(December 20, 2015 at 11:14 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I was totally nonplused by the ease which which rey seem to just master the little bag of force tricks on her own, which devalues quigon, obiwan, yoga, Jedi academy, and Luke. It sort of destroys the Jedi mystique when any force sensitive guttersnipe can beat a supposedly trained knight of ren. Or maybe Luke Skywalker was just such a aweful teacher that Kylo ren was hopeless.
It would have been better if Ren had to really work, step by step, to eventually become a Light side badass, say, by episold 9.
I really think the emotion of having just killed his dad was undersold. In the dialog between ben and han ben says he knows what he should do but doesn't think he can do it. That was an obvious nod to having been order to kill his father by the supreme leader. it wasn't till han struggled with ben for the light saber than ben could harness his hate and kill han.
The good part of ben must have really really been hurting even if the bad part was still able to lash out and fight. I really think kylo was fighting at 50% at best. if you look at episode 3 where vader believed he just killed his wife and kids he drew power from that anger and became more powerful. kylo did not walk down that path, he was faced with explosions and the task to hunt down chewie and rey.
She was at 110% while he was at maybe 50% all from the same act.
While lill miss skywalker seems to be an overly quick study i think their was a reason she was left on that tatooine type of planet for the same unstated reason luke was left on tatooine...
