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I went for the 2D option, I am still yet to get over watching Dave Englands poo volcano in Jackass 3D.
I think an injured trained force user could dispatch an ex-stormtrooper who spent most of his time on sanitation duty trying to use a weapon he is completely unfamiliar with easily, Finn shouldn't have been able to get within a country mile of Ren before he got choked/pushed/mind tricked/chopped into little ice cube shaped bits. How Finn managed to get within melee range then score a few strikes on top of that is miraculous to say the least.
Rey thought the force and Luke Skywalker where a myth until they found the light saber. Fighting off a few scumbags with a stick on Jakku and taking on an injured sith armed with a lightsaber are not even remotely close by any stretch of the imagination. I understand they had to develop the character but it was all a bit too quick and not in the correct order for me, my suspension of disbelief was pushed to the limit.
I feel it would have been better if Ren simply escaped without the saber fights, then have Luke train Rey to be a sith beater in the next film before they actually come to blows, that would make more sense. Instead we got the equivalent of Luke kicking Vaders arse on the death star right there and then because he killed Obi-wan
Finn was trained from a very young age to be a soldier. I doubt he spent most of his life as a janitor, he was skilled enough to be on Kylo's/Phasma's raiding party after all. There's also that stormtrooper with the stun tonfa, so it seems that lightsaber defence (which implies some knowledge of the offence) is part of the First Order's training. Kylo isn't in the best state of mind to be using his (admittedly) formidable force powers, and honestly I think Finn would be his first 'proper' duel, up to that point his main victims were little kids, bound prisoners, and the odd control panel. There's also the possibility that Finn is force sensitive to some extent as he has managed to resist being brainwashed by the First Order.
Yeah Rey thinks that initially, but she buys in once she meets Han/has the vision/talks to Maz/gets captured. She's thrown in the deep end but she knows those myths well enough to make sense of it. We're shown that Rey possesses greater power than Kylo (who isn't a sith) during the interrogation scene, and Kylo isn't intending to kill her anyway as Snoke told him to capture her so they could convert her. Rey was running away for 90% of the fight, it was only when her back was against the wall and Kylo mentions the force that she remember's Maz's advice and starts driving him back, and at that point Kylo was probably running on fumes. I agree that Rey seems too overpowered but it didn't really pull me out of the movie.
It isn't really the equivalent of Luke kicking Vader's arse, it's thematically more in line with Luke remembering to use the force for that final shot at the Death Star, even if another trench run on another base is taking place during the fight. I reckon having two 'successful' missions being completed was a way of making up for Han's death, as he is a far more beloved character at this point in time compared to Obi-Wan.
Yeah Rey thinks that initially, but she buys in once she meets Han/has the vision/talks to Maz/gets captured. She's thrown in the deep end but she knows those myths well enough to make sense of it. We're shown that Rey possesses greater power than Kylo (who isn't a sith) during the interrogation scene, and Kylo isn't intending to kill her anyway as Snoke told him to capture her so they could convert her. Rey was running away for 90% of the fight, it was only when her back was against the wall and Kylo mentions the force that she remember's Maz's advice and starts driving him back, and at that point Kylo was probably running on fumes. I agree that Rey seems too overpowered but it didn't really pull me out of the movie.
It isn't really the equivalent of Luke kicking Vader's arse, it's thematically more in line with Luke remembering to use the force for that final shot at the Death Star, even if another trench run on another base is taking place during the fight. I reckon having two 'successful' missions being completed was a way of making up for Han's death, as he is a far more beloved character at this point in time compared to Obi-Wan.
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