But it means something to the AUDIENCE and as we know evoking paratext emotion is more important than narrative
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Replying to @Plutoburns @BetaDecayPlus and
So, I had less problem with that in Wrath of Khan than I do with TRoS. Because in the movie, people either already know about him from their history books, or they react as if it's any other name for a dangerous person. Rey responds as if she's known that name all her life.
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
It's fine using a character the audience knows in order to evoke emotion, but in the case of TRoS the characters respond like the audience does, not like an actual in-world character would. They genuinely respond as if they've watched the original trilogy.
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
I don’t understand this criticism. Why would people not know who the Senator who took control of the Republic as a dictator and ruled it as a fascist Empire for decades was? What evidence is there to suggest people wouldn’t know who he is?
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Replying to @della_morte_ @Plutoburns and
That was 30 years before, and someone like Rey has been living as a scavenger on a remote desert planet for decades. Even if she knows the name, do you think she'd know what a Sith is? what danger they pose? Even the very concept of a Jedi was reduced to legend already.
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Replying to @chton @della_morte_ and
Hell, a few years after the fall of the empire, even our dear Mandalorian had never heard of a Jedi or the Force. They're significant in the movies but to the average person in the universe? The lowly scavenger on some remote planet?
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
Rey is studying to become a Jedi, first with Luke, then with Leia in these films. I think it’s okay for the film to assume she’s been informed of these matters without it being explicitly shown onscreen.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @chton and
Assuming she only knows what she knew before the beginning of TFA also ignores everything she learns both on and off screen over the course of the next two films.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @Plutoburns and
Fair, she'll probably have had history lessons, and the Jedi texts have information (how that info is still valid after all that time is a different topic).
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Replying to @chton @della_morte_ and
But I feel they still responded too personally, as if they knew him, not as if they've been told about him in a history lesson.
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Leia did know him, as does anyone Leia's age (like Pryde says he did) And all the younger people know Leia and basically worship her and her legendary achievements
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