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All the stuff Pretsor Jon explained about Saw Gerrara may be true (I honestly don't know) but that stuff certainly isn't in R1. In R1, he is an incoherent tertiary element; maybe the remains of an earlier, better script.


Not an earlier script I think. Just a tie in to the rest of the post Disney canon. Saw is a character who first appeared as a rebel on Onderon being trained in insurgency tactics by Ashoka Tano during the the Clone Wars (Season 5 of the tv series). He was a teenager in that series, and notably more aggressive and gung-ho than his fellows, and becomes more so following the end of the episode(s) on Onderon. Presumably he went on to have a very prolific career as a rebel, first against the Confederacy and then against the Galactic Empire. By the time he reappears in the third season of Star Wars: Rebels, he is already seen as too extreme by Mon Motha and Bail Organa, and earns the ire of the main characters of the series for his merrily violent approach.

Saw is a throw away side character in Clone Wars, but interesting enough. R1 then killed him off, and in Rebels he's just the darker and edgier version of the good guys who is so over the top violent he is very dull.

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He's in Rebels as well.

Cameo appearance in season 3, and more to come in season 4.

He's a necessary backdrop to show the origins of the Rebellion. Rather than a single glorious morality, it's instead fragmented and only loosely aligned at first. Individual cells doing what they can, rather than something properly organised.

   
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I figured he was coming back, but honestly his character is the kind that Star Wars continually gets wrong. Star Wars keeps trying to insert morally grey elements into its story but is either unwilling or written by people incapable of actually pulling it off. A moral gray when not effectively distinguished is just another shade of black/white. When he appeared in a two parter in Rebels he was just another mustache twirling douche doing stuff "fur the goodz (aka evilz)" and to provide a pointless and cartoony contrast to the main characters who are otherwise completely okay with terrorism and casual violence except when the plot demands that they oppose terrorism and casual violence to make some obscure moral statement to the audience that will quickly be forgotten and likely never brought up again and sure enough the two episodes later we have an arc filled with casual violence and overthrowing the evil government by force so...

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FWIW it was pretty ballsy that Mon Mothma insisted on (largely) disarming the New Republic. However, I get the impression this had more to do with the need for the First Order to be a threat.

   
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That doesn't make sense though. Wouldn't the Rebel Alliance become the New Republic after their victory, and as such provide most of the military? That's how revolutions work. You don't stay a rebel after overthrowing the government, you become the government.
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That's why I find it stupid that the Resistance is called the Resistance. What are they resisting exactly? The First Order? Imperial Remnant groups? Okay so they aren't part of the New Republic officially I can buy into that, but wouldn't that just make them like the French Foreign Legion or something? It was weird that they carried over all the trappings of the rebellion into the new series, when presumably they weren't rebelling against anyone but engaging in open military action against another non-state actor.

And yes. I find Mon Motha disarming the new republic to be a really forced aspect of the plot. Mon Motha was peaceful, and desired no violence but she wasn't a damn idiot. Anyone with a brain could have pointed out that defeating the Empire at Jakku would never be the end of it. Of course that's all kind of paltry since this is Star Wars and the winners are the ones with super weapons/force (plot) armor.

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The New Republic disclaims any connection to the Resistance because it would violate the treaty with the Empire. The First Order believes that the New Republic secretly funds the Resistance to basically continue the war under the cover of magnanimity. In reality, certain Rebel hardliners could not let go of the war and formed an illegal paramilitary organization to continue it. The rationalization was, the Empire will always be a threat. That doesn't seem to be true, however. The Empire is not the First Order. The First Order is perforce as much at war with the Empire as it is with the New Republic. From its POV, there is no distinction between the NR and the Resistance.

   
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Mon Mothma made a point of disarming, lest the New Republic be seen as The Empire in all but name.

They retained a smaller, but still powerful Navy. Enough to put-muscle a given system's defences, but not large enough to impose rule. Not far off the division of Legions into Chapters in 40k.

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Nope. Movies should include the details necessary to understand them. SW has always done this "open the book to the middle" in media res trick but TFA is doing a different schtick, much more like arc-driven TV where important information is deliberately left out so that you get trapped in an investment sink.

