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Originally Posted by webz

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookay. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

No no, it does not have to be like that I am fully open to being convinced otherwise.

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Originally Posted by webz

I don't believe Anakin IS or WAS the chosen one, just because Liam Neeson says so. Maybe Rey is ACTUALLY the Chosen One.

Actually, what you say is indeed the problem. Watching TLJ makes you undermine the status of the characters in the previous films. That is bound to make you hate the new character, unless they are interesting (but as I have said, they are not that interesting).

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Originally Posted by webz

Like I said before, with how the dark side comes to her willingly, and she embraced it without fighting (which scared Luke) I'm pretty sure she's got Sith heritage somewhere, somehow.

Sure, but this just makes TLJ a bad movie. One of the greatest revelations of the movie, after TFA built up the question of Rey's lineage, was to say that its nothing special. It was almost on the same level as Luke throwing the Light saber over his shoulder dismissively. Rian Johnson thought subverting expectations translated to good story telling, so that is how these things went! If JJ decides to reverse those choices, then TLJ inevitably look cheap and aged. It would seem that the chapter merely existed to offend the audience (or shock value / experiment in subverting expectations).

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Originally Posted by webz

For me, Kylo is the least interesting. He's a grown man throwing toddler temper tantrums. If I want that, I watch the news.

Oh, I never meant to say he was the most interesting character. My point was that at least we can have an ark if the story was about him overcoming all odds, beating the enemy that handed his ass to him in the first part, and becoming the hero that leads the First Order to triumph! But, as we all know, the protagonist is Rey (and we are supposed to consider the Empire/First Order to be definitely bad without an explanation. This was a weakness in the original trilogy too...). What sort of ark are we to have now in regards to her? She is already at the end of the ark since TLJ.

This is why it would be interesting to see Kylo develop to finally beat Rey.