Daisy Ridley’s performance I felt was a little bland, she’s charming but I didn’t feel much depth in her performance, didn’t like how she got so offended by Boyega grabbing her hand to get her away from the first order, overreaction much? Its bits like that that add fuel to the flames of those accusing JJ of pushing a femenist agenda in this film with Rey.
No need to get all anti-agenda-y, though I certainly don’t mind feminism in film. It was showing her lonerism and distrust, which is also the reason for the long hug when she realizes someone actually came back for her for once.
Unfortunately the overly competent nature of Rey in the film and her behaviour towards Finn early on does come across like JJ is pushing a PC feminist agenda, I find it disappointing because the last thing anybody want to be reminded of when watching an escapist sci-fi fantasy is the modern world with political correctness and gender politics, it takes you right out of the film IMHO. I’m all for feminism, equality and girl power, but I don’t think this sort of gender politics has any place in Star Wars films that are meant to be universal timeless stories, adding this sort of thing just ties the film down to a certain period in modern history and takes away from that timeless quality that the Original Trilogy had. I don’t want to start a feminism/political correctness debate here, this thread is not the place, it was something that I felt coming across quite strongly in TFA so I felt I should mention it. I never felt it with Leia in Star Wars, even though she is a strong, independent and competent like Rey, because she is believable. I felt JJ went too far with Rey being too good at too many things too quickly and being strong in the force is not a good enough explanation, at least for me.