   
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Am I alone in thinking Kylo is an incredibly lame character. Also with a lot of really inconsistent power levels?

First Scene of TFA he literally stops a blaster shot and holds it in place like Neo from the matrix(something weve never seen a force user do...not yoda...not wendu...not obiwan) - then later in the movie he gets beat by a girl with no force training. Supposedly this guy killed all of Lukes trainies or whatever you call them. Plus his scar looks freaking terrible - I have no idea how this makes it to the screen with such a huge budget. In any case - Kylo sucks IMO.

It's also really sad that we already know everything that's going to happen. Kylo is going to kill leia. Hes going to kill luke. Rey fights Kylo to a draw...again. About the only element of mystery and literally the only thing was interested in...Snoke. Who and what is he. Is he Plaugis? I sure hope so.

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Kylo is certainly lame. But he is not a lame character, if you see what I mean. In other words, he is not just a one dimensional bad guy like ANH Vader. He wants to be that kind of guy but he just isn't, precisely because he is a three-dimensional person with conflicting values and feelings. If you take a closer look at TFA, you'll notice he is pretty powerful until/unless he sort of realizes he's not the guy he wishes he was. BTW, this isn't even subtext. Rey explicitly spells this out in her interrogation scene, when overpowering his mind probe.

   
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I think the only issue with Kylo is that he is played by a gangly looking guy with long black hair. He just comes off as something of a stereotype when you look at him, and it distracts from the underlying dimensions of his character. I think he would have screened better with a slightly more muscular build (you know, as if he were well trained and conditioned physically) and a shorter haircut.

   
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Kylo Ren is a great metaphor for (post-) modern consumption. He is what a powerless person thinks a powerful person is.

He is essentially always trying to live his facebook persona and garner as many likes as he can. However, he can't pull it off 24/7 and he can't handle the fact that is Social Media persona and his real persona are not the same. When you get to meet his real persona people are much less impressed.

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 Manchu wrote:
Kylo is certainly lame. But he is not a lame character, if you see what I mean. In other words, he is not just a one dimensional bad guy like ANH Vader. He wants to be that kind of guy but he just isn't, precisely because he is a three-dimensional person with conflicting values and feelings. If you take a closer look at TFA, you'll notice he is pretty powerful until/unless he sort of realizes he's not the guy he wishes he was. BTW, this isn't even subtext. Rey explicitly spells this out in her interrogation scene, when overpowering his mind probe.


That scene where she just magically became a great jedi with no practice pissed me off to no end.

"Oh i'm just going to use jedi mind trick now. A power btw which took luke 3 films to finally accomplish and obi wan kenobi years to do. However because i'm rei (a mary sue with no experience) i get it done within a minute. I didn't even know mind trick was a thing before i did it."

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Did you guys see the same movies I did? Both TFA and R1 are pretty good. They have some flaws, but so does the original trilogy.

And BTW, Rey didn't beat Kylo. The near fatal blow from Chewie's bowcaster beat Kylo. Finn and Rey just got lucky.
Also, Kylo likely knows who Rey is and (just like Vader in ESB) wasn't actually trying to kill his opponent.

Also, Kylo only has the lineage of 1 Jedi, but has been diluted not once (Padme), but twice (Han) by non-force users.
Rey might have the lineage of 2 Jedi. She could be Luke's daughter AND Obi-wan's granddaughter, and be a reincarnation of some ancient force user. So, yeah, as Mary Sue as you can get, but her power makes sense in the context of that heritage. If that is who she is, anyway (fingers crossed)

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 Manchu wrote:
FWIW it was pretty ballsy that Mon Mothma insisted on (largely) disarming the New Republic. However, I get the impression this had more to do with the need for the First Order to be a threat.


The First Order are clearly a threat even if the NR didn't disarm. The standard ship in their fleet has the truly obscene (combined officer/enilsted) crew requirement of of 74,000. They expect us to believe that a "Remnants Group" considered a joke by the Republic can field mulitple of those ships, plus bog standard Imperial SDs, escorts and 60km Wide Star Destroyer, plus Star Killer Base and who knows how many Stormtroopers that arent Clones. Seriously? New Republic got what it deserved when SKB took out their capital if they are dumb enough to think these people aren't a threat.

