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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9598596" data-attributes="member: 18">Okay, I can't pretend that I fully understand the criticism, but, it seems like a significant proportion of TLJ-haters absolutely loathe the scene with the kid and the broom showing he's just a random kid who happens to have force powers. They seem to regard the inclusion of this scene as somehow emblematic of everything wrong (in their eyes) with TLJ.I just went through a couple of Reddit threads trying to find like a coherent criticism of the scene, and I can't - but if TLJ gets hated on, it gets brought up, and people discussed the poor kid an awful lot (indeed, entire threads full of it!).The closest I can get is that people seem to think it's somehow insulting that he's showing that, even as Luke dies, there are other people in the universe with the Force, that it's not gone. There also seems to be some wild and very fanciful assumption that we're meant to seem Broom Boy specifically - like THIS KID specifically - as the future of the Jedi - when I think any sane person understands he's a symbol of hope not a specific character!I feel like this is showing how some people (not so much here on ENworld oddly enough) have brainrot from Star Wars and see like every tiny character is a specific named character and super-important and so on. So they just couldn't parse the scene in a sane way, that kid has got to be Juumbo Dobulefryze, future Jedi Master or whatever!</blockquote>

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