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lslaw December 18 2015, 15:12:56 UTC
So, I'm not sure you're taking the right lessons here.

1) I'm not sure. Who do we have as a counterexample? Does _anyone_ in Star Wars have serious parental support? Leia. Maybe Vader as a child, and he went far. To paraphrase, he did great things. Terrible things, but great.

2) You're reading a lot into 'we did everything we could'. Maybe their answer was military school.

3) Well, you can't be Darth if you're not a Sith Lord and you can't be a Sith Lord if... You know, I'm not sure. Maybe there needs to be two of you. Not sure how many Knights of Ren there are.

4) Clearly the world is actually run (if not competently) by giant hologram Voldemort.

5) Fair.

6) Probably fair.

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melsner December 19 2015, 10:31:28 UTC
I didn't get the movie at all. Rey had an English accent, but she was supposed to be a good guy??? I thought only evil characters had English accents.

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melsner December 19 2015, 10:37:45 UTC
I'm kind of amused that there are "cameos" who had more lines and screen time than actors who were listed as the main stars. And I'm not just talking about the obvious one.

Max von Sydow was listed as one of the stars of the movie. Big Blue Name in the end credits. What the hell? Greg Grunberg, JJ Abram's childhood friend, had a bigger part as one of the X-Wing pilots.

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twicedead December 21 2015, 13:55:23 UTC
Oscar Isaac was also due to be killed in the tie crash, making Poe a pretty short lived character too. I wonder how much of the script changed between casting and filming.

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twicedead December 21 2015, 13:53:12 UTC
1) Hmm, not sure I agree with this. I don't think we've seen the real details of Rey's backstory - her insistence on returning to Jakku seemed odd to me, I wonder if she was commanded to stay through the force. But I don't think she was abandoned by her parents there deliberately. But at least she turned out OK.

2) I think Luke was probably also loved and hugged.And didn't go evil. I think there might be more at work here. And Kylo Ben wasn't whining - he was angsting. You should know the difference

3) Look, sometimes online name generators go bad. You pick a name - it feels like it will work and then mid battle you realise Darth Vinus is just not going to work.

4) It's important for men to have a place, and that place is feeling their genitalia crushed in overly tight trousers in the cockpit of a starfighter.

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