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It looks like they are going with the "CGI assisted" route with the animation, like they did with the movies... Which is ok I suppose. I dind't liek it all that much in the movies, but since they are probably stretching their budget a bit more on making a series, I am guessing the normal animation quality will suffer a bit. And while the movies did skip some stuff, and as much as I want to see the Berserk armor in action... Once the black swordsman arc starts, there isn't really anything I'd want to really skip... Although maybe the whole "bug" arc, while Guts is basically alone, only with Puck... If they were wanting to start pushing the main storyline with his new companions, it'd be where it would need to start. But I am hoping for as much as they can throw at us.

And why not? Yoda was a two-foot green squirt who bested Count Dooku. More training? How much training makes a difference eventually? Luke Skywalker beat Darth Vader - not because he had been trained for a grand total of MAYBE a week (Or? Just how long was Luke tutored by Yoda, anyway? Did he return to Dagobah between 'Empire' and 'Return'? But how much training could he have done, compared to the four decades of Darth Vader?) but because he let the Force flow freely. The power of a Jedi comes from the Force. And Rey was a fresh Force user... barely been introduced to the concept... but was that really true? How long had she been surviving, alone, on a desert planet, eating what little rations she could afford, but nevertheless healthy as a horse and pretty as a picture? In her duel with Kylo Ren, she was giving him a fight, but then he made yet another mistake to compound the many he already had: he alerted her to the fact she was using the Force. And suddenly, it went 'click' inside her head. And what was she fighting with? Luke and Anakin's old light saber. It was shown in the movie itself that objects, especially objects so intensely Force-applied as a light saber, retain 'echoes' of their wielders. Is it possible the sword was 'teaching' her to fight? Or guiding her hand? Kylo Ren was pretty eager to get his hands on it. Because it had belonged to Darth Vader? Maybe, maybe not - Vader made his own light saber (Which presumably blew up with the Death Star), and he desperately wants to be a lord of the Sith, not a Jedi. And Kylo Ren was not at his best. He wasn't just bleeding from the hole in his side Chewie gave him (Kind of odd that it was bleeding though. Don't those blasts cauterize?), he had just told Han that he was torn up inside from the struggle between the Dark and Light sides. He had hoped that killing his father would decide the struggle once and for all, but it doesn't seem that way - imagine how that made him feel. And the way a Jedi or a Sith feels affects their power in the Force. Early on in the movie he stopped a blaster bolt without even moving. Now, he couldn't even telekinetically lift a light saber. And then he finds himself facing a woman he knows for a fact is a very potent Force sensitive, and what's worse he himself awakened her by poking her with the Dark side. Everything has gone wrong from the moment he took her prisoner, instead of pursuing the droid. The failure of the plan is entirely his fault. The most powerful weapon ever created is collapsing about him, he has failed to obtain Skywalker's location and his father's death has not brought him what he so desired. Given that he did everything wrong so far, and she is much, much stronger than she was even that morning, he must have felt severe doubt and fear. Something Rey did not: there was no doubt at all, and she had little reason to fear this guy who had failed to defeat her even when she was at his mercy. Where the Force is concerned, training is less important than the connection you have to it. He was outmatched: even the deepest darkness must flee before even the weakest light. "We all know it was put in there just please a certain crowd and to follow a politically correct society." I really wish you hadn't put it that way. "We all know"? I certainly know no such thing. Please don't speak for me. *** One more thing... Rey used an unusual sort of swinging technique where she sort of jabbed the blade inward, almost like she was pushing it in like a corkscrew. I've only ever seen that motion used in light saber combat by one other person. Odd, that.