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darthrush
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The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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30-Apr-2017, 9:57 PM

Alderaan said:

rodneyfaile said:

Everything went right for Luke in Star Wars. He learned the Force, joined the Rebellion, blew up the Death Star, and got a medal.

You seem to have forgotten the part where he whined and got bossed around by his Uncle. Then the part where he did a stupid and let the droid wander off. Then there was the time he got his ass kicked by a sand person and was being dragged around unconscious on the ground. Then there was that time his aunt and uncle got murdered and his home was destroyed. Then when he went to Mos Eisley he nearly got killed in the cantina. Then while training against the droid he got blasted over and over again before finally succeeding.

He also got dragged under the water and nearly drowned in the trash compactor. He had to look on helplessly while his mentor was killed. He watched nearly all of his comrades get shot down and die during the final battle.

And then he won.

Exactly. The statement that “he learned the force” makes absolutely no sense. Luke barely was able to do shit with the force. Compare the development of his abilities to Rey. Luke BARELY force pulled his saber a short distance in the SECOND movie of his trilogy. Rey was able to snatch that thing quite firmly across a much greater distance and then beat a force-trained leader of the Knights of Ren. She also could do a god damn mind trick in her first movie! Luke tried deflecting just a few laser bolts and it took him a few go arounds to get good at it. Then we see him fail even more in Empire. Luke is far from a Mary/Gary Sue/Stu character. He fails again and again and has MANY weaknesses that are shown in full light by the means of the screenplay. Rey does have a weakness which is that she does not want to accept her destiny and she is afraid to leave Jakku. But that never comes to fruition. After she gets the force vision, she runs away, then gets captured, which shows her weakness. Now we wait to see the implications of such weakness and how it will affect the story. It ends up meaning absolutely nothing since she simply escapes after besting Kylo Ren in a mind game, then uses her mind trick skills to escape, and then promptly ends up beating Kylo.

Luke’s desire to save his friends and the stupidity that can come with that are shown again and again throughout the entire trilogy and it comes full circle when he learns to control such weakness and use that compassion to ultimately end up believing in his father and helping to redeem him. This is the one biggest issue that I can see leaking into episode 8 which is that Rey is not set up for much of an arc currently.