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Monferno_AQW posted...

Over the years, I've come to realize that TLJ is my favorite of the ST, while TFA is probably my least favorite. Despite its flaws, I like that TLJ tried to do something different, unlike TFA, which played things too safe.

Being different isn't being good imho. Like, they could've made teletubbies star wars and that would have been different.
Notti posted...

TFA put me to sleep how boring and safe it was. Whatta snore.

I found Rey to be uninspired. Finn was bleh and meh, either a lump on a log or embarrassing, especially beyond tfa. Kylo was so lamely constructed as a ragey villain I actively disliked him. Anti cool. I never wanted to see him again.

Kylo I felt was the best villain they could have had with the role he was given. He was an angsty, rage filled adult that acted like a teenager trying to live up to a mythical image him and others had put up of his grandfather, not realizing he was nothing more than a failure in every aspect.

He was just like what you'd expect a kid trying to live up to his mythological Sith grandfather would be. An angsty, rage-filled fool who is played by everyone and only gets by with his power.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

The character assassination of Luke Skywalker is what poisons the well.

I'm sorry. I dont care how "human" it is, post ROTJ Luke would never even consider executing Ben in cold blood. Not even for a second. And he CERTAINLY wouldn't fuck off to mope himself to death, leaving his friends and family to die at the hands of a mess he made.

Luke was meant to be the Superman character. The incorruptible force, who succeeded in all the places where his father failed. Anakin's power with Padme's compassion. The actual hope for the future, the Jedi's wisdom tempered with actual love. Yes, it's unrealistic. You know what else is unrealistic? Goddamn space wizards. It's a fantasy. It's like writing a sequel to Lord of the Rings where Aragorn decided to genocide the shire out of fear that lingering Ring corruption would get Sam.

What we're left with is a Luke whose arc barely matters. He's gone from a narrative foil to vader, to just a stepping stone in Vader and Rey's stories to prop them up.

THIS! THIIIIIS!

Luke was the hope of the universe. He was supposed to be the last light in a hopeless, dark universe. Despite EVERYONE telling him to kill Vader, he refused. He knew there was light there. However dim it was. Obi-Wan, Yoda, everyone said Vader needed to die. Luke, however...nope. Was willing to find whatever good he could in his father and redeem him. Even while under extreme duress, and giving into his hate, thinking the rebels were dying, his sister was caught, everything he had worked for was falling apart...he didn't give in. He fought against it and became the hero he had to be. A true Jedi.

Him disagreeing and even considering for a quarter of a second, of hurting his family because he saw darkness in him? Unrealistic. Practically impossible. This is not Luke Skywalker. This is Jake Skywalker.