OOC - Rancor Pit (OoC Chat)

[Ubi Sunt]

You spoiled it for me...     Kidding.  I really don't care about spoilers.  

A lot of people are saying that there IS a political agenda in these films.  That the woman in charge wants to promote feminism and diversity.  The problem is, Star Wars has always had strong women and diversity.  I AM happy they finally decided to have a female force user take the lead as even in the prequels there were few shown to do much of anything.  (The exception is Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show).  The fact they made Rey a Mary Sue is a little annoying and it does a disservice to the character that she struggles very little for all this power that is basically just handed to her.  So Rey, who has no force training, managed to overpower Kylo Ren in a mental contest and in a lightsaber battle, also knows as much about the Falcon as Solo and as you mentioned, she can even swim despite growing up on a desert planet!!     And from my understanding there is no time jump between the first and second film but she is still able to do over the top things with the force and win in a light saber battle against Snoke's guards with very little training!  So why do Jedi bother with training at all?  Apparently using a light saber is as easy and no more dangerous than using a staff.

One thing that you said that really jumped out at me is that even though Snoke is the m.f. reason for Han Solo dying they gave the fans no information about him.   If someone is going to be the reason for killing such an important character in Star Wars, we should know a little bit about them! 

Gosh, we could talk for days about this movie. Lol. You have a pretty good assessment of Rey. I still love her, she reminds me of one of my daughters. Star Wars is such a great canvas for story telling and that is why this movie is so divisive.  I'm not really sure how to define this film but gut tells me I'm not happy with it. Maybe I'm not looking at it the way it was intended?