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Complaining about the natural progression of force powers . . .
The Force is constantly evolving in the medium.
Kylo Ren stopping what is essentially a bullet is a natural progression from what was seen in other movies. Nothing too outlandish, a cool moment.
Projecting a realistic image of yourself across the galaxy that has better quality than a hologram and can not only be seen and physically interact with humans but droids as well is ridiculous. Whatever happened to the force having a strong influence on the weak-minded? So Leia and Kylo couldn't see through Luke's smoke and mirrors, they must be ****ing idiots? The fact that he died when he isn't even there makes it even worse. It does three things, 1. it takes the dramatic tension away from his return in service of a shameless twist 2. makes you question the force and Jedi as a whole 3. makes writers want to "one-up" the powers for the next story.
After surviving and flying in space and astral projection, what's next? Force users can turn invisible? Turn back time? Maybe invulnerability? I mean, it's the force right? How can a force sensitive being really even die? Rey is the perfect candidate to showcase these awesome abilities.
Sometimes less is more. The **** that went down with Luke and Leia in TLJ is the type of big, loud, absurd and unfathomable moments that you see in Transformers, Fast and the Furious and the like. You push the force too far and it just becomes dramatic slapstick.
There is something magical and fairy tale like with Obi-Wan getting cut down, the robe dropping to the floor and Vader doing that little cautious foot probing thing like "how the **** did he do that". The whole voice in your head thing is subtle too. Yoda lifting out the X-Wing with his triumphant theme ramping up and proving a point to Luke and the audience? It's what these films are made out of.
But you can push the powers aspect too far, and they are. The skype force calls, Leia in space, and fake out Luke just reeks of the desperate shock value, creatively bankrupt stunts you'd throw into the 9th movie of an exhausted franchise.