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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 Manchu wrote:
FWIW it was pretty ballsy that Mon Mothma insisted on (largely) disarming the New Republic. However, I get the impression this had more to do with the need for the First Order to be a threat.


The First Order are clearly a threat even if the NR didn't disarm. The standard ship in their fleet has the truly obscene (combined officer/enilsted) crew requirement of of 74,000. They expect us to believe that a "Remnants Group" considered a joke by the Republic can field mulitple of those ships, plus bog standard Imperial SDs, escorts and 60km Wide Star Destroyer, plus Star Killer Base and who knows how many Stormtroopers that arent Clones. Seriously? New Republic got what it deserved when SKB took out their capital if they are dumb enough to think these people aren't a threat.


Well, to be fair, in a galaxy of planets 74,000 people is like the head of a pin.

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 Easy E wrote:
 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 Manchu wrote:
FWIW it was pretty ballsy that Mon Mothma insisted on (largely) disarming the New Republic. However, I get the impression this had more to do with the need for the First Order to be a threat.


The First Order are clearly a threat even if the NR didn't disarm. The standard ship in their fleet has the truly obscene (combined officer/enilsted) crew requirement of of 74,000. They expect us to believe that a "Remnants Group" considered a joke by the Republic can field mulitple of those ships, plus bog standard Imperial SDs, escorts and 60km Wide Star Destroyer, plus Star Killer Base and who knows how many Stormtroopers that arent Clones. Seriously? New Republic got what it deserved when SKB took out their capital if they are dumb enough to think these people aren't a threat.


Well, to be fair, in a galaxy of planets 74,000 people is like the head of a pin.


Yeah, but if a Miltiary group starts putting 74,000 people at a time into its Navy you think someone somewhere would notice. There are Three known Resurgent-Class Star Destroyers, the Absolution, the Finalizer, and the Subjugator. Plus we could make the assumption that they have a lead ship of the class, the Resurgent. That's almost Three hundred thousand servicemen in four ships, plus a further Thirty-two thousand in their Stormtrooper complement. Four ships in their whole navy have roughly under a third of the initial size of the Grand Army of the Republic! Then there's all the other ships they have, and I can tell you now that Mega-Class Super Star Destroyer will have a truly massive number of crew and stormtroopers. Plus how many Stormtrooper units not on ships? How many TIE Squadrons not on ships? That kind of build up should not have been missed by the Republic, unless they were willfully stupid.

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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 Easy E wrote:
 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 Manchu wrote:
FWIW it was pretty ballsy that Mon Mothma insisted on (largely) disarming the New Republic. However, I get the impression this had more to do with the need for the First Order to be a threat.


The First Order are clearly a threat even if the NR didn't disarm. The standard ship in their fleet has the truly obscene (combined officer/enilsted) crew requirement of of 74,000. They expect us to believe that a "Remnants Group" considered a joke by the Republic can field mulitple of those ships, plus bog standard Imperial SDs, escorts and 60km Wide Star Destroyer, plus Star Killer Base and who knows how many Stormtroopers that arent Clones. Seriously? New Republic got what it deserved when SKB took out their capital if they are dumb enough to think these people aren't a threat.


Well, to be fair, in a galaxy of planets 74,000 people is like the head of a pin.


Yeah, but if a Miltiary group starts putting 74,000 people at a time into its Navy you think someone somewhere would notice. There are Three known Resurgent-Class Star Destroyers, the Absolution, the Finalizer, and the Subjugator. Plus we could make the assumption that they have a lead ship of the class, the Resurgent. That's almost Three hundred thousand servicemen in four ships, plus a further Thirty-two thousand in their Stormtrooper complement. Four ships in their whole navy have roughly a quarter of the initial size of the Grand Army of the Republic! Then there's all the other ships they have, and I can tell you now that Mega-Class Super Star Destroyer will have a truly massive number of crew and stormtroopers. Plus how many Stormtrooper units not on ships? How many TIE Squadrons not on ships? That kind of build up should not have been missed by the Republic, unless they were willfully stupid.


