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Originally Posted by Claysexual
'JJ's fan service' is part of what made TFA so lame.
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No, JJ's propensity to soft-reboot everything made TFA so lame.
OLD HEAD fans wanted 3 things:
1) One last hurrah for the old characters before the new heroes took over.
2) An end to the OT characters that was honorable and did them justice.
3) To find out what Luke/Leia had become and what their impact was on the galaxy after 40 years.
They don't have to win the day, they don't have to be large parts of the story, just wrap their story up in a respectful way.
And instead they decided to say "Forget the past - adopt feminism. Kill the past if you have to."
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Originally Posted by Claysexual
Having Luke tossing Star Destroyers through the air would have been more horrible than the 'flying nun Leia'.
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Well, yeah.
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I'll be forever grateful( among several other things involved )that Johnson took Hux down a notch in the first 5 minutes of the film; he was never believable as an old-school "Imperial"-style officer.
Yet surprisingly, almost everyone else around him was.
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He was a hollow and weak character. Just like Phasma. They had no purpose other than to sell toys.
Time wasted on Phasma/Hux could have been spent showing us bonding/teaching moments between Ray and Luke...