Quote:To be fair, he took a bowcaster bolt to the stomach before saod lightsaber duel without moving an inch. Those shots were making stormtroopers fly all over the place throughout the movie.

He was supposed to be perceived as emotionally weak, I think. He wasn't as trained a Jedi as Anakin, and Snoke said his dark side training wasn't complete, either.

I imagine his development will be a huge theme in the next movie.

That does make sense. I kind of forgot about the bowcaster.


We also saw he was able to pull thoughts from people's heads. But he was stymied trying the same by a completely untrained Rey? So a semi-trained Sith was outclassed by a completely untrained soon to be Jedi?


I guess my issue is there was no clear hierarchy of power, whereas before we knew Vader started at a certain level which Luke was trying to achieve over the bulk of the story arc. I'm completely unsure where these new characters sit relative to each other, which is totally fine, it just doesn't make Kylo Ren feel that menacing to me as of now because Rey seemingly surpassed or met his ability within a few scenes with no training.


Either way it's a really minor nitpick that I'm sure will be worked out over the course of the story. I actually really really like the Rey character, more than Luke.

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