I didn't like that scene either, but I don't really know how you're attributing that to it being PC rather than it being just a genuine mistake.
It was genuinely diverse, people of all different races and a relatively even spread of both males and females in it, kind of like they were trying to reflect the people of Earth, not some rural place in Kentucky. Like I said, the Leia-Rey thing was just a mistake and Leia was actually supposed to hug Chewie (IIRC), so it's not like they were actively trying to favor the "PC cast". TPM on the other hand was completely stale, everyone talked in the same monotone voice and had no personality. It's torture watching it.
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There's nothing wrong with a diverse cast, but it seems disingenuous to me to suggest there isn't anything agenda based when in the SW celebration panel, Kathleen Kennedy said "Strong female character" so often that if you played a drinking game while watching it you'd die of alcohol poisoning, and a Rogue One writer said the empire was an evil white supremacist organization.
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I'd rather have a rip-off script than a completely original yet dogshit one. TFA's script allows for an entertaining movie with good dialogue and acting, TPM's doesn't, really.
It's passable because it's been so long since we've had a movie of the sort, and also because ANH itself was good. No doubt the actual script was better and felt more like Star Wars than TPM, but I definitely felt they were playing it way too safe. Maybe that's fair given the reception of the Prequels.
That being said, the rip-off spread to Snoke and Starkiller Base, which is a significant mark against the movie in my opinion. Palpatine in TPM was a significantly superior villain to Snoke, and there's nothing really comparable to Starkiller Base (but then again, they weren't going for a shallow Death Star in TPM). I also think that the glossing over of the destruction of the New Republic capital compounds my problems with Starkiller Base.
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Yeah but the gungans had actual unique technology as opposed to the ewoks using sticks and rocks.
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Yeah. R1 had infinitely better villains. Vader shits on Kylo in every sense of the word, and the same can be said of Krennic & Hux and Tarkin & Snoke respectively.
Personally, I also enjoyed the protagonists a bit more. Then there's everything else. Better humour, better atmosphere, better dialogue, better ending; R1 did everything better, really. And of course the Death Star >>> Starkiller Base.
Although that alien torture thing in R1 was a bit weird and felt like an afterthought.
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