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Ren defeated Snoke. Ren and Rey beat the Red Guards though, so she wasn't completely worthless in that sequence, but she picked a fight with Snoke and lost and would have been dead or turned if not for Ren. IMO that's a defeat for her even if she ultimately escaped with her life. Based on your argument, you could argue that Luke defeated Palptine because he walked away from it (carrying Vader, who did all the heavy lifting in the defeat of Palptine). Or that Anakin defeated Dooku because he walked away from it (despite his major contribution to the fight being loosing a limb). Although I'm sure we can all agree Anakin clearly lost against Obi-Wan because he wasn't walking away from that de-feet. I took the training to be less about Rey not needing training and more about Luke having come to the conclusion that he wasn't a teacher (and indeed doubting that teaching the Jedi ways was the right thing to do anymore). If she knows good from evil, what more can books tell her about the light or dark side?

Del Toro's Pinnoccio is for Netflix, not Disney. It'll be animated via stop motion.

So far Rey has lost the fight she tried to pick with Snoke, didn't get the training she was looking for from Luke, and got saddled with Kylo Ren and Finn. So I'd argue she's on trajectory to be just as much a loser as Anakin (lost the fight he tried to pick with Dooku and Obi-Wan, didn't get the relationship he wanted with Padme, was saddled with Jar Jar Binks) and Luke (lost the fight he tried to pick with Vader and Palpatine, didn't get the training he wanted from Yoda and didn't get the relationship he wanted with the Princess because she turned out to be his sister, and was saddled with C-3P0, the biggest buzzkill droid in the galaxy). All she needs really at this point is to pick another losing fight and to make a bad relationship choice, and they've given her three good candidates for the later, if not the former (Finn, Po, Ren).

Not really what I'm talking about regarding traditional story telling with respect to serials and heroic adventure, but since you've went with comparing my statements to portrayals of character with respect to race and gender and poor/disrespectful portrayals of same, I'm done trying. With respect I never said that anyone couldn't dislike those elements in Star Wars, I was trying to state why they didn't bother me. The stories are pure pulp. Expecting Shakespeare is folly. IMO.

The tradition argument is about traditional storytelling rather than traditional family entanglements, I don't see them comparable at all. Hero stories are what they are. I have some theories about Rey that might make sense of her character, but I'm not really all that bugged by her being competent at stuff. Unlike Luke, Rey had been doing hand to hand combat with her staff (as demonstrated by her use of it) whereas Luke had primarily used blasters from what we're told/shown in the first film (and we don't see Anakin getting a sabre so have no clue how he took to one). Like Anakin and Luke both she's able to hop into unfamiliar machines and use them to shoot down enemies as each did (exactly how many hours had Luke logged in an x-wing while working as a moisture farmer?). The one example you give that doesn't have a precedent in Anakin or Luke (that I can think of) is being able to hold off Kylo Ren, who hasn't exactly covered himself with glory to that point in the series, lacking the emotional control of a Jedi or the 'at all costs' focus of the Sith. She's unable to do anything against Snoke until Ren intervenes despite the fact that she had nominal training at that point, indicating that had she encountered a more competent or better trained Sith the outcome would have been different.

Luck and coincidence was a significant part of the old serials (particularly cliffhanger resolution) that Star Wars hearkens back to. The first Flash Gordon serial resolved several cliff-hangers by having Flash be rescued (usually by Princess Aurora) rather than getting himself out of the predicament. Other serials are worse with deus ex machina and luck (Batman caught in a mine explosion in a cliffhanger sees the cliffhanger resolved by...Batman standing up, unharmed. Green Hornet gets shot at point blank range falling out of a window is resolved by...revealing that Green Hornet fell before the shot was fired, and was on the first floor so just rolled to safety). So to me I see it part of the tradition that Star Wars continues.

I've never really thought the Force was the most interesting thing about Star Wars. There were a lot of questions about it after the first film, but there were always other things that was interesting as well. But I also didn't lose my mind when the prequels were aimed at family audiences, nor did I lose my mind because THE LAST JEDI wasn't the greatest thing since sliced bread like so many people did.

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I loved Westworlds first two seasons. Much better than the previous Westworld tv series. But I imagine the way it tells its stories isn't for everyone. I've got to watch new LiS.

NC-17 just existed because the X rating had been rendered meaningless. The big problem with the R rating is that studios don't tend to make as much profit on R film hits as PG 13 hits, and the studios don't want to spend 10 million to make 20 million, they want to spend 150 million to make 300 million.

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FUN TRIVIA FACT, U. S. COMIC BOOKS TYPICALLY USE ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS, AND USE BOLD FOR EMPHASIS OF WORDS INSTEAD OF MIXED CASE AND ALL CAPS. THIS MADE IT HARDER FOR OLD PRINTING PRESSES TO MAKE THE TEXT ILLEGIBLE. CLASSICALLY, UNTIL COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CAUGHT UP TO IT, MOST LETTERING WAS DONE BY HAND. THE BIG EXCEPTION IN THE U. S. WAS CHARLTON COMICS WHO ACTUALLY HAD A GIANT TYPING MACHINE AND TYPED THE LETTERING IN FOR SOME COMICS DIRECTLY ON THE ARTWORK.

I hope it does well just because it doing so might mean I get a chance to see Project U.F.O. again...

Principal photography began Sept 2017, was still shooting in May 2018. I think there was a break in filming, not sure if they restarted.

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