(January 2, 2016 at 10:11 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: But the character I'm still having the most trouble with is the new #2 bad guy. His light saber dustups with control rooms strikes me as odd. Aren't dark side guys supposed to have all the Jedi training plus a dispassionate something more? He just seems way too emotional and unfocussed to me. But I'm withholding judgement until future episodes backfill his story.
I think this actually works. The Jedi order are gone so the new recruits for Sith Lords are relatively untrained. Kylo Ren is also not fully trained by the dark side either. He's a troubled teenager looking for an answer who has been manipulated by the dark side (analogy for Muslim extremism anyone?). If he had the self control then there wouldn't be a question of whether Leia and Hans Solo could save him.
