Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[lady__croft]

Just back from the theatre...I finally saw it and what can I say? It was good…I expected it to be good. But I’m sorry to say, it just wasn’t the mind-blowing, awesome spectacle the people are making it out to be. JJ Abrams did a great job rebooting and reinventing Star Trek…not so much for Star Wars. It was far too repetitious of (I'm actually

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[just_jenni]

I saw it on its opening night here...was dragged by my 13-year-old straight off the bus from work! I agree with almost everything you said but I actually thought Kylo Ren was an interesting character, who underlines the idea (for me anyway) that in Star Wars there are no all good and all bad (black & white) characters but everyone in some way has their grey shades. (If that makes any sense.) I expect good explanations in the next movie.

I thought Oscar Isaacs was fantastic. He made the movie better, IMO. I do care what happens to his character.

[lady__croft]

The better novels, movies and television series do tend to feature characters that are morally ambiguous - there are no clear cut good guys or bad guys. Case in point - Game of Thrones.

Yay for Oscar Isaacs...I am hoping to see more of Poe in the next movie.