The force. I mean, technically its the least offensive thing with the force done in the movie, of all the things that might be considered out there. It's something that has honestly happened before in the EU.
Take it up with Lucas for writing the Old Republic that way.
Heh, just saw this in the sidebar of our front page, made me laugh xD
The mixed reaction to The Last Jedi in a nut shell~
Well first of all I think it's really cool that they didn't just forget that Leia is also of the Skywalker bloodline, and having her use the Force at some point was one thing I was explicitly hoping for going into this movie.
The Canto Bight sequence is definitely one of the less well-executed plot threads in the movie, but it doesn't actually come to nothing; it's about convincing Finn to pitch in with the Alliance. The previous movie forced him to man up and fight evil for Rey's sake, and when he first tries to run away it's not fear for himself but fear for Rey coming back for him and being caught by the First Order that motivates him. This movie's arc for him is about Finn becoming, in his own words, "Rebel scum". The bit about the arms dealers is, I think, supposed to make him question the whole good vs evil thing that Star Wars has going on and make him question his loyalties one more time before he makes up his mind. That way he has more of a character arc instead of a straight line.
That's the thing though: It's not important information. Rey isn't someone who has a great destiny or is secretly Obi-Wan's daughter or whatever, she's just an example of the Force manifesting strongly in random people, the same way it does in that stable kid in the ending. And that's great, it would make the galaxy a much smaller place if everyone important is somehow related to each other. This also makes her a great foil for Kylo, who has all of the Skywalker pedigree and yet also feels disconnected from his parents and his mentor and makes totally different decisions from her because of those feelings.
It's not about having the balls or not. Luke knows from his own history with Vader that evil cannot be defeated by swinging a laser sword at it, and the one time he came close to trying to do so he wound up turning Ben to the dark side. So he projects himself, knowing that he's the best possible distraction for Ren's forces, and buys everyone time to escape, and also denies Kylo Ren the chance to actually kill him.
I think they suspected there was a mole on board. You know, because Snoke tracked them through hyperspace and all? It wound up being a piece of advanced tech that was responsible, but nobody told her that.
The author did, actually, I'm just copy pasting.
Except in the same scene Johnson also had Snoke reveal that Rey from Nowhere is the other most specialist Force user in the entire galaxy as the natural counterpart to Kylo Ren and it doesn't matter if she actually learns anything as her Light Side power level will literally be rubberbanded up to Kylo's Dark Side power level because Johnson thinks the Force is a balancing patch.
Counterpoint:
It would work better if it made sense.
Because I wanted to move the discussion out of SSoSB and I haven't watched TLJ. So I went and searched for some rando with a critique.
Meh, I'm on phone. Seemed faster.
The Empire tracked the Falcon because they placed a tracking beacon on it. The First Order tracked a ship they had no physical access to through, apparently, magical hyperspace radar.
Which makes sense. But why doesn't she tell him that? Or even just reassurance she has a plan, not just evasiveness...
Because Poe might be the mole for all she knows?
Err, yes?
At least someone enjoyed it.
I mean, you're entitled to your opinion and all, but I cannot comprehend how a person could have this reaction given everything that went on in this movie. I was on the edge of my seat for most of it.
Pretty simple, really. I just didn't care.
Considering the events of the previous movie that apparently took place a week before its extremely unlikely that he's a spy.Because Poe might be the mole for all she knows?
Okay, now to be fair, while those bombers were abominations made of fail and worse than the Y Wing in every regard except carrying capacity, the bombs dropping that way could simply be the artificial gravity of the bomber giving them a push and momentum doing the rest of the work.
He had just been stripped of his rank for disobeying a direct order and getting a lot of people killed. Sacrificing a bunch of Resistance soldiers and their equipment to take out a ship makes sense when it's a one-of-a-kind superweapon that's about to destroy the planet. Taking out one Star Destroyer equivalent? Not so much.
This made me more interested in her. The Chosen One isn't nearly as interesting as the One Who Chooses.