Also: SPOILERS!!!!!
Last week, my friends and I saw "Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker" at the Cineramadome. I wore the shirt that I bought after the title was announced, which lists all of the release dates of the saga.
I brought my Hallmark Itty Bitty of Old Luke. Cindy brought her Tauntaun.
I felt all kinds of emotions before it even started: emotions like anxiety, melancholy, joy, excitement, and other feelings in between. We saw trailers for other nostalgic movies coming up, like Wonder Woman 1984 and the newTop Gun. Then it was time. The Lucasfilm logo appeared on screen, and then came that trademark scrawl. I already had tears in my eyes.
- More floating rocks.
- First sight of Carrie: tears.
- That Jedi Training is intense!
- What is all of this lightspeed skipping? That's crazy!
- "You lightspeed skipped the Millennium Falcon?!" "You dropped a tree on my droid?!"
- The festival happens once every 42 years. Hey! That's how many years this Star Wars thing has been going. I see what you did there, guys.
- "Oh, they fly now." "They fly now?" "They fly now!"
- That whole thing with the dagger lining up with the Death Star fragment? That's "Goonies" right there.
- I liked all of the callbacks to the other films, especially the parallels to the original trilogy. You know, like, who the heck are Rey's parents, anyway?
- "It's OK that you're here." "It's good." "Does she do that to us?"
- So that teaser in the trailer of Rey facing Kylo Ren's ship and doing a somersault over it to cut it with her lightsaber...there was MORE?!? Wow.
- No, you did NOT just kill off Chewie. Right? Right?
- "Taking one last look, sir, at my friends." TEARS.
- Chewie's breakdown after Leah passed. MORE TEARS. Buckets.
- I was not expecting Han. I did know that it was him immediately when he said, "Hey, Kid," though. I did like that they used the same dialogue from SW VII to illustrate Kylo's continuing struggle between dark and light.
- Wow wow wow wow: all of those voices!
- Force Luke does not condone throwing lightsabers away like Old Luke did. "A Jedi's weapon deserves more respect."
- Dark Rey is cool-looking! Also, her lightsaber is wicked.
- So the Emperor can create life? He's too much, man. Why did he make them look the way Snoke does? They can't be pleasant-looking?
- Ohhhh....that's why Rey can heal things like that big serpent, and Ben.
- Luke lifting the X-Wing out of the water brought forth lots of cheers in our audience. I loved that they used the same music as in SW V, too.
- I did like the red in the uniforms of the Last Order.
- That's a heckuva lot of Star Destroyers, especially considering they can each obliterate an entire planet.
- "We'll bring the war to them!"
- I liked the chemistry between Poe and Zorii.
- Oh, Hux. Still such a loser.
- Chewie finally got his medal!!!
- I like Jannah. How is Lando going to help her find out who she is, though? DNA test?
- D-O is like a puppy droid, so cute.
- I'm still not sure how I feel about that kiss.
- Yay! John Williams cameo!
- Wicket!
- That lightsaber battle on the Ocean Moon of Kef Bir was EPIC.
- It doesn't matter that I saw that Kylo Ren and Rey could pick up material things from their connections to each other. I still did not expect him to pick up the lightsaber when she dropped it behind her back.
- Horses! In space!
- I see that nod to "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" as Ben's hand is shown at the top of the cliff like Indy's.
- "And I...am all the Jedi." WHOO HOOOOO! (That last part was me in the theater.)
- "Skywalker."
After the movie, I was emotionally exhausted. So many feelings. I want to see it again many more times, in all formats possible. I loved this movie.
Thank you to everyone involved in my favorite franchise, especially George Lucas, John Williams, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford. You have made this fangirl what she is today, and I'm proud to be a Star Wars fan for life.
May the Force Be With You.
Always.
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