You would scarcely notice that number of people missing from Earth never mind a galaxy spanning empire. How many planets is the Empire / republic supposed to consist of (as opposed to the half dozen we keep seeing on screen?) I assume its a lot.

Sounds like SW has the same scale issues as GW

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I think what he is saying is that these are massive ships, requiring vast resources to build, resources even the Empire did not employ.

Its part of the problem. These guys appear from nowhere. On the flipside, if they can hide out and build such things under the radar, couldn't the Galactic Republic also quickly build a substantial fleet and blow them off the map? After all, this is equivalent to the Nazis re-appearing in 1965. Wouldn't the rest of Europe (Galaxy) realize the threat (after the attack) and unleash wholesale ass kicking?

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 Mr Morden wrote:
 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 Easy E wrote:
 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 Manchu wrote:
FWIW it was pretty ballsy that Mon Mothma insisted on (largely) disarming the New Republic. However, I get the impression this had more to do with the need for the First Order to be a threat.


The First Order are clearly a threat even if the NR didn't disarm. The standard ship in their fleet has the truly obscene (combined officer/enilsted) crew requirement of of 74,000. They expect us to believe that a "Remnants Group" considered a joke by the Republic can field mulitple of those ships, plus bog standard Imperial SDs, escorts and 60km Wide Star Destroyer, plus Star Killer Base and who knows how many Stormtroopers that arent Clones. Seriously? New Republic got what it deserved when SKB took out their capital if they are dumb enough to think these people aren't a threat.


Well, to be fair, in a galaxy of planets 74,000 people is like the head of a pin.


Yeah, but if a Miltiary group starts putting 74,000 people at a time into its Navy you think someone somewhere would notice. There are Three known Resurgent-Class Star Destroyers, the Absolution, the Finalizer, and the Subjugator. Plus we could make the assumption that they have a lead ship of the class, the Resurgent. That's almost Three hundred thousand servicemen in four ships, plus a further Thirty-two thousand in their Stormtrooper complement. Four ships in their whole navy have roughly a quarter of the initial size of the Grand Army of the Republic! Then there's all the other ships they have, and I can tell you now that Mega-Class Super Star Destroyer will have a truly massive number of crew and stormtroopers. Plus how many Stormtrooper units not on ships? How many TIE Squadrons not on ships? That kind of build up should not have been missed by the Republic, unless they were willfully stupid.


You would scarcely notice that number of people missing from Earth never mind a galaxy spanning empire. How many planets is the Empire / republic supposed to consist of (as opposed to the half dozen we keep seeing on screen?) I assume its a lot.

Sounds like SW has the same scale issues as GW


You'd notice it, if you were watching for military build ups, which you think they would be. 328,000 men alone for those ships, might slip through, but it still takes effort move those people even in SW. Even then you'd still have Star Killer Base (assuming it wasnt built way earlier) and the Mega-Class thats not something that would be easy to miss if you were looking. And as I said the entire rest of the FO Military, you know an organization sane people would keep a close eye on.

But yes, SW numbers have always irked me. Particularly in crew sizes.

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Let's not get into how they "secretly" built Star Killer Base then.

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Let's not get into how they "secretly" built Star Killer Base then.

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SW is about themes, not stats.

ANH opens with tiny ship versus giant ship. Later on, people working on licensed products made up numbers of crewmen for those vessels. Frankly, those numbers just don't matter. What matters is, the bad guys have overwhelming power relative to the good guys.

Granted, in their hamfisted attempt to remake ANH, Disney fails to adequately explain why the bad guys - despite having been defeated in the past - still have overwhelming(ish) power relative to the good guys.* To figure it out, we have to look to licensed products, such as DK visual dictionaries and novels. It's at that point that we start dealing with fan-fiction-esque figures and stats, which is where SW tends to unravel.

So the real question is, what does the FO represent thematically? It's not really important to the story of the movie that the FO is some kind of obscure splinter faction. What does matter is, the FO is made up of zealous hardliners trying to recover the glory of the Empire we saw in the OT. And the movie effectively conveys that.

