That's what peoples beef is with that part. After watching six movies where they talked about years of training, and mastery, and even the masters not using the light side of the force much; The Force Awakens just lets Rey do whatever because it's really convenient to make her the super-est super hero ever. It's glaringly inconsistent.
Why do you not think she would be able to use force persuasion immediately after she successfully resisting Kylo's mind assault?
Because they're two separate things? And probably how to mentally accomplish them using the force are quite different. Besides, seeing someone do something with ease doesn't mean that you can even come close to do it. If that's how life worked we'd all be pro ball players.
She didn't spontaneously use the Force, she used half-forgotten lessons.
Was that the problem the Jedi were having previously? Instead of going through decades of training to even be a candidate for the 'trials', what the Jedi masters should have been doing all along was wiping their Padawans memory's so they could effectively use the force though half-forgotten lessons. Forgotten lessons are key to using the force!
The Force Awakens seems to me to be the one thus far where the force is applied disproportionately. When this page is updated with those numbers, it should stick out like a sore thumb.
Just leave it at 14 years, renewable once, from publication, and it'll work out fine.
Sounds good to me.
For the vast majority of people, their streams of incomes end with their death. If I make my money by building widgets, once I'm dead, I'm no longer making widgets, and not receiving anymore income for them. The money I earned from building the widget is already earned. My heirs won't get anymore money, despite how awesome and well used my widget is. As a result, I don't shed any tears for anyone arguing that their heirs should earn income off of work that was already completed.
When you're terminally ill with a family and skilled enough to possibly produce a best seller, knowing that they're going to benefit long enough to get independent is motivation to write a book. Why bother if your family isn't gong to benefit.
Cutting off copyright at the instance of death will not encourage people close to the end of life.
I think as a society, we can risk not encouraging, those on their death bed to produce something that they wouldn't have produced if not for 70 additional years of protection beyond their death. We'll survive without all of those works which have been created on ones death bed.
Personally, I believe that the time of the death of the creator shouldn't matter at all.
The creator might have dependents. Nothing wrong with the heirs getting the copyright for up to 14 or even 28 years.
There is something wrong with the heirs getting the copyright. The purpose of the copyright is to encourage more development of the art. Once you're dead you're no longer going to be developing your art. You're not being encouraged to create more art, you're dead. Letting your mooching dependents, continue to mooch off of additional income that would have gone to you isn't beneficial to society at all.
While I don't mind a government organization tackling poverty, I think it's sad that the affairs are in such a disarray that a school district has to do these things. All of the poverty tackling services should be separated from the school budget.
Reading has become a relentless exercise in self-validation, which is why we get impatient when writers don't come out and simply tell us what they're arguing.
Well before I started using the internet I've always been impatient with writers who don't say what they're trying to say. The internet didn't change that. I'm sorry, but I've never liked fluff; and honestly never got the whole obsession with reading between the lines and interpreting other meanings from something that 'should' be implied by what the author was writing. It's probably why I would get frustrated with how I loved to read, would read more than most of my peers, but would struggle in English class, or on reading tests.
This graph seems to indicate that the problem of lack of women in computer science correlated pretty directly with the rise of the home computer and video games in the mid 80's.
And what conclusions do you draw from that correlation?
Kylo Ren is not a fully trained Sith, and screws up. He seems to be losing it by the end of the movie.
Kylo Ren isn't Sith, he's a Knight of Ren. Fully trained or not, he was capable of killing off all of the other Jedi apprentices, and performing other impressive feats with the force through most of the movies. Plus, we learn from all other Star Wars movies that "losing it" makes you more powerful in the Dark side.
Rey effectively becomes the most powerful, well trained Light Side force user in a day. It's dumb, and extremely inconsistent with the rest of Star Wars.
Fine, make hyperspacing into gravity wells possible. But once possible, anyone can do it. Even military grade rockets, once made possible there's no reason for any weapon to be anything but hydrogen bombs mounted on planetary defensive penetrating rockets. Through lazy writing J.J. did it again where he gave his hero's an ability just for the convenience of the plot.
Poe Dameron pulls a resurrection that would make Jesus jealous. Zero explanations provided.
First of all, love the line. Secondly, Poe does explain what happened. He basically woke up from the wreck after Fin had already walked off.
Why do Rey an Leia hug at the end? Did they even meet before that?
