TROS

If I were able to rewrite this entire trilogy, I wouldn't haven't made Rey a member of the Palpatine family. Instead, I would have had her father be an old friend of Han and Lando's from their youth, when all three were kind of wild smugglers and mercenaries, doing whatever promised profit or adventure. In the original trilogy, when Han meets Lando on Cloud City after having been separated from him for awhile, there is this sense that Lando has changed somewhat since they last met and Lando is worried about his people on Cloud City, now having a life he's built and other people to protect. Then, both Han and Lando become leaders in the rebellion in the third movie of the first trilogy because they've continued to grow and care about wider issues and other people. My idea is that Rey's real father, rather than being a legacy of an influential family, is someone whose origins are as humble as Han and Lando's but never grew emotionally beyond their adventuring days. He probably genuinely loved Rey's mother and even Rey, but his problem is that he's always been a thrill-seeker and believed in treasure-hunting and get-rich-quick schemes. Rather than building a stable life for his new wife and their baby, as Lando might have suggested (I'm picturing that he might have lived on Cloud City for a time), Rey's father wanted to pursue legendary treasures that any sensible person would realize were a fool's errand. For a time, he and his wife had fun adventuring and barely scraping by taking odd jobs and various illegal or semi-legal activities with no real aim in sight beyond adventure and striking it rich somewhere, somehow. Toward the end of his life, he had in mind another expedition that would lead to some legendary treasure, which might have actually paid off this time or lead to some other amazing discovery that Rey could later discover, but he and wife needed something to complete their mission - supplies or money to bribe some individual who promised to lead them to whatever it was they were seeking. Out of desperation, they accept the offer to sell their daughter for they money they desperately need. Rey's mother doesn't really want to do it, but her husband has always been her greatest love, and she's never been able to refuse him anything he's wanted, even when it's a really bad idea. Rey's father tells Rey's mother that it's only temporary, promising that when they have the treasure they're looking for, they'll come back for Rey and not only be able to buy her back but that they'll all live like royalty together (sort of like a Little Miss Marker situation, if you know that old movie). Of course, something happens that the scheme falls through (possibly because they don't really understand the nature of what they're seeking and the treasure isn't what they think it is), just like every other treasure he's hunted or get-rich-quick scheme that he's ever tried, and they don't have the money to buy back Rey. The two of them spend the last little money they have on alcohol (the drinking money that Kylo Ren was talking about). As they're drinking their sorrows, Rey's mother is distraught and can't take it anymore and tells her husband that he's a failure and she's going to leave him. Even if she has to sell herself into slavery to be with her daughter again, she's going to do it. In fact, she dares her husband to sell her next for whatever crazy scheme he has or whatever alcohol he wants to drink himself to death on. Rey's father, desperate to keep his wife and reclaim his daughter, angrily goes after the person he thinks has cheated them for not leading them to the promised treasure because, of course, nothing he does is ever his fault but someone else's. Drunk, he tries to force this person to give back their money. Rey's mother, also drunk, goes after him, frightened about what he's going to do, and there's a fight that ends with both of Rey's parents dead. This scenario would technically fit how Kylo Ren described Rey's parents while still giving a different impression of what they were really like and what happened to them. The reason why I like this as being the truth about Rey's parents is that, first, it supports the idea of Rey's parents as being "nobodies" who seemingly never really amounted to anything, but yet, there could also be the moral that even "nobodies" are somebody to someone - they were bad parents, but they did love their daughter and each other, and once they realize who Rey's parents actually were, Lando could tell Rey that they were good friends to him once and that he genuinely liked them and would have helped them if he'd had the chance. Also, there could be another moral about accepting change and responsibility and growing into the roles that you occupy as you grow up. Lando and Han were growing into new roles when they look on leadership in the rebellion, but if we want to continue with the idea of Han's dysfunctional relationship with Leia and their mutual dysfunctional parenting of Ben/Kylo, we could point to their inability to grow out of old roles and fully accept new ones, especially the role of parents to someone who needed them to show him how to build his own identity and future instead of being obsessed with clinging to roles of the past. In the end, I'd have Rey bond more with Lando than the others, not because he's a force user or part of an important family, but because he's a self-made man and the longest-lived of his old friends. The secret to Lando's relative success is that he understands that, in order to live your best life, you have to accept your life for what it is, taking the good with the bad and the hard with the easy, enjoying each phase of life or role you have to fill as best you can and moving on to the next. (I know that there would have to be tweaks to Lando's backstory with his daughter in this third trilogy to really carry this off, but I think there's potential there.) I think that would be a good message to end the trilogy on. After the main adventure is over, Rey might not be sure what she's going to do next, but she has become a member of a family of friends, and they can all move on to other things together.

