OL wrote:It's weird, everyone seems to think Rey is one of the bright spots of the movie, that she's a really good character and all that. But honestly, not having seen the full movie yet, I keep feeling like she's gonna strike me with a big ol' case of "meh" when I finally do. Just based on the trailers, she just came off like a same-old stoic warrior woman type of character. Leading up to release, she was literally the one part of the trailers that looked totally uninteresting to me. Finn is an interesting character conceptually (former Stormtrooper and all), Poe is motherfucking Oscar Isaac (so I can't not like him)... but Rey just looked boring.
I think she's the one part that's really gonna have to impress me.
Kenny wrote:Finn could've been a great character. And I really wanted to like him cause he was really funny in some parts.
But yeah, lying about knowing how to disable the Starkiller just to score some snatch? Wielding a lightsaber for a prolong period of time without confirming he's force sensitive? Defecting from the First Order after a life long period of conditioning to be a Trooper because he suddenly decided "killing is wrong"?
John Boyega had the unfortunate luck of playing a character that was blatantly unbalanced and poorly written. Han Solo was a goofball, but he was a competent goofball. He didn't blatantly put others at risk for financial gain. He helped even when he didn't need to. That's a real hero. And that's why it's a damn shame he's dead. Finn doesn't feel like a suitable replacement.
Supposedly Rian Johnson's Episode VIII script is amazing. Considering how crappy Looper ended up and meh (to me at least) Brick is, i'm not holding my breath. His Breaking Bad directed episodes are awesome though. So the guy knows how to tell a good story with other people's material. He just doesn't know how to write one of his own. Here's hoping i'm wrong on this one.
Kenny wrote:They might as well make a Han clone while they're at it.
To be fair, Finn stated that was the first time he was asked to kill.
The one thing that bugged me straight after though was Kylo revealing his face so early on... It would've made much more of an impact if they had saved it for the scene with Hans I reckon.
Like Kylo's force powers seem to supersede Vader's in some respects (stopping the lazer/beam) but then a bit lame when it came to the lightsaber dueling when even rookies can put up a fight against him.
TwiceFriedRice wrote:Kenny wrote:They might as well make a Han clone while they're at it.
Han Solo should Tricia Helfer the shit out of Kylo Ren in the next movie, minus the sex. It would be the light side taking the form of a guilty conscience to pull him back.
My theory: Snoke is Luke. He left a map leading to him as a test. The one who found him first was worthy of becoming a true Sith Lord. But, it wasn't Ren, it was Rey.
Yeah, that will never happen.
Sonikku wrote:Snoke is Luke? Don't believe that for a second. He would never wipe out five planets and threaten a sixth one his sister was on just to facilitate a "test".
Kenny wrote:To be fair, Finn stated that was the first time he was asked to kill.
It's already bad enough Troopers can't aim for the life of them. Now we're to believe some of them can be chickenshit too?
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