Back when i competed i found my women opponents to be more dangerous then men... lets not forget women are faster then men.. they are able to multi task better than men this has been proven many times... and as a former iron worker i had no issue with women on jobs... Treat all with open mind and care for we all are humans on this little blue ball
I think that is relative, but generally they are smaller so therefore require less strength to move quickly. But even more to the point, it has been my experience that women are far more competitive than men. Not so much in frequency, but in level of determination to win at all costs. Also, if I'm not mistaken, it has been proven that women have a greater affinity for multitasking due to the evolutionary role of "minding the offspring." Men on the other hand are more target oriented as hunters. Not to say that either can't do a particular job. Case in point, Kath actually
is a hunter, and I am great with taking care of kids.
Agreed.
I may not know the full extent of the social climate in the US but I've seen my share of testimonies from both side. And my conclusion is that people there seems to think too much in absolutes and not with enough nuances x)
But hey, I hope I'll be able to visit one day and talk to people directly.
Excellent observation. And you're right. There are far too many here with the thought process that "You either agree with or you're evil."
No one Almost no one is willing to compromise anymore. And yes, I probably have my moments.
But nowadays we even have a "cancel-culture"; a bunch of whiny Millennials and their offspring complaining about everything that doesn't give them warm fuzzies. They're basically out to censor the world until THEY are satisfied. I hate people.
Rey being good at fighting shouldn't be a surprise. She had to in order to survive. As for her use of a lightsaber, if you have good tai sabaki and a practise with a weapon, you'll manage with other weapons. She never would have been able to defeat any prequels era lightsaber user, but it was enough to fight someone being cocky even after receiving a wookie bolt to the side... (devil's advocate a bit).
But flying the Falcon and using force powers? I call BS.
Practitioners can probably back me up on this, but there is a huge difference between being a fighter and being a scrapper. I highly doubt that Rey received any formal combat training. Most likely she learned how to swing a long stick and crack some heads. Fighting spirit, maybe. But not a fighter.
Kyle was highly trained and determined to win. He was still trying to prove himself to Snoke. Unless, Kyle was merely powerful and not as trained as we were led to believe. Either way, he still had more skill with a saber and should not have lost.
I didn't have a problem with the way they did the Rey/Kylo Ren duel in Force Awakens, mainly because of the style used. It was more of a hack-n-slash/survival mode style. If they had been going at it like Anakin and Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith, I would have been loudly calling BS - Rey may have had some fighting skill but it was her first time using a lightsaber, and even though Kylo Ren had more general skill in using a lightsaber, there really were no Jedi around for him to duel at the time the movie takes place, so there's inexperience there. It was two novice duelists going at it, and it pretty much looked it.
Rey flying the Falcon solo (no pun intended) the first time she's in the cockpit? Yeah, that's a little sketchy, LOL.
But that's just it, hack and slash is feral and should be easily countered by even basic technique. Honestly Finn should have been the greater threat simply because he more than likely would have had melee weapons training, as seen when he fought TR-8R. As further evidenced in TROS, Kyle has more than enough skill to handle melee warriors.
Speaking of Falcon misappropriation, did anyone ever notice that Finn always took the ventral gun, never the dorsal? In TFA, "Oh no they shot the gun, it can't move." Did no one think to have Rey tell him to climb his dumbass into the
other gun turret, instead of her doing that ridiculous show boat maneuver? I also "love" how they always show Finn as though he's looking out the viewport of the turret.....in order to look out the BACK at pursuers. Guess no one paid attention that in that bitch fight scene post-Death Star-escape that Han and Luke were facing the top and bottom of the Falcon.
Agreed. And half of the reason is because they said the props were heavy... How the hell can you use a HEAVY lightsaber?? the hilt can be heavy but the whole prop should be balanced enough to looks like the blade is weightless. THAT is incompetence.
This was something I actually appreciated about how these movies were
filmed. Unlike the 2 generations of predecessors that used hilt with an aluminum rod to stand in for the blade, the ST saber props were effectively the same combat sabers that we all love to collect. In this, they should have had a more realistic weight, but they also cast REAL light on the actors' faces, even down to the reflections in their eyes and teeth.
I would like to point out that Rey had extensive knowledge of the Falcon before hand, and because of that, we can make the reasonable assumption that she has indeed been in the cockpit a few times.
Define "extensive knowledge". She saw it sitting there most of her life never flying and came to the conclusion that it was useless?