Tracy Christenson

Funniest thing I've ever read!

Andrzej Kapolka

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Rudy

Please never, ever take off that hat. You are literally the only human in any universe who can wear that, it looks really good on you. Only you. No one else can wear it.

Lost Johnny

I’m making a google doc of all the video essayist headcanons in the hope of confusing my brain of what was actually in the movie and what wasn’t.

Laura Septique Tanque

When you said "was he puppeteering Snoke" I definitely heard "was he Palpatiering Snoke?"

Maija V

I saw it last night, got swept up in all the action and melodrama and enjoyed it, slept on it, woke up this morning with lingering doubts, and then watched this video putting everything forward more clearly and effectively than I ever could’ve. Thanks Jenny. That closing line about disappointment really struck a chord.

Sordahon

I love your videos even when i disagree! I had a fun time watching this movie but I don't disagree with any of your points. Nice video as usual :)

rinthegreat

@Steve, omg, you’re so right. I think we’re on to something. Abrams (no doubt like many of these tentpole-movie runners) is a hyper-aware cynic.

Emvee

Thankee, @Emvee. In support of your genius-of-stealth hypothesis, I was very impressed with a detail JJ threw into his first Star Trek reboot. One of the very first things that happens is, a young James T. Kirk has taken his stepfather's antique Ford Thunderbird on a joyride, a classic 1960's vehicle (just like the original Star Trek TV show). As the swarm of police cars closes in, the audience can hear the stepdad bitching Kirk out, "You had best bring her back EXACTLY like you found her! I've got her running PERFECTLY right now, and if I see ONE SCRATCH or anything out of place, there will be HELL TO PAY!" In response, Kirk barrels straight toward a mountain cliff, pulls a bootlegger reverse, and hops out of the car just as it slides over the edge and plummets to certain destruction, all with a smirk upon his face. I thought that showed Abrams' opinion of Star-Trek purists, and it matches your animatronic-Palpatine theory to a T. Good Job!

Steve Ray

Cats does have a plot though. It's "cats gather to dance and introduce themselves to cats who already know them until one cat is given permission to die" Haha

Samantha

You are a treasure. It still mystifies me that you didn't hate "Star Wars 9: Episode 8 The Last Jedi” (2017). https://www.blackgate.net/blog/star-wars-the-lost-jedi/

Brandon Blackmoor

@Steve, great point. I’ve had another related thought, which is that JJ Abrams is actually possibly a genius of stealth passive aggression, and that Palpatine puppeteered off a crane is a metaphor for the reanimated corpse of the Star Wars franchise being kept alive by unnatural corporate means.

Emvee

I don't mean to rain on an already-soaked parade, but even in his student film, THX-1138, George Lucas seemed to be yearning to dole out homogenized merch to a brainwashed public. Perhaps it's a miracle we get any good movies at all.

