Post by Axalon on Jan 2, 2016 1:51:51 GMT -5
* Kylo Ren, intentional or not, comes across as Anakin 2.0. Ideally he should have kept taking the helmet off for when he faces Han (and the Son reveal as well), it would have made him seem more intimidating than the face he has (Which essentially reminds me of one of my cousins, not terrifying at all). That said, it's only one film, it's hard to say where exactly they plan to take him at the moment, so with a little work it'd be easy to make him more villainous.
Kylo Ren is kind of what I wished Anakin to be. Far more temperamental and hard to control instead of some sappy love story making him fall to evil.
I feel like I'm missing context as to why there's a resistance in the first place if the First Order is quite clearly gunning for the New Republic. I feel confused as to if the planet that was destroyed was Coruscant or not (I assumed so, and have been told it's not, so it's up in the air). I feel confused as to why the resistance only had something like 4 or 5 wings of x-wing fighters when they just only came out of a galaxy spanning rebellion 20-30 years or so ago. I feel confused as to why the republic can't just storm the First Order when they either destroyed Coruscant or some other City-Planet-Hiveworld and instead leave it to the resistance.
In short, I feel there's at least two to five minutes of context cut from the film that would have made the whole Resistance, New Republic, First Order deal much cleaer.
In short, I feel there's at least two to five minutes of context cut from the film that would have made the whole Resistance, New Republic, First Order deal much cleaer.
It was some other planet, not Coruscant. Given that the First Order has access to the Empire's archives and the Republic/Resistance does not the First Order could very well be in control of Coruscant while the Republic set up shop elsewhere and got blown up by the superweapon. As for why there's a resistance, after mulling it over I feel that they were a proxy group "unofficially" being supported by the Republic to attack the First Order without actually going to war. Clearly they did a poor job masking their relationship, given that the Order blows up the Republic capitol for the meddling.
SMS or Supplementary Material Syndrome, I'm told that some or most of this is resolved in the materials surrounding the film. And I hated that with Halo 4 (Despite having RTFM), I shouldn't have to RTFM with Star Wars when you've essentially nuked the EU canon into the ground.
Agreed 100%. I hate having "supplemental required reading" to understand anything, especially with Disney purging the EU. As a sequel the only things a viewer should have to keep in mind are the films that came before, not some comic book tie-in or novelization.
All this said, compared to JJ Abram's fare in Star Trek, I found this to be more suiting of his movie style as Star Wars always could handle the nonsensical blockbuster action Rule of Cool stuff more effectively than Star Trek could.
Agreed. But then again part of that seems to be the "No Fun Zone" the extreme hardcore Trekkies have built up over the years. It's like that video from the Onion says.
