J.J. Abrams responds to criticism over TFA being a rip-off of A New Hope

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

sabvre42 said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

I posted NC because he made a good point at the end, I disagree with his entire review.

The originals, the prequels, and the new trilogy are obviously coming in at different eras and different circumstances. Who the fuck cares that it was like the old ones, the last move came out a decade ago, the first one came out 4 decades ago. It's basically a reboot rather than a continuation anyway. Cause Star Wars isn't aimed for just those who watched the previous ones. After the prequels, how is playing it safe unreasonable? Please. And FYI, I've never complained about remakes, not even TLOU RE. Yeah story wise it was weak, but it had better acting then prequels and better effects than the original.

 

You keep saying Rey mastered the force, when all she did was beat a wounded sith in training who got shot by a laser cannon and was already established as being weak in the force.

You're exaggerating how proficient she is, she stopped Kylo on accident, neither of them knew she had the force, so Kylo didn't expect any kind of resitance.

I conceded that there was some lazy writing, but your acting like its was impossible for Rey to display any of the force power just because she wasn't trained.

Kylo, while being an emo pussy bitch -- was NOT weak in the force.

He singlehandedly caused Luke to exile himself due to whatever terrible shit he did; as well as was able to stop and hold a blaster projectile mid air for several minutes while continueing to carry on other conversations.

People KEEP saying that Ren is obviously Luke Skywalker's daughter... while if thats true and for some stupid reason the cause of her force affinity... then Kylo should be JUST as strong. Both are 1/4 Anakin.

But i mean ... lets totally forget the whole part about Kylo being trained by Luke (and not being abandoned on a desert planet) before being trained by a sith lord for multiple years.

Luke quit because Kylo killed all the other padawans iirc and b/c he couldn't stop Kylo from joining the dark side, not just because Kylo was super strong. Kylo however was insecure about his power, that's why he had the heart to heart with Vader, and what Rey read when she read his mind.

That being said even if we consider the possiblility that they are equal, what occurred in the move made sense after all. Kylo was shot by a laser cannon right before they fought, everyone who says its impossible for Rey to beat Kylo seems to forget that.

Kylo had displayed what force mastery looks like from the very beginning of the movie, all Rey did in terms of Jedi Feats is beat a wounded sith in a force duel and beat an unfocused sith in mind reading.