Steve Ray

In all seriousness, at some point we have to contend with the fact that it’s absurd to expect competent storytelling and genuine myth-making from these corporate monstrosities. An exceptional team of young, independent creatives – George Lucas, Gary Kurtz, Frank Oz, John Williams, Marcia Lucas, Irwin Kirshner, outspoken actors (“George, you can type this s**t, but you sure can't say it!”), etc. – collaborated more or less on egalitarian terms in the 1970s to make two story-driven passion projects that happened to touch on themes of launching into adulthood, seeking adventure, finding community, achieving manhood and the eternal battle between good and evil, totalitarianism and freedom. After that, it was about selling toys and tie-in merch. Basically, in any modern franchise movie or TV show, if something is stupid, safely assume it’s for the most craven business reasons: the writer-director thinks it’s cheaper and easier to film on green screen than stand in sand (it’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere); an actor didn’t give rights to use his face for toys; a meagre story needs to be stretched out over several films to multiply earning potential; the directors are seen to be devaluing the brand; the producers want the bigger cut of product sales they’ll get off the new characters and designs than they would get from the old ones; the audience isn’t buying one character’s toys so phase her out of the movie for one that might; they need a storyline to get outraged or woke clicks; we need to sell merch to a missing age or other demographic; images or characters are put in largely to generate memes for free advertising (arise Baby Yoda); write in costume changes and accessories only to add to the product line; there are confounding fractured references to elements because they’re there as high-profile intros to future streaming shows, spin-off films, etc. In fact, it could be argued that incoherent storytelling in movies is itself deliberate in that it encourages mystery-solving engagement and the seeking of answers through the purchase of other tie-in media. Franchise movies are basically the Super Bowl ads of IP merch. If you want better movies, one thing to do is to stop rewarding this death spiral of storytelling by buying what they’re selling. Or if the theme park rides, comic books, video games, visual dictionaries, toys and t-shirts are that much of a good time that we can’t quit them, we will be getting incoherent, vacant infomercial movies for the foreseeable forever. And you know, there’s an argument for trading in a decent film experience for the hours of comfort, fun and community you can get from all the other stuff. I can enjoy some of these movies for what they are. But they are clearly not (or no longer are) the equivalent of timeless myths, literature, parables or fables, but cynical revenue generators where character and story are minor considerations. People rave about the competence of Marvel movies, but I think that’s even worse: like people grateful that the new Super Bowl ad is really good at selling them stuff. Anyone tending to see my point could check out the latest episode of a podcast called Contrarian Court that gets at this in a funny way. Anyway, I hope Jenny uses her award-winning pastiche-writing talents to compose some changed-name, thinly-veiled, well-told fan fiction with decent characters, story and themes that will get picked up and made into better or actually good movies and TV shows.

Emvee

Yeah, correct! What I really meant by fixing was 'devise a plot that makes sense to go with the songs, which filmmakers obviously tried to do and failed.'

Vasyl Kerimov

Great review. Thank you for the serious consideration. Apropos of nothing, when viewing on a small device like my phone, the angle of your ears and the 'wings' of the cap line up, and I am reminded of an elf wearing a baseball cap.

michael mccafferty

Can’t fix what ain’t broken.

This latest takedown is all very well, but... how would Jenny fix Cats?

Vasyl Kerimov

His version was still way worse... somehow

Eric Liuu

We all owe Alan Dean Foster an apology

Theo Krantz

Having recently had a very rough breakup with “Game of Thrones”, your line about “the worst thing a franchise ending can do” definitely struck a nerve… but at least this trilogy inspired you to produce so many videos that have made (and will continue to make) many people very happy, so I hope you can take comfort in that. And bless you for working so hard on this one over the holidays.

Dee Crosier

Driving with my family I spotted a blue Honda Civic and I started laughing uncontrollably now they all think I'm crazy :/

Luis

I was excited to go through the comments but the last few times I've checked it's just a flood of Rey [Surname] jokes and while that format has yielded some gems, it's a shame that it's buried so much of the discussion and references and such that usually make the space under Jenny's videos so enjoyable.

Shaun Cheah

Movie positing monkeys as masters of Japanese Kintsugi (golden joinery) art.

Emvee

its amazing how this video is over an hour long and you still didn't cover all the stupid things by a long shot. like... there was a monkey welder who put kylo ren's helmet back together. i feel like we all collectively forgot that that happened!... wait, DID that happen?

surasshu

It (unsurprisingly) seems to be doing very <i>well</i>, this video! 👏 390,000 views in 24 hours, and only 1,200 👎s. Which is ... 🧮🤔… 0.3%. On a Star Wars video, that is completely amazing (I haven’t looked at the comments but I am sure they are all lovely)

Shred Cadmium

He should have lost some limbs

Blue Corn

When kylo came back as ben solo he shouldve had leia buns that wouldve fixed the movie for me

Palpatine: “My baby girl........”