TFA also effectively conveys that the Resistance is a tiny group committed to thwarting the FO despite the larger indifference of galactic society. (OK ... well that last part is irritatingly hazy.) "Why doesn't the New Republic do something?" is an interesting question but the answer is not necessary to understand TFA.

*Note - we never ask why the Empire is so powerful to begin with to understand ANH.

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SW is about themes, not stats.

ANH opens with tiny ship versus giant ship. Later on, people working on licensed products made up numbers of crewmen for those vessels. Frankly, those numbers just don't matter. What matters is, the bad guys have overwhelming power relative to the good guys.

Granted, in their hamfisted attempt to remake ANH, Disney fails to adequately explain why the bad guys - despite having been defeated in the past - still have overwhelming(ish) power relative to the good guys.* To figure it out, we have to look to licensed products, such as DK visual dictionaries and novels. It's at that point that we start dealing with fan-fiction-esque figures and stats, which is where SW tends to unravel.

So the real question is, what does the FO represent thematically? It's not really important to the story of the movie that the FO is some kind of obscure splinter faction. What does matter is, the FO is made up of zealous hardliners trying to recover the glory of the Empire we saw in the OT. And the movie effectively conveys that.

TFA also effectively conveys that the Resistance is a tiny group committed to thwarting the FO despite the larger indifference of galactic society. (OK ... well that last part is irritatingly hazy.) "Why doesn't the New Republic do something?" is an interesting question but the answer is not necessary to understand TFA.

*Note - we never ask why the Empire is so powerful to begin with to understand ANH.


I never asked why they were more powerful because they adequately imply why with the simple fact its called The Galactic Empire and they are fighting a group called The Rebel Alliance.

For the First Order and Resistance, its different. The Rebels won, we saw that, and we are told that. We are also told Leia leads a Resistance, for some reason, against this First Order. All we know about the First Order is apparently they come from the Ashes of the Empire and want to kill Luke.Sure, From the Ashes, could mean they are a big group. So I guess they could from the implications of just the films be rather large.

It doesn't, if i remember right, explain why they need a "Resistance" against the dudes just sitting out there. You won, what are you a Resistance against? Why aren't you some kind of Peace Keeping Force? You know some official group. I guess they really just needed more parallels to Episode IV.
   
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I don't think the storyline makes any sense. They blow up the New Republic Leadership and part of its fleet. Why is nobody except the Resistance fighting the First Order? Surely everyone in the Galaxy should be setting a new government and mobilising to fight the First Order? If they aren't, well, that's a major plot point that needs to be addressed. Currently I would be forgiven for thinking the rebellion never won the Galactic Civil War. They control all of the former territory of the Galactic Empire, including the Core Worlds and big ship yards like Mon Calamari. All the alien races and all the former rebels WILL oppose the return of the Empire. Why is are the only people fighting the First Order limited to a handful of ships with Leia? To me this just seems like a half baked plot to force the story to regress back into the conflict of the original trilogy, only without bothering to explain that the First Order, apparently magically conquered the whole galaxy and exterminated every alien race and former rebel in it without anyone noticing...




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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
 Manchu wrote:
SW is about themes, not stats.

ANH opens with tiny ship versus giant ship. Later on, people working on licensed products made up numbers of crewmen for those vessels. Frankly, those numbers just don't matter. What matters is, the bad guys have overwhelming power relative to the good guys.

Granted, in their hamfisted attempt to remake ANH, Disney fails to adequately explain why the bad guys - despite having been defeated in the past - still have overwhelming(ish) power relative to the good guys.* To figure it out, we have to look to licensed products, such as DK visual dictionaries and novels. It's at that point that we start dealing with fan-fiction-esque figures and stats, which is where SW tends to unravel.

So the real question is, what does the FO represent thematically? It's not really important to the story of the movie that the FO is some kind of obscure splinter faction. What does matter is, the FO is made up of zealous hardliners trying to recover the glory of the Empire we saw in the OT. And the movie effectively conveys that.

TFA also effectively conveys that the Resistance is a tiny group committed to thwarting the FO despite the larger indifference of galactic society. (OK ... well that last part is irritatingly hazy.) "Why doesn't the New Republic do something?" is an interesting question but the answer is not necessary to understand TFA.

