9 Positive Realisations From Re-Watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi

It had to happen. Lucasfilm can't ignore the prequels forever, as much as some fans might like them to. The sprawling location made largely from CGI, the dozens of aliens in extravagant costumes and make-up, with very tongue-in-cheek humour and some action that is probably best described by the word 'zany' - Canto Bight seemed to come bursting from Star Wars 1999-2005.

The Force Awakens was hailed as capturing the magic of the original trilogy, and indeed early moments such as Rey stealing the Millennium Falcon or Finn and Poe's TIE Fighter escape from the First Order felt more traditionally Star Wars than anything in the prequels.

Capturing that style seemed to have been J.J. Abrams' priority number one (and so it should have been). Naturally, Rogue One went even further, travelling right back to 1977 and working to capture the precise style of the very first Star Wars (at least Episode VII had the freedom of planning a future evolution of that tradition). So, until now, both of the new Disney-led Star Wars films have literally done everything they could to avoid those controversial tales of Anakin and co.

Perhaps subtly, though surely, Canto Bight (like Star Wars Battlefront II) seems to be working to remind viewers that those prequels exist, and not only that: that we should expect them to rear their heads if Disney is to continue to produce a Star Wars movie every year.

One of the most well-traveled rumours about Episode IX is that it is hailed to be 'the film that ties all three trilogies together.' This is without doubt a mammoth task, and one that suggests a writing and production challenge the likes of that faced in Avengers: Infinity War. But that blending of three trilogies seems to begin, however gradually, right here.