Well, the writer-director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi does feature another battle with AT-ATs on a snow-covered planet. This was always going to be a tricky balance-long-awaited fan fulfillment versus something genuinely fresh-and I suggested at the time that final judgment on the movie would depend in part on its sequels: If they branched out in new directions, The Force Awakens’s flaws would be easily forgiven if, on the other hand, “we again find our heroes lassoing AT-ATs on a snow-covered planet”-à la The Empire Strikes Back-it would be a bad sign for the franchise. When Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit theaters two years ago, my reaction to it-like that of many people-had two distinct phases: initial elation ( it’s erased all signs of the prequels!) and, later, mild disappointment at the over-reliance on nostalgia and recyclings from the first trilogy ( another Death Star?).
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