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Lopen posted...

Do you think playing it safe is a weird complaint or do you not think it played it safe. And if you don't think it played it safe what do you think it did that was particularly risky or unexpected.

Let's see...

-Pushing Poe's development towards being a responsible leader instead of 'one hell of a pilot'.
-Not having Rey learn things from Luke, and in fact actively state that it's better if she blazes her own path (this is kinda undermined by her stealing the Jedi texts instead of letting them burn but alas).
-NOT having the cavalry come to the rescue of the Resistance.
-Heroic solutions and brave bullshit not working out.
-Successfully managing to set up Kylo Ren as the final boss and axing Snoke instead of having him be Palpatine 2.0.
-Priming Kylo for a Miles Edgeworth-style face turn (partly a Franny Von Karma turn too).
-Maybe splitting up the Finn/Rey ship? Depends on what the last movie does.
-Most importantly, not having Rey be Luke's daughter. You can't tell me this wasn't what was foreshadowed in TFA, man.

There's a lot of complaints one can make about this movie, but 'too safe' is not one of them. All of these things just fly in the face of what is too safe for Star Wars.
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