Star Wars Stand Alone Films

One of my issues with the film was the inconsistent tone, and I think this scene is a great example of how it really hurt what they were trying to accomplish. It was meant to show a somber rejection of the past, but it came across as slapstick. After two years of the audience waiting to see what happens, he takes the lightsaber, glares at Rey and then tosses it over his shoulder and storms off. All that was missing was a laugh track. If instead he had taken it but glared at the lightsaber, maybe close in on his face as he contemplates its significance, and then just dropped it and walked away in a defeated manner (and not as an angry toddler), it could have come across much more powerfully. Instead they went for a cheap laugh.