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Originally Posted by blankall
The major problem I have with Rey's force powers is how they just seem to pop up whenever she needs them. Luke spent a long time focusing on specific power, like moving inanimate objects. An emergency happens and Rey all of a sudden can lightsabrr grab, stop a landslide, forcewill a guard, etc... Her powers seem to arise whenever the circumstances require it. Whereas things weren't so for Luke. He took some serious knocks. He watched Obi-Wan die, he gets his hand cut off, etc...Even the trench run from ANH required the guidance of Obi Wan.
It's not just Rey's force powers that are too easy, it's also her interactions with other characters. In one of her first scenes she meets BB8, who is being held captive by some kind of scavenging alien. Rey tells the alien to scram. The creature does, and BB8 fall in love with Rey. Compare this to the interaction Luke had with the sand people and the swarmy R2D2. Rey's character is just far less interesting and more 2 dimensional.
Luke,very early on, needs a pilot for transportation, despite having lots of experience piloting smaller vehicles. They run into Han, who flies the Falcon, a fast yet finicky ship. Rey is capable of flying the Falcon immediately and outmaneuvering trained First Order fighter pilots. Later she knows how to modify and repair the ship...a ship that was held together by sticks and gum by Han, that nobody but Han and Chewie would know the intricacies of.
It's all just lazy writing to create jumping points for action scenes.
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Well said, it really does feel like the action drives the story. We want this ship battle through ruins so lets make her fly the Falcon! We want Kylo to show his conflict by not killing his mom, but lets have someone else do it and have her force-fly through space!
The prequels were not overall great movies, mostly because of clunky dialogue writing and some poor actor choices imo, but it was a lot more story driven. There were some gems of both acting and dialogue, Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid really make these movies.
Honestly I wouldn't have been surprised if they had tapped Michael Bay to do Episode 9 at the rate they were going.
I don't want to rip too hard on the new movies because I do think they are well done for current blockbusters, but they lack thought and storytelling. I would have been happier if they released them as a new trilogy than tacking them onto the end of this story.