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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7844229" data-attributes="member: 4937">I only watched TFA once (that was enough) but didn't she not really do any talking until 10 minutes after the character is introduced, except whatever she said in that foreign language to the droid smuggler thing? Granted, the best scenes in TFA were this sequence of her trying to survive, with the rappelling and the rehydrated food and so forth, but because of the way this sequence was developed any waifish pretty actress would do. After that, well, I'd rather blame it on the terrible script she was asked to perform. She wouldn't be the first actor/actress completely let down by the quality of the writing in Star Wars.Everything was well off the rails by that point. There are some issues of motivation in Kylo Ren, Finn, Poe, etc from the beginning that involve 'fridge logic (easy to accept when you're watching but when you get up and think about it, it doesn't make a lot of sense), but things don't really go off the rails until Han Solo walks into the screen and then it's all downhill from there. A lot of people blame The Last Jedi, but all the problems with The Last Jedi are predictable from the maelstrom of stupidity in TFA. The screen writer plays a little trick on people by doing a lot of foreshadowing and that delays people's judgment and gets you buy in from the audience, but speaking as a writer this sort of thing sets off warning bells for me because good writers don't telegraph the questions. They just quietly hang Checkov's Blasters on the wall and hope you don't notice. Invariably, if a writer is telegraphing the questions, it's because they don't know the answers. But that is just one of the scripts many many many sins.Well, I liked it. I thought Jynn and Cassian Andor were the best SW characters introduced since the original trilogy, and I thought that the whole thing was incredibly tense and I was impressed when a I realized they really weren't going to make it out of there, because that was a bold decision to make for an IP known for franchising. I think that the movie had incredible high stakes, and if that didn't come across it's only because having scene 'A New Hope' you know that they have to succeed. But taken on it's own, it's probably the most tension filled SW movie ever made and the first movie since the original trilogy where my emotional experience wasn't being mostly governed by just how badly the movie was written and I wasn't spending time trying to convince myself that it wasn't terrible. Because it wasn't.</blockquote>

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