JCC Embrace The FU - Formerly the STAR WARS IS BAD thread

fool=cool=snool

 

Today YouTube suggests I watch: "Rey and the sad devolution of the female character".
And they say these tech companies know us.

 

i want to watch that. because it has "devo" in the title.

 

fool=cool=snool=yule.

 

b'dool.

 

Remember when this thread was about hot pockets?

 

when you want a hot meal
with ally mcbeal
whatcha gonna pick?
hot pokkits.

when a smelly bum
shows up for rum
whatcha gonna pick?
hot pokkits.

 

*slips a vibe up your “hot pocket”*

 

It stopped being about hot pockets?

Then how on earth did the thread manage to survive 1365 pages? Star Wars can't possibly be that compelling.

 

ZOMG! The "Star Wars is Bad" Thread is bad .

 

Does George have DisneyTM stamped on his ass now ?

 

If he did, it now say Disnuts with an arrow pointing down.

 

Is this a serious complaint? Do people fuss over this? I am unaware of any point in the Star Wars saga where any character seriously struggled to pilot any sort of vehicle at all, regardless of the circumstances or their background. I just sort of assumed that it was a pretty rudimentary task in this universe. That certainly wasn't my complaint about either Luke or Rey.

However, I did find it odd that someone whom, as far as I know, didn't have any reason to do physical combat with people would suddenly outfight Finn. Especially since we know from TR-8R that apparently the Stormtroopers had significant training in hand-to-hand combat and melee weapons. I would otherwise consign it to an instance of them remembering the character is black and therefore an incompetent janitor. Except Kylo Ren also grossly underperformed despite supposedly being well into his training. Beyond that, the film itself had sort of done away with the notion that only a Force user could successfully wield a lightsaber, so we should have just been down to skill with a weapon she'd scarcely heard of before, let alone used.

Likewise, the Force powers thing was a bit odd. She seems to invent sui generis techniques that others only mastered over time. I've no real problem with her being advanced in her ability to pick up new skills, especially if she is supposed to be a user of great potential. Even for the new powers, how they work is undefined, so I whatever she does is apparently workable (eg the mind invasion thing). But I'm baffled at the Jedi Mind Trick, which she successfully masters without even knowing it is something that is possible, and there being no obvious way to intuit the existence of such a skill. Again, though, this isn't really a problem unique to Rey. It's a bizarre feature of the sequels and their aggressive desire to shoehorn everything into plots that they haven't really written towards naturalistically.

 

Skill in Star Wars does seem to be hereditary.
Luke is a great pilot because he's the son of a great pilot. Although unlike Rey it's mentioned how much he regularly flies on Tatooine, so combine that with chosen one DNA & you have easy explanation for why Luke is good at stuff.
Rey as far as we know in TFA has never left Jakku since being abandoned there. She is essentially a homeless scavenger who seemingly has never piloted anything except her speeder. Going from that to suddenly being able to pilot the Millennium Falcon is far less convincing than the son of space Jesus who regularly flies a T-16 being able to fly an X-Wing.
All that was needed was a throwaway line about how Rey spent years doing pilot stuff for Unkar Plutt or whatever & it would all make sense. Her just seemingly being able to pilot a complex starship with zero experience at all is the problem in TFA.

Her beating Kylo on the other hand is fine. He was injured badly (by Chewbacca & then Finn) and lacked mobility. Plus he was arrogant & she had a Force surge or whatever and overwhelmed him.
Keep in mind it looked like he could pretty much only fight one handed. Hard to defend against an aggressive attacker guided by the Force when you're defending with one arm and bleeding.

 

I'm curious Wocky, if the input included a scene of Rey heroically sleeping on the bare floor, with no mattress between her and the sandy metal of her downed AT-AT, would the algorithm change and you go easier on the woman?

 

*looks at thread*

Uh huh.

plus les choses changent plus elles restent les mêmes

Emphasis on memes or meme persons.

 

C'est la guerre d'etoile.

 

1. I reiterate that my problems are not personal to Rey and I’m not playing favorites based on my overall opinion of the characters.

2. Absolutely yes

 

every time yodra says "hmmm" a child dies.

 

Is that the real cause of the downfall of humanity in Children of Men?