Women are sensitive to each others feelings. Leia, master diplomat and politician, saw someone who was emotionally upset and alone, walking off of the Millennium Falcon. Either way, not a huge deal breaker in the movie.
I more or less concur with the rest of your statements.
Okay then. I agree, it's really dumb that Rey would tell Fin to get into the lower turret when she was going to be flying low. I wonder if in the "Making of" videos one of the actors will relay how they pointed this out and were told to shut up, like when the actors did the same with training astronauts on how to drill vs. training drillers on how to go into space in Armageddon.
It also bugged me that Finn went to the lower gun seat and somehow still managed to pick off the TIEs even though Rey was hugging the ground for a good part of the chase - the upper gun would have made a lot more sense.
The only conclusion I could come to is that at that point in time the Falcon didn't have an upper turret, and Rey knew that. Perhaps when it comes out on DVD I can look at that scene, frame by frame to see if a turret was there. It was trying to see it during the scene and it didn't seem obvious that there was an upper turret.
I see now that the whole idea of what movie and movie going is, has changed. It is a much larger "consumer experience" that involves merchandizing, social media, a plethora of buttons being pushed cleverly on kids and their parents, social engineering, social media, stiffing political correctness.......and the quality of the actual film is not significant anymore! It is a product, not a movie!
Have you seen Space Balls? They make fun of the fact that Star Wars was over merchandised. You can find interviews with George Lucas talking about how he plans merchandising around the movies he makes. If you thought merchandising was an after thought with the original trilogy, you are so, so naive.
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She DID DO IT.
That's what peoples beef is with that part. After watching six movies where they talked about years of training, and mastery, and even the masters not using the light side of the force much; The Force Awakens just lets Rey do whatever because it's really convenient to make her the super-est super hero ever. It's glaringly inconsistent.
Why do you not think she would be able to use force persuasion immediately after she successfully resisting Kylo's mind assault?
Because they're two separate things? And probably how to mentally accomplish them using the force are quite different. Besides, seeing someone do something with ease doesn't mean that you can even come close to do it. If that's how life worked we'd all be pro ball players.
He had one really good trick he was an expert at (stopping a blaster bolt)
Unless of course it's fired by Chewbacca, in front of him, when he has his lightsaber ignited.
She didn't spontaneously use the Force, she used half-forgotten lessons.
Was that the problem the Jedi were having previously? Instead of going through decades of training to even be a candidate for the 'trials', what the Jedi masters should have been doing all along was wiping their Padawans memory's so they could effectively use the force though half-forgotten lessons. Forgotten lessons are key to using the force!
Are you judging the use of the force based off of the size of the object? I think Yoda would not approve.
And the force was strong with Han.
No it wasn't. That was kind of the point of a Han in Star Wars. A guy able to pull off cool\lucky feats without the use of the force.
The Force Awakens seems to me to be the one thus far where the force is applied disproportionately. When this page is updated with those numbers, it should stick out like a sore thumb.
Just leave it at 14 years, renewable once, from publication, and it'll work out fine.
Sounds good to me.
For the vast majority of people, their streams of incomes end with their death. If I make my money by building widgets, once I'm dead, I'm no longer making widgets, and not receiving anymore income for them. The money I earned from building the widget is already earned. My heirs won't get anymore money, despite how awesome and well used my widget is. As a result, I don't shed any tears for anyone arguing that their heirs should earn income off of work that was already completed.
When you're terminally ill with a family and skilled enough to possibly produce a best seller, knowing that they're going to benefit long enough to get independent is motivation to write a book. Why bother if your family isn't gong to benefit. Cutting off copyright at the instance of death will not encourage people close to the end of life.
I think as a society, we can risk not encouraging, those on their death bed to produce something that they wouldn't have produced if not for 70 additional years of protection beyond their death. We'll survive without all of those works which have been created on ones death bed.
Personally, I believe that the time of the death of the creator shouldn't matter at all.
The creator might have dependents. Nothing wrong with the heirs getting the copyright for up to 14 or even 28 years.
There is something wrong with the heirs getting the copyright. The purpose of the copyright is to encourage more development of the art. Once you're dead you're no longer going to be developing your art. You're not being encouraged to create more art, you're dead. Letting your mooching dependents, continue to mooch off of additional income that would have gone to you isn't beneficial to society at all.
