Originally 'A New Hope' was a farce from since the beginning. Watch the interviews after the movie “blew up”. The creators had no idea how to continue the story, so when you use this “father figure”/metaphoric stuff its just hilarious in light of the inconsistency in the next films.
VII was a money grab written by people who just C/P parts of the OT then added an agenda. Heck Kathleen Kennedy boasted (During production) about pushing the strong (Poorly written) female character meme as some sort of triumph in modern day civilization. The development is forced with a lot of short-cuts. Just blatant agenda pushing and cringe writing considering what Abrams said about “white males”. BTW, not a Star Wars geek at all, just criticize forced agendas, the whitewashing of the OT, terrible character development, and bad writing. Enjoy the movie, for me it was awful worthy of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.
No it didn’t. She went through a lot more trials and tribulations than Luke did before he blew up the Death Star. She was homeless, abandoned and starving. Luke had a home, parental figures and grub. Rey didn’t go to Jedi anything, that’s just a stupid complaint the whiners made up. She’s shown no more Force ability than Luke did in the first movie.
The Marty Ste/ Mary Sue wish fulfillment in the first movie is obvious for anybody that bothers to pay attention to George’s life up to making that movie. Inconsistency in the next movie doesn’t change the simple fact that all the main hero characters were wish fulfillment for George starting with his stand-in character that shares his name.
ALL movies are money grabs. You don’t think Disney paid 4 billion dollars for the franchise just for fun do you.
It is actually a triumph to be able to get decent female characters on the screen again. A weird cycle happened with SF in the 2000s, we went from getting solid female characters all over the genre (Ripley, Sarah Connor, Buffy) to basically none. Time to get them back. And Rey’s no worse written than any other SW character.
And now we see indeed you are just the Comicbook Guy. Worst whiner ever. If you don’t like SW stop watching the movies, save yourself and the people around you from your BS.