[Talisman]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Oh, for sure. The fact that so much of the film is this tense They're Right On Our Tail chase thing, and then there's this plot with a casino and DJ and whatnot, it can feel jarring. It's a huge ask, pacing-wise, to have a movie-long chase sequence that characters can leave and come back to, and that can make the side-plots... it can definitely feel disposable. It wasn't until after a few watches where I started to appreciate what it was saying. Structurally, though, it's hard to make it feel sewn in to what else is going on.

That... about sums it up. Your entire internal timeline is thrown off by how much is realistically happening: The Resistance is at best cruising for 12 hours, meanwhile about a week is passing on Anch-to, and then you have the events on Canto Bight.

I mean time being relative, it's not impossible for all of this to be happening within the span of the few hours the Resistance was on the run, but it is... A LOT to reconcile at once. Compare the similar situation in ESB, where we have two sets of events to focus on at once and thus it is much easier to get one's head around.