Also, regardless of what you think of JJ Abrams or the Star Wars sequels, what Abrams did with Ren is genius from a marketing/critique level
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I've never put out a single movie. Abrams has put out a lot, almost all of them referential to other people's franchises.
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Even without that experience, if there's a really cool thing in the Original Movie and I'm making a sequel without it?
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I know I'm going to read, if I do well, "[x] does well with this followup, but without [thing] it just isn't the same."
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So Abrams KNEW that whoever was the antagonist of episode VII, he was going to be reading:
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AT BEST "[villain's actor] puts in a great performance, but in the end is just a pale shadow of JEJ as Darth Vader."
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So JJ gets tired of hearing that shit, and goes and makes a villain that is revealed halfway through to be afraid of being pale shadow of DV
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Like, how many journalists walked into Force Awakens thinking "I am going to OWN JJ Abrams by pointing out Adam Driver isn't Darth Vader"
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And sure enough, first scene, black mask, deep voice, murders people: "Driver... powerful performance... pale shadow of Darth Vader" writes
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Then, midway through when Rey actually says that, they're like... wtf? Shit. Well, I need a new own.
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