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Hello to whoever’s still out there. I just wanted to say thank you to the 40+ people who’d messaged me while I was completely inactive, and I’m sorry for not responding. But thank you all for expressing your concern and offering me your support. I genuinely appreciate it.

I’m still struggling with mental health, and unfortunately I haven’t been able to cut every toxic/abusive person entirely out of my life, but I have made improvements. I speak with a therapist on a monthly/weekly basis and am currently on…seven different medications? But hopefully, as I work to reestablish my life and become more able to get away from harmful people, those things will become slightly less various and necessary for life-preservation.

Thank you again for your support, even in my total absence. I hope to be able to start posting things people like again, even if it’s only a fraction of the people who were paying any mind before. I hope some of you will continue to stick with me until then.

And to all a good whatever time it happens to be where you are.

The final installment in the Skywalker Saga (as it is now retroactively being christened) is upon us, and so I’ve decided to do a bit of a retrospective on all the films leading us here.

The purpose of this personal ranking is not to put down any particular films or to invalidate anyone else’s opinions. In fact, I will be focusing largely on what I like about each movie, rather than what I think was wrong with it. I’ll still touch on criticisms of each film, but know that even if I don’t think they’re all objectively amazing films, I still like every single one of them, and have watched each one numerous times.

The fandom, as it always has been, is so weighed down with hatred and lashing out and segregation, that it overshadows the unabashed joy and love that many still hold for that galaxy far, far away. And so, I’d like to put that anger away for a second, and just talk about why each of these movies holds a special place in the Star Wars saga.

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I just saw the Joker.

If you are grading this film by the plot, it probably won’t seem very appealing. You may find the main character irrational, strange, unlikable, the plot contrived, the twists pointless and undeserved, the drama empty, and the conclusion ultimately unsatisfying. But I am here to tell you that, at least as far as my experience of it is concerned, the movie is not about the plot. It is 99% a character study, with the remaining 1% a few jokes and plot twists and fanservice scenes hammered in to satiate movie-going audiences. To appreciate it, you have to be able to focus on the character, and you have to be willing to look through the lens that the film presents – the lens through which the character sees himself and his surroundings. In other words, the movie’s success is predicated on the audience’s capacity to empathize with the Joker as a sad, broken, mistreated man and a product of a frequently apathetic, corrupt and cruelly amoral world.

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