-Yeah, that argument might work if the Jedi were actually nonviolent. How many flashy lightsaber battles do they have in the prequels, which might I remind everyone are still very much canon? Hell, the lightsaber itself is a Jedi specific weapon that's only good for maiming and killing, while blasters have a stun setting. Just because they have a kind of zen monk thing going on doesn't make them pacifists.
-Regardless of Linkara and so many others' theme wanking about the death of Snoke, it still leaves the story without an effective main antagonist. Kylo just doesn't cut it because he's not a convincing physical threat to Rey after getting his ass whupped twice. Plus you can't have him be a conflicted villain and have a straightforward, exciting action scene climax, which Star Wars is and has always been about.
-Agreed and Linkara would be one of the worst military commanders of all time. He would basically be this guy:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q80DmaoN_I4...but fat. There's no such thing as a 100% guarantee of success in military maneuvers, and it's pretty reasonable to assume that ramming a big cannon with one of those car sized skimmer things would mess it up pretty badly, which looked like it was working before Rose stopped Finn. That's one of the really exceptional things about Last Jedi. So many things the men are berated for being dumb and wrong for doing by the strong, independent wahmen work or are working. They just involve making sacrifices, which happens anyway. Tons of people die anyway as a result of the strong, independent wahmens' actions, but we're not supposed to care because they're background extras. But when Poe's plan gets background extras killed,
then we're supposed to care for some reason.
Other Linkara exceptionalism:
-I'll give Luke knowing about the events of the prequel trilogy a pass because he had lots of time to study them, but I'm not sure how he could get "the Jedi were too badass" as the reason things went bad out of them. Palpy still could've manufactured a civil war in the Republic and used it to seize power. The only real difference is that Dooku wouldn't be in charge of the Separatists since he's a former Jedi. Palpy would just find another pawn to do it, presumably a non-force user, and they wouldn't have to worry about the Jedi interfering.
-His Holdo and Poe defense is shit for the same reason as his Finn and Rose defense. See above.
-Leia having mega uber force powers is cool because she's Luke's sister, but Linky also thought Rey being a Palpatine was bad and she should be a nobody. So being naturally uber strong in the force being justified by your bloodline is good in TLJ but bad in ROS.
BTW, I think that was the best thing that was done with Rey in the whole series. She's still OP as hell, but at least they gave her an actual struggle and flaws in ROS that's more than "Kylo won't bow to my space wahman Jesus goodness like everyone else" that was her "flaw" in TLJ. Her being inclined toward the Dark Side is way more interesting and works a lot better for an OP character. Fans kept bringing it up for that exact reason, and JJ finally took the hint (too late, as with everything he did in ROS that had potential to be good). It wasn't well executed, but at least it had potential.