Blue Corn

D-0 was either Rey’s parents’ droid. Or Rey’s parents’ killer’s droid. It would have been funny if after she said that, it was revealed he belonged to her folks.

Blue Corn

Seriously, though, I guessed ahead of time that the Skywalker was going to be Rey. By the end of TLJ, all the Skywalkers are dead (Leia is an Organa and Ben is a Solo), and we've got the main character with no last name who respects Luke.

Bullseye

The title of the film isn't about Rey. She isn't a real Skywalker and she doesn't really rise. It's about C-3PO and his triumphant recovery after his self-sacrifice.

Bullseye

One thing I thought for sure Jenny would mention is that Rey says D-0 must have been badly treated in the past but they will be kind to him. Then unintentional comedy smash cut to D-0 watching them give C-3PO a lobotomy. (Also note JJ Abrams voicing a droid whose name is pronounced Deo, aka God in Latin.)

Emvee

one thing i thought was pretty dumb also was poe making finn his like co-general? because like okay, i guess, but i'm still a little bit lost on what finn's skillset really is except like, the power of friendship or something. poe is a great pilot and as you mentioned in a previous video has pretty much been scouted for leadership, while rey's got her force powers. for an ex-stormtrooper, which you would assume comes with a fair amount of training, finn pretty much has to be saved/nearly dies in every one-on-one combat he has throughout the trilogy. i guess his thing is knowing about the inside procedures and workings of the first order and their stuff which, okay, definitely useful in tfa and tlj as far as i recall, but that gets a little lost in this film i think, especially when they then introduce a whole tribe of characters who also can do exactly that. i also thought it was strange that when he talks with jannah about why they left they both describe it as a "feeling", like very specifically that word with a lot of ~~dramatic emphasis~~ but then when he realises the signal has switched the main command ship or something and jannah asks how he knew he says the same thing, it was a ~~feeling~~, but that's supposed to be because he's force senstive?? so are jannah and all her ex-stormtrooper friends also force senstive and that's why they didn't feel it was right to fire on civilians? but if that's the case, why didn't she also sense where the signal had been moved to? idk. maybe i'm missing something there but i would not be surprised if it's just another thing they didn't think through/was screwed up by rewrites or something. finn really got done dirty in this movie, but i do also think if his skillset from being an ex-stormtrooper had been developed a little more in eps 7 &amp; 8 maybe jj abrams would have had a few more ideas of what to do with him

Nick Louise

So I barely watched any star wars and I just feel the biggest confusion at "chewbacca explodes" lol

If you get a blood transfusion, are you blood-married to the person who's blood is inside you? Do you get to take the last name they most identify with? Will you never be alone again? The movie made it clear what's being exchanged is just "life energy". You can heal as many people as you want, and you're not carving up your own soul and putting it inside people. You are just healing physical wounds with life energy. If you give up a little life energy you're fine, if you give up all your life energy to resurrect someone, you're dead. But your life energy isn't your soul, which goes into the force when you die, it's just a sort of energy like spiritual blood that can be used to heal physical wounds.

Steve Hayes

I liked that it backed up TLJ in the chuck-your-lightsaber-into-an-ocean move.

Emvee

I think people are either too mad at or too forgiving of Johnson. Seeing Knives Out cemented his flaws for me (btw, people keep saying it’s an original script – no, it’s an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, wherein a cantankerous old man torments his dysfunctional family over his inheritance, down to the presence of a young Latina whom he considers as an heir), in that he sets up an interesting situation and possibilities, then settles on childishly simplistic motivations and outcome. *Spoiler* In an Agatha Christie novel, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas would have been in cahoots all along, which was hinted at visually, and her telltale vom issue would have been a long-con fakeout, like the vertigo alibi in Christie’s novel Evil Under the Sun. That said, I think there’s a great Jenny video idea in her treating Knives Out as Johnson’s disguised ninth Star Wars movie plot: the working class heroine in a struggle with the rich prep school kid and under the power of the domineering old dude at the centre of a (publishing) empire.

