11,000 SUBSCRIBERS!?!!? Guys, that's ridiculous, When I released the rant I was on 2K subs. You guys have seriously had such an amazing effect on my channel and how I imagine my future may change now. I have GOOD news and BAD news; The Good news is that after reading thousands of comments, I have seen what annoys people the most about my series as well as mistakes I have made, on top of that I have had a few requests and new ideas about what I am covering, so I decided to re-script and re-record a lot of Part 3 to integrate a lot of new stuff, I think you guys are going to enjoy how spicy it gets, so look forward to that I guess. The bad news is that thanks to this, I am still in production on it and I MIGHT not be able to release it on the following Friday, it may be delayed, but I will release it the moment it is proofed and finished, it shouldn't take much longer than next Friday. Thanks you all for giving my work a chance, I really appreciate it, if you would like to come and hang out with me for a bit, I am currently streaming over on Twitch - www.twitch.tv/MauLer93 - P.S. You can totally use "Decimated" in the context that I do, please stop commenting about it, I am using the primary definition, which is, "To remove a large portion of" - this is because decimate sounds slick as hell as a word and it fits the definition of slicing a Star destroyed in half etc. < I am totally putting a line about it in part 3 ;-)

"If Rey was grand daughter to a palpatine" Oh boy

>The jedi need to die *1 hour later* >tHe SaCrEd JeDi TeXtS

Kylo: Brutally murders his own father Rey: Them abs tho

That shot of Mark Hamill nearly hyperventilating behind Rian Johnson is just so painful to watch.

"Maybe Holdo and Snoke dated in the past?" Ugh, could you imagine them trying to go out for dinner? Holdo would have an exact place in mind, but refuse to tell Snoke a single thing about it until they got there. And when they did, Snoke would make his First Order something expensive yet without substance.

"I would like one Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich please." "Absolutely, here you go. I put olives on it, and replaced the jelly with sawdust." "Woah. Subversive masterpiece!"

I cannot stop bitterly laughing at Mark Hammil’s description of how he had to pretend he was not acting as Luke Skywalker but as a different guy, maybe Jake Skywalker. Holy shit.

1:22:47 “Rey was speculated to be the child of Luke Skywalker, or Obi-Wan Kenobi, or even the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine” This aged well

Don't shove this "failure is the best teacher" line down my throat and have your main character, Rey, emerge victorious in nearly every single dangerous situation. She is immune to failure. This movie says one thing and shows another.

Ray is perfect. "Who connects to that?" Narcissists.

The question isn't "Is this subversion?" The question isn't even "Is this subversion executed well?" The question is "Is this subversion enriching the story?" The answer in this case is a resounding "No."

The worst part about Rey is the fact that in the Lego Holiday Special, where she time travels and sees various different moments in Star Wars history, she is a much more complete and developed character. She struggles with the expectation of teaching Finn about the Force and training him as a Jedi, she is terrified of him falling to the Dark Side, and she actually struggles in fighting her opponents, learning lessons along the way and facing her weaknesses. Daisy Ridley actually SHINES and emotes so much better as a fucking Lego brick.

“How does it feel to play the first Star Wars female villain” Asajj Ventress: *Loudly clears throat*

You missed a plot hole with the “parents reveal scene” in my opinion. Rian Johnson has said that he decided to make Rey’s parents “nobody” because he believed it was the hardest thing for her to hear, which is wrong. JJ Abrams already told Rey the hardest thing for her to hear. It was established in The Force Awakens that Rey had been on Jakku for most of her life waiting for her parents. - “I know all about waiting... for my parents” she tells BB8 - Then Maz Kanata gets Rey to admit to herself that whoever she’s been waiting for are not coming back. An emotional moment that puts her in tears. So Rey already knows they’re not coming back, but now she’s upset that the people who are not coming back are “nobody”? That doesn’t make sense. And why when pressed by Kylo would she refer to her parents as “nobody”? It was never indicated in these movies that she hoped for her parents to be significant people in the galaxy. *FANS* were hoping that Rey’s parents would explain her abilities, but Rey was just looking for family. I think this is proof that Rian Johnson (maybe unwittingly) was writing to subvert fan expectations and not for character development. He basically reshoots the Maz Kanata scene but inserts Kylo and acts like Rey was expecting her parents to be prominent people. That scene bothered me because it made Rey less interesting, and also because it didn’t make sense that she would be upset that the people who deserted her were “nobody”.

