HuskyHawk
The triumphant return of the Blues Brothers.
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I thought they nailed it with Rey. She looks the part, being a woman, that only adds to the underdog aspect that is required of the character. Plus, she's been fending for herself her whole life as scavenger so she is more street smart than Luke. I honestly didn't even consider the fact that she was a woman until I saw this thread.
The character that was maybe a little implausible to me was Finn. He seemed more like a character that was recently abducted by the First Order than one that suddenly had an epiphany that they were evil while on a mission with a bunch of other crack Stormtroopers. Even still, it was OK though. The jokes about him working in sanitation and the quip about the trash compactor were just exceptional writing.
Agreed. The movie was fine. Rey was fine as the lead. She's cute but looks athletic and capable physically. Works for me. Hell if it had been a guy, it would be even more like IV, and it was a little too similar already. Use of the force clearly isn't limited to men, or even humanoids.
I didn't get any feel that it was trying to hard to be inclusive. I actually thought that Finn provided an interesting contrast coming from the Stormtrooper armor. The idea really, is that you just don't know who is in that armor. We saw Luke and Han use that against the Empire before, now with Finn we are left thinking, who else do they use as stormtroopers? It added to the believability of the character. Unlike the clone wars, these guys are not clones...they are individuals.
All in all it was a lot of fun, which is what Star Wars is supposed to be. They needed redemption after I-III.