TV’s Frink said:
Alderaan said:
But then, at the end, he suddenly forgets he has these powers and gets his ass beat. Insecurity is not the reason for his loss, because he was just as insecure when he flung Rey through the air and knocked her out 2 minutes earlier IN THE EXACT SAME SCENE. The only explanation for Rey nearly killing Kylo is that someone wrote the script with one thing in mind, and someone else with more power decided they wanted a different ending with something else in mind.
The rest of the script and the ending do not match.
Yep, you definitely fell asleep during the movie. Multiple times.
I didn’t. I saw the film twice. As I pointed out in another post, look at Empire Strikes Back. The entire script is well orchestrated. Everything works in harmony. The meat and potatoes of the story builds towards and enhances the ending. Luke succeeds in many things, and yet each time he succeeds, the message being emphasized (the story within the story) is … HE … IS … NOT … READY.
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Luke summons his lightsaber and escapes the Wampa cave. This scene shows remarkable growth in his force abilities compared to the last time we saw him. And yet what happens? He wanders out into a blizzard and collapses. He would have died if Han had not saved him. HE … IS … NOT … READY.
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Luke blows up the AT-AT. Again, look how capable he is in this scene. He’s no longer this young desert farm boy, he actually looks like a mature freedom fighter. And yet what happens? The rebels get massacred, it’s not even a fair fight. Luke has to run away. HE … IS … NOT … READY … to defeat Vader and the Empire.
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Luke trains with Yoda on Dagobah. He appears to be a good student and learning. Then he goes into the cave and fails Yoda’s test. He (and the audience) are subconsciously reminded … HE … IS … NOT … READY … to face Darth Vader.
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Luke continues his training. Again, he progresses and impresses Yoda, but then he fails to lift the X-wing. Yoda calls him a failure. The reminder? HE … IS … NOT … READY.
Finally, at the end of Act 2, Luke is faced with a crisis decision. He has to decide if he will stay on Dagobah and finish his training, or if he will prematurely confront Vader on Bespin in an attempt to save his friends. Yoda and Obi-Wan plead with him to stay and complete his training. Their message to him is that … HE … IS … NOT … READY. And yet Luke chooses to leave anyway. He wants to save his friends. He confronts Vader in their battle at the end of the film.
And what happens in the ending?
We find out that Luke is not ready. He gets his ass beat. The entire story built up to that ending and they matched.
In TFA, the rest of the story and the ending do not match. There is no skillfully executed buildup toward an ending that should see Rey defeat Kylo. We are already well into Act 3 before Rey breaks loose on Starkiller and we hear the line “she’s just beginning to test her abilities”. She cannot possibly defeat him based on the rest of the story.
It’s even dumber because this would have been very easy to fix. All they had to do was cutout the last 20 seconds of the fight when Rey beats his ass. As soon as Rey channels the force and fights off Kylo for just and instant, to momentarily save herself, the planet could have collapsed and separated the two of them, saving Rey and her companions in the process.