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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

Because thanks to Adam Driver you actually felt Kylos struggle. Anakin was whiny since Christensen wasnt able to give his rage the proper impact. Kylo is meant to be whiny because he is nothing more than a little kid lost in his ways. He wants to be a member of the dark side but is constantly tempted by the light. He is afraid to turn to the good side again. He is not a bad ass and he isnt meant to be one. The scebe where Han dies is the perfect example of this. Kylo thinls by killing his father he did the one thing that finally pushes him completely to the dark side which is why he is thanking his father after he killed him.

If Ren wasn't meant to seem like a badass, they wouldn't have given him a lightsaber that got fans debating on how the hell it works months ahead of the movie, and they wouldn't have shown him stop that beam in mid-air at the beginning of the film. Being a grown man with the scared mentality of a little child shouldn't save the character from criticism, it should spark the start of it. I got nothing out of Driver's performance but a condensed version of Anakin's flaws. At least with him we knew why he acted that way, even if his reasoning was nonsense. They gave us barely anything with Ren, like why he views the Resistance as murderers, thieves, and liars. Don't just say they were lies fed to him by Snoke, lies need some half-truth or a moment taken out of context to be believed, so what was he shown to make him think that? Not showing that leaves him as just an idiot to the audience, unless we're supposed to take from that that Leia and Han didn't even tell him anything about Darth Vader, leaving Snoke to fill the gaps (meaning you make two old heroes look like dumb jackasses for the sake of making a new villain. When has that ever been a good idea?)

At least in A New Hope we had the lie that Vader and Anakin were separate people, so when you first saw Vader he was just a walking dark scary knight, and his backstory wasn't muddled with the question of "why is he this way?" Ben was raised by at least 3 people who had no reason to not make it clear that "Grandpa kind became an asshole, and we have a responsibility to have not another person from this family become a planet destroying douche", but somehow he ended up a 5 planet destroying douche. At least give a real hint as to why he's like this way, beyond the fact that Snoke got to him (somehow, vaguely that they're saving for a sequel), which just implies that Luke is a shit uncle and by doing so you're throwing your old protagonist under the bus so that Rey and Finn can take the spotlight.