10 Reasons the Last Jedi is Awful

Matthew Donnellon
The Inkwell
Published in
7 min readAug 7, 2018

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The Last Jedi came out a while ago. It was divisive to say the least. Some heralded it for taking the Star Wars Saga into bold new directions. Others decried it for killing their childhood. I was somewhere in the middle but there are several reasons the movie didn’t work.

10. Snoke’s Pajamas

Do you remember the cold, dark, and ominous throne room from the Return of the Jedi? The Emperor was still a character that we hadn’t spent a lot of time with, and he was so mysterious. Why does someone as formidable as Darth Vader take orders from a little old man? I remember thinking. But, the setting and those dark robes worked. It established the Emperor as a threat.

But, in The Last Jedi, we get a n old decrepit man in his pajamas. It looked so dumb. Instead of an intergalactic space despot, he looks like he’s running the space Playboy mansion. It looked so silly. Apparently, he ran a adult entertainment empire before the First Order.

9. Holdo

I get it. That last scene was great. She took out a First Order Fleet with one move. But, I didn’t like Holdo. I thought the purple hair was silly, which sounds funny considering it’s a…

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Matthew Donnellon
The Inkwell

Matthew Donnellon is a writer, artist, and sit down comedian. He is the author of The Curious Case of Emma Lee and Other Stories.