Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion (SPOILERS)

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Just because I love the movie so much, I will hopefully try to explain certain parts of the movie.

Do not click spoilers if you don't want to be spoilered.

[spoiler]First, Kylo Ren. Imho, he is one of the most complex villains in Star Wars just BECAUSE he isn't a badass. I find it difficult for any new Star Wars villain to be able to outdo Vader and Emperor in terms of who's the bigger badass, so Abrams made a good call and just had Kylo be what Anakin should've been in the prequels. He rarely whines, yet he's clearly conflicted with a lot of things typical of most teenagers. e.g Living up to his parents legacy, potential betrayal of being sent away by his parents, Snoke's promise to give him more power to live up to said legacy, and a whole manner of other things.

I will agree, though, that Kylo Ren removing his mask jarred me a little, though I think that was because he got humanized almost immediately afterwards. I will say again, Kylo isn't an easy character to say as "this" or "this" purely because he's so conflicted with himself.

As for Snoke, I don't really know. However, considering the sources half the stuff of the movie comes from, I would say Snoke is either the Emperor or Darth Plageus, purely because they both make sense.

And I totally believe Rey is the daughter of Luke Skywalker for two reasons. The first is that she's immensely powerful without training with the force. The only other force user in the galaxy with that power is Luke. This is a fact. The second, and the most important reason, is that when Kylo starts force-interrogating Rey, he specifically mentions that she goes to a happy place that had "a huge ocean.... islands." Guess where we find Luke at the end of the movie?

What makes the Solo scene all that harder to bear for me is when I interpret what Ben says as "I don't know if I should kill you or not." instead of "I don't know if I should join the Light Side."

I love pretty much all the characters. Abrams and Kausden did a great job with all of them. I specifically like how the script is great all across the board. I would kill to write dialogue like that.

Yeah, Phasma should've been in the movie a bit more. I hope she doesn't die lamely by being crushed by a fucking trash compacter.

As for the Death Star, I think that ties in to what Star Wars is about: A bildungsroman legacy tale. Seriously, rewatch all of the previous movies front to back. It is astonishing just how many similarities and parallels there are between the prequels and the originals.

Let me list some from the first movie

- Opening starts off with a battle inside a space ship
- Main Jedi character is found on a desert planet
- Main Jedi Character is also missing parents
- Main Jedi Character is a whiny brat at the start of the movie
- Main Jedi Character knows how to pilot some form of a landspeeder
- Main Jedi Character is forced to abandon parent figures to become a Jedi
- Mentor Figure teaches the Main Jedi Character about the force and the Jedi
- Mentor Figure dies to Main Sith while some other character reacts with rage.
- Main Space thingy is destroyed by blowing up some vulnerable part of it by Main Jedi Character

This is just in the FIRST MOVIE. Granted, some of these are kinda grasping at straws, but the parallels are undeniable. I have always viewed Star Wars as being a legacy tale through the Skywalker family, and all that they have done in the galaxy. So there are bound to be similarities.

And yeah. Everything about the movie is awesome.[/spoiler]