Verrrona - Comments

Ok well maybe I just don't understand Star Wars then. I've seen the Phantom Menace so I know Anakin was quite young and had a lot of mechanical sympathy from all that racing stuff so he had plenty of time to be trained right? Honestly I've only really seen the big parts of New Hope but I was under the impression that he spends a lot of time with Obi Wan getting trained? I guess I'm wrong there. I personally like flawed characters and can't really get behind the badass hero who can do everything on their own.

Well ok so let's say she's a Skywalker which I can believe. Luke was a Skywalker. He was THE Skywalker. He still had to train. And his dad was the one cutting about in a death star wrecking everyone. Can't come from much stronger stock than that. And how does explain how she knows how to do a jedi mind trick? A hunch? Or how she had the strength to pull a lightsaber towards her from pretty far away over someone more experienced in the force and closer to the saber? Or how she's some sort of immaculate sword fighter with no training? Or how she knew how to fly and maintain the Millennium Falcon expertly despite never having left her planet before, let alone while being the pilot?
The argument is that she has lots of natural talent right? So she has enough natural talent to make her as skilled as Luke and Han rolled into one? If it was one thing, it wouldn't bother me. But she was perfect at literally everything she did the whole film. For me, that makes the other characters look weaker which isn't a good thing.

The example that stick in my head the most was when she was captured and she just does a jedi mind trick to get released. But she doesn't even know she can use the force at this point. Kylo Ren tries to read her mind and can't so she goes "WELL I GUESS THAT MEANS I'M A JEDI" and she tries a mind trick. How would she even know what a jedi mind trick is? I assume you'd need some kind of training or something first or at least to practice it a bit? Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the force works but in this film she was a complete Mary Sue and it kind of ruined the film for me.

I still enjoyed it though, the lightsaber battles and action scenes were pretty choice. If I had to change anything about the ending, I would've had the baddie be about to kill Rey rather than the other way around at the end. Putting up a fight against him would've been impressive enough to make her look strong but winning the fight seems a bit weird.

First of all, this Rey character. My understanding of the force is it's a thing only some people have right? But then you have to get trained in order to use it properly. The first two were trained by Obi Wan and the baddie in this was trained by Luke. Luke didn't just wake up one day and start using the force all over the gaff. In this film, Rey finds out she has the force and then later the same day she's good enough to go toe to toe with a big bad force user who was trained by the best force person in history. No history in using the force. Or a light saber for that matter. But end the film with her just about to kill the guy who offed Han Solo a few minutes ago. Speaking of Han Solo, she knows how to fly the Millennium Falcon like a boss without having any proper flying experience. She just starts cutting about like a madman doing all these fancy maneuvers. Then she just sort of knows there's a gas leak and they're going to die. But then she also knows exactly how to fix that. Even though she's just some nobody scavenger on a desert planet who was struggling for food and water at the start of the movie.

I know this is nit picky but the whole thing about Star Wars is that it's not just one movie right? They want you to buy into this whole universe. So what are they just going to cheapen the rest of the franchise by making this one character who's so perfect at everything with just a few seconds of practice that she makes all the other characters look like mugs?

The other thing that bothered me was the sheer amount of fan service doled out by Harrison Ford who seemed to be playing Indiana Jones in this film. You couldn't go 5 minutes without him making some wry reference to the previous films. Again, it's nit picky but as someone who's not invested in the franchise it just made me go "what? Why's he saying it like that?" At one point I swear he looked at the camera as he was saying one.

I liked Finn and Poe though. I also liked they way they used all the old characters except for Han.