She's captured, I'll give you that. But she then escapes by herself and would have probably got off the base by herself if she hadn't run into Han and Finn. That's one loss so far which turne out to be a boon in the long run narrative wise because it got her where she needed to be. Luke's failures are just general failures.
Because it's an ensemble movie where the cast outside of Rey is more or less useless. If you want a movie about one cast member then fine but they're putting this forward as an ensemble movie. Alien is a a movie about one main cast member and thus she kicks ass. Fine no complaints. Star Wars just has Finn following around like a lost puppy and Poe kind of just smouldering on the side lines but no this is a ensemble movie. Where we cast greats like christie gwendoline who appears for like five minutes to be beaten up by the janitor, twice.Why do you find a competent, resourceful woman so unbelievable?
Poe is the “bestest pilot ever”, can do anything from a X-Wing and most handsome man in the galaxy. Finn’s knowledge of the First Order has been key to the success of several plans in both movies and is pretty decent with a lightsaber for a non-Force user. Calling them useless ignores everything on screen. It seems like you didn’t even watch the movies.
Women who don't need much help from men is just too much for some people.
No, we see her do things. We see her try things, succeed at some, fail at others. Just like all the other characters.
I especially love how we never see her fight off anyone else before and must be recused constantly.
Or I am listing many different reasons for why I find Rey badly written. I.M.O. A problem that goes back to the writer and director who are both white men not Rey is in an imaginary character and thus her gender has no bearing on me. Especially as it is not linked to the plot in any way such as the Aliens series.
Because the writing is bad just as people who complain about Anakan and his poor writing in the prequels are not man haters but haters of poor writing.Yes, because Luke and Anakin get accepted without question while Rey must fight for acceptance. How dare we point that out
Yes, and I never hear any one defend Anakin in the PT...oh wait.
They are poorly written no one has held George up as a bastion of good writing. It's just that JJ and Rian have managed to be worse. And loads of people are bashing the prequels. Hasn't someone just started a new thread on what people found wrong with the prequels. Ani is terribly written both in dialogue and well general. I don't know how to sum up the wrogness of how he acts to Padme and worse she responds because guess what terrible writing.
That is where you and I disagree. JJ and Rian are not worse. Anakin is powerful because...reasons. Rey has skills that she has acquired for over a decade trying to survive on a miserable planet, from combat to flight to repair machines. We don't need to be told anything. We are shown it. We are told a lot about Anakin but it hardly shows up. That's the difference.
I would say the prequels are as bad as the sequels and vice versa both in writing and characterisation. I've gone into more detail on that somewhere else so I won't bog this thread down with it again. However we are told Ani can fly we see that. We are not told he can fight so we don't see him win a fight until, once again we have a gap and can fill it in for ourselves.
Yep! Cause Rey is good at everything. No explanation needed. If you want one, we'll apply some twisted logic and Throw Luke and Anakin back in your face because they're male, and insinuate you're sexist for even bringing up the issue. No questions! We are the artbitrators of truth on this board don't you know.
