*reads the last 30 pages*
So this is the power of Disney Star Wars. Wow
As a ****ing white male myself, is it considered racist and/or sexist to not like The Last Jedi or the last couple of Disney Star Wars movies in general??
The reason I don't like the current protagonist isn't because she's a girl. I don't like her because she's written poorly and the chick that plays her can't act. People that defend the way she is written don't appear to be very intelligent. Of course she's a bland, one dimensional character with a grating posh accent. She is the epitome of a Mary Sue. Anyone that disagrees is in denial of a valid criticism. Forget all the comparisons between Luke and Rey, and even everything she does in TFA, just look at TLJ.
Look no further than the ending where she's is the gunner in the Millennium Falcon in the film's climax. Not only is she barking orders to Chewie, she shoots better than Luke, Han and Finn combined. Remember in Star Wars how Han and Luke in particular are struggling to shoot down 4 TIE Fighters? It takes them forever to take those things down and they're breaking in a sweat after it's all said in done. ****ing Luke was happy to take down ONE. Remember in the Force Awakens when Finn is fumbling at the controls? He's lucky to even fire the turret canons, let alone destroy a single TIE.
TLJ? She destroys dozens of them with ease while quipping "I like this" or whatever cutesy BS she says, I can't remember.
Like StarPuffs said, she's wish fulfillment: the character. Maybe she's something special to immature little girls, morphosis or weirdos like Guyver who is in it for the dolls (no offense Guyver, you know I love ya), but to the rest of us, she's boring. In two years or the TFA and TLJ story timeline, a mere week, she does and achieves more than any character in this franchise. She is an expert marksman with a blaster, she is an expert duelist and a better pilot than Poe. Her force abilities can be summed up as she had a vision, felt something, it awakened, but now she is a pro. She is stronger than Luke, Han, Obi-Wan and Anakin and owns Luke's lightsaber, the Millennium Falcon, R2-D2 and Chewbacca like they're god damn trophies or something. She sucks.
Luke was a whiny little weak *** *****, but atleast he grew throughout the trilogy as a character. The second installment usually has several defining moments for a character. In Empire, Luke ****s the bed in everything he does. He's brash, arrogant, he's an *****. What happens to Luke in the second movie? He gets ****ed up in the first 2 mins, he can't recognize a Jedi Master right in front of his face, he fails his training, sees himself in the person he hates the most, fails to rescue his friends, gets bruised, battered and beaten, and oh yeah, he gets his ****ing hand lobbed off. To top it off, he finds out the father he never met, the man he idolized and was inspired to be like is really his arch nemesis and the wise elders he trusted lied to and manipulated him. This character is so defeated that he jumps off the gantry to certain death just to achieve some small victory.
Then we have our girl Rey Rey. She doesn't do a ****ing thing except inspire people. She bosses Luke around and tells him how it is, inspiring him to finally kill himself. Chewie is like her ****ing dog. Finn is infatuated with her. Yoda thinks she's the ****. Leia has taken a liken to her since day one despite being a cold hearted ***** to everyone she came into contact with since the series began. Poe fan girls over her and wants to bang her. Kylo Ren? She's going to ****ing "redeem" and inspire him onto the light side 100%. She's the hero, the Disney princess, through and through. In a movie about failure, all she does is win. She didn't even lose a limb, an eye ball, bladder control. Nadda. Oh boo hoo, you're lineage is **** and your parents were druggies who abandoned you. Welcome to the club kid, take a number
She's boring, she's mayonnaise, I don't like her. When this is all said and done, she'll be forgotten, just like this movie.