Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
in which alexandra finally talks about a movie that came out like three weeks ago
so! I have so many things to say that didn't fit in this video, but I was trying to make something shorter than last year, so I focused just on character.
but truly, I would like to make a video about how shitty the world building was in this trilogy, cause it's connected to so many things I mentioned -- the weird way that there were no grounded morals. like the first order isn't bad because it "rose from the dark side". it's bad because it STEALS CHILDREN TO INDOCTRINATE INTO AN ARMY, AND IT RULES THE GALAXY WITH FEAR AND INDISCRIMINATELY MURDERS PEOPLE TO KEEP THE GENERAL POPULACE TOO AFRAID TO RISE UP. it is actions that are evil, not the colour of a lightsaber. it is not anger that makes you evil, it is what you choose to do with that anger.
also, I have a GREAT idea for how to truly redeem kylo ren (I only laid the groundwork in this video, he really shouldn't just have to apologize, he should use his actions to start undoing the wrong he'd done) that is connected to the world building issues. imagine if kylo ren had gone back to his first order ship after Rey told him to reflect on his choice to be evil and to think about the people he'd hurt, and he remembers finn.........and he runs into a random stormtrooper on his ship and then uses his connection to the force to try and break through their years of brainwashing and bring back their memories. And it's hard, but he succeeds! the stormtrooper remembers their name, remembers being stolen from their planet when they were 10 years old or something, and kylo goes to the stormtrooper barracks and frees more of them, and then he goes to his officers and are like "psych, we're going to back up the resistance and fight palpatine," and when they're like, "what", he's like "AREN'T I THE SUPREME LEADER DO WHAT I SAY!!!!!", and then in the final battle, the reinforcements aren't just a million rebel ships that for some reason didn't show up to help in TLJ (it really stretched the suspension of disbelief that so many ships showed up when they didn't last time, especially when we couldn't see whatever rousing speech lando gave to convince them, and no one ever gave a compelling reason for why no one came to help in TLJ in the first place) -- the reinforcements in my rewrite INCLUDE the first fucking order, led by kylo ren and the stormtroopers that he has set free, shooting down palpatine's ships. he can still leave his ship to battle palpatine, but imagine the movies actually addressing the stormtrooper problem and having kylo use his position of power for good.
uh lemme know if you want me to make a video going into "the stormtrooper problem" and Star Wars' issue with world building more lol
other things:
-knights of ren served zero purpose, had no lines, and we never discover....who they are? are they friends of Kylo's who were trained under Luke or are they random thugs, cause he never talks to them??? why bring them back if you're not going to do anything with them (they were brought back to sell figurines, that's what)
-maz kenata did absolutely nothing in this film, they could've had her at the home base disporting force wisdom to Rey instead of Leia in some of those scenes, like,
-I forgot to really say that poe also doesn't seem to have a specific plot line, he's just...doing stuff like finn. he has a little bit more of an emotional line through the movie just pulled through some of his convos with zorii, but I feel like none of his character development from TLJ really built to anything here, why didn't we get a moment with him feeling his grief over leia's death? she was such an important person to him
-planet-destroying star destroyers is FUCKING DUMB. they were like, uhhhhh all of them have the power of a Death Star! that'll seem dangerous. it's not like we made the audience absolutely numb to the destruction of planets because no one ever mourned these planets for more than ten seconds in the past two films.
also this is the Vanity Fair article I took the headline of about how the two-second kiss was pandering: vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/are-we-really-going-to-pretend-the-gay-kiss-in-the-rise-of-skywalker-matters
and the variety.com article where they got that quote from JJ promising representation for queer audiences: variety.com/2019/film/news/star-wars-finn-poe-not-boyfriends-lgbtq-representation-1203423286
in which alexandra finally talks about a movie that came out like three weeks ago
so! I have so many things to say that didn't fit in this video, but I was trying to make something shorter than last year, so I focused just on character.
but truly, I would like to make a video about how shitty the world building was in this trilogy, cause it's connected to so many things I mentioned -- the weird way that there were no grounded morals. like the first order isn't bad because it "rose from the dark side". it's bad because it STEALS CHILDREN TO INDOCTRINATE INTO AN ARMY, AND IT RULES THE GALAXY WITH FEAR AND INDISCRIMINATELY MURDERS PEOPLE TO KEEP THE GENERAL POPULACE TOO AFRAID TO RISE UP. it is actions that are evil, not the colour of a lightsaber. it is not anger that makes you evil, it is what you choose to do with that anger.
also, I have a GREAT idea for how to truly redeem kylo ren (I only laid the groundwork in this video, he really shouldn't just have to apologize, he should use his actions to start undoing the wrong he'd done) that is connected to the world building issues. imagine if kylo ren had gone back to his first order ship after Rey told him to reflect on his choice to be evil and to think about the people he'd hurt, and he remembers finn.........and he runs into a random stormtrooper on his ship and then uses his connection to the force to try and break through their years of brainwashing and bring back their memories. And it's hard, but he succeeds! the stormtrooper remembers their name, remembers being stolen from their planet when they were 10 years old or something, and kylo goes to the stormtrooper barracks and frees more of them, and then he goes to his officers and are like "psych, we're going to back up the resistance and fight palpatine," and when they're like, "what", he's like "AREN'T I THE SUPREME LEADER DO WHAT I SAY!!!!!", and then in the final battle, the reinforcements aren't just a million rebel ships that for some reason didn't show up to help in TLJ (it really stretched the suspension of disbelief that so many ships showed up when they didn't last time, especially when we couldn't see whatever rousing speech lando gave to convince them, and no one ever gave a compelling reason for why no one came to help in TLJ in the first place) -- the reinforcements in my rewrite INCLUDE the first fucking order, led by kylo ren and the stormtroopers that he has set free, shooting down palpatine's ships. he can still leave his ship to battle palpatine, but imagine the movies actually addressing the stormtrooper problem and having kylo use his position of power for good.
uh lemme know if you want me to make a video going into "the stormtrooper problem" and Star Wars' issue with world building more lol
other things:
-knights of ren served zero purpose, had no lines, and we never discover....who they are? are they friends of Kylo's who were trained under Luke or are they random thugs, cause he never talks to them??? why bring them back if you're not going to do anything with them (they were brought back to sell figurines, that's what)
-maz kenata did absolutely nothing in this film, they could've had her at the home base disporting force wisdom to Rey instead of Leia in some of those scenes, like,
-I forgot to really say that poe also doesn't seem to have a specific plot line, he's just...doing stuff like finn. he has a little bit more of an emotional line through the movie just pulled through some of his convos with zorii, but I feel like none of his character development from TLJ really built to anything here, why didn't we get a moment with him feeling his grief over leia's death? she was such an important person to him
-planet-destroying star destroyers is FUCKING DUMB. they were like, uhhhhh all of them have the power of a Death Star! that'll seem dangerous. it's not like we made the audience absolutely numb to the destruction of planets because no one ever mourned these planets for more than ten seconds in the past two films.
also this is the Vanity Fair article I took the headline of about how the two-second kiss was pandering: vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/are-we-really-going-to-pretend-the-gay-kiss-in-the-rise-of-skywalker-matters
and the variety.com article where they got that quote from JJ promising representation for queer audiences: variety.com/2019/film/news/star-wars-finn-poe-not-boyfriends-lgbtq-representation-1203423286