*Note - we never ask why the Empire is so powerful to begin with to understand ANH.


I never asked why they were more powerful because they adequately imply why with the simple fact its called The Galactic Empire and they are fighting a group called The Rebel Alliance.

For the First Order and Resistance, its different. The Rebels won, we saw that, and we are told that. We are also told Leia leads a Resistance, for some reason, against this First Order. All we know about the First Order is apparently they come from the Ashes of the Empire and want to kill Luke.Sure, From the Ashes, could mean they are a big group. So I guess they could from the implications of just the films be rather large.

It doesn't, if i remember right, explain why they need a "Resistance" against the dudes just sitting out there. You won, what are you a Resistance against? Why aren't you some kind of Peace Keeping Force? You know some official group. I guess they really just needed more parallels to Episode IV.


You're absolutely right. The name makes no sense. In WW2 you had the "French Resistance" but this referred to partisan guerrillas and it was what the allies called a broad swathe of Communist and Democratic groups with their own names. Plus, France fell. In Star Wars we are told the government and fleet gets blown up. But, who cares? Just get more senators from the millions of worlds in the galaxy that are part of the republic, meet, start churning out ships and conscripting trillions of soldiers. In the EU, when they lose half the galaxy and lose Coruscant...a far more horrific blow than what the Frist Order inflicts with Star Killer Base, the government simply reforms as the Galactic Alliance. Really, that is what should logically happen. Either another Senate of the New Republic is formed or a Galactic Alliance set up to oppose the First Order. They should not be calling themselves the resistance unless the government has fallen.

Even then the analogy falls flat because the Rebels had a senate; we see them in Rogue One. The rebels full title was "The Rebel Alliance for the Restoration of the Republic". In other words the rebels had a government and were in effect the Republic; they only declared themselves to be the legitimate government after Endor but this was basically a formality. So really the Resistence should have its own Senate, like the one we see in Rogue One and they should be aiming to restore the New Republic. But then if they have an exile government and still control most of the galaxy...why would you stop calling yourselves the New Republic? Doesn't that concede that you are no longer the legitimate government?

Basically its JJ Abrams being a terrible story teller. He has clearly given absolutely no thought to this beyond, "lets give the rebels a new name" and completely ignored the implications of the ending of Return of the Jedi and wondered about how events would play out. He wants the small band of fighters and the huge Empire; problems like ignoring the rebel victory in Return of the Jedi get in the way of that. He was a terrible choice of director. Visually he is great. But the man is a terrible story teller and world builder. I mean he introduces the New Republic and blows it up in the space of five minutes. I mean the whole state of the galaxy, what is supposed to be at stake in a STAR WARS film, is completely confusing and poorly explained. You would be forgiven for thinking the rebels had never won until Hux gives his speech.


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 Easy E wrote:
Kylo Ren is a great metaphor for (post-) modern consumption. He is what a powerless person thinks a powerful person is.

He is essentially always trying to live his facebook persona and garner as many likes as he can. However, he can't pull it off 24/7 and he can't handle the fact that is Social Media persona and his real persona are not the same. When you get to meet his real persona people are much less impressed.


I think you're thinking too hard about it. He's a bratty kid, and that's all.
There isn't any real indication of a persona (or, sadly, a personality) or wanting to be 'liked.' He's just a bad kid with a crappy teacher (well, a crappy teacher and a shadowy figure who is a malevolent teacher, presumably) and crappy parents (who apparently shuffled him off to his uncle/teacher and declined to do anything about his attitude problems because The Force isn't their business).


Totalwar1402 wrote:Visually he is great.

Visually, he's a muppet, with no understanding of simple concepts like 'time' and 'distance.' Which is how we end up watching characters see a planet explode inside another star system as it happens (with an interstellar cannon which somehow eats a sun as ammo), and why galaxy wide communications are suddenly instantaneous.
And he simply copies scenes nonsensically, which is why the asteroid chase scene from Empire is a stupid CGI fest inside a star destroyer on not!Tatooine.

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I think Easy E is spot-on. Kylo wishes he was Darth Vader. This is not just some personal theory. Rey figures this out in the movie and brings it up to him.

   
 
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