I admit I laughed a bit at that bit when I saw it in the cinema - seriously, this is the third JJ Abrams movie where planets are apparently all within sight of each other, and only ten seconds’ travel time apart.

“sub-hyperspace”

it would be such a simple thing to put in the credits. A simple line like “Inspired from the EU”

Luke had Obi-Wan.

“To have Rey just, like, figure both out in a couple of minutes trivializes the journey that Luke had to go through.”

No, it doesn’t. Just means she’s probably already had some training, which the movie heavily hints at.

A Mary Sue isn’t the audience surrogate, its the author writing themselves into a supporting role so they can live in the universe. Who would Rey be the Mary Sue for? Lawrence Kasdan?

worse of a concept of spacial distances than Lucas did

Seriously! Like, if she were a guy, people would be all about dissecting what these traits mean for her backstory- who left her on Jakku? Why was the only guy with the missing map to Luke also living on Jakku? They would be all about the possible links between her and Luke. But no, she’s a girl, obviously her being…

“Over the weekend, even as most of us were celebrating the fact that a new Star Wars movie did not in any way suck”