Emvee

probably not true, but i like to think it because it makes the chewbacca scene less stupid: the medal in her possession belonged to han or luke

Bethany Gemmell

my guess for your question about what jj was trying to do with leia, bearing in mind that i’m not great at the technical stuff in star wars: like in the first movie where she had some kind of sense that kylo murdered han, she had one about rey murdering her son, so she kind of shuffled off to give her life force to him, in turn killing her, and her body disappeared when ben’s did because they were both, as two combined beings, became one with the force (i’m not saying it was a good idea btw, i found it really morbid that they put a sheet over leia like she was at the morgue)

Bethany Gemmell

These movies take up an unhealthy amount of space (ha) in my mind, but I can’t believe they expect most people to keep track of the various models of lightsaber. They are the silver gloss-finish Nissan Micras to me.

Emvee

come back Colin Trevorrow! all is forgiven. Also, Alan Dean Foster's 'Rey is a robot' twist now isn't looking that terrible.... Old lady on Tatooine: "who are you?" Rey:"bleep bloop bleep"

F W Pancakes

A+ Palpatine impression.

Matthew Clark

I don’t know how you managed to capture most of my thoughts on this movie, but you did.

Chelsea Clark

This was the most jarring part for me: he reminded me of the aliens in Life of Brian. (But then maybe that was an homage, since Life of Brian was shot in Tunisia not long after Star Wars). Also, I’d like to see him move quickly around the Falcon in an emergency and the slime trail he leaves behind that the other characters slip on.

Emvee

One somewhat horrifying thought I haven’t seen widely considered is that with Kylo/Ben’s life force transfer to Rey and her initiating the kiss thereafter, he is now consensually, um, part of her? Sort of like L3 in the Falcon, lol. Hence the Rey Skywalker thing is because they’re merged through the Force, and since he was always more into his Skywalker lineage than the nerf herder Solo side, Rey took that as her Force-married (!) name. This would also account for his not appearing as a regular Force ghost with Luke and Leia – he hasn’t ascended to Force heaven, he’s forever part of Rey now. He could be the voice in her head she can chat with forever. She will *never* feel alone again (pick your romantic or creepy music for this realization)... I know. This is all kinds of problematic. But the possibility is there. Btw, since we’re on Tattooine, many seem to think Rey is moving there, but I just got the sense that she was closing Luke’s story where it had started. At the very least she has to return BB-8 to Poe since they spent a scene reminding us that he’s Poe’s droid. Also, I assume that Chewbacca is offscreen waiting for Rey in the cockpit.

Emvee

I agree with 98% of Jenny’s points and I still liked RoS the most out of the three. It actually makes the two previous ones better by finally committing to resolutions (even if they’re dopey) instead of perpetual hanging mysteries. Also the frenetic pace keeps it exciting. The slowness of many scenes in the first two (as with many modern franchise movies with vacuous drawn out faux-gravity scenes) gives the audience too much time in the moment to ponder what a reboot TFA is and all the conflicting themes in TLJ (e.g. listen to women, but also everyone’s wrong all the time).

Emvee

Or the good empress of Star Wars; her character could simply be powerful enough (through Force conversion arithmetic) to overpower Grandpa Palps after they merged. They can write it any old way. But the thing is Rey doesn’t want power or a hierarchical/royal social system presumably. Also they can’t settle the universe by having conflict resolved forever by an all-powerful god-like benevolent ruler.

Emvee

So we got a poorly plotted third movie that ignored all of the interesting possibilities set up by the second movie and with an emotionally unsatisfying redemption arc. That sounds like an homage to Return of the Jedi.

Jerry Nicholson

I think it would have been better if during the 'Palpatine choice scene' Rey just said 'Okay!', then chopped him to pieces, then became the evil ruler of Star Wars, and that's how it ended.

Stupid sexy Palpi.

Michael Wilson

I think this movie was just JJ Abram's fanfiction of that famous sci-fi novel, Black Moon Rising.

