Rodney BoCook

This movie culminates what Luke, Leiah, and Han (and Chewie!) started in A New Hope. It feeds fans what we truly wanted. It helped us grieve the actual loss of Carrie Fisher, Chewie finally got his medal, the way Luke said “a Jedi’s weapon deserves more respect” referencing the intro to The Last Jedi. It honored the past by bringing the hero’s journey to a close on all fronts. The arcs are complete. Kylo Ren and Rey both have their arcs. The setting on Exegol should not be understated either; it caught the imaginative scope of the underlying battle of good and evil VERY well. The trial setting for Rey in the midst of a watchful crowd. Rey got to be someone significant while having a messy relationship with the past. And the emergence of “the dyad” in the force breaks new ground in the mythology. The pacing is fast, but there’s a lot to do, and the scenes make sense! So many scenes nod to the past while pulling you forward. It’s a brilliant thing that happened in this movie and I can’t think of a better way that the stories could have been finished simultaneously.