Episode VII was never going to be easy. Bring back Star Wars after 10 years, please old fans, create new fans, launch a trilogy. And what did we get? A New Hope again, but bigger.
This week I'm not hating on The Force Awakens - I actually like a lot of it. I'm fixing it. How do you keep Rey, Finn, Poe and Kylo Ren, keep the nostalgia hit, but make it feel like its own movie that actually sets up the next two properly?
It's a celebration of 80's action cinema that occasionally has to stop and fix modern blockbusters.
**IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER:**
* **Why TFA still works and why it doesn't** - The good stuff JJ got right vs. the ANH remake problem
* **Problem #1: The Galaxy Makes No Sense** - Where's the Republic? Why is the First Order suddenly this big? My fix to make the politics clear in 2 scenes
* **Problem #2: Starkiller Base** - The third Death Star nobody wanted. How to keep the planet weapon but make it terrifying and not stupid
* **Problem #3: Rey and Finn** - Rey goes from nobody to Jedi in a day, and Finn's stormtrooper defection goes nowhere. How to give both a real arc
* **Problem #4: Han Solo** - How to make his death mean something more than just Kylo's "edgelord" moment and actually service the story
* **Problem #5: Luke's Lightsaber** - My beat-by-beat rewrite that fixes the map to Luke, the Force vision, and why Luke is actually gone
* **My Full Rewrite** - How The Force Awakens should have gone down, and how it would have fixed The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker before they even happened
**LINKS & STUFF:**
Lethal Mullet: A Life in Film - My Book - https://amzn.asia/d/0g77HEt0
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