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ST Sequel Trilogy Message Conflicts With Execution?

Discussion in 'Sequel Trilogy' started by staticdash22, Dec 26, 2017.

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Do you have an issue with the way the themes in the ST are being executed?

  1. Yes

    65 vote(s)
    65.0%
  2. No

    35 vote(s)
    35.0%
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  1. Thrawn082

    Thrawn082 Force Ghost star 6

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    -And Kylo through two films still cannot beat the girl who first learned about The Force two days ago. So a lot of good that his training has done him, he's been punked out in two movies now.

    -A Jedi Temple that we never got to see, with students who were all killed offscreen. What we see onscreen, is Luke giving up and pouting on an island all alone. So again, a lot of good that training (which we never got to see) did there either.

    -So Rey's going to learn how to be a Jedi, by reading "How to be a Jedi for Dummies" essentially, that's not training it's cramming. And if that's all that it takes for her, then wow is that underwhelming.

    -I'm getting really tired of them falling back on this "oh such and such is a super-special and unique uber-Force Users space messiah, but we're going to be all cryptic about it" cliché. It feels like such a lazy plot device and it frankly makes me not care as much about said characters story. They didn't need to constantly trumpet how "special and uber Force Powerful" Luke was in the OT. Nor did they feel the need to make it cryptic for no good reason. And his story was far more compelling because of it.
     
  2. Shadao

    Shadao Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Funny thing is that this whole Skywalker bloodline issue started because Anakin was considered to be the Chosen One to bring balance to the Force. Before that, he was a nobody and his mother was a nobody. Now you can argue that Anakin's father is the Force itself (or Darth Plagieus) and that's what made him special, but considering that Dark Side cave didn't even bother to show Rey's parents at all, who isn't to say that Rey wasn't conceived by the Force itself and her father is not really her father? And no, Daisy Ridley's statement doesn't amount much when you realized that Andy Serkis also proclaimed that Snoke is more powerful and evil than Sidious (after his anti-climatic death, no one will take Snoke seriously anymore).

    Really, Rey is a watered-down version of Anakin's backstory with even less explanations other than Dark Side is rising, therefore Force strikes back with the Chosen One. Except now there's no tension of this Chosen One falling to the Dark Side like old Anakin.
     
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  3. IG Lancer

    IG Lancer Jedi Knight star 3

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    Feb 8, 2015
    That's not because kids are born with innate basketball player instinct now. It is because kids eat better, start their training earlier, train more seriously at school, and the tactics they are taught are more refined.
     
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