I love how Rose just knows that literally everyone in that casino was an arms dealer and that there is no possible way they could get in there without being war profiteers. And then proceeds to ruin everyone's day and put their lives at risk out of sheer arrogance

The reason why they don’t show Lukes reaction to Han Solo’s death is because, not even in this atrocious fanfiction, would it make any conceivable sense for Luke to remain in hiding after finding out his best friend was murdered by his own son, his pupil.

FINN: baffled by the possibility that someone could work for both sides. ALSO FINN: was a stormtrooper less than a week ago.

MauLer: ''We are left to asume that Snoke is an invention. J. J. Abrams: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!!

“Its worth it to destroy that town, make em hurt” The only one who hurt were the slaves who were likely beaten if not killed for letting them escape, and then would be forced to fix and clean up their mess. Good job rose. 👍

For me, the evil of the Last Jedi is this: Rian Johnson decided to sit down, and take the communal story of Star Wars, that we have shared as a society for 30 years, and instead of growing it, tore it down to tell a story completely unrelated to the world. He's selfish, and he's smug about it.

'When your own headcanon is the only thing preventing the film from falling apart, you have to admit you *might* be a little brainwashed.' Ladies and gentlemen...Welcome to about 75% of TLJ apologetics.

“You bet the survival of the resistance on bad odds” Next movie: the holdo maneuver is 1/1,000,000

For the whole Force Ghosts being able to summon thunder and all that jazz, I refer everyone to a key line from The Empire Strikes Back: Obi-Wan: If you choose to face Vader, you will do it alone. I can not interfere. HE SAID IT RIGHT THERE IN THE FREAKING MOVIE! FORCE GHOSTS CAN NOT INTERFERE! I guess Rian forgot that.

I was always amazed how many people took Kylo Ren’s words as gospel when he told Rey her parents were nothing. I had only one thought from the moment he said this: “How in the hell would he know? He didn’t know who Rey was just days before. This is nothing but another manipulation tactic to encourage her to sever ties with anything that could keep her holding on to something good.”

1:22:51 "Or even the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine." That remark aged beautifully.

Isaac Asimov used the term "idiot plot" for a story which "only works if every a character is an idiot." His specific example was Character X knows something and keeps it from Character Y for no reason. ...Which seems to describe Holdo.

It just occurred to me that a Finn Vs Phasma final confrontation is something that generally happens in the final movie. I mean, it was already bad enough that Snoke was killed before the third movie in the trilogy but now it's just obvious that Rian Johnson is *really* not a team player. Kathleen Kennedy should've been furious at him, despite whatever political stances he holds, because he took every step to ruin the concept of a trilogy.

Leia Poppins pissed me off so bad. And my sister and her best friend loved it. I will never understand why the sequel trilogy is so loved with so many glaring problems. The OT wasn’t perfect, but it was great for what it was.

"Ray defeats Luke Skywalker in combat"... that line right there, it just hurts.

The Last Jedi was very succesful in one aspect though: It helped me appriciate original trilogy and even prequel trilogy even more than I already did

I love how Ryan thought it was necessary to have a message about child labor being bad in a world where most developed nations outlawed it decades ago

I love the whole who is Rey related to segment, when mauler is talking about if she was the granddaughter of palatine and what that could’ve meant for her character. Oh this aged so well and oh so horribly at the same time.

