That’s what the Stormtroopers are for.

What’s missing from these images are the couple hundred tourists standing in front of you holding up their phones.

Of course he is, Young Adult books can’t exactly be taxing to write - dystopia, young chosen one hero, hero’s journey plot, 2-dimensional secondary characters, society split into groups - we’re not talking about Dostoevsky or Tolstoy here, let alone Dick, Asimov or Clarke, Simak, Le Guin, Bradbury or Sturgeon.

Anyone…

Hundreds of years ago, our worldview changed forever when we discovered the Earth is round.

You mean it’s like they just picked up where they left off?

Maybe, I don’t know, stop judging everything before it’s finished.

But that’s how these people think.

One does not simply walk into the Russian Federation.

There was a man sitting behind me that laughed at every single joke in every single trailer. Loudly. And obnoxiously. I mean, he laughed at the M&M’s “silence your phones” PSA. I thought he was going to die of apoplexy during the sloth joke in that trailer. Fortunately he shut up when the text started to scrawl or I…

Why doesn’t ANYONE notice that he’s badly injured by the crossbow blaster? He is bleeding out and still takes out a trained stormtrooper and almost beats a nascent jedi.

I haven’t actually watched independence day, or Indiana Jones.

Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen would disagree with you.

A non-Jedi waving around a lightsaber for the first time, in actual combat, with no prior training, and ending the fight without having lopped off at least one of his own limbs, does show a kind of preternatural competence...

At the point Rey fights him, Ren had been shot in the gut and slashed several times by a lightsaber. She didn’t beat him at full strength, she beat him when he already had the shit beat out of him.

Finn was raised as a soldier and storm troopers have melee weapons as seen by the whirly mace lazer thing when finn first tries using the light saber. I’d never say he is really competent with it, it looks like hes bludgeoning with it most of the time. He also seems super average at shooting most of the time? In the…

Likewise Poe is an amazing pilot that kicks ass and never dies...

Well, you know, Stormtroopers are known for being “deadly precise.”

Although he really wasn’t that competent with the lightsaber, he got beat up both times he tried to use it. But he did have great aim.

Let’s be honest though...having the best aim of any Stormtrooper is a pretty low bar to set. That’s like being the fastest sloth.