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Post #1394722

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sade1212
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The Mandalorian - a general discussion thread - * SPOILERS *
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Date created
19-Dec-2020, 10:26 AM

The only thing that Rey does that’s ever really troubled me is the TFA mind trick, because it feels like JJ Abrams nodding at the audience and saying “Remember that time Ben Kenobi mind tricked that stormtrooper about the droids? This movie is like that movie!” - it doesn’t strike me as an organic thing for Rey to just discover like that. Other than that, Rey’s Force and lightsaber usage comes across to me as appropriately sloppy, uncontrolled and untrained most of the time, not like a precise and trained prequel/TCW-esque Jedi (even in TROS, despite having received just as much training from Leia at that point as Luke ever did from Yoda). And we see that that is dangerous, since she almost blows up Chewie by accident in TROS; hacks away at Kylo like a woman possessed in TFA; breaks Luke’s saber in TLJ; goes straight into the dark side cave; etc. Yoda makes it fairly apparent in ESB that tapping into the Force is mostly about self-belief, not like, progressive overload weight training. It’s clear that Lucasfilm wanted to cut to the chase with making one of the protagonists a Jedi so that they could have some Force usage from the heroes in VII, and it certainly could’ve been executed worse.

Also idir_hh, if you’re going to insist on endlessly moaning about movies that most people here already aren’t that fond of anyway, at least come up with actual criticisms rather than “they don’t have a story”. Events occur in the course of the plot of the trilogy. That’s a story. Is it a good story? A thematically-rich story? A story that builds on the previous stories told in this universe? Perhaps not; those are all up for debate, but it certainly exists.