What annoys me about Phasma is the actress they chose for her. Let's talk about Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones and how utterly badass she is for second. This is a massive woman. She towers over most of the men in the show. She's physically powerful, extraordinarily tough, has amazing sword skills (even Jamie Lannister who is consider by many to be one of the greatest swordsman who ever lived remarked on her skills) and is one of the most honorable characters in the entire show. She's an example of a strong female character done right. Yes she's big and strong and her physical prowess allows her to fight men but she's not consider attractive by anyone in a show filled with attractive women who can't fight. She's honorable but suffers horribly because of this (and remains honorable despite her suffering). She's both a woman who beats the shit out of one of the most formidable men on the show and a great character with loads of depth. Now compare Brienne to Phasma. Look at what they did with this actress. And this is being applauded as some sort of victory for the depiction of women in film. I didn't know feminists hated women. I didn't know they thought women were useless and hollow creatures who offer nothing to anyone and contribute nothing to any situation they find themselves in. In fact considering that Phasma's two defining traits are that she's a woman and her armor is unique I can only take from this that all I should care about in a woman is her genitals and her appearance. Fuck this movie and anyone who pretends it's some sort of social justice triumph. They killed Star Wars to signal virtue and they couldn't even manage to make the female characters decent.

Snoke's dialogue right before he dies felt like something right out of an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. "I CANNOT BE BETRAYED" *cut to title card* Snoke Is Betrayed

Here's an example of subversion of expectations that works: Indy shooting the large swordsman while he's swinging his sword about menacingly in Raiders of the Lost Ark. However, that character hasn't been built up as an important character to the story. The lack of characterization doesn't hurt in that case, unlike Snoke. He's just there for a funny gag and to show how cool and nonchalant Indy is. (And yeah, I know why they did the scene that way, with Harrison Ford being sick being the reason.)

"'Kill the past' is being looked at as 'forget the past'." I completely agree, you know what movie handled this much better in a realistic sort of way? "Ah yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it; you can either run from it or learn from it."

"Phasma is the first female Star Wars villain." Barriss Offee, the Genosian queen, several members of the Confederation, the Zygerrian queen, Asaaj Ventress, the night sisters, and Aura Sing were all in the Clone Wars tv series before Phasma existed. Not to mention Zam in Attack of Clones.

"Its time to let old things die." We get it, Ryan. You hate the Original Trilogy and its fans. We get it. Very clever. Too bad you couldn't channel all that sass into making a competent, functional script.

Listening to the phasma actor at the end of the video actually killed me She legit talked for a good minute there and said absolutely nothing other than "oh my god, its amazing that I am a female actor"

One thing i wanna add to jedi fights: We know from the OT and the Prequels that Jedi can see into the future. So the fights are naturally not only swordfights with lightsabers, they are fights were two force sensitive characters are constantly trying to out-predict their opponent. Its only logical the fights look different than real life

Remember when the funny little green guy going thru Luke's stuff at the Xwing turned out to be Yoda? Remember how the look on Luke's face when he figured it out as Yodas demeanor changed and the Jedi master revealed? THAT'S proper subversion, Rian.

"What a misguided fan fiction this is" The last Jedi summed up beautifully in a single sentence.

Anyone ever noticed in that clip where Gwendoline Christie was recognized for Phasma and Brienne of Tarth, people wait to clap until Brienne is mentioned? Take that how you will, but I always see this as people caring only about Brienne, and I think that's absolutely hilarious.

why am i re-watching this, I've seen more times than the actual film, much more entertaining!

Another thing Mauler that I felt you hadn't mentioned is how the Jedi and Sith are effectively flipped on their head now. Rey being a Jedi, despite being highly emotional and fighting with hate, gains a lot of power with next to no training and that they just need to follow their heart. Kylo has shitloads of training, and has difficulties giving up his emotional ties, and loses immediately to Rey on their first encounter. It's like a role reversal, being a Sith now requires everything that a Jedi needed in the prequels (giving up attachments, emotions, requiring great amounts of training) and now being a Jedi requires you to follow your heart, fight with hate, and that training is unnecessary (Yoda even says so). What the hell happened?

