Lord Haseo said:
John Doom said:
Sure, but it doesn’t help that, together with everything else I said, makes him less and less of a threat.
To Rey maybe. But to Poe and Finn he’s a legitimate threat.
We are Rey :\ I don’t remember them actually being threated by him except for Poe in the beginning and Finn in the end. But Poe is nowhere to been seen for 3/4 of the movie, and trying to make Kylo a threat in the end was too late by then. It was boring :\
Vader looks conflicted only in ROTJ, when the main villain is now the Emperor. Combined with everything above, this further makes kylo less of a threat.
But Vader is still a main villain. A villain who was the main baddie for 2/3 of the trilogy. That doesn’t diminish the fact that they both have conflict.
That’s right: at that point, his role has become less important, so he doesn’t need to be an actual threat. The Emperor, who’s activily tricking them into fighting against each other, is the main villain, and his ways are the major threat to Luke’s life.
Never being able to see him scared was what made him, even if apparently, more menacing.
That’s good and all but he still seemed scared with the mask on when he was defeated by Luke.
And he was not the main villain anymore, so it’s fine.
Why do you keep saying Kylo has less experience? I know this, but it’s things like this that lessens his role as the main villain.
I keep on saying this is because people are trying to equate him to Vader when the character was literally designed NOT to be a fully realized villain. I’m pretty sure people didn’t say Luke didn’t/would never work as a hero because of his failures in ESB so people chastising Kylo is a bit hypocritical.
:\ I’m not comparing Kylo to Vader. I’m saying Vader is (for example) a good villain, and TFA could’ve used another more threatening villain besides Kylo.
Luke doesn’t fail in ESB like you say, he fights hard to overcome his weakness and obstacles, learning about the Force and facing his evil dark side. He faces Vader and is nearly defeated, but he succeds in not giving up to the dark side to save his “moral integrity”. In the end, he wins his battle, even if it’s a bittersweet ending. So no, I don’t think he doesn’t work as a hero, I think he’s actually the perfect hero, since he’s constantly challanged.
Well bringing it back to ESB Luke had absolutely no training in the art of lightsaber combat (which is completely separate from Force training) and was still able to land a strike on one of the best Duelists in Star Wars history. So Finn landing a hit on and injured, pompous and not fully trained Dark Side warrior isn’t a huge stretch.
Vader’s objective wasn’t to defeat Luke, he was only trying to corner him, and Luke only manages to scratch his armor, no even wounding him.
Kylo, on the other hand, was surely trying to kill Finn (not Rey, I get this), had enough knowledge of the Force to freeze him, push him, disarm him and kill him instantly, but nope. Supposing he was reckless as you suggested, it still makes him kind of a fake threat if he doesn’t fully fight once in the movie.
It doesn’t matter, he just doesn’t work as the main villain. As I said, I’m ok with him the way he is, but somone else should’ve played the role of the main villain, someone who could be seen as an actual threat.
If so Luke didn’t work as a hero in ESB.
If you say so. He basically was the incarnation of everything a hero is supposed to be.
adywan said:
So, by your same argument here, vader is a weak and crap villain in the first Star Wars then? Tarkin isn’t the least bit scared of Vader and doesn’t respect his authority either.
With all due respect for your work on ANH, which I liked a lot, I’m not sure we’ve seen the same movie 😄
I don’t remember Tarkin not respecting Vader’s authority. Tarkin is Vader’s boss, that’s for sure, but he always stand together with him (except when Vader is in battle in the end) and always speaks directly to him, respects his decisions and trusts in him. Tarkin may not be scared by Vader (though he does fear he might lose his control), but everyone else in the movie is, especially the main characters. He’s a constant threat, and this is reminded to the viewers too, especially when he kills Luke’s companions one-by-one.