Watching The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi back-to-back is an awesome experience!

It actually does. One critique: it's a bit jarring seeing the Resistance escape first as opposed the first thing we see is Rey meeting Luke.

 

Hm, I don't know, I think it's good in terms of pacing. I would argue that it works well particualrly in the back-to-back scenario, because it would feel awkward to sit through the crawl just to have the scene resumed.

 

Yeah I watched TFA and TLJ back to back about 2 weeks ago and it was really fun

 

Does anyone else think that Ben heeded Han's advice regarding Snoke? Or was he always going to kill him?

 

i went to the double feature on opening night, but continue to watch them back to back (and sometimes the whole saga from R1 forward).
it's really amazing to see the journeys of both Han and Luke especially start to finish.

i think Han's last words have haunted him, especially since he did know it was true.
i think he seized the moment knowing he could succeed so long as Rey was at his side.

 

I also start and Rogue One even if I'm going to watch the prequels too which admittedly is becoming seldom.

You gave me a bit of an epiphany though, I think it will help for me to look at them as The Prequels: A Star Wars Story. I just increasingly struggle to reconcile them well enough with the rest of the franchise, they are definitely Star Wars but it is also clearly not the same universe maybe akin to the classic and the Kelvin Star Trek universes.

Wow, that is kind of a relief. Maybe something similar in thought process might he useful for folks who feel continuity issues with Disney Star Wars?

Now if I can figure out why Revenge of the Sith is coming apart for me to a large degree and reconcile it, I can get back in the grove with this period.

There is a thread asking if others feel Last Jedi but it sems more like it (or was it TFA or was it maybe R1 or the combination and TLJ was just the last straw) ruined Sith. Funny thing is it (or they) hurt Sith but also somehow helped AOTC.
I'm not sure how so or why but those two have flipped hard in my head and that is with the concrete shoes of not buying the love story and hating the stupid Droid factory sequence maybe more so than anything else that happens in the film franchise. Threepio has me wanting to put my head in the oven especially.

I do have renewed optimism though just by that quick little perspective switch to the point where I'm curious how that one plays out too.

Thank you!

 

I have watched them back to back at home, and I have to respectfully disagree. For me it's the glaring differences in the Rey/Luke meeting on Ahch-To scenes, from the positioning to the weather.

 

Well the weather is something out of their control, because their shooting on location. They could color correct I suppose, but it'd be incredibly difficult to pull off. They could have just had Luke take the saber, but walk away. I hate that moment was used as a joke. Because the ending of TFA, is a bit ruined knowing it's used for comedic timing.

 

ROTS might be falling apart because Adam Driver is a better Anakin Skywalker than anybody that has actually played Anakin Skywalker (to none of those actor's fault, of course).