I can't believe that Rey's enjoyment of the rain and the trauma of a near death by that same element wasn't used as an opportunity for character development for her and Luke. Like Mauler says, she falls into the water...maybe instead of just swimming to the surface, she's at a very clear risk of drowning because she doesn't know how to swim. Luke initially sees her falling into the water as a point of vague amusement, but it swiftly turns to obvious concern when he realizes that she can't swim and he dives in to rescue her. So right off the bat, it helps establish that Luke's cynicism is only skin deep, and maybe also helps Luke himself realize that he isn't nearly as uncaring to the ongoing plight of the galaxy as he's convinced himself. Rey, on the other hand, has a harrowing and humbling experience that parallels her experience with the Force. Her light dabbling in it before now has been largely successful, but just in the same way that the thrill of feeling rainfall and the terror of nearly drowning comes down to an experience with the same element, she maybe now gets a sense of why the Force isn't something to be treated lightly, and that delving too deep and too quickly can consume her. In that same vein, Luke realizes the importance of actually mentoring Rey and teaching her the ways of the Force because leaving her to her own devices could mean her death or fall to the dark side. But I guess she can just swim, so nevermind.

57:42 Not to forget that Poe was, in practically every measurable way, her second in command. Even if a couple of command deck personnel outranked him, you’re in SPACE. Poe’s the sole leader of your only STARSHIP SQUADRON. Need to know has been 100% fulfilled.

23:31: Force Ghost Lore breaking 27:31 Theme of Morality in Star Wars 47:45 Rey's flaws as perfect character 1:15:30 the throne room fight 1:28:26 Holdo Maneuver

Forget the Last Jedi, kill it if you have to.

'We relate to her through her actions' Woody: YOU ARE A TOY!!!

It's kind of interesting to see how the prequels have aged remarkably well. Sure there's plenty of wooden acting, clunky dialogue and extremely cheesy parts, but what separates it from the sequels is that it was built with HEART. It had a story to tell and tried to do something different with the formula, even if it failed-sometimes enormously- in parts. The sequels are lazy, badly-crafted retreads of the OT that can't even copy it's good parts correctly and the few nuggets of interest- Snoke's history with the original power trio, Kylo Ren, Rey's mysterious heritage, Finn's life and circumstances to his conscription and development after his defection- are so thoroughly buried in a putrid slurry of shit it's difficult to see them. What an utter waste.

When Poe mutineered and took control of the ships I actually thought that the writers realized what they did, wanted to correct it without anyone really losing face, and wrote that in so that Poe could lead the fight like he was supposed to… So much for what I thought…🤷‍♂️

That "kill the past", Simba tried to do the same with the hakunaMatata and ended up getting a life lesson from a baboon that hit him with a stick revealing the things that happen in the past influences the future.

"Rey, a completely blank slate, perfect in every way was waiting for her parents to completely define her origins. And now Rey, a completely blank slate, perfect in every way has no origin of interest" Wha a great way to sum up why Rey is a trash character. Thank you.

Someone on the writing team saw what Battlestar Galactica did with the Pegasus and thought, "Let's do that with our ship" except it had none of the emotional weight behind it because we didn't really care about Holdo or the Raddus.

The biggest failure of Rian... Having Luke mention a third lesson in the film Cutting the third lesson completely and putting it on the DVD extras Spending so much time on Rose mourning her sister's death Cutting Luke mourning Hans death and putting it on the DVD extras It's almost as if Rian hates Luke Skywalker 🤔

"The first female villain in Star Wars". Asaji Ventress started as a throw away villain from The Clone Wars that was evil because she was bad. But ended up having a compelling story as she was betrayed and struggled to find her place in the galaxy. But yet Phasma is gunna claim to be the FIRST!?!?

