Though earlier installments have featured characters crossing from one side to the other -and back again, in the case of Anakin Skywalker - none have really questioned the existence of the underlying dichotomy. Everything leading up to The Last Jedi, from its marketing to the fact that it’s Rian Johnson at the helm, built up the idea that it might really throw a wrench in the good/evil dichotomies that have ruled the Star Wars films thus far: the Sith and the Jedi, the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, the First Order and the Resistance. It was only on my way out of the cinema, walking past promotional displays of Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) that it clicked. But what exactly were those expectations, and what made them impossible? Was it just perhaps the inevitable disappointment of expectations built impossibly high? Maybe. Why? There weren’t any glaring issues, and more than a few scenes I watched in wide-eyed awe, once again the little girl who insisted that her fifth birthday cake be decorated like the Millennium Falcon.
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