| NightDragon83 said: It's hilarious how in TLJ they attempt to pass Rey off as "nobody special" after 2 movies of her character basically being a Super Saiyan Mary Sue and presumed to be the next in a long line of Jedi masters or related to one a la Kenobi or Skywalker. Apparently it's now the case that literally any one can be a Jedi or wield the Force, yet somehow in a universe of billions they're down to the LAST Jedi already. Kinda ruins the whole significance of Luke / Vader in the original trilogy and thus the entire point of the Star Wars universe's general storyline, doesn't it? It's amazing how just a couple short years ago everyone (including myself) was hyped to the max for a new Star Wars trilogy that could give new life to the franchise and erase the bad taste left by the Prequels, yet here we are with 3 films in 3 years, and I couldn't care less about any of the upcoming SW films. The Han / Obi Wan standalone films are almost guaranteed to suck, and I now have zero interest in the conclusion of the new trilogy with Episode IX. Even with the terrible prequels I was still pretty excited for their conclusion when Episode III came out, which tells you just how bad Disney and Co have run this franchise into the ground already. |
I liked that actually.
And who says random people couldn't be Jedi ... there's like 500+ Jedi in the prequels ... all of them somehow came from "noble/Force owner/exclusive club" families? When was that ever established as canon?
I always thought the Force just randomly (or in some cases specifically) was more abundant in some people than others with genetics playing one part but not the entire part. And there are Force sensitive people all over the place.
Otherwise does that mean Palpatine's parents were super-duper Force users too? And his grandparents? And so on and so on?
I took it like real life ... a kid can be born in Alaska to unremarkable parents but have tremendous/genius level ability in say playing the piano. Or being a hockey player. Or painting. Child prodigies.
I think saying "hey you're Rey Skywalker" would've been a bit of a cheap cop out, it wraps everything up in a neat package and does all the work for her. As a random she has to now struggle to define what she stands for, she can't have Luke or some unearned bloodline do it for her. It broadens the universe too, not everything needs to revolve around the Skywalkers, especially when half of them seem to be full blown assholes.
For a "Mary Sue" she sure does fail quite a bit in TLJ too ... she fails to turn Kylo Ren and is tricked by Snoke into the mind link. Kylo bails her out of that situation. She fails to win Luke over or get him to come back, R2-D2 and Yoda are the ones that causes Luke to come back, not Rey.