"First female villain" Assaj Ventress : : Rheeeee Night Sisters : : Collective rheeee

1:41:10 "what is it like for you to play the first star wars female villian?" Phasma: "it's so exciting!" Zam Wessell, Assajj Ventress, Mother Talzin, and Aura Sing: "Sleemo, sit down, she meant us."

It occurs to me that if they wanted to make Han an absentee father, trying to redeem himself AND make the conflict between Rey and Kylo more believable, they could’ve had Han find Rey when she was a child and have him raise her, explaining some of her technical/fighting skills, then when Kylo kills Han as part of his Dark Side evolution/Hans fatherly redemptive arc, it gives Rey an actual reason to hate and want Kylo dead.

The fact that so many of us are willing to sit through 3 feature length videos critiquing a single movie should be evidence enough of Disney & Rian Johnson's failure. Do they understand what they've done? I'm still fuming.

Rian Johnson has actually “answered” people’s questions about the scene where Holdo uses hyperspace to destroy the ships. He said that it had never been done before because it was just such a crazy idea, and that Holdo “pulled it out of her butt”. I am not kidding. He basically acknowledged that it was a ridiculous deus ex machina, and saw nothing wrong with that. Good GOD.

My favorite bit of SWEU knowledge is that someone DID think of Holdo's maneuver but better. They made a ship that was basically a pilotable missile that was also indestructible. A Jedi used it to slice through whole ships (though not at FTL speed). This is a story idea from at least 30 years ago.

This film tries to manipulate the audience to feel guilty for choosing Poe over Holdo, but we can see through it Disney.

Phasma is alive, she fell into space, and as we saw in the film, space is totally safe and she can just float back to the nearest door.

My problem with the lighting was that "if you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you could ever imagine" was a very profound phrase that was systematically ruined by this. Originally the phrase meant something deeper, that it was not literal power, but a oneness and spirituality. In defeat he would ascend to a higher state that you will never reach. It made you question power itself, the squabbles over meaningless things in our life. All tieing together into the force and how luke learns to let go and trusts his feelings. But no. That ACTUALLY just means you can summon tier 9 lighting strikes, because you took the light path which ends in strong end game abilities, even though the early game is weak. This honestly bothers me.

I have only watched each movie of the sequel trilogy once each: When Force Awakens released I wasn’t yet a teenager and my interest in Star Wars stemmed from vague memories of the prequels and the Clone Wars animated series I grew up with, I had a vague fascination with creative writing from the few exercises that I remembered doing in primary school. By the time Rise of Skywalker came around I had grown an interest in writing, story telling, and film as a critical interest, writing fanfiction as a creative outlet and watching film and story critiques and informative videos constantly to try and better myself as a sort of coping mechanism, to stay light on detail I have dealt with my issues growing up and gone through times of great sadness, distress, and apathy, during which writing was a key form of release that I still hold onto today. The Last Jedi came in the in between period, that awkward phase anyone who developed an interest in storytelling during childhood goes through where you’re reaching a level of maturity to have some notion of what a bad story looks like but are still unaware enough to simply go along with what on surface level makes sense and appeals to the inner child who only wants to be entertained. This is not to say people who don’t go beyond this or any other stage are wrong or don’t know how stories or movies work, like all interests it is a matter of perspective. I become invested in plots and themes, contrivances and plot holes distract me from enjoying an action scene everyone else is contently watching in the same way an over cooked piece of food might might ruin a meal for a professional chef but be perfectly palatable to me, it is not about what is right and wrong, it is about your investment to the craft and desire to understand its intricacies. It’s is for that reason that the Last Jedi is a somewhat significant film to me as I have perhaps learned more from the Last Jedi on how not to write a story than any other film I have ever seen. In a way I’m almost glad it’s such a horrendous abomination as while Force Awakens is a shallow imitation of a better film that played entirely of nostalgia, intrigue and the name ‘Star Wars’ it was largely inoffensive enough to general audiences that it wasn’t as heavily criticised. This abortive, deformed, shambling mess of twisted plots, ruined characters, mindless set pieces, obnoxious preachy messaging that falls apart as immensely childish and empty at the lightest scrutiny that managed to burn among the most famous series of films of the last century to the ground, kneecapped any potential of its successor salvaging any modicum of cohesion or profound storytelling in the new generation of films and tore what once was the largest fan base of any IP asunder brought a fresh wave of criticism to one of the largest fandoms in all of media, teaching and inspiring aspiring writers and anyone with a desire to learn about storytelling through videos like this and creators like you Mauler. It is about the only positive contribution I can think of that this movie made: that it was so terrible and ripe for criticism that it inadvertently taught millions how to write better.

