Post by ld1449 on Dec 25, 2015 0:47:00 GMT -5
TL;DR - Flaws generally make a character better, not worse.
- As far back as the cantina scene Obi-Wan had to save Luke's neck when that one random guy picked a fight with him. Rey would've just punched him out and continued her business.
- Leia had to be rescued by Luke and Han Solo infiltrating the Death Star disguised as stormtroopers while Obi-Wan distracted Darth Vader and disabled the tractor beam. Rey escapes and runs around on her own inside the superweapon.
- Han Solo and Chewbacca spent an entire movie on the run from the Empire trying to fix the Falcon's hyperdrive, and they even had C-3PO onboard to talk to the ship's computer as well to figure out what was wrong with it before giving up and heading to Cloud City to have Lando fix it. Rey would've fixed it after some minor squabbling.
- Luke has had Jedi training from both Obi-Wan and Yoda, with a few years experience with the Force built up over the original trilogy. He still ended up turning to the Dark Side in desperation when a fight wasn't going in his favor. It's a natural response. He's losing, the adrenaline is pumping, he's getting angry, scared. This is why the Dark Side is so easy to fall into. Rey, with no training, does the opposite and actually calms her mind and defeats Kylo Ren when he begins to win. The movie tries to play it up with Kylo Ren's injury hampering him, which is fair to a point given that Chewbacca's bowcaster normally throws people across a room when it hits someone, but I don't buy the Jedi calming tricks one bit.
- Luke initially needed C-3PO to understand what the hell R2-D2 was saying (and later his X-wing computer). Rey meets BB-8 and understands him clearly.
- In fact, the only true similarity I can find between Rey and an original character is Leia, not counting superficial things like how both she and Luke start off on a desert planet, etc. They both somehow resist a Dark Side user interrogating them without giving up any information. Hell, Vader even had that interrogation droid with him and Leia still didn't talk, although thankfully she didn't read Vader's mind either like Rey did with Kylo Ren
2) No real downtime. The movie was in a CONSTANT state of crisis. With only 5 minutes at a bar, long enough to get a force vision in when the people weren't getting shot at.
and 2) Difference is, the Prequels were 5% fight (good ones) 90% SHIT dialogue (because if it was good dialogue it wouldn't be a problem) and 5% retarded fights.
This one turned it on its ear with 90% crisis/fight, 10% good dialogue. The best should be 75% dialogue and 25% good fights. Less is more. And to overflood the movie with action just desensitized us to it.