The one thing that really confuses me about this Rey backlash is the weirdness about the light-saber battle. As many have said Kylo Ren is pretty badly injured first by Chewie then by Finn who gets in a decent swipe to his arm.
She spends almost the entire fight on the back foot and barely surviving and only really gains the upper-hand after taking Maz Kanatas advice (the whole close your eyes and let the light in nonsense), by which point Ren looks like he's about to pass out (dude is sweating like he was in a sauna whilst out in the snow).
At no point does she seem like some kind of light-saber wielding bad-ass and to me at least is not much better at it than Finn. I've seen it twice now and just can't see what other people are seeing with that fight.
Plus, Ren isn't a fully trained Jedi Master or Sith lord and we don't even know how much combat training he's actually had. Throughout the whole movie he's incredibly undisciplined and unpredictable. Not only that but Rey has shown throughout the movie that she is a capable melee fighter with her staff.
Exactly. I thought they did a particularly good job at setting the stage for an underdog yet still understandable victory by Rey. There are at LEAST 3 shots throughout the fights with Fin and Rey that are framed specifically to show "hey check out how much fucking blood Ren is losing here!"
As for the Phasma stuff, was she supposed to be more of a major character? I intentionally avoided as many of the pre-release trailers and teasers as I could, so I don't know if they were portraying her as a bigger deal than she ended up being in the movie. From the movie alone, I was kind of surprised she even HAD a name. Well, maybe not THAT surprised, given how much detailed backstory there is on that one Stormtrooper that said '"Look, sir, droids" that one time.
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