I think Ive found another one: if Finn was a janitor, why was he fighting in the force awakens?Why send a jenitor into battle?

this movie was such an insult that I watch every single Last Jedi rant on KZfaq. I check every day for new ones. This is wonderful. I am enjoying every second. this is cathartic.

Rey beats Luke in combat. Rey beats Luke in combat. Rey beats Luke in combat. Say it. *SAY. IT.* Say it and really consider it and what it means.

When Rey and Klo are fighting together, one of the guards is duel wielding. If you watch carefully, when that guard grabs Rey around the throat he wins, but his second weapon disappears so Rey doesn’t have to die!

Every time he plays the "NAZI!" line from Mark Hamil I just imagine the Joker / Red skull confrontation where Joker beats up Red Skull for being a Nazi.

Fun fact, in the original star wars lore jumping into hyperspace was jumping into a DIFFERENT DIMENSION that was kinda like jumping into a wormhole to get to some place faster. This in itself had extensive lore from terrifying creatures to an entire civilization being trapped in said dimension. It's impossible to ram ships with hyperdrive because you're LITERALLY IN ANOTHER DIMENSION DURING IT.

Poor mark Hamill looks traumatised in every interview. Jake Skywalker indeed

I think the best star wars duel is Anakin vs Obi Wan, so emotional and heart breaking that they're fighting and great choreography.

I gave Rey a backstory. She’s got bad breath, is a lousy kisser, has an annoying laugh, and farts when she eats. I couldn’t deal with the perfection

Paused at the "Hux slaps Finn" part to come down here and say that every time I see Hux, all I can think is that Molly Weasley would kick his ass for behaving like this.

"Hey I made you lunch". - "But this is a dog turd on a plate!" "Stop nit-picking and just enjoy it."

What I like about this review as a whole is that it doesn't just slander and hate on the movie it points out the good elements and make it clear what makes that bad writing bad and how it could have been good

23:28 Mark Hammill looks like he’s having a panic attack while taking this interview with Rian Johnson.

"Good bye slaves. You will be punished because I tried to murder your bosses. Good luck." Love from Rose Tico, Disney Star Wars

Rey’s parents were nobody... Snoke was nobody... Snoke was Rey’s dad! Confirmed

I think I actually formed an amnesiac barrier around this traumatic movie in the theater. It's so bad that I can't even remember most of it, other than a few prominent scenes.

I've watched this series 6 times through now. Your ranting is incredibly soothing to listen to. I know it took you an ice age cycle short of an eon for you to create this in depth series. Your work was and still is appreciated. Thank you for making this.

Hearing the creators of the Sequel Trilogy say that Poe needs to learn to “blindly follow authority” tells me they know nothing about Star Wars because the entire story of the Prequels was about how blindly following orders from the Senate led to the fall of the Jedi.

Ha... imagine it. First Order boarding party fights it's way to Ackbars bridge. As soon as they arrive, he swivels in his chair... "It's a trap!" And self destructs the ship. Eyes would roll but only to hide the tears.

40:21 Skipped a movie and they are almost in love. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I know I'm 5 years too late, but someone should break the news to Brienne that Star Wars has had more than a few on screen female villains. There's the changeling that Mauler referenced, but also Ventress from both versions of Clone Wars, Bastilla had a brief stint with the Dark Side and even a boss battle in the first KOTOR, Aurra Sing had an on-screen cameo in Episode 1 and was a recurring villain in The Clone Wars. But I'm not sure what I was excepting from the company that destroyed it's knee caps while patting itself on the back.

