+1, there were several fan-service moments but I didn't mind (Off-Topic)

by Kahzgul, Sunday, December 25, 2016, 06:23 (2673 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

R2-D2 and C3PO never needed to be in the film, for example.

The whole Vader sequence at the end was great, but - just as you said - came completely out of nowhere.

and I fully agree with your critique of how this film fits into the universe. It works as a prologue to another film, but not as well as its own story. Holy hell did I not ever really care about the fact that those people died. I would have been invested in them if a couple had lived, because I'd be curious as to whether they would show up again, but as it stands I just watched a movie that is well summed up in a few lines of text in the crawl at the beginning of the next film. Sure it gives weight and import to the events of ep IV (and does so in spades, I believe), but as a stand alone film the ending was flat. You get all of the climax without any of the resolving action.