He's supposed to be an important character (in this movie a villain). Villains should inspire fear, or at least come across as formidable. Kylo fails at this the minute Rey gets on the Starkiller. He wins 0 important battles and fails to establish a dominance of any sort. "Oh look I can pick on the non force sensitive" yeah great, Finn can't use the force but he still gets a hit on you in lightsaber combat and when you do pick on a force sensitive who has far less training than you, you still lose. There is no reason to fear him because Rey can kick his ass six ways from Sunday while he begs her for a reach around. If he had either won his lightsaber battle (or at least landed a hit on Rey) or extracted the map from her I would have a lot more respect for him. I think he will be better in 8 and 9, but he is a little bitch in 7
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Well to be fair Kylo [i]just[/i] killed his father and was also shot by Chewbacca's op asf bowcaster.
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He still got hit by a janitor with minimal combat exp who couldn't even use the force and was wielding one of the most difficult weapons to use. That's also why I would still have accepted him losing to Rey as long as he got a jab/small slice or two on her. Hell he could have still got his ass kicked and I wouldn't have cared if he would have been able to extract the map from her earlier
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Finn wasn't just a janitor, he was a first order trooper trained in martial arts and firearms just like any other. He was assigned to sanitation on Starkiller base... ask anyone in the military, mopping is 95% of the job for infantry.
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I see your point. That still doesn't change the fact he is using a weapon that is extremely difficult for the non force sensitive to use and even requires training for force sensitives to use properly
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It's just a sword. Lots of non jedi used lightsabers. First order troopers are trained in close combat weapons, as demonstrated by Finns first duel.
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Just a sword? The blade is weightless, but is still subject to the rest of the laws of physics. Do you know how hard it is to swing something that has no intertia?
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It's more than just a sword due to the properties of plasma (I think this was the main reason?). They require much more strength and dexterity to use making them far more difficult to wield with out the force and thus very dangerous for the wielder.
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Non force users wielded lightsabers frequently. They fell out of style when it wasn't cool to be a jedi anymore.