Eve

What’s your name? Rey. What’s your last name? I don’t have one. Hmmm...Rey...Solo. It’s ironic that I love The Last Jedi and don’t understand how anyone can not love it. Now, people love TROS and I don’t get how? Help us Rian Johnson, you’re our only hope.

Alive_in_tucson

No. Because midiclorians, man.

Michael Wilson

Honestly, it's very JJ to just say something but not explain it and let the watcher's imagination soar. It's also momentously frustrating because the rest of the universe, while extraordinary, is understandable. Everything in this film was not. Why are both Rey and Palpatine 100x stronger than anything we've EVER seen?

Michael Wilson

Genuinely, thanks for putting in the unexpectedly heavy emotional labor to make what would’ve, in a better world, been just a silly video about a big new Star War. You put a whole lot of yourself into these videos, and even though it may seem silly that’s worth immeasurable respect

Spalfos

Mugsy : Hide me too! Hide me! Wah-hah-hah! It's not fair! You've gotta hide me, too! Bugs Bunny : I must be dreaming. It couldn't be this easy. Okay, quick. Hide in here. [Hides Mugsy in stove] Bugs Bunny : Now don't move until I tell you too. Bugs Bunny : [Knocking on door] All right, open up! This is the police! [Forces door open] Bugs Bunny : All right, where's Rocky? Where's he hiding? Bugs Bunny : [Normal] He's not in this stove. Bugs Bunny : [as policeman] Oho! He's hiding in the stove, eh? Bugs Bunny : Now look, would I turn on this gas if my friend Rocky was in there? Bugs Bunny : [as policeman] Um, you might, rabbit. You might. Bugs Bunny : Well, would I throw a lighted match in there if my friend was in there? [Throws match in stove; it explodes] Bugs Bunny : [as policeman] All right, rabbit, you've convinced me. I'll look for Rocky in the city. [Closes door]

Brian L Hughes

Hmm, palpatine sounds like the borg queen in Star Trek First Contact. Why didn't Palpatine raise the death star instead?? Because the knife map thing wouldn't work anymore!!

Brian L Hughes

the slug's name is Klaud and WE LOVE HIM.

Alexandra Evans

I was sort of over it mainly because the behind the scenes drama was so visible this movie never had a chance. But, if, as some Redditors posted (the day Reddit becomes a reliable source of news I'm quitting the internet) the original plan was to have the Son of Mortis as the main villain played by Matt Smith (cheff's kiss, flawless imaginary casting); and JJ decided to change that for an out of nowhere Palpatine hanging from this device remarkably similar to my dry cleaner's rotating hangers as if he was a winter coat then I'm done. I have 6 movies and 2 animated shows of varying degrees of quality. That's a lot more than most franchises get. It was nice while it lasted. Now bring me the Picard show, please.

LaLomi

I was ready to leave the theater as soon as the movie ended, and really long before that, but I stuck around hoping we would get a post-credits scene where Anakin's force ghost finally appeared and begged Rey not to bury his lightsaber in sand. I just want them to immediately reboot this movie like they're rebooting Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad is being made without Joker, Star Wars can happen without Palpatine coming back to life, or any mention of him. Also without J. J. Abrams, he has failed us for the last time.

Steve Hayes

Watching this made me realize how many of movie's events and asinine details my brain had already wiped from memory, much like Threepio. Anyways great video!!!

Sarah Hubbard

I mean... I did it to protect her!

Bryan Sutton

This is going to hurt to watch. Good thing I can numb the pain with all this space tequila I got from selling my daughter.

Bryan Sutton

Also: "That’s why you rewatch the movie you‘ve made, from start to finish, before you put it out in theaters."

Jesse Johnson

this was way more satisfying than the movie. thanks for all the work you did getting this out so quickly, esp over the holidays! (also the lighting looks great!)

Taylor

You and me both, brother.

Jesse Johnson

the lifeFORCE of your BOND! STRENGTH!ens me meheheheerr 😆

Shred Cadmium

Makes me real sad that I spent 4 years-ish looking forward to Ep 8 and then Ep 9, but my disappointment about this entry and the trilogy as a whole will last forever and it will never be fixed or change. Wish I could commission Rian Johnson like an anime fanartist to make a fan treatment like Mr. Alan Idiot Foster did. Oh well. I always have rewatchable Jenny vids.

