The mechanical, hollow, and distant Hearts of Star Wars (Off-Topic)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 10:40 (2113 days ago) @ EffortlessFury

OK. I read it last week. It's not so much that I disagree wit the main points, it's that I just am not nearly so impressed by the things that were there as he and in some cases I simply disagree VERY much about how successfully it was done (Finn's character development and Casino planet are the prime examples). More than any of it though, is I just never felt like I was really connecting to the characters very well. I know why they were doing things, mostly; and it made sense, mostly. It just felt kinda distant from me emotionally, and some of it seemed kinda unsupported by the earlier scenes (like Rose kissing Finn. I assume it was romantic, and if so, shoehorned in.). Many of these postmortems have referred to cut scenes that were informative, so I should go back and watch those on the Blu-Ray.

Also, I simply disagree about his description of Ray's cave. It was not mirrors, it was slices of time, and as such none of the metaphor that he lays out makes sense.

Also, I can;t say how much it bothers me, but from the first showing I saw I continue to find it odd that so few character have so little agency in the story, and so many have none. I suppose that helps build a story of failure, but that's not how I feel when I see it. Success or failure, these are characters being tossed by the tides — forces they are too small to influence much at all. And that is weird.

To be clear, I still liked the film, but nowhere NEARLY as much as I like Force Awakens.