Why hide spoilers when you could have just put a spoiler warning in the title? So now we have a thread full of hidden text.
Anyway...
I liked the movie, it was impressive-looking and all round good but several things bothered me and the more I think about it the more they impact my overall opinion of the movie. Leaving a load of little inconsistencies aside, I really don't like the amount of convenience in the plot. Nearly everything is a "just-so-happens" situation and that's just lazy writing. Speaking of which, just pretty much remaking A New Hope, yeah, pretty lazy. I really liked most of the characters, Finn was a little hard to swallow at the beginning, I mean why he's on that mission at the start when you learn later on what his actual position was. But the worst is Ray who is apparently the best pilot ever, the best fighter ever (with 2 different weapons, one of which she's never used before), the best mechanic ever and I guess
Honestly, she's a character without any fault whose presence and role in the story is yet again a massive, magical convenience. I guess the answer to that is that it's "The will of the force", but in that case; Hey Dark Side, Supreme Leader Snoke, First Order guys... You might want to just give up, the very energy that binds every living thing together in the universe is really really biased against you. Shit, that kind of makes them the under dogs in this story.
Anyway...
I liked the movie, it was impressive-looking and all round good but several things bothered me and the more I think about it the more they impact my overall opinion of the movie. Leaving a load of little inconsistencies aside, I really don't like the amount of convenience in the plot. Nearly everything is a "just-so-happens" situation and that's just lazy writing. Speaking of which, just pretty much remaking A New Hope, yeah, pretty lazy. I really liked most of the characters, Finn was a little hard to swallow at the beginning, I mean why he's on that mission at the start when you learn later on what his actual position was. But the worst is Ray who is apparently the best pilot ever, the best fighter ever (with 2 different weapons, one of which she's never used before), the best mechanic ever and I guess
Honestly, she's a character without any fault whose presence and role in the story is yet again a massive, magical convenience. I guess the answer to that is that it's "The will of the force", but in that case; Hey Dark Side, Supreme Leader Snoke, First Order guys... You might want to just give up, the very energy that binds every living thing together in the universe is really really biased against you. Shit, that kind of makes them the under dogs in this story.
