Discussion History Characters / SexEducation

I think some of this is unfair jumping to conclusions. Where was it stated or implied that he exposed Erin to \\\"have Maeve to himself\\\"? He comes from a bad background himself, and he knew Maeve was wary of her mother. Deleting Otis\\\'s message was a dick move, but we have to remember that the only time Isaac had met him was at the party, where Otis publicly humiliated Maeve and himself. He could just as easily have wanted to protect her from that mess, considering she had just lost her mom and sister.

I think \\\"manipulative StalkerWithACrush\\\" and \\\"misguided attempt of protection\\\" are both valid/plausible explanations, but I don\\\'t want to call him one or the other until his motivations are cleared up.

--- The films introducing new Force abilities came to a head in \\\'\\\'The Last Jedi\\\'\\\', where many felt that the new Force powers didn\\\'t make sense or fit with what was understood about the Force. This largely stems from how vague the Force was originally. In the Original Trilogy, the Force was always portrayed as mysterious, in large part because only around four people in the movies before Luke learned of the Force actually used it (Obi-Wan, Yoda, Palpatine, and Vader), so it being vague helped keep the world fantastical and unique, while also setting a benchmark for Luke as to what would be expected of him. The Force powers were also relatively basic variations of telekinesis, mind tricks and telepathy, with the most flashy one being Force lightning. The Prequel Trilogy and especially the Expanded Universe came up with several new applications of the Force, like \\\"Force absorption\\\" to counter Force lightning, and Battle Meditation to motivate entire groups or armies. But the time period was usually when the Jedi were at their strongest, so all these new usages made sense since the Jedi had been around long enough to develop them. Most of their abilities also worked with what the audience knew as well. \\\'\\\'The Force Awakens\\\'\\\' suddenly introduced \\\"Force freeze\\\" against blaster bolts and even \\\'\\\'people\\\'\\\', which seemed unlike anything Yoda or Palpatine could do at their peak (and even Vader had to use his armored gloves to absorb and deflect blaster shots), but many fans thought little of it at the time because the character doing it was Kylo Ren, aka, the son of Leia and Han, thus meaning his natural talent for the Force was easily understandable and the abilities in question were extensions of previously used abilities. Then \\\'\\\'The Last Jedi\\\'\\\' suddenly introduced other such Force powers like the ability to fly in space via the Force, the ability to create a nearly tangible Force image of the user, and the power to link people physically with the Force, alongside implying the Force could directly empower people to do things like with Rey becoming strong enough to match Kylo. Each of these new powers seemed far too extreme with what was known about the Force, resulting in many feeling like they don\\\'t belong and don\\\'t make sense with what was understood about the Force, let alone the universe (like making the ubiquitous and long-established holograms and spaceships for communication and travel feel obsolete).

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--- Many fans complained that \\\'\\\'The last jedi\\\'\\\' introduced new Force powers out of the blue, citing in particular Kylo Ren stopping a blaster ray in mid-air, Leia (who was never shown as a practioner of the Force before) flying through the vacuum of space in The Last Jedi after being blasted out of it, Snoke somehow creating a \\\"Force Bond\\\" between Kylo and Rey without either\\\'s consent and knowledge, and using his abilities for tactical telepathy, as well as Luke projecting an apparition of himself halfway across the galaxy. This is true of the OT as well, where the Force and its limits and capacities were never fully spelled out and was elaborated on carefully over three films going from using the force as a guide to make a \\\"one-in-the-million\\\" shot in ANH all the way to Force Lightning in ROTJ. What made it work again is that since the OT came first, it was setting up the world, and the use of the Force effects were fairly subtle and grounded, most of it being short range (Luke and Vader levitating nearby objects around them, jumping short distances and in indoor settings as opposed to the vacuum), and even Palpatine was established by Yoda on his deathbed to be a dangerous figure who Luke should be careful of, building up that the Emperor was a different order of threat, which made Force Lightning work in context. In the case of the ST, it was following on after the PT which by and large did not introduce any new force abilities, and mostly elaborated on and stylized the Force elements seen on-screen in the OT, and largely within the same characters (Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Palpatine). The ST also did not elaborate on-screen or explain how and why Snoke and his coven, and Luke Skywalker and his new Jedi temple tapped into the Force in ways unknown to anything that came before. The use of force, with the exception of Luke, was largely shown among new characters and those never shown practicing the Force before, making it a much harder sell among regular fans who had seen all the earlier films, of which the ST is a continuation, and not a reboot of. What came off as a surprise and WhamShot in earlier films now comes off as NewPowersAsThePlotDemands and AssPull.