Interesting parallel…though wanting to stay to help your family’s farm and staying just in case your family comes back for you are kind of different…BUT both can be boiled down to a strong sense of family value. Interesting parallel indeed.
True, of course. Nice little antithesis going on there. Just to clarify, I don’t dislike repetition for repetition’s sake. Mirroring can be useful, poetic almost. But I feel maybe it’s a bit too deliberate in TFA.
Also, I’d like to say the to all those complaining of the fan service, most of it I find to be totally applicable. A long time has passed in the universe, there are going to be these elements. I find it even enriches the story. Also, I love how Han has accepted the force, which he didn’t even do in Return of the Jedi. He’s been on a long journey, and he’s experienced a lot. Stuff like this I loved in Ep7 which you simply do not get in the prequels.
To be honest I can’t think of what anyone would want to stay on a Planet like that where there are hundreds of thousands if not MILLIONS of exponentially better worlds out there. But if you have a better reason please do share it.
I don’t know, I’m not a scriptwriter. Maybe something more sentimental (I know, more sentimental than family). But yeah, maybe even tie it in to, gasp, a weakness of Rey’s! Y’know, something that’ll hold her back, because atm there are no constraints on her and it therefore feels somewhat artificial.
And the “it’ll be explained in the later movies” excuse does not hold, it needs to be a movie in its own right (character-wise, plot wise its sound), just like A New Hope was.
To be fair ANH absolutely had to be a single contained story with no allusions to a sequel only because there was no guarantee that there would be a sequel much less an entire Saga. So by that basis I think it’s unfair to compare the too in that regard.
Correct in that it is not a fair comparison. But you know what I mean (I hope, no pun intended).