leaves in Luke’s X-Wing. Rey throws Luke’s lightsaber into the fire and finds Leia’s lightsaber in a wall. Kylo Ren crushed Rey’s wayfinder on the Death Star ruins but she pulls his from the wreckage of the TIE. Luke tried to kill Kylo and fled to the island and Rey healed Kylo and fled to the island. Han’s ghost inspires Kylo to turn good and Luke’s ghost inspires Rey to continue the plot. Someone was trying to make a film that was about something here, but all we have is torn up patterns in the sand. And two lightsabers.

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Jamie Faith @jamiefaith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SCENE #25: THE POWER OF TWO 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

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My man Chris Terrio with the impossible task of trying to salvage TROS

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the first half of probably my least favourite scene in rise of skywalker, luke's island adventure

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i get a lot of emails intended for other people but it's rare they have this much dramatic unity

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The shape of the Trade Federation's ship at the beginning of the Phantom Menace is a sphere within a larger circle — it's a visual representation of the theme of symbiosis that runs throughout the saga and is especially important to Phantom Menace.

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I’m sure this has been long since hammered into the dust of discourse, but it’s striking how unbounded the scope of the problem the Resistance face here is. Even the Death Star, the point of which is to grant the Empire seemingly unbeatable power, is circumscribed within that big, simple circle. If you can X that out, the rebels win. Here it seems like even if the Exegol fleet just flopped out of the sky it’d be a mammoth job to mop up the pieces – there’d be a trove of only slightly scuffed materiel just lying around that maybe wouldn’t be as impressive as a completed fleet for the First Order but surely would be a concern. There’s just way too many of them, and what are they doing? Hovering? Something went very wrong in the conception of this climax but it’s hard to imagine what because the rolling infinite fleet is the very concept, there’s no obvious way to handicap it that would make the Resistance fight against it seem even plausible. It’s meant to be the arrival of the also-infinite Lando fleet, I guess, but those two things don’t just cancel each other out.

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Gizka Core 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gizkacore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

unwisely considering the logistics of the final order fleet

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I'm like those OG vampires where if you spill a bunch of beans everywhere, they'll stay up counting each one all night. instead of beans though, it's calculating how many ships can travel through a dangerous, barely charted hyperlane into and out of the unknown regions all at once?

Gizka Core 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gizkacore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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I frankly dgaf about the ST, but given how there IS an in-universe history book that applies historical materialism to the wider Star Wars universe.... that also begs for a sequel in-universe historian to map out the logistics of both fleets respectively... that I can't help but want to figure out

lured by Lando, the Pied Piper of Bespin

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unwisely considering the logistics of the final order fleet

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SCENE #24: LOG.EXE 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

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SCENE #24: LOG.EXE 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

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i'm not saying that me paying attention to rise of skywalker like this has summoned an episode X into existence, but i can't disprove it

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Luke turning to dust on the wind in The Last Jedi is logical enough in context, I guess – his teachers were Obi-wan and Yoda, so he kinda has to follow suit. But Luke is a character who ultimately follows a spiritual path (even if there’s plenty of adventuring along the way). It’s easy enough to read his passing from the mortal plane as a metaphor of transcendence, as with Obi-wan. He escapes Kylo and the First Order like Ben escaped Vader. Leia’s death, however, is much harder to explain. Unable (by virtue of the method used to keep her in the film) to explain what she’s attempting or why, she dies and subsequently vanishes like Leonard Nimoy in the Simpsons, a flat statement that the time for Leia to be occurring is over now.

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SCENE #23: THE END 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

i'm not saying that me paying attention to rise of skywalker like this has summoned an episode X into existence, but i can't disprove it

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SCENE #23: THE END 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

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Even the downtime part, with Finn and Poe accusing Chewie of cheating at space Warhammer, is charming and efficient. The pedant in me wants to mark down the naked appeals to nostalgia, the flickery stop-motion figurines from A New Hope being hauled out again (and not for the last time) despite being a wholly inconsequential part of that movie; it’s weird that it’s the same, that we never see a different space board game. Where’s space Settlers of Catan, maybe Chewie sucks at that. Maybe he gets all the bad dice rolls. Still, it’s all charming and it makes something of Chewbacca’s mostly unremarked-on status as the elder statesman of the group – this guy knew Yoda, was involved in the destruction of two Death Stars, and introduced his mother to Han Solo for Christmas. They should give him a medal.

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SCENE #22: HELLO, BOOLIO 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

come read the essays that posters on reddit describe as "An attempt to be the next Pinkett with a sprinkle of Cinemas Sins"

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the advantage of going scene by scene is that when C3P0 says they're his friends we can take it at face value, without having to take into account the rest of the movie where he's a ghost at the feast

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some light thoughts on threepio

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SCENE #21: THREEPIO'S MOMENT OF HEROISM 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

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Gizka Core 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gizkacore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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So it’s nice that despite everything else about the script for Rise of Skywalker, here it allows C3P0 the genuinely heroic act of choosing oblivion for himself in service of the Rebellion (as-was) and in service of his friends. Eternal robo-butler, first to Anakin and Padme and later Luke and Leia and Han, here C3P0 is his own droid and makes his own call. It’s a moment of sincerity that the movie around it doesn’t seem quite able to believe is taking place.

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...but in TROS? It's just disrespectful and tone-deaf... especially when 3PO calls them all his beloved friends... even though he seemingly has 0 connection to these resistance agents other than the events of TFA

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Gizka Core 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gizkacore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it's undercut by how much disrespect they give 3PO. It's funny when Han and Leia do it in ESB because 3PO is being overly anxious (and thus unhelpful in the moment, but helpful for the intended audience to have an emotional anchor that sells the danger) and it shows how scared they themselves are

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having an identity crisis now; the redditors all seem to think i'm being needlessly harsh, i thought i was being broadly positive 🤷

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i'm finally getting the good reddit comments

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some light thoughts on threepio

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being mean to mark hamill, as is traditional

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Back at the Death Star ruins it’s time for the start of the big tear-jerker scene between Kylo Ren and Han Solo, who very thankfully does not appear in the form of a luminous ghost. I strongly suspect they did some testing of various effects for making Solo slightly ghost-y here and rightly thought better of it – you can just about get Alec Guinness to rattle off some dramatic lines with panache despite glowing blue and wobbling at the edges, even if he will need to rest his ghostly legs, but as we see later in this film you absolutely cannot do the same with Mark Hamill. Ford’s strength of emotion here comes from his vision of stoic acceptance, a grounded presence that cuts through the campy melodrama inherent to the character of Kylo Ren.

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Doctor Ironic @vardacinemas.art · 21/09/2026

SCENE #20: DEAD LEIA, WET BEN 43 INDIVIDUAL SCENES FROM 'RISE OF SKYWALKER' is a project reviewing each scene from the final star wars film, one by one, in a random order fevered.earth/index.php/20... #StarWars

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Can we admit Breadtube is an economic scam at this point

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being mean to mark hamill, as is traditional

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