tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146738844366434424.post3826363878282736100..comments2023-08-19T08:05:45.543-07:00Comments on Dusty's Version: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (The Dusty Complains)Dustyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566170310750488013noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146738844366434424.post-91750285985633670932016-01-05T20:51:59.723-08:002016-01-05T20:51:59.723-08:00Kylo losing that fight was still not believable. H...Kylo losing that fight was still not believable. He was not only outclassed by a (seemingly) untrained child, but out-muscled too. That makes no sense. Especially when it was so easy to force slam her into a tree minutes earlier. And Kylo apparently had loads of technical training. Let's say he's in his 20's (Adam Driver is 33 actually). But Kylo was born into Luke's family so he would have had force training from the time he was old enough to walk. That counts as decades, homey. Way more training than Luke or Anakin had at that age. Way more training than Rey could have even if she had started at the same age since she's obviously younger. <br /><br />As for Finn, this guy's go no guts at all but then can suddenly go toe to toe with Kylo. No storm trooper in any version of Star Wars I've ever seen would have even considered fighting even the lowliest of sith. <br /><br />I do agree that Rey was probably trained at Luke's Jedi Summer Camp but I don't think she's a Skywalker. I don't think she's a Kenobi either. I don't know who'd she be, then. Maybe someone new. Maybe a distant relative of Qui-Gon Jinn. Maybe Yoda's granddaughter. Or Chewie's niece. You never know what side of the family someone will take after in appearance.Dustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13566170310750488013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146738844366434424.post-24076588994342042762015-12-29T19:10:51.789-08:002015-12-29T19:10:51.789-08:00Let's put aside that a trilogy is a story mean...Let's put aside that a trilogy is a story meant to unfold over three parts and just tackle your points, head on. I'll try not to use this fact as cover, even if it is profoundly relevant to many criticisms I've read (and not just yours).<br /><br />BTW, this is meant in good fun! <br /><br />“Kylo Ren is a wuss.” Of course he is! He's not Darth Vader; he hasn't had decades of bad-ass training necessary to master of the dark side. He's young, foolish, emotional, with too strong of an affinity for his family (which, I believe, even Snokes said was one of his weaknesses). That's the reason for many of his actions, from his tantrums, to his flip-flopping fighting prowess, to the reason behind his patricide. He's on a journey, much like a young Luke in Empire Strikes Back, where instead of confronting and killing Vader in order to progress to knighthood, he’s forced to confront and kill Han in order to deepen his connection to the dark side. Also, unlike with Vader, this isn't the story of his swan dive into goodness and defeat; it's his rise to evil and (dark side) power!<br /><br />Finn as wuss. No one ever said the man was a ruthless warrior. He was just one of many kids kidnapped and indoctrinated by the First Order. However, it shouldn't be a surprise that he's capable with a saber, even *IF* he's blinded to the force. Presumably the First Order wanted their soldiers to be equipped for battle, meaning he probably had a decade and a half worth of combat training, which would have included hand-to-hand and marksmanship. Cutting into Kylo Ren can be seen as a result of this, added to Rylo's injury and a bit of luck.<br /><br />Rey as master swordsman. This plays into that bit about unfolding story, but it need not rest on it. The whole of Force Awakens seems to hint at two things: 1) the force is awakening, which I take to mean people are powering up like mofos and 2) there's something more to Rey than just an orphan scavenger. The flashbacks she experienced hinted at two possibilities, one of which implies she was trained by Luke himself. In the prequels, younglings trained all the damn time. In the Clone Wars cartoons (which are canon, I believe), they were even fairly capable Jedis themselves, albeit not quite knights. Add that to the possibility she's a Skywalker, or at least has Skywalker blood, and she's most likely crammed with awakening Force stuff! All bets are off when you got lots of force stuff inside you. Furthermore, skill with a lightsaber isn't all training and the Force. Some Jedi are naturally better than others. (Mace Windu, Yoda and Annakin were considered among the top five best with a lightsaber. Others, on the opposite end of the spectrum, could have been rubbish). This isn't even to mention how Rey was using Annakin's expertly crafted lightsaber, while Kylo was using an inferior, cobbled piece with, I believe, a broken Kyber crystal.<br /><br />Lastly, the cloned troopers had a limited life span and would have aged out sometime before A New Hope, that's why! By A New Hope, they were already recruiting folks to the Imperial Academy. That's where Biggs Darklight, Luke's besty, ended up before joining the rebellion. (Luke seemed interested in joining too, if only to escape farm life). In other words, clone troopers were an expendable fighting force meant only for the so-called Clone War period and were never meant to be a permanent alternative to normal-born military force. <br /><br />Angry nerd mic drop!Samuel M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11488618086254504943noreply@blogger.com