![]() Given all that, given that I'm making a strong case here for it being the best of the Disney trilogy films, it might seem odd that it is also the worst film - but it is. It's the only Disney trilogy film that you could show to someone in a total vacuum and have it mean something to them. ![]() And, largely due to the fact that it just lifts most of its core plot from A New Hope, it is the only film of the Disney trilogy that sort of works as a standalone film with it having a beginning, middle and end to its story. More than the other sequels, especially in its first half, it nails, superficially, the aesthetic of Star Wars. At least on initial viewing, and especially if viewed in a vacuum, it is probably the most fun film of the sequels. On a superficial level, it might seem strange that the Force Awakens is the fatal blow. And it's a fatal blow that can't be fixed by events after the trilogy films or by adding additional events between Return of the Jedi and the Sequels. It is not a contributor to killing the Star Wars story - it killed it, straight up. And while the Last Jedi is in fact quite a bad movie in a wide variety of ways (it fails as the middle film of a trilogy, it destroys the internal logic of Star Wars space-travel and space-combat, etc etc etc.) I'm here to argue that from a storytelling perspective, the Force Awakens is THE core fatal blow to Star Wars. the Last Jedi generally takes the core of the blame for killing Star Wars.
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