Olivia

Hi I'm Junior. Admiral Ackbar Junior.

Eric MacMillan

I needed this video, it was cathartic hearing someone go through and list out all the stupid stuff that's been bothering me about this film. It's so annoying as 8 set up so many possibilities for what could have been 9 and this movie took none of them, instead seemingly crowdsourcing a script from angry fans on reddit. With the prequels I accepted that I'm not the target audience anymore for star wars and that was fine but with this film I got the impression that I'm now not the target audience because I'm too growed up but rather because I like things like theme and characterization and not just being pandered to because nostalgia. End of the day though it's not all the stupid stuff that bothers me, it's that this movie fails at the basics of film, theme, character and basic film structure. Lucas made a whole thing about these films being blatantly 3 act structure and this one couldn't even follow that. I think with this video out, I'm taking 2020 off star wars

Matt Reynolds

The most surprising thing about this whole video is the missed opportunity to discuss the Space Snake.

Shaun Cheah

The actual quote is "You cannot be here. I searched for you. Your lifeforce had vanished from perception!" which makes your comment even more impressive because it means you wrote it from memory. Also same, but about Giant Porg.

Shaun Cheah

So, the First Order was a group of Empire remnants that regrouped and built up strength in the Unknown Regions who had to then go back out to attack and take over the New Republic; meanwhile Palps was in the Unknown Regions building a fleet to take over the New Republic? Too Bad for Palps he forgot to share the miniaturized version of planet destroying guns so that instead the FO decided to spend years and a lot of resources to re-engineer an entire planet into one.

Erik Stevenson

Jenny, maybe this is super obvious to everyone, and that's why no one is talking about it, but isn't Palpatine basically Anakin's dad? In Ep 1, Shmi says Anakin has no father, and in Ep 3 Palpatine talks to Anakin about how Sith can use the force to create life, from which it was widely speculated that Palpatine got Shmi force pregnant, so he's Anakin's dad. If that's true, there really isn't any "Palpatine-Skywalker" anything, because they're all Palpatines. Every single force user in the Disney trilogy is a Palpatine.

RichterCa

i almost wish you didn’t mention the alternative storyline of rey sacrificing herself, causing ben solo to connect with his ancestors and give the jedi gift of life because now i’m really sad that didn’t happen

Bethany Gemmell

Thank you for the laughs. Especially: (Finn) “Lookout Rey! You’re in a sword-fight!”

Jesse Johnson

Jenny's 10/10 Palpatine is the only good thing to come out of this movie

Luis

I do agree this was the least good of the new trilogy, by a wide margin. But I do want to point out one thing I liked that you didn't mention: how Force Healing was used. It sets up on that desert planet that isn't Tattooine or Jakku for some reason that Rey can Force Heal when she encounters that snake, and that snake acts grateful by not harming her or her friends, which foreshadows the fight where she kills Kylo and brings him back to life. Also, by Rey killing him and reviving him, it shows Kylo that, even if you have done something awful, you can still make up for it, and it doesn't mean you aren't a good person.

"Pouring your life force into someone, kissing them, then falling over dead and vanishing from this plane of existence is also awkward on a first date." Damn, no wonder I'm still single. That was my go-to move.

RichterCa

Seeing my name at the end for the first time is wonderful!

Ellie Holly

Easily the best Palpatine impression I've ever heard.

Why did Palpatine need a figurehead to run the First Order? Doesn't Kylo Ren serving Palpatine kind of invalidate his role as Supreme Leader... there's so much more wrong with Palpatine.

This cannot be! I searched for you, but your lifeforce vanished from perception!

Adam Clark

This is a rare disagree. I liked RoS. Just saw it for the 2nd time.

Yay. This makes sitting through that whole movie worth it.

Kewl0210

Aww man that subtitle I'm sorry Jenny ☹️

Austin Baker

!!

I'M READY (kind of)

matt

THE DEAD SPEAK ❤️❤️

Blue Gemini