An official census on opinions over Episode VIII? That’s nigh near impossible. For one, a census is for a population and doesn’t necessarily fit what we’re talking about. A general survey is the better word for what you’re looking for. And even then, still pretty much impossible. For it to really have any real credibility you’d have to track down literally every Star Wars fan on the entire planet and ask them their opinion. That begs the question of what constitutes a ‘fan’? Is that someone who has some knowledge of the franchise, i.e. a general movie goer, or do you exclude people like them and make a criteria that you must have read so many EU books, so many canon books, seen all the movies, TV episodes, and played so many of the games, etc…
Having an official on-the-books public opinion of the film would be fascinating, but I’m afraid that’s a pipe dream. Not to mention that it’s likely there’s actually a very vocal minority (minority in this case being used very loosely, because yes, there’s lots that dislike it) when it comes to negative opinions of the film. They seem like they’re the bigger group just because they won’t stop crying about it. There could very easily be a larger percentage of people like myself who only discuss the film only every once in awhile because we’re tired of the arguments it brings up.
I think the characters who could have worked more as the main villains after Snoke would be the Knights of Ren themselves. Like imagine if they were the ones who pushed for Kylo to go futher into the Dark side via group pressure. The fact that they haven’t had much of an important role ro the trilogy other than showing up in a vision once, kinda makes them mysterious and thus could have worked in revealing them as the true villains of the ST, with Snoke being their puppet without knowing it.
That was partially a joke, tho if somebody big in SW would post a poll on Twitter thousands would vote.
I am fully aware that that would be only a small sample of the whole fanbase, tho.
I hated Snoke in TFA, loved him in TLJ. I wonder what I’ll think of him in this movie? Oh, wait…
I guess you could make the argument that Snoke was never technically a Sith. But yeah, other than being more lively than the Emperor (and also not a human and also in a bathrobe), your argument is valid.
I disagree. It’s a callback scene, but handled incredibly differently from RotJ. Rey never gave any sign of temptation, Kylo never showed heroism. It ended poorly, compared to Darth Vader’s betrayal.
Rey and Kylo both thinking the other will turn, the big bad dying thanks to the small bad, the death of the isolated teacher figure, the destruction of a massive Star Destroyer.
I agree that they could have been interesting, especially since the upcoming issue of the new Kylo Ren comic series revealed that the Knights of Ren actually are not Luke’s other students, as we all once believed, but in fact existed prior to Ben’s fall. The info we’re receiving about them is just too little, too late, but they could have been so much more…
Poor JJ has to try and fix the mess his predecessor left for him, and there’s only so much he can do. If you break a vase, you can glue it back together, but it’ll never be the same.
That same review said that TLJ would have been a more appropriate ending for the trilogy than RoS
I guess people are just so concerned with making a final Star Wars movie big that they forget that Star Wars movies are more than just “a checklist” (quoting the review there). It tries to pull everything together but forgets what they’re leaving out. 8 movies can’t fit into 1. I hear the entire movie feels like it is set in fast-motion, and I definitely see that in the sneak peek, so I wonder just how this is going to work out…
Well, I guess I should actually watch the movie. If it’s true that it ties the movies all together, any mention of prequel content will get me hype.