logo Sign In

Post #896791

Author
oojason
Parent topic
TFA: Why I don't think Rey is a Merry Sue
Link to post in topic
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/896791/action/topic#896791
Date created
14-Jan-2016, 10:19 AM

Mate, I think it’s ‘Mary Sue’ not ‘Merry Sue’? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

I agree with a lot (not all) of you what you say above - I don’t think Rey is a ‘Mary Sue’ either, much in the way Luke wasn’t (though he possibly fits the description more than Rey does in Ep4).

It seems to me it is a lazy criticism - not understanding the characters in the SW universe, or not thinking through the events in the film itself as a whole (her environment, how she struggles initially to the events occurring around her, the decisions she makes, then how she evolves and adapts through those situations she encounters etc - ultimately ending with her ‘Letting The Force In’, as it were, to not be defeated by Ren in the lightsabre fight at the end of the film).

An example of a similar sort of lazy and not very well thought-through click-bait ‘journalism’ here:-

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/40-unforgivable-plot-holes-in-star-wars-the-force-awakens_b_8850324.html -

Which was quite well retorted to in here:-

https://www.facebook.com/notes/matty-granger/at-long-lastmy-star-wars-episode-vii-review-the-force-awakens-the-rise-of-idiot-/10153163095086277/

That’s not to say there aren’t valid criticisms of the film or the characters therein - as there will be for almost any film out there… but the Mary Sue thing just doesn’t seem applicable to Rey in this film.