they probably spent 300-400 million on making the film. marketing is probably double that. on TV, every commercial is a trailer for RoS or a regular commercial with some tie in to RoS/SW. its beyond ridiculous. they threw everything at this to get the dumdums out to see their shitball and judging by some of the reactions here, they fell for it, hook, line and stinker. the failure with TFA was that it was boring and it didnt have Luke as the lead. he can meet Rey and discover her force spidey senses. he begrudgingly comes out of retirement to train her when he hears about those unnamed planets getting blowed up by the FO.it would have made for a much better and exciting film. then in the second movie after Rey and Luke develops a bond, he could sac himself to save her and it would be ok to finish. but by starting with the PoV of an already OP character it put me to sleep. GOD MODE is only tolerable for so long.
All good ideas that could have made TFA better, but my point is all those ideas were just sitting there ready for Ep8 and then Rian happened.
No, and I tend to be an optimistic apologist with a lot of things in life. The film was bad dude.
i disagree, it had to be all rolled out in the first film. Rey could have just been an excellent pilot without any obvious force powers. she escapes Jaqu with Finn on the Falcon and they meet Han & Chewie, he hears about the FO looking for Luke, he then says something like, "i know somebody who could find him." he takes them to that planet with the goggle eyed bitch maz kanata. they meet maz and she takes them over to a table in the cantina and its Luke, who BTW still has his fucking lightsaber (like why would he leave that there in the first place?). then when Finn and Rey find out thats actually Luke, they tell him whats going on, he says he's too old for this shit, but Han convinces him to come along because Leia put him in the doghouse for abandoning her and Darth Emo, so he comes along because he misses his sister.
Just have Finn duel Darth Emo and lose (he can die potentially, Luke will be away sharing Han's last moments), Rey force picks up the lightsaber away from him (small victory) then Emo and Luke have a force push standoff until the planet collapsing forces them to separate.
Yeah whatever, they scrapped Finn's role after the first movie anyway, he could die at the end trying to fight Emo, you could have Emo try to take on Luke, Luke just flashes out his LS and disarms him in seconds, force pushes him to the ground. (Luke who isnt ready to kill his nephew, ya know because Luke is a kindhearted person, not a fucking killer) points the saber at him while he has him on the ground, then runs off with the rest.
Luke has to try to capture him (a rescue from whatever dark force has turned him) and Emo can force push Luke away.
the idea of going to the death planet in TFA was to stop it from destroying other planets and bringing Emo back, by convincing him to be a good boy or whatver. after Han tries to reason with his son and Emo kills him. the capturing aspect of the mission is over. in my scenario. Luke wants to kill him, Luke should kill him, nobody would bat an eye over it. but Luke is all that is good and striking an unarmed person down is Dark Side shit. Luke aint about that, so yes its a trope, but its what Luke's character is locked into.