While I don't mind a government organization tackling poverty, I think it's sad that the affairs are in such a disarray that a school district has to do these things. All of the poverty tackling services should be separated from the school budget.
Reading has become a relentless exercise in self-validation, which is why we get impatient when writers don't come out and simply tell us what they're arguing.
Well before I started using the internet I've always been impatient with writers who don't say what they're trying to say. The internet didn't change that. I'm sorry, but I've never liked fluff; and honestly never got the whole obsession with reading between the lines and interpreting other meanings from something that 'should' be implied by what the author was writing. It's probably why I would get frustrated with how I loved to read, would read more than most of my peers, but would struggle in English class, or on reading tests.
This graph seems to indicate that the problem of lack of women in computer science correlated pretty directly with the rise of the home computer and video games in the mid 80's.
And what conclusions do you draw from that correlation?
Yes - there was money in it so women were squeezed out of the profession.
And there isn't money in Law, Medicine, or the other STEM fields?
I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about an innate bias towards liking working/playing with computers. Not the effect of social stigmas in general.
It’s still an open issue whether males and females have built-in biases that, for example, lead fewer women to be programmers,
I disagree that it's still open. We all know that the built in biases are there. Where do you think the "social stigma" would have come from?
Wow sexist much?
Not too much.
What ever gave you the idea that Star Wars had consistency?
All of the other Star Wars I have seen and read thus far.
Maybe Rey isn't as ultra-competent as we were led to believe. ;-)
Sssshhhh. Don't tell any of the columnists over at the Mary Sue.
Kylo Ren is not a fully trained Sith, and screws up. He seems to be losing it by the end of the movie.
Kylo Ren isn't Sith, he's a Knight of Ren. Fully trained or not, he was capable of killing off all of the other Jedi apprentices, and performing other impressive feats with the force through most of the movies. Plus, we learn from all other Star Wars movies that "losing it" makes you more powerful in the Dark side.
Rey effectively becomes the most powerful, well trained Light Side force user in a day. It's dumb, and extremely inconsistent with the rest of Star Wars.
Fine, make hyperspacing into gravity wells possible. But once possible, anyone can do it. Even military grade rockets, once made possible there's no reason for any weapon to be anything but hydrogen bombs mounted on planetary defensive penetrating rockets. Through lazy writing J.J. did it again where he gave his hero's an ability just for the convenience of the plot.
Poe Dameron pulls a resurrection that would make Jesus jealous. Zero explanations provided.
First of all, love the line. Secondly, Poe does explain what happened. He basically woke up from the wreck after Fin had already walked off.
Why do Rey an Leia hug at the end? Did they even meet before that?
Women are sensitive to each others feelings. Leia, master diplomat and politician, saw someone who was emotionally upset and alone, walking off of the Millennium Falcon. Either way, not a huge deal breaker in the movie.
I more or less concur with the rest of your statements.
The guns are there: http://overmental.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MF-sky-790x337.jpg
Okay then. I agree, it's really dumb that Rey would tell Fin to get into the lower turret when she was going to be flying low. I wonder if in the "Making of" videos one of the actors will relay how they pointed this out and were told to shut up, like when the actors did the same with training astronauts on how to drill vs. training drillers on how to go into space in Armageddon.
Everyone has all but concluded that Rey is the daughter of Luke.
I know I'm going to be pretty disappointed if in Ep. VIII Luke doesn't say to Rey, "No, I am your father".
It also bugged me that Finn went to the lower gun seat and somehow still managed to pick off the TIEs even though Rey was hugging the ground for a good part of the chase - the upper gun would have made a lot more sense.
The only conclusion I could come to is that at that point in time the Falcon didn't have an upper turret, and Rey knew that. Perhaps when it comes out on DVD I can look at that scene, frame by frame to see if a turret was there. It was trying to see it during the scene and it didn't seem obvious that there was an upper turret.
I see now that the whole idea of what movie and movie going is, has changed. It is a much larger "consumer experience" that involves merchandizing, social media, a plethora of buttons being pushed cleverly on kids and their parents, social engineering, social media, stiffing political correctness.......and the quality of the actual film is not significant anymore! It is a product, not a movie!
Have you seen Space Balls? They make fun of the fact that Star Wars was over merchandised. You can find interviews with George Lucas talking about how he plans merchandising around the movies he makes. If you thought merchandising was an after thought with the original trilogy, you are so, so naive.