George Lucas Was Right About the Star Wars Fanbase

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I hated the film, a few good moments, jumping to hyperspace through the first order ships being the standout moment.

But loads of stuff to dislike, the plotline very much followed empire, start off with rebels hurriedly evacuating a base on a snowy world, just making it away as star destroyers close in with individual pilots bravery being the sole reason for escape, there is the closest thing you can get to a training montage without the cheese, then the lead hero (Rey) boards an enemy stronghold before finding themselves at the mercy of the big baddie, followed by a parental revelation (that sucked and doesn't fit with lucas' "the main films are the story of the Skywalker family") luckily there was no dismemberment this time..

And then we end it with a hoth style assault on a rebel base like the only way they have managed to differentiate it is to split the hoth remake between the start and end of the film.

Which of course is followed by the shitty ending with Luke..

Luke whose most notable moments in the film are: milking an alien cow, a lame shoulder brush with his force projection and appearing to die at the end.

Poe is meant to be a resistance hero, kicks ass at the start, then spends the rest of the film messing up and being chastised by powerful women for his boyish foolishness, even though his decisions are the most apparent solution, and no one actually tells such an integral rebel ANYTHING..

Finn might as well have not been in the film, ridiculous side story, his much talked up battle with phasma was terrible.

Bb8 is ridiculous at the start, an astromech Droid, in a tension building scene being used as comic relief by frying its own head... Then turning in to a glorified coin dispenser, who installed that feature?!?

Leia had an awesome moment to be killed off given the sad demise of fisher, instead she turns full blown space wizard and Flys back to the ship on her invisible broomstick while reaching for the golden snitch..

Chewy is used as a vehicle to kick down a door and roar at some stupid little creatures that resemble bug eyed cavalier king Charles spaniels.

No reveal on who snoke is, I can forgive one "well the big reveal is a disappointment on purpose" but not two, or rather the absence of any payoff, and I don't buy the directors (the emperor wasn't revealed in empire) because of course he wasn't, we didn't need backstop for him then, he had just arrived, in a second film.. They told us in TFA that snoke has always been around and was manipulating Palpatine FFS, there's quite a difference of importance, including 7 films vs 1...

The only other high point of the film and the only real story is the development between Rey and Kylo, and it was basically a film reduced down, that was about an angsty emo teen being in to a girl..

Also the lightsaber battle was cool..

Terrible film, no story progression (in terms of the film length) plot holes, unresolved questions from 7 and more loose ends, while also completely negating and ruining the iconic Character of the series by turning him in to a fauna abusing grumpy hermit, completely against the character of the old Luke who spent three films trying to reignite the spark of good in his father, only to try and kill his nephew for seeing the possibility of him going to the dark side