If this were a video game made in 2002, Kylo would have force pulled the saber out of Finn’s hand, and cut him down in seconds.
My perspective is so fundamentally different from this - it’s honestly kinda fascinating how some people can look at things and interpret them so distinctly.
I agree with your statement, it is what I thought after reading the OP.
Cool. So what’re your explanations as to why that didn’t happen (other than being unsatisfying for the audience)?
Are you agreeing that Kylo Ren actually sucks as a dark side villain?
As presented, he seems like a noob who knows a couple of tricks and that’s it. He’s symptomatic of the entire First Order really. It’s like the trope of the Empire being inept bad guys has grown into this. At least when things started off, they were a credible threat, even allowing for typical expected things like character shields for the main cast. But yet, somehow, TFA and then TLJ portray the bad guys as taking over the entire galaxy, losing it again, then taking it over again virtually overnight. They’re copying this directly from the EU (“Legends”), but it still sucks. The villains are talented at killing unarmed civilians, but anyone who stands up to them with a weapon is going to take them down a notch or at least leave a mark (Anti-Bullying PSA inserted here)
So not only is Rey OP, but her competition is deliberately dumb, to drive down the tension even more. At this point stuff is happening and its just seemingly random “will of the force” (writer fiat) than anything. That’s why I gave up on the Harry Potter movies (should have read the books instead?). The rules are all up in the air now… which would have been fine if there had not already been several movies before these!