RE: On Failure and The Last Jedi
Actually I didn't say for sure he was lying, just that he could be or it could be "true from a certain point of view". Even if what he said was true it may not completely capture the circumstances of Rey's birth and it's true meaning. When she's looking into the mirror and the two shadows give way to her own reflection I think the message is that she has no parents, figuratively speaking. There is only her and the force.
I actually didn't mind the lightsaber throw. I felt that did a good job of setting up just how much Luke had changed, and how resistant he'd be to any attempt to get him back into the fight. When he did that I knew Rey had her work cut out for her. I was thinking scenes like the rock that Rey cuts with the lightsaber landing on the caretaker's wagon or BB-8 shooting those casino tokens like a machine gun.
What if he wasn’t lying, he was just “seeing”’her own assumptions? Or what the force wanted him to see? Or what HE wanted to see because he wouldn’t be able to bear someone else being born from the force?
And it’s funny... neither of those parts bothered me. BB-8 shooting the tokens was reminiscent of R2D2. I do agree that the Finn and Rose chase scene dragged on... and the initial scene with Poe and General Hux was over the top and made Hux look stupid instead of severe. They could have kept Poe’s joking, maybe cut it a little without diminishing Hux’s character.
All possible.
See I didn't like how they gave R2D2 a whole bunch of more gadgets in the prequels.
I was ok with the Poe and Hux scene. I like when people make fascists look stupid.