Honestly seems like we are getting Twilight Fan Fiction. Yeah sure Kylo may have saved Rey when they took out Snoke but considering Kylo only did that for a power grab that doesn't scream redemption to me. Especially if Kylo wanted redemption all he has to do after killing Snoke is immediately change First Order Policies by freeing child soldiers, dismantling super weapons, etc. But they are the two main hetero white characters so of course they should bang. This type of romance plot only works if A) the bad boy isn't actually the monster everyone says he is or B) the character at least had a relationship in the past before one of turned into a monster. It does not work when said girl meets said guy after knowing he is monster and seeing him kill his father/her mentor in cold blood and almost kill her supposed Best Friend.
Honestly this all boils down to the problem with Rey Random. Ignore her unique raw force power. Rey has no connection to the plot if BB-8 didn't just will of the force its way right into her. She is not resistance/rebellion, she is not first order/empire, she is not related to anyone important or has any reason to care about getting involved in the plot except being Super Powerful in the Force for reasons. She is anchorless and totally unconnected her only connection is being the lead. Han is Dead. Luke is Dead and because of the sad passing of Fisher, she wont be around as Leia. So we have if the spoilers are true, the cast of Rey, Finn, Rose, Poe, Chewie, the Droids and maybe a few extras all fleeing on the Falcon with the rest of the Resistance Obliterated and Kylo ruling the galaxy. Now besides Rey who apparently has the hots for Kylo why would the rest of the characters with everyone they know dead give one **** about saving Kylo’s soul. It doesn't logically compute. Ergo the tension is massively undercut either Rey is the worst heroine I have ever seen where she is conflicted as the New Empire oppress the galaxy and picks off her supposed friends or she commits to killing Kylo pissed that he tricked her. Kylo v Rey is just not compelling like Vader v Luke or Kenobi v Anakin because their connection is finding each other attractive for like a week and being super special force unicorns.
Its like RJ basically ignored TFA for the most part and just used it as rough outlines for character backgrounds. But even saying that I could easily throw in a few retcons that give Rey Random a reason to care about Kylo beyond he is “hot“ and saved me once and I hate Reylo. Just have Rey be a fellow student at the Jedi Academy that Kylo was close to and thus when he turned couldn't bring himself to kill. So he paid some fake parents to dump her on a backwater and somehow wiped her memory or maybe she suffered some memory loss from injuries during the attack. It even fits in with TFA lines like “What Girl“ and “It is You“ that are unexplained. There still Rey Random and gave her a decent reason to care about Kylo and feel some conflict.
People who don’t get how Rey being the daughter of two junk dealers who abandoned her for money and who thus most likely won’t play any role in the future is unsatisfying writing haven’t understood a single thing about how you construct a plot. The way this was built up Rey random is only satisfying IF her parents are relevant to the plot, even as new characters. Otherwise there was literally no point keeping this a secret, bc it leaves us exactly with what we know from TFA. It adds nothing. Rey already saw herself as noone and figured out whoever left her on Jakku won’t be coming back. Furthermore: If you come up with the idea to construct a character with a unique raw Force power, and decide this character’s power will match the power of Darth Vader’s grandson, there must be a reason for it in the plot. You can’t just go “well, this is just how it is, it’s coincidence” This is unsatisfying and like someone didn’t even try. It’s lazy.
Eh I have read before that Oscar really doesnt like promoting movies he doesnt have a major role in so I hope most of his stuff didnt end up on the cutting room floor although he is also a pretty busy actor...but my mind of late when it comes to TLJ jumps to the negative answer
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guilty pleasure of mine someone talking about how when they identify as seabird people think that just means seagull and that’s really a shallow understanding of his identity that’s sad, mate sad =(
This guy works for the Guardian. Its confirmed I am sorry no New Trilogy for Rian Johnson and Disney must clean house at LucasFilm, Kathleen K Kennedy must go. Any POC in a management position at LF should resign as well. Star Wars now an Alt-Right wet dream never did I expect such blatant sexism, racism and disregard for George Lucas Canon in my fucking life.
i have never known fear like this before in my life
So graduated today and the keynote speaker was Bloomberg which to that I say Fuck Bloomberg, Fuck the NYPD and Fuck Stop and Frisk
They dont care cause for some reason KK and RJ are under the delusion that Adam Driver is a star.
Finn was the most compelling fucking character in tfa, John gave us the best fucking performance and won a goddamn BAFTA for it and this is what he gets ??? rian johnson can eat my entire shit
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And two popular brands that promised SPF 50 were actually only SPF 8.
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Yeah I can buy Leia in the since that she has had 30 years to pick up some tricks...so some shielding okay the problem for me is shielding after she takes some missiles to the face and then flying pack to a ship that should be moving at sublight speed....
Broom Boi is worse then Rey at least Rey didn't display anything beyond maybe precog before learning she had the Force even if she had rapid growth. Broom Boi though can already force pull with ease without even learning he has the Force.
And Rey simply doesn't have time to grow naturally due to being a true random so no special bloodline and/or previous training at an Academy. She needs to get to a certain point and RJ didn't want to time jump so she makes massive gains in no time at all...
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Meh its been awhile since I read Harry Potter but even Voldemort who was both a genius and immoral could only do scary party tricks mostly connected to talking to snakes with no Wand and no training. Under RJ there seems to be no training at all. I don’t mind random burst of power…the problem is Rey and Broom Boi showing tight control with little to no training whatsoever. The precision is the issue along with the power level.
Like for instance I wouldn’t have found it weird if the scary part of the “raw force power” had been sudden random outbursts, like making things explode in incredibly emotional moments. (ie. things I would’ve used for Rey vs Kylo fight, or for an actually impactful parentage reveal) but not the nonsense that is going on in this movie. Rey isn’t trained and she can do things that everybody, even Anakin, the child of the Force, required training to do. Same for Leia…even as Vader’s child it makes no sense for her to be able to do wild things we’ve never seen Jedi or Sith do. Like what was anybody ever trained for if things just work like this? And looking at how long it took Luke to master certain things in ANH even broomboy’s abilities are wild…
First, R.I.P Hugo Chavez. Only the Good Die Young.
Second, Man U was robbed yesterday. Red Card my @ss not to mention all those no calls Welbeck was getting mugged and Real Madrid got away with several "accidental" handballs but if intent does not matter for Nani then it should not matter for Ramos either.