This movie proves Johnsons inability to write movies but he has some really significant directing issues. When Kylo kills Snoke the lightsaber flies directly into Rey’s hand and you get a shot that goes to her. So it becomes a moment of victory for the Disney princess instead of a moment to see how Kylo reacts. The moment is about Kylo, is he happy, relieved, satisfied, free? No, Johnson just completely misunderstands his own scene.

"Why is any of this is in my star wars film?" -- THANK YOU!

i've never thought of the prequels' saber fights being like a dance. It does make sense that their fights in the height of the jedi in their golden age would be more formal or manicured because they were from the jedi at their greatest. It also makes sense that the fights in the OT would seem clunky and rough for this reason: the jedi were gone and most of their customs and formality were gone with order 66, along with Luke being trained at a much older age than ever heard of and surviving jedi being nowhere near their prime when they trained Luke.

"Next time you watch the film" Good one, as if that's going to happen

Not gonna lie, I unashamedly shouted, "You have the Force!!" when Kylo was supposedly being choked by that guard.

I really related to Phasma when she dropped the shields in Force Awakens and let all her comrades get incinerated. What a great character

Per best lightsaber fights, with the criteria being character, stakes and choreography: episode 3, Anakin v obi wan, hello?

It’s been a few years now and this movie actually gets worse every time I watch these kinds of videos.

1:37:30 _"Emperor. Palpatines. Broken. Personal. Yacht. Armor"_ See, most Star Wars characters have Plot Armor. Phasma has Yacht Armor!

Funny hearing him talk about the palpatine theory after having seen episode 9

I just want to applaud you on creating the most comprehensive and astute video essays I have ever listened to. My friend suggested you and I tend to be incredibly apprehensive towards content like this when recommended by someone as I feel it is typically just an extension of their beliefs ratified by searching for content that affirms their already established bias. I went in extra defensive as the first video he told me to listen to was your unbridled rage against The Snyder Cut, of which I am a HUGE DC fan who was monumentally let down by the Joss Whedon version and then subsequently felt vindicated by the Snyder Cut. I already understood that objectively neither film was good, and had I seen the Snyder Cut alone would have been utterly underwhelmed, but standing atop the ashes of what I [rightfully] felt the DCEU was, I saw redemption personified in said Snyder cut. It was actually not bad-and for me that was enough. But after listening to your arguments for why Joss’ version was the superior film, I learned that I can subjectively disagree with you and hold on to my enjoyment and disdain for the two films respectively, but also objectively understand that you were right on the vast majority of points you made. All of that to say I have now fallen countless hours into your back catalog (the starwars films) and cannot properly express just how refreshing it is to listen to someone not only make intellectually sound points that are propped up with objectivity and reason, but are so sound and succinct that they become resolutely air-tight PLUS are accompanied with a plethora of supportive examples and even thought out solutions. You argue your own points from the position of “devil’s advocate” just to smartly point out the solidity and totality of your defense for points you are making. And I love that you also provide alternatives and solutions for problems instead of just doing what plenty of other “critical thinkers” do in their videos which is bitch and whine whilst giving no answer to their flaccid complaints, or create flaccid points with zero or even contradictory foundations when they are in support of something faulty. I hope you get the opportunity to read this and understand exactly what kind of impact you’ve had on my critical intake of film lately and know that you are a refreshing voice in a sea of screaming seagulls flocking to whatever the latest bloated whale carcass is that washed ashore for the masses to engulf without caring for what sustenance is actually there to glean and instead simply support because bandwagons (and also faux counter-bandwagons) provide them with a lowest-denominator following of morons. To quote my favorite Workaholics, your work, good sir, is “very tight butthole” 👌🏼