Seriously, that Zootopia trailer is one of the most excruciating I've had to sit through, to say nothing of the seemingly five minute long trailers for Kung Fu Panda 3, Star Trek, and Warcraft. Star Wars is one of the rare franchises where I just want to *get to the movie* and it's a double whammy when the previews that you don't want to watch in the first place all suck.
Even BvS, Apocalypse, and Civil War are all snoozers at this point.
The ONE halfway entertaining preview (Deadpool) of course has to be the one that's like 30 seconds long.
When I read your post I immediately thought of...
Ugh, and they were like watching the same trailer twice.
Chewie is Kylo's uncle? Now that's a twist!
In the SE Jabba keeps saying to Han, "Han me boukee," (Han my boy) over and over. But if you watch ROTJ Jabba tells Luke "Your mind powers will not work on me BOY." But the "Huttese" he speaks does not end the sentence with "boukee." Just another sloppy ass goof by the Special Editions.
You can (and you actually often doYeah Phantom Menace dared to be different. A battle at the beggining, rescuing a royal damsel in distress, a Force sensitive kid on Tatooine, visiting a hive of scum and villainy and then concluding with an attack on a space station that was destroyed by torpoedoes from a one man fighter. Oh yeah, the mentor Jedi gets killed by a Sith in front of his apprentice. George really stretched himself with that one.
) find vague similarities in themes across movies. I believe you compared Empire to Winter Soldier that way recently? But if you're being honest, it's hard to deny that Lucas was really trying to do something different with the sequels. Sure he included lots of nods and references to the originals. But on balance, those films were meant to reflect a new and different take on Star Wars.The only way you can justify it is by Kylo being wounded, and the fact that he actually wasn't all that well trained. And I think they hinted at that. Yet, when he's in the woods fighting, he doesn't appear overly weak. He tosses Rey into the tree without much effort, for example. And throughout the film, until he meets Rey, he seems fairly competent and in command of his powers. So the only suggestion that he wasn't even fully trained was the cartoon emperor guy saying that he needed to "complete his training." They certainly could have done more to demonstrate why he wasn't dominating Finn, and why he didn't put up more of a fight against Rey IMO. Because I considered the same issues you did here.
I don't think he was toying with her at all. And it doesn't make sense to try and recruit someone by. . .proving that you can out-duel them? It wasn't like Vader, who was trying to recruit Luke to the Dark Side by getting him to embrace his hatred. Interestingly, Rey did seem to get a bit overly aggressive at the end, possibly to the point where she could even kill Kylo. Until the earth rift.
