After the Force Awakens, my biggest problem was that the Hero of the movie was a Female. The poster before me is happy that his daughter gets to see a female being a badass hero, which I think is great as well.....so I got over this in the past 2 years. Because before this movie, the Star Wars universe was dominated by Jedi/Sith who were male...and tbh...male fighters are simply born to be stronger than female fighters....BUT ANYWAY....like I said ... I got over the fact that the movie is trying to be politically correct and for a new audience/generation.
After The Last Jedi, my main problem is that Star Wars isn't really Star Wars anymore. There are no lightsaber battles anymore. None....apparently everyone who knows how to use a lightsaber/control the force is dead other than Kylo Ren and Rey.
They don't show scenes of Kylo being an absolute beast with his lightsaber/force skills and they definitely don't show scenes of Rey doing that....cuz well...Rey for 2 movies now...is just a padawan......
The sith and jedi are masters with such power that they can defeat large groups of people by themselves in battle.....and there are some who are stronger than others....and that was the way of the Star Wars world.
And these two new movies have NONE of that. My favourite scene of Rogue One was when Vader comes and absolutely demolishes everyone at the end. Now all we get in Star Wars movies is people using space pistols and glorified tanks / planes fighting each other.
Then please tell me.....what the **** is the point of Star Wars??? This is so bloody frustrating. It's a disgrace to the franchise. You go into the movie hoping to see some badass force usage....Kylo Ren mowing down 20-25 people using his Lightsaber and the force.....and you get absolutely peanuts. You get Poe destroying an entire ship by himself pretty much. Some chick dropping bombs.
The clone wars/rebels cartoons are way better. /end rant.
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Honestly...they should have started this trilogy by Luke Skywalker rebuilding the Jedi Temple and taking control of the Galaxy once more.....and built Kylo Ren as a Jedi who had defected and was Snoke's apprentice....but still....the Jedi were resurgent and back in control...
and they should have taken it from there.....
This whole Rebel vs First Order nonsense is getting tiresome. They screwed up the potential of a new trilogy so badly.
It's such a huge miss in terms of storyline because now you just get to see a bunch of average humans just not on Earth.....seriously ..... the only thing unique about these movies are the fact that they dont take place on Earth.
I explained my problem with the female lead in my first rant post but I guess people just want to take things out of context.
The problem with a female lead is this - the Star Wars universe was male-dominated. One of my favorite characters in the entire universe is Ahsoka Tano but nowhere was it referenced that she was the most powerful force-user/lightsaber duelist around. We were always shown males like Yoda, Obi-Wan, Mace Windu, Anakin/Vader, Luke, Sidious as the strongest force users.
It's basically what has been presented to me over the past however many years I've been watching Star Wars related stuff. It's their own fault.
To be honest - the major reason why there is a female lead has to do with marketing. Disney wanted a female lead so they would get more girls/women to go watch the movie or being interested in it. It's a money move.
As for the actor, Daisey Ridley, does a great job playing Rey. And as I said previously, I don't have an issue with her character at all - I have a much bigger issue being that the storyline sucks, and that's a personal opinion, but a lot of people in my circle have the same feelings. They don't think the story arc is that good. It's very much below-average.
There's so much wrong here it's hard to figure out where to start. But let's begin.
male fighters are simply born to be stronger than female fighters
Christ. This crap. Let's avoid the rampant sexism for a hot minute but let's focus on who the "fighters" are in Star Wars. The Jedi do not rely exclusively on physical strength and a lithe, agile Jedi is just as deadly as a muscle-bound powerful one. "Judge me by my size, do you?" Yoda, a 2'2", 875 year old creature who weighs less than 40 pounds is the strongest Jedi of all time at the time of the Great Jedi Purge and could easily handle opponents 3 times his size. If that's believable why not a woman at peak physical condition? After all, Yoda's strength had nothing to do with his size but his mastery of his combat style and the Force. As others have pointed out there's been numerous powerful women who are Force wielders, including some portrayed in the prequels and extended universe.
And these two new movies have NONE of that.
And the original trilogy had none of that either. You had Obi-Wan and Yoda who were old men, a half-trained (at best) Luke, and Vader. The first lightsaber battle we see in the original
Star Wars moves at a positively geriatric pace. That's probably one of the things that prequel trilogy did well was to show the Jedi at the height of their power. Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan versus Maul was literally like nothing we'd seen before and it wasn't just because of Maul's double-bladed lightsaber, it was because there was actual flow to the combat to the point where it was an artform. In canon, you lose that with the Great Jedi Purge.
As for badass use of the Force, well, there's really not much of that in the original trilogy either, especially compared to what's in the Expanded Universe. Offhand, in
Star Wars you have Obi-Wan use Jedi mind tricks and Vader use Force choke. In
Empire Strikes Back you see Luke and Vader both manipulate objects via the Force (telekinesis/Force pull/Force push) and Vader use Force choke. In
Return of the Jedi, you see Luke use Jedi mind tricks and Force choke and Palpatine use Force lightning. So that's what, four powers through three movies? Well gee, what the **** is the point of Star Wars?
It's such a huge miss in terms of storyline because now you just get to see a bunch of average humans just not on Earth.....seriously ..... the only thing unique about these movies are the fact that they dont take place on Earth.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record...that's essentially what the original trilogy was as well and one of the biggest knocks on the prequels (aside from the writing) was the heavy reliance on CGI to make it more than "a bunch of average humans just not on Earth." Even still, you essentially have only one non-human character as a main character (Jar Jar in the prequels, Chewie in the original and sequel trilogy).
The problem with a female lead is this - the Star Wars universe was male-dominated.
Was it? Or was that just your perception of it? Which protagonist in the original trilogy do we first see being a bad ass? Leia and throughout Leia's a strong character who'll willingly pick up a blaster rifle and kick ass. Likewise for Padme in the prequels. Likewise for Jyn in
Rogue One. The Rebellion? One of the key leaders is a woman, Mon Mothma. In the prequels we see female Jedi like Luminara Unduli, Barris Offee, and again, as others have pointed out various expansions into the franchise have given us female Force users like Asajj Ventress, Ahsoka Tano, Kreia/DarthTraya (who led the Sith Troika in
KOTOR 2), Meetra Surik, Bastila Shan, (who was considered one of the strongest Jedi of her era evan as a Padawan) and Satele Shan (who was Grand Master of the Order) and a host of others. Your ignorance of the Universe at large is your problem, not Rey as the Force-wielding protagonist of this trilogy.
We both agreed that if you read all the fan specualtions before the movie and thought some of them might be accurate, you'd be disappointed by the movie. Both of us LOVED that none of the fan speculations were correct and liked that the director basically took a huge dump on them. Just when you thought that the movie would have gone in an expected direction, it pulled a 180. Just when you think that Kylo was going turn face, he doesn't, because he's a power hungry dick. Though it does sort of wipe out a lot of the past, like Kylo, it leaves so much stuff wide open. We're heading into comletely undiscovered territory with Episode 9 and love it. Internet will be pissed that there's very little they can speculate and once again, I love it. 
