Disney's first film with LGBTQ+ lead bombs at box office – and fans have thoughts (gay fans accuse Disney of purposely trying to sabotage the movie through lack or marketing to justify lack of gay representation in future movies)

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[–]Wanderingthehalls 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I liked the plot point of Rey just being some nobody who happens to have the force. I could see a story thread of her growing up hearing legends about Luke Skywalker who discovered that the evil Darth Vader was his father and turned him back to light side. Then when she realised she was force sensitive being convinced that she must be a Skywalker and as such her destiny is to save her cousin/brother Kylo by returning him to the light. Then failing miserably, realising her parents were just nobodies who abandoned her for no noble reason and maybe even ending the second movie falling to the dark side in her misery.

When I watched TLJ, I really felt like there were the bones of a good story in there with another 20 edits of the script.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There are really echos of something good, unfortunately it's diminished by gotcha moments and then Abrams back tracks it again in Star Wars IX: Return of Goku.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The way they killed Han, didn’t reunite Han, Leia and Luke, making Han a deadbeat dad (backtracking on his character development in the OT), having Leia hug Rey, who she had just met, instead of Chewie, having Rey beat Kylo in a lightsaber duel and then resist his mind probe, having Finn be a Stormtrooper Janitor…the list could go on. Rey piloting the Falcon better than Han despite never having left the planet and having no clear reason to know how to fly at all (she was essentially a homeless desert scavenger working for scraps of food), Rey fixing the Falcon better than Han/Chewie.

The way that Abrams works with IPs is that, in addition to employing mystery boxes, he makes a checklist of all the big events/plot points of previous versions/episodes/instalments and then incorporates them into his script but BIGGER or BETTER! So we end up with a Death Star but BIGGER! We have Luke but BETTER! (Rey). Etc etc. it’s shit. Add that to Kennedy’s insistence on inclusion and diversity regardless of story implications (the fascist regime is remarkably gender and ethnically diverse) and you have a charmless shitefest that pleases no one except boxtickers and the slackjawed.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So we end up with a Death Star but BIGGER!

To be fair, that was the original trilogy too.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sort of made sense in RotJ, it was all a massive trap set to bring an end to the Rebel fleet and crush the Rebel Alliance completely.

Starkiller Base is just a super weapon, one that they use to destroy the Galactic Capital… for reasons!

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Star Wars XXX: Cory Baxter and Shaggy and Scooby Strike Back. With only 0.00000000000000000001% of their power.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I also don't like how they added midichlorians halfway through ROTJ (Luke implies their existence to Leia). When Luke told Obi-Wan he wanted to be a Jedi there was no test to see if he was magic or whatever. It kind of ruins Han Solo's character too, because there was great irony in his disbelief in the force despite clearly relying on it in combat. Now that's impossible and he was just that impossibly lucky this whole time. Even R2-D2 has a little bit of this. Not C-3PO, although he has a massive slave fetish and refuses to go "against his programming" and pretends he doesn't remember anything before his supposed memory erase despite frequently having Freudian slips, so I could see him disavowing any semblance of the force. He reminds me of Waylon Smithers in that way. This is not normal droid behavior, other droids can completely change their function after going so long without a memory erase, so this is his own problem.