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kscherer
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2019-11-26, 12:21

You should know by now that the last five Star Wars movies don't give a rip about canon.

At some point in the "past" the Jedi were these great "warriors" who kept order in the galaxy. I have no idea how or why it happened, but that ended somewhere around Episode 1 very near the beginning of the story. The Jedi were suddenly these sort of bumbling idiots that never seemed to win any more battles other than through sheer luck (and it usually took at least two of them). Since that point (and through all of the officially sanctioned stuff—The Clone Wars, Rebels, and such) the Jedi spend more time getting encircled, outflanked, and generally running away from things. That any "good" force sensitive types spend their time running from the evil bad guys is no longer a surprise, and hasn't been since Obi Wan and Qui Gon force-whistel-walked down the hall away from the droidikas. From that point on, it's all about "run Forrest, run!"

That Rey is running and seems to forget about her force-rock-throw power is just more of the same. The Jedi and their kind are mostly just strategically inept cowards. I mean, three of the best light saber dudes in the order (Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin) were wiped clean by effectively one dude (Palpatine, and with little effort on his part), before Mace Windu seemed to get the upper hand, but only as a pawn who was used to get to Anakin.

The drama is all manufactured, and the good guys are spending ever increasing amounts of time getting their asses kicked through a never ending parade of bad decision making and overrated power. The bad guys always get the jump on them, they always have the upper hand, and they are always better in a fight, until the final fight in which the good guys always suddenly find their mojo. In the first three movies, the good guys were always ready to fight, always blasting into and out of trouble, always taking the enemy by the horns. It's just a general, paradigm shift from Lucas' early vision of good guys being very clever, brave, and Leaderly™ (I just made that word up ) to the new Kennedy-led vision of the good guys running from their own shadow and getting their collectively asses kicked at every turn.

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