Mixed reactions have been met with Episode VIII, but personally, I went in with low expectations, and only saw one trailer. I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan, but this is one of the better ones!
Where does this fit with rest of the entries? Personally, I would say it takes around the 5th spot. Rey's seemingly natural and strong independent tendencies with the Force have brought her to the legendary Luke Skywalker, who has become the next Obi-Wan Kenobi.
While the First Order and the Resistance are having yet another battle for the galaxy more or less, Luke has changed his beliefs, and is struggling with his new pupil before him, and his previous one, Ben Solo.
The movie has a theme of conflict in general, that of switching sides. Kylo Ren wants to end the whole organization of upholding the Jedi structure, while apparently the Sith religion already faded away.
If it didn't, then it definitely did with Stroke's death seen here, which was one of the bigger twists. Instead of keeping the successor to the Emperor's position alive, his own pupil takes over, or rather wants to destroy it all. Funny enough, he needs the First Order and his light saber to do so.
Finn and the new character Rose have a nice sidestory involving animals and a casino resort, and I find it funny that the internet is reminded of the prequels and Disney vibes in this CGI festation. But frankly, their final scene was very cheesy and cliché.
General Leia's bizarre moment of dying in space at first, then reviving again and flying like super man is controversial in execution, but the simple reason is that this finally shows that she controls the Force too.
Similar to Luke faking it hard during the climax, where he produces a clone of some sorts to face the army and Ben, but apparently it absorbed all of his life energy back at home, thus he sacrificed himself for the survivors.
Poe has also become a more interesting character acting more like a hothead while learning about consequences to be dealt with, as well as authority. It's Rey and Kylo though that are leading this and The Force Awakens's stories if you ask me though.
The revelation that her parents are nobody, as well as Snoke being nobody in terms of background or character development is rather difficult to accept, but this either means we must, or Episode IX will enlighten us about these mysteries.
Plot holes do exist apart from all of this though, and for some decisions made for production and directing, I still wonder why? Such as Leia's successor's hair being purple.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the longest episode seen yet, and it both has familiar trademarks to the franchise, but also goes in bold new directions, twisting the formula and blending it further to bring a story of old and new tellings.
Rating: 8.0
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