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Originally Posted by CroFlames
This post sums up my feelings the best, especially the bold.
It would have actually been easy to build up a great story based on the softballs that JJ lobbed up in TFA. Why oh why did Rian think it would be a good idea to go off the beaten path? Let the Skywalker saga play out over two more films, then go ####ing nuts with your spinoffs and standalone trilogies exploring different characters and risky plots.
Luke should have died in Ep IX and his death should have redeemed Kylo. Now everything is ruined.
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At this point its ok to do something different, and I think Rian wanted to do that. Nope, Rey's parents were nobodies. Luke's death wasn't a great sacrifice, but a small one. I respect that, but he did it at the cost of the over arching storyline of the trilogy, it was equivalent to taking a shot gun out and shooting the trilogy in the knee, it just feels like its limping over the finish line now.
If there's actually one thing that I do like is Ren's justification in a way, because its different from the first 6 films. Its not about power, its about destroying a past that causes the galaxy nothing except pain and him nothing but pain. Kill the Republic and the Empire, end the Sith and the Jedi that have been constantly been fighting for thousands of years and sucking everything around them into it.
Its smart and it makes sense, but what ruins it, is instead of making Ren a good villain he comes across as even more whiny and petulant then Anakin Skywalker ever could have been. So the question is this
Why does he have to be redeemed? In a lot of ways he's worse then Palpatine or Vader ever was. Palpatine wanted to rule the Galaxy and get rid of the corruption of the Republic. Vader saw that democracy and the jedi caused Chaos and destruction and that the universe should be ruled properly and forever. Kylo is scarred by his past and he's grrrrangry about it. Don't redeem him, kill him off and move on.