#1173

Actually fights and attacks him for one

#1174

It was always going to be divisive, but I really liked the way that both undercut the two years of expectation people had built up and immediately established that Luke is no longer the Jedi hero that the Resistance have been hunting for.

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#1175

Yeh I really enjoyed it and genuinely laughed out loud! I can also see how that really enraged the more hardcore of the fans.

#1176

Yeah I thought that was both very funny and quite brave Iā€™m a way.

Another thing re the ā€œhumourā€: doesnā€™t the entire franchise have a fairly dumb sense of humour?

#1177

The others have humour but itā€™s a lot more natural, the wise cracking to undercut a tense moment was very new

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#1178

The iron joke really tickled me.

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#1179

It does. But I think itā€™s way more subtle and infrequent to punctuate the tension. Usually wisecracks or sarcasm. Felt a bit slapstick and overdone for the first hour to me. The call between Poe and the New Order Admiral was painfulā€¦

But I found TFA a bit jarring on first watch too and it doesnā€™t bother me now.

#1180

Agree with this, was very worried at that stageā€¦

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#1181

ā€œNever tell me the oddsā€

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#1182

In fact Hanā€™s entire Schtick

#1183

The what?

#1184

It really wobbled at this point, I thought. Also when the animals were running through the casino, I was like ā€œwhat in the fuck?ā€. But it pulled me back.

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#1185

That bit right at the beginning when Poe was talking to British Ginger Megabastard and was acting as if he couldnā€™t hear him and that

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#1186

OH rightā€¦ I lolā€™d

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#1187

Quite enjoyed the Comms officer trying to subtly go ā€œer sirā€¦ Heā€™s blatantly taking the piss out of youā€

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#1188

Wasnā€™t that Eddie too?

I think itā€™s also worth remembering that these films are targeted at lots of people, but mostly young people, so shouldnā€™t be surprised by moments like this. Hopefully my cousins will have seen it by xmas and I can ask them

#1189

That call and most of the jokes didnā€™t bother me that much - I think theyā€™ve wouldā€™ve worked better in a film that actually identified itself as a silly caper

As it was they were just really off in a film that seemed to take itself very seriously. Probably an attempt to counter that but it was just jarring

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#1190

i liked luke brushing off his shoulder

donā€™t @ me

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#1191

@japes @japes @japes @japes @japes @japes @japes @japes @japes

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#1192

Me too, and the ā€œsee ya around, kidā€ line was something Han Solo said (or similar) in one of the original movies right? Thought that was deliberate as heā€™d just talked to Kylo about how his father was always with him.

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