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Message: [QUOTE="junglehusky, post: 1515310, member: 61"] My thought when I walked out of the theater... "The force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. ... My sister has it." Why isn't Leia a Jedi? or at least displaying some force abilities beyond knowing when Han was killed? I agree that Han's fate was sealed the moment they mentioned that Kylo was his offspring. Although - having Han and Leia not live happily ever after, and meeting as old folks with a past added (I thought) a good, adult element to the script. I didn't mind the similarity to A New Hope too much. Sure, there are call-backs from Jakku being very Tatooine-like, leaving the desert planet in the Falcon, sneaking around the Imperial military installation without being detected. But it didn't feel like re-hashing to me. Ren killing Han felt completely different emotionally from Vader's swing-and-a-miss at Obi-Wan.I think Adam Driver did the "I'm following the Sith teachings because I'm an emo boy in pain" much better than Hayden Christiansen ever did, in a much more economical and believable way without pages and pages of exposition. Rey finding Luke at the end does not have a parallel in either of the first two trilogies. Mark Hamill didn't have to say anything, his eyes did the acting. I think my biggest fear going into The Force Awakens, other than the movie not living up to the original trilogy, was that the writing would feel like a "How to pace your hollywood script" formula, the way so many blockbusters these days do, including Abram's Star Trek scripts. Now, The Force Awakens probably does adhere to those formulas to a certain extent, but it wasn't too obvious about it. It felt like a hybrid of 70's/80s movies with the more recent type of scripts. Here's my nerdy gripe - the weapon of the Starkiller Base is clearly not moving very fast, it's sub-light-speed for sure. We don't know if it can move through space, but the Death Star can - it is positioned close to Alderaan before blowing it up. And yet - the ray of energy or whatever moves relatively slowly, towards a planet in a system who knows how many parsecs away, but it arrives there instantaneously. Hm. [/QUOTE]

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