Posted on 04/17/2017 12:57:00 PM PDT by EveningStar
It’s the tone, also keep in mind movie characters are often talking to the audience not each other. An author friend of mine refers to those as “as you know Dr Watson” scenes because the character being spoken already knows what’s being imparted but the audience doesn’t. Han saying that line tells the audience there’s a lead up time to jumps to hyperspace and that it can be messed with. It’s a method that goes back to the earliest entertainments because very few things can handle 4th wall breaks but sometimes you need to tell the audience something. Happens a lot in SF and fantasy because they’ve got made up worlds with made up physics and hopefully the author came up with some rules and things will work a lot better if the audience understands some of those rules. Obi-wan tell Han about the Force is another one of those, there’s no way anybody gets to Han’s age in that universe without at least hearing the pitch, he remembers the Republic and rule by Jedi, he didn’t need that explanation, but we did.
The writers gave Rey shortcuts, hence Ma-Rey-Sue/awful development/forced “girl power” shtick.
Star Wars is overrated anyway. The OT were good (At least the first two) but the rest, not so good. VII completely invalidated the OT. They should of just started in a new era, not 30 years after the fact. This was just pandering off nostalgia from the OT actors who looked embarrassed to be in that flick.
20th Century Fox thought ‘A New Hope’ would not be strong. Heck the “summer blockbuster” was forecasted to be The Other Side of Midnight. ANH had a limited release, but took off fast. After that, money grab galore. There is profit, but pandering gets in the way of the actual art if the acting and writing are "forced".
Rey got the exact same shortcut Luke got: met Han Solo. OK she met her Jedi master at the end of the first movie instead of the act break of the second. BFD. The facts remain, the SW universe was BUILT on Sue/ Stu and whining about it just shows you’re a whiner.
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