Episode VII (spoilers)

[Anomalocaris]

Are you kidding me?
Imagine if she did get beat up by him in that duel.
Can you imagine how the audience would react to a chick getting beat up in the screen?... People would be pissed.. Yeah, explains a lot.

What the fuck are you even talking about. Go take your fake anti-feminist arguments to some other shitcan where people actually care about them.




FNM, "consistency" is apparently relative to viewers of movies (or readers of books). Humans are not consistent, and Kylo is human. He's what happens when someone with daddy and anger issues grows up with a lot of power. He's in control one moment, and not the next, and they all make sense. When he hopped onto Jakku, he was ready for battle. He didn't want to kill Rey - he was fascinated by her from the beginning and wanted to train her. He's not going to just "end" her. I don't think anyone sold him as a bad ass. He's an over-emotional dork with powers too big for his britches.

I mean, really, how the fuck do you think Trump exists.

I would think at this stage of the story arc, it would be better for her to come up with some clever and unexpected way, maybe derived from all the times she had to fend for herself in jakku, to use her new, barely found, powers to escape the powerful but somewhat conceited menace of Kylo ren and leave him bashing his head against trees in frustration, than to implausibly beat him in brute force fight at this point.

So as it is, Episold 8 would have much less drama now that Rey has already beaten ren.    it seems the next two movie would be about a race to see whether Rey can learn faster from Luke than ren can from snoke, since ren and Rey seem more or less equal at the moment.

A much better story would be Kylo ren had a big advantage, and Rey had to work her ass off during the next two movie to overcome the gap and eventually beat both Kylo and snoke face to face during the climax of the third movie.

to make the story really dramatic, snoke should be more powerful than Luke, and Luke should first die, but after more or less completing Rey's training, before Rey finally faces Kylo ren and Snoke in the climax of the trilogy, just like obiwan and yoda had to die before Luke faced the emperor and Vader.   It completes the passing of the torch and get the new generation out from under the shadow of the last.