Hey, no worries.

It sounds a helluva lot like this comment is meant for someone other than me. In any event, I would agree that plot holes and inconsistencies are often not fatal to a particular fictional work because it makes up for those shortcomings with other qualities.

He didn’t strike me as very trained. Finn puts up way more of a fight against Ren than he should be able to against an actually “Jedi arts” trained force user. Snoke’s and Ren’s references to “training” come off more as psychological mind games and indoctrination than anything concrete. The only thing he does with the…

No, practice is training only when there is guidance that establishes the foundation of good technique. Otherwise, it’s merely fucking around.

No, he had a year’s worth of practice, which is definitely not the same thing as training. Obi-Wan was dead, and he hadn’t met Yoda yet. And in any case, their successes at the force pull happen in pretty much the same way. They panic at first, then figure out in the moment that they need to relax and focus, and then…

She barely fought to a draw a similarly weakly trained and heavily injured force user; he had a hole in him from being shot by Chewie’s bowcaster, of all things!, and already winded from sparring with Finn, not to mention emotionally distracted because of the whole patricide thing.

Rey the OP Mary Sue (she was stronger than both Luke and Anakin the supposed “saviours” of the force)

Your history of science prof said this...at what institution?

I don’t know about “freedom fighter”, but people’s expectations of basic decency are eroded every time a person is illegitimately dinged and neither the person nor anyone else pushes back. Especially in cases where people have largely unfettered authority and act with basic impunity, the only way to check the misuse…

To be fair, the spelling of his (first) name ended up being an actual plot point, so that may have helped to make it stick.

It’s a loud 20%, but it’s still only 20%.

Sometimes, recapturing some basic human dignity means not doing what one is supposed to do, as far as the rules indicate. The captain may be king, but the captain is not god, and regardless if a captain demanded something extremely unreasonable of you would you cower before his or her authority or would you object?…

Contracts of adhesion (such as those that attach to the purchase of a use-license, such as a ticket) have a projected lifespan in court somewhere between that of a hungry diabetic and that of a wounded hemophiliac. Something that causes consternation to business owners everywhere: Just because you claim to have…

My outrage? I only noted that this particular application of this particular dress code seemed to have some morally suspicious results; as other commenters noted, it seems at least partially sexist in application, being punitive towards female casual clothes but not male casual clothes. A better dress code would be…

Of course. But the following ass-kissing chorus of “...and all is right with the world!” after the 10 year old is tossed for wearing leggings is not excused by that fact.

Often, rules change only with help from a public demonstration of how they are not good and moral.

Holy mashup, Batman! It’s the bastard intellectual love-child of Archimedes and Cardinal Richelieu.

If I were in a foreign land that advertised itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of opportunity and had giant statues and other icons all but shouting their welcoming stance, and all of those impressions were strongly reinforced by a lax enforcement of immigration laws, I think I might reasonably come to the…

Or, please explain in small convincing words why you think she was, in any way, an actual problem. The analogous task would be explaining why a police department would prioritize busts for small marijuana possession over investigating where all the heroin in the community is coming from.

The other 40% is determined by what gives them trouble-free digestion.