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When did it happen? I didn't notice. Did it happen after Rey healed him?

"Well...I didn't hate it." Was my first thought when the credits started. I didn't think this was going to be a ground breaking film and got pretty much what I was expecting. I'm neither disappointed or blown away by ROS, it's just fine.

Likes: [s] big [/s] biggest dumb space battle, Lando "mothafuckin" Calrissian, laser sword fights, Palpatine's "DO IT", Chewy getting more attention, Kylo/Ben FINALLY accepting that he's not on the Dark side, a pretty decent level of closure for episodes 7-9

I started to list dislikes in the same format as likes but I think they're closer to questions and are more open to discussion so here we go.

1. Palpatine is somehow still alive...ish, ok fine. But how has he managed to build a fleet of like a million star destroyers on the most isolated/uncharted planet in the galaxy AND have the people to staff them with no one knowing until just now? I'm fine with just passing that off as suspension of disbelief if I must but it's a stretch.
2. I was expecting Lando to be the first order spy. I was honestly surprised when Hux admitted it was him and equally confused by his "I don't care if you win. I need Kylo to lose". That never went anywhere. But why Hux? What is your goal here? The last 2 movies made his character seem (to me at least) to be loyal to the first order to the point of sacrificing himself to further their cause if necessary. It felt more like a plot device to get Finn, Poe, and Chewy off the ship at the expense of an important but overall disposable character.
3. Meaningless losses. For the record I do actually have problems with these things. Force fight between Rey and Kylo that leads to the destruction of a ship they (and the audience) believe Chewbacca is on. Nope, jebaited, Chewy was on another ship and is okay. We have to completly wipe C3P0's memory to get the coordinates of the Sith planet. C3P0, "I'm taking one last look sir, at my friends." "Tears" OH WAIT NEVERMIND, R2D2 just had to plug his memory dick back into Threepios brain and it's almost like it never happened.

Side-note: the pacing feels a little weird to me. The first 40ish minutes seem rushed and so jumpy going from one thing to another every few minutes but the last 20-30 minutes or so seemed to drag on to the point where I kinda wished it would just wrap up and be done a few times.

Overall I enjoyed it. It's not the best movie of all time and maybe not even the best Star Wars movie but it is a pretty well done conclusion to a 4 decades long saga."

At least until episode 10 kicks off in 10-15 years. 😆

@BobbyDigi I don't think they wanted to deal with what to do with Ben Solo the war criminal

At least Merry was there to help them get the ring to Palpatine.

Exquisite. Everything it needed to be.

The Last Jedi remains my top pick, but it was able to do that, in part, by ignoring the larger plot momentum, which obviously number 9 lacked the ability to do.

My only critique was that the first 30 minutes felt hurried to the point of being a bit unglued, but all was forgiven by the end.

Wanna know what broke me? Chewie finally getting his goddamn medal.

I fuckin' loved it.

Came in with no reviews and spoilers. Thoroughly enjoyed the movie end to end. Honestly, I'm probably going to not read anything more about it review wise, because I simply don't care about what other people want to pick apart and destroy. Loved the droid hacker, fight scenes / force through space stuff was so well done, space wizards. That is all.

Read nothing. Knew nothing. It ties ESB for me. It was what I wanted and needed.