Again, it’s not about new force powers like Ghosting. It’s about breaking the base elements that make the force what it is in the worldbuilding of Star Wars. We can agree till the cows come home about force powers and abilities...but if you take away what makes the force the force...you’re not really working in the…

Or I’m asking for internal consistency in fiction as a critique. One way paints me as a reality-obscured fanboy, and the other a critic with an eye for world building...whichever brush you wish to paint me with is up to you, I’m happy to know I’m the latter.

I will....as soon as all the people who still bitch and moan about Superman’s portrayal in MoS and BvS get over it...oh wait...they haven’t.

Wot? He was always connected to the force. He merely didn’t know how to use it like a Jedi yet. Unless you think him being a spectacular pilot in his T-16 sky hopper was just “gud skillz”?

Right. Can’t have an opinion that grinds against the general status quo opinion of universal love the movie gets. Nope. Gotta be a basement fanboy who “needs to go outside”. Sure.

Very true, and that was why I was weirded out when I asked why she was behaving the way she was on set...and various people told me it was because she thought her father garnered her some kind of extra pull.

Except this breaks a fundamental about the force. It’s not a “new force power”, it’s a weird convoluted thing Rian invented so Luke could be in exile and ignore everyone and everything that MIGHT have talked him out of it before Rey showed up, including...Oh I dunno...the ghosts of his damned father and mentor...both…

There are many people who speak of the force in that way and canon Yoda even goes on a three episode arc journey to learn that is indeed how it is in The Clone Wars S6...so how they are able to contradict that here is...interesting.

Agreed. In all seriousness though, Lucasfilm Story Group have a JOB because of “canon”...so when they pull shit like this, or allow it...I’m astonished.

“You know the force isn’t real, right?”

I mean, me too....but we shouldn’t BROADCAST it. ;)

Oh no, I get that. It’s just that the TLJ script is literally FULL of choices that Rian made to change canon JUST because of other things he wanted to do. It’s like he was asked to work in the Star Wars universe, and then disregarded the basics of it.

A non-canon game? I did not.

“Luke’s traumatic journey inspired him to cut himself off from the Force altogether”

I actually really like Cruise as Lestat. Shrug. Pitt kind of phones in Louis, but meh.

Indeed. I think Neil Jordan’s “Interview” film is an under appreciated masterpiece of nailing the source material.

I wish it was, but I heard from others (mostly just grips, or lighting techs) in the 2000's that this behaviour never really stopped. It is what it is.

Like I said. Worked on sets in the 90's, and this is what I saw every damned day form her. His whole thing wasn’t rumours, he just told people to not hire her form what I understand.

There is a period right after Memnoch where the Mayfair Witches, and the Vampires unite in a series of books, and they are damned good as a result...but most people checked out as of Memnoch.

Two things.