Something that bothers me a lot...


Seems like Rey and Kylo will end up being friends or end up together.

It bothers me that you murder your own father, also attempt to murder your uncle/mentor... but a pretty girl comes along and you turn out to be a good guy.

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Kylo won't survive this movie, no chance.

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I've never given two shits about Kylo Ren and honestly don't understand how this whiny, emo, millennial d-bag (who looks absolutely NOTHING like the offspring of Han and Leia) has such a fan following.

Even many people who hate this turd trilogy have praised him. Makes no sense. His whining dwarfs Anakin's whining tenfold.

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I think it started when he took off his intimidating helmet and revealed his ugly mush of a face, back in the first movie. Before then, it was mysterious as who he could be, this fearsome dark lord who arose from the ashes of the Empire and yet no-one knew the identity of, which fit perfectly fine with Abrams' own obsession for mystery boxes. And then he took his mask off.

Oh.

It's just like being disappointed by a Christmas present unwrapping which reveals a very underwhelming gift to what you were expecting, and you lose interest in it quickly once you see what it is, now the mystery's gone.

You'd think that Abrams would know better.

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Exactly. Ren worked a lot better with the mask on. He was still stale and nothing in comparison to Vader but he surprisingly conveyed a better presence and even better emotion with the mask ON.

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The douche bag who killed his dad, the immortal icon Han Solo, because daddy issues will forever be shit to me.

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It bothers me that you murder your own father, also attempt to murder your uncle/mentor... but a pretty girl comes along and you turn out to be a good guy.

It's the whole Disney Princess / Beauty & Beast model they've been selling for 80 years.

She's a magical creature born into fish-out-of-water circumstances, fully and perfectly formed at birth, amazing and alluring to all who meet her, intrinsically gifted in all things without effort, in which no skill or occult knowledge eludes her, domesticating the all powerful bad-boy with her unmatched irresistible charms, and whose only struggle in life is the quest to discover just why she is so amazing.

It's been an effective narrative as most women in the West see this fantasy creature reflected in every mirror.

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The Disney Princess / Beauty & Beast model doesn't work anymore in modern Hollywood.

If the male 'beast' is non-white, he's not allowed to be the 'beast' in first place. Diversity characters are not allowed to have flaws, since that would be considered racist. Of course, that makes those characters quite dull, since it prevents them from having an interesting development: they're charming and positive from the beginning to the end.

If the male 'beast' is a white male, he's not allowed to become a positive character in first place. White male characters (unless they cast some famous actor like Tom Cruise) are supposed to be flawed and weak and stay flawed and weak.

My prediction? The most likely option is that he'll stay as an evil character. An alternative possibility is that he's redeemed, but he's killed immediately, so he'll barely have any screentime as a positive character and he won't survive the end of the movie. I don't see any other option beyond those two ones.

The movie is released in two weeks, and my predictions are usually right. Let's see what happens here.

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He'll die checking his privilege.

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I hope he smashes Rey so good though a force vision that the earth shattering orgasm pumps so much midichlorian release into the universe that it repopulates the entire galaxy with 1000s of Jedi babies

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"but a pretty girl comes along and you turn out to be a good guy. "
Hence the title.

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