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The Han Solo Death Scene Was Highly Flawed In Multiple Ways
The scene in "Star Wars The Force Awakens" where Han Solo gets killed, is also HIGHLY FLAWED, in multiple ways:
1. First, why does that scene have to take place on a plank over a bottomless pit? That setting is a dead giveaway right there and ruins the surprise. Why does every major Star Wars character have to die by falling into a bottomless pit? Why are there so many bottomless pits in Star Wars? You rarely see one in real life, so why are they common place in the Star Wars universe?
Why are there planks over bottomless pits without side rails for protection? Come on. What is JJ Abrams' preoccupation with high altitude planks without rails? He showed that too in his first Star Trek movie remake of 2009 in the scene where Kirk and Spock were in a shootout with a Romulan villain inside a big Romulan ship while running and jumping on high altitude planks without railings. Why the heck would a starship have planks high up in the air inside of it, with no protective railing? So that crew members can fall to their death while performing their duties inside the ship? lol. It makes no sense. Stupid logic. There's no logic to it. It's all show. JJ Abrams never puts anything logical in his movies, he just follows dumb cliches and does what his Illuminati superiors want him to do, like promote multiculturalism and affirmative action in his movies. Why couldn't they find a better director to make these films? Not a stupid one like JJ Abrams.
2. Second, why would Han Solo be so dumb as to walk on a high altitude plank with no railing, toward a guy who had turned to evil and embraced the dark side of the Force? I mean come on. Even if he's your son, you don't approach a man who's sold his soul to the devil and turned to evil, in such a dangerous environment. You simply cannot trust such a guy, even if he's your flesh and blood. Gee whiz. Just like you do not approach a dog with rabies on a high altitude cliff. Even if it's your dog, the rabies have turned it to evil, so you are not supposed to approach it up close. Common sense. Duh. JJ Abrams should try doing that if he's so dumb. Even a man with average intelligence wouldn't do that. So why have Han Solo, a hero and legend of the Star Wars franchise, do something that reckless and foolish? That scene made Han Solo out to be a total idiot. And even if Han Solo had to approach him, at least he should have kept his distance from him for caution's sake. No need to get that close to such an evil stupid guy like Kylo Ren. You do not trust an enemy, duh, you keep your distance so you can prepare in case he decides to attack. Duh.
3. Third, in the scene when Han Solo gets close to Kylo Ren on the plank and tells him to come home, Kylo agrees for a while and surrenders his weapons and light saber. At that moment Kylo holds out his saber in his hand, surrendering it to Han Solo. So why doesn't Han Solo take it? When you surrender your weapon to your opponent in defeat, he will usually take it right away. You see it all the time in movies. Even in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indiana Jones (also played by Harrison Ford) surrenders his pistol to Bellock in the first scene in the Amazon jundle, Bellock takes it right away. He doesn't hesitate.
Yet Han Solo doesn't do that. Instead, he just stands there for what seems like a very long time (perhaps the longest minute in suspense). What is he waiting for? Is he waiting for Kylo Ren to change his mind and kill him? lol. Or what? That logic is not explained. If Han Solo had taken his weapons, then Kylo couldn't have changed his mind and would have been at a disadvantage. So why didn't Han disarm him at the first opportunity for safety's sake? It boggles the mind, and is more likely a result of JJ Abrams stupidity for sensationalism' sake then anything. Either way, it's sad to see Star Wars so dumbed down for cheap suspense.
4. Fourth, why have Han Solo die in such a meaningless way? If he had to die (as Harrison Ford wanted), his death at least should mean something. He should have died trying to save his friends, or trying to save the Resistance. For example, he should have died while trying to blow up the "Star Killer" whether in his ship or on foot. Or in a laser shoot out with stormtroopers while being surrounded, like how Davy Crockett died in a blaze of glory while defending the Alamo. Those would have been far more sensible ways to kill off Han Solo than that stupid plank scene where he foolishly stands doing nothing for a long time in suspense, so that Kylo Ren can change his mind and kill him, which he should never have walked onto in the first place.
5. Fifth, Kylo Ren isn't even worthy of killing Han Solo. Han Solo made Star Wars great. He is the character that Star Wars fans loved and admired. Kylo Ren is nothing. He's a nobody in a mask. He has no accomplishments, no charisma, and does not even look scary like Darth Vader did. In fact, without his mask Kylo Ren looks like a stupid geeky video game nerd who lives in his mom's basement. He looks like a wimpy geek that you could probably kill with a BB gun even. lol. Definitely not in the same league as Han Solo. There's simply no balance here.
A great hero should be killed off by a great villain. People care about Han Solo because he's a hero and a legend with charisma, and a classic icon as well. But no one cares about Kylo Ren. If Kylo Ren slips on a banana peel and breaks his neck, no one will give him a second thought or mourn for him, cause he's nothing. Totally insignificant, and not even an impressive villain in any way. He looks like a cheap piece of shit, no more interesting than one of those dumb droid soldiers that were killed off easily in the Clone Wars. Overall, he just isn't worthy of being the one to take out Han Solo. A great hero should be hard to kill, not easy, and it should take more powerful forces and motives to kill him.
6. Sixth, Kylo Ren did not even have a reason or motive for killing Han Solo (who does not even look like his father, nor Leia his mother). There should at least be a back story for such an important killing, such as a revenge motive or something like that. Instead, it was a senseless kill for no reason. What a waste. A major death or kill should mean something. It should have a purpose for glory's sake. Even in the Shakespeare plays, most major killings and slayings had a noble motive and purpose. For example, the slaughters at the end of Hamlet, or the assassination of Julius Caesar, all had plausible motives and honorable intentions. Or at least revenge motives that are understandable.
But we have none of that in the scene where Kylo Ren kills Han Solo for no reason. Instead we are supposed to believe that Kylo kills Solo for no reason other than that he is evil and has turned to the dark side, and therefore is capable of randomly killing anyone, including his own father. Yeah right. Even the Nazis did not kill people that senselessly without motive. They only killed selectively and with purpose.
It's also implausible because no one would kill their own father in cold blood like that, unless he did him wrong in some grievous way, which was not the case here. When the Roman Emperor tyrant Nero had his own mother killed, for example, it was because she was competing with him for power on the throne. She was trying to rival him. So even an evil depraved tyrant like Nero had a motive for killing his mother. Kylo Ren didn't. He did not have a self-defense motive, nor a revenge motive, nor a competition for power motive. Nothing.
If JJ Abrams was so lazy that he could not even provide a proper motive for Kylo's slaying of Han Solo, then JJ Abrams sucks and is more incompetent than his critics realize. He should be fired and disgraced for ruining such a great movie franchise like Star Wars and Star Trek.
So you see, that Han Solo death scene in the new Star Wars movie was flawed, senseless, illogical and stupid in multiple ways. JJ Abrams just totally sucks, plain and simple. There's never any logic, character, story or anything good in his films, only lots of CGI and special effects. I hope they get rid of him. He should be a camera operator or something. He just sucks as a director and isn't good at it. Why do they keep using him? All in All, JJ Abrams simply SUCKS big time.
* Note: The above was posted on IMDB message boards. To check responses from fans, see here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/boa ... 613266?p=1