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Post #894114

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brash_stryker
Parent topic
The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
7-Jan-2016, 1:06 AM

Alderaan said:

OK, let’s say I agree with you on that point. Even if that is the case, in the EXACT SAME SCENE Kylo flings Rey against a tree and knocks her out without any effort. If she were able to shield him off with her force powers, then why didn’t she do it then? Because we needed to see Kylo and Finn fight 1 on 1 first?

The film just does whatever it wants on a minute by minute basis.

It is just a poorly written.

Because Rey is only now fully “awakened” and letting in the force. She had her vision which ended with a voice saying “these are your first steps”. She then ran from it (rejecting the saber and running away from Maz’s castle) but now upon seeing her friend injured, soon to be killed, she embraces it. The saber, the very thing she was so scared of, and the embodiment of her growing connection to the force, literally leaping into her hand.

It’s symbolic. That is the moment when she finally opens up to the force fully and embraces what she truly is.