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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7594856" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>Rey repeating Luke's journey is probably a deliberate feature.</p><p>The idea of TFA seemed to simply retall the original Star Wars success story. Star War got as popular as it got because it had Luke's heroic journey and the underdog rebellion vs the evil overboarding Empire. If they want to recapture that success and build a new series of movies on that, they need to tell that story again to the "modern" audience. And by making the hero a female, they might also grow the audience a bit, because maybe a lot of men would already watch Star Wars just for the space fights and the "brand" image, but women might need something extra. It's basically dragging Star Wars out of a "male nerd" niche. </p><p></p><p>But maybe really thatis part of the problem - if there is a problem with a billion dollar franchise at all - maybe it's all a bit too much formula, and not enough novelty. That was something Rian Johnson might have felt, hence "subverting all the expectations". But while Abrams might have gone overboard on the copy & paste, Rian Johnson seemed to have forgotten that the subversion needs to open interesting new story avenues. At the end of TLJ, it feels to me like we sit in front of a big nothing. There is no open question or clear direction where to, except the most generic: "Guess the Resistance has to rebuild itself <em>somehow</em>!" At the end of ESB, you could wonder about how they could get Han out of Jabba's hands, and how Luke would deal with the news about Vader. Did Vaders offer of ruling the galaxy together mean anything?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 7594856, member: 710"] Rey repeating Luke's journey is probably a deliberate feature. The idea of TFA seemed to simply retall the original Star Wars success story. Star War got as popular as it got because it had Luke's heroic journey and the underdog rebellion vs the evil overboarding Empire. If they want to recapture that success and build a new series of movies on that, they need to tell that story again to the "modern" audience. And by making the hero a female, they might also grow the audience a bit, because maybe a lot of men would already watch Star Wars just for the space fights and the "brand" image, but women might need something extra. It's basically dragging Star Wars out of a "male nerd" niche. But maybe really thatis part of the problem - if there is a problem with a billion dollar franchise at all - maybe it's all a bit too much formula, and not enough novelty. That was something Rian Johnson might have felt, hence "subverting all the expectations". But while Abrams might have gone overboard on the copy & paste, Rian Johnson seemed to have forgotten that the subversion needs to open interesting new story avenues. At the end of TLJ, it feels to me like we sit in front of a big nothing. There is no open question or clear direction where to, except the most generic: "Guess the Resistance has to rebuild itself [I]somehow[/I]!" At the end of ESB, you could wonder about how they could get Han out of Jabba's hands, and how Luke would deal with the news about Vader. Did Vaders offer of ruling the galaxy together mean anything? [/QUOTE]
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