Random Thoughts From a Screening of ‘Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver’
Djimon Hounsou as General Titus in Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
I had a lot of thoughts, feelings and questions during my time watching the sequel to Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon. What follows, in no particular order, are those musings.
Where is the Regent guy and his giant monster under the ice? Why would you show me something if I can’t have it?
Isn’t the Regent supposed to be a bloodthirsty maniac? Wouldn’t it make sense to see him doing something revolting to remind us that he’s the Big Bad?
Why bother reviving Ed Skrein if he failed? Isn’t the Imperium kind of no-tolerance on failure?
Why bother having a scene where the heroes tell the villagers that Ed Skrein is dead and their troubles are over, only to have other characters rush in and contradict that?
Why do the Regent and the senators conspire to kill the royal family? Is it just because they have plans to become a peaceful race?
Why does the Regent pin the deaths of the royal family on Kora, his adopted daughter? Hasn’t she been loyal until this point? And why bother to make it a race thing?
If the goal is to pin it on her, why let her escape?
Why does the group of musicians keep playing, even if there are bags on their heads?
Why is Kora called the Scargiver at all? Who did she give a scar to?
Why doesn’t Jimmy the antler robot help with the harvest? Why is he wearing antlers and a cape, anyways?
Why do the villagers have a hovering hay wagon that still needs to be pulled by an alien horse? If it can float, can’t it propel itself forward?
Why do we need to see multiple wheat harvesting montages and not any answers to these dozens of questions?
How could Ed Skrein know the rookie soldier is lying? How does it change his strategy if he does?
Where is Ed Skrein’s octopus girlfriend/sex toy?
Nemesis seems like such an edgelord name for this character. Why do her lightsabers require robot arms to function? Seems like a design flaw.
Why is Tarak’s planet some kind of Victorian/steampunk megalopolis? If this is this planet he’s from, why does he choose to be shirtless all the time?
What is Titus singing about, and is it somehow important to his character?
There is a perfect ship-sized hole in the mountain behind a waterfall for Kora to hide her ship in. Why? Couldn’t she hide it literally anywhere else? Somewhere closer to the village so she can get to it more quickly?
Despite all of Nemesis’s rage and being able to kill an entire giant spider woman in the last film, she is somewhat easily killed by a group of 3 thugs with lightsabers, the sort of enemies that Kora regularly kills in a move or two.
Why does the engine room of the ship look like a metal woman vomiting lasers?
Wait, the ship also runs on coal? And requires humans to shovel it into furnaces?
Why does that villager need to sacrifice himself to blow up the mines? Looks like he was only shot in the shoulder.
What makes Jimmy decide to help in that wave of the attack? Seems like he would have prevented a lot of innocent deaths by jumping in sooner.
Why does Kora need to wrap leather around the handle of the lightsaber? What purpose does it serve for the lightsaber to electrocute its user?
If the whole point of the rebels fighting off the Imperium is to protect their village and save their crops, it seems like dropping a city-sized ship on the surface a few kilometers away will probably destroy the environment and make them all starve to death.
Why do the rebels show up so late? And how did they even know the battle was happening at all?
It’s too bad they burned the bodies of Gunnar and Nemesis, since we’ve established that the Princess can bring them back to life.
Why would Titus keep the secret about the Princess’s survival a secret until the end? He knew who Kora was and had committed to helping her and tearing down the Imperium. Knowing the princess is alive seems like a fact that would drive the story forward and maybe give Kora a reason not to try sacrificing herself.