If Rian Johnson’s film charts the final hurrah of Luke Skywalker’s order,the space opera could be forced to find radical modern modes in which to flourishGenerally speaking, terribly titled Star Wars episodes mostly end up being terrible Star Wars movies. The Phantom Menace was presumably only so named because Trouble in the Galactic Senate would acquire alerted fans to the looming, or nightmarish shift absent from knockabout space fun towards Trade Federation blockades and endless Jedi councils in the first of George Lucas’s space opera prequels. Likewise,Attack of the Clones seemed to speak to its sequel’s endless conveyor belt of meaningless CGI aliens, planets and cityscapes as much as to the creation of the first proto-stormtrooper army.
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