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Your comments here are, however, strongly reminiscent of many Right-wingers who insist that they're not sexist/racist, but that they're being persecuted by a vast SJW conspiracy that's taking over society. They usually, in my experience, turn out to just be racists and sexists who think they're bei...

Saying that characters from one genre get a pass while characters from another do not is admitting that the criticism is groundless. Um, no. If I compare Batman to any real life person, he's obviously a Mary Sue in that context. If you compare Rey to any real life person, she's obviously a Mary Sue...

:roll: The movie goes way the fuck out of its way to break suspension of disbelief on that front, basically all the way through. That is a legitimate storytelling problem. Hyperspace ramming is a viable tactic! One bomber can kill a dreadnaught and they have to 'drop' bombs! If Poe can shoot ALL th...

Easy: Nobody remembered to turn their shields on in this movie except the rebels.

Hey, just because what the Jedi believe in is real doesn't mean it's not a religion. I mean, all religious people believe what they believe in is true. We just know the Jedi are at least mostly correct about the existence of the force. Although on the other hand, it could all just be the midichloria...

Nitpicking the Batman example is missing the point. You don't have to be the richest to be unbelievably rich, nor to be wish fulfillment for the poor and middle class. You can be a genus, Olympic level athlete, gorgeous, or rich, but to be all four enters the territory of undeniable wish fulfillmen...

Section 3: Movies-Only Response You think Snoke's telekinesis is impressive? To manhandle one small human? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLV-Vpy1gqQ These fuckers are dismantling large parts of the scenery in their wizard's duel. Even more scenery gets torn up in the senate fight. The only power w...

So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athelete level athletic abil...

We saw her there at the start of the movie, that's where she works! On the wrecks of ships, that is the economy of Jakku. And note, it was an easy enough course that all pursuers made it, so unlike the Asteroid Field or DS2 interior or the salt caves in TLJ (which was Chewie flying), average-TIE-pi...

Umm. She's learnt to move tonnes of rocks after being locked in the vice-like grip of Snoke. Pretty sure she has reasons to know the force can move objects, even without Luke mentioning that ability speccifically. As for Luke having nothing to teach her... umm. Force Projection? As for the lightnin...

He said: “When you sign a contract with Disney, the things it says your film cannot have are beheadings, impalement or smoking. “Those are literally the three things you are not allowed to put into a Disney film.” This is why TFA has a lightsaber fight where Finn goes up against Kylo Ren, is compre...

You suck at subtext then. She is waiting for her parents to come back because she wants to leave her shitty life with them and holds out hope for somewhere she'll belong. There's nothing preventing her escape apart from the fact that stealing a ship might ordinarily be hard and she has no money nor...

Motherfucker are you kidding me? By Isis' wings you're being dumb here. Clearly they should have kept the scene of Rey pining to leave the place with a big electric fence between her and the starships. How silly of me to not remember a scene that WASN'T IN THE MOVIE If the scene showing the electri...

You could do a cut of only white people. Would just involve removing the casino planet scenes And all Poe's scenes. To quote Wikipedia of all things. White Guatemalans of European descent (also called Criollo) represent 18.5% of the population. The majority are descendants of German and Spanish set...

The worst thing is, that's how they work in roleplaying games, too. Jedi teaching is valuable but there's plenty of examples of it not being necessary to realize basic skills in the EU and other sources. Well, to be fair to roleplaying games, you mechanically just buy/choose new force powers when y...

Finn never made any moral choice until the very end of TLJ. Everything he did before that point was self-serving and out of cowardice and to fulfill his own desires. He didn't make any change into a good person until the end of TLJ when he was going to kill himself. Rose completely ruined it. -- I m...

Hello! Just throwing something in while it strikes me. Back in the days of the old "West End" games SW, they had the two aspect of the Force working kind of like 'Positive' and 'Negative' feed back loops. With the Dark Side? When you used DS points? You got two back for the price of one. ...

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If I could upvote you I would.

where it's established that Rey is Plutt's ward Some people DEFINITELY get the idea that there is a relationship there that's not wholly exploitative. And that she is somehow special to Plutt. That's not supported in the movie. They think Plutt values her enough to give her a personal bodyguard! My...

Oh, I know! Make her a dude, then she wouldn't be called a 'Mary Sue' ;) Does anyone have any defense of Rey that doesn't involve attacking the people who complain about her? The problem is the term "Mary Sue" itself. It is an inherently gendered term (setting aside its origins), and it h...

Why does anyone obey Plutt? We've already established that he leaves the MF unlocked and just sitting there with the doors opened. Anybody could just steal it and fly anywhere. Rey doesn't have a bomb in her head, or any kind of restraints. She or any of the slaves could have left any time they want...

I mean, it's an obvious joke. There is a surprising amount of articles on the internet saying. "The Last Jedi is objectively good and you're a bad person if you don't like it." They keep writing these articles, it's getting ridiculous. Guess I'm the idiot who keeps reading them and giving ...

You could do a cut of only white people. Would just involve removing the casino planet scenes. Finn and Rose are such important characters, they are put on a bus the entire movie and could be removed from it entirely without effecting the plot in any way. We can pretend this movie is multicultural a...

Oh, I know! Make her a dude, then she wouldn't be called a 'Mary Sue' ;) Does anyone have any defense of Rey that doesn't involve attacking the people who complain about her? She's a Mary Sue for many demonstrable reasons. She is written like a self-insert fanfic character, which is the very genesi...

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