This seems like a good conversation to have after some sort of parity has been reached.

The Lego sets all feature that art that Lucasfilm disavowed. I like that Falcon design, but I’d be surprised if these were real.

“The lack of blue peen is disappointing.”

Kylo straight up says the effort of doing what he and Rey are doing would kill one of them. Luke does something like it but much more intense, because he’s Luke. The movie deals with this.

I don’t think this movie tells the older films to eat shit at all, and I don’t buy the idea that it’s antagonistic to TFA specifically. Kylo Ren seems to have been conceived as a Vader fanboy, and it was the fans that made this out to be a bug rather than a feature - Snoke’s line about the mask being ridiculous is…

Not all the data in the Empire, but at least “a complete engineering archive.” In the old EU the Rebels had to onerously piece together the Death Star plans from different sources. It seems possible if not probably that losing the Citadel on Scarif would be a major setback to a number of engineering projects because…

The one thing I find myself curious about is what are Luke and Leia talking about when they say that Snoke corrupted Ben? Apparently he was studying with Luke, at that time, so...did Luke know Snoke?

But their work was gone, which would mean they’d have to start over from what they could remember or recreate.

They needed to infiltrate the Citadel on Scarif to get the data tapes that contained the full Death Star schematic. If there were easier places to get backups from, they would have. The implication is the Empire keeps certain projects totally silo-ed.

The only explanation would be if the destruction of the Imperial base on Scarif destroyed the files, meaning the First Order had to start from scratch, but I can’t imagine the Empire wouldn’t have back-ups somewhere, right?

It will be a nice thing to find out, but the mystery is totally external to the film itself. The movie doesn’t set it up as something anyone needs to find out to solve anything, or anything anyone’s particularly interested in finding out.

Yeah it’s not a story’s responsibility to dole out lore, and the answer to the question of Rey’s parents isn’t “who cares, it’s irrelevant,” it’s “Rey assumed she couldn’t be important unless her parents had been important, and she was wrong. And, in fact, the futility of that kind of thinking is what this entire…

Well, obviously. We’ve already seen Luke partially contact Leia in the original trilogy. Vader and Luke had a connection and briefly communicated, too. We’ve seen ghosts of Jedi come back and speak to the living. If all that is possible, why couldn’t two people, strong with the Force, somehow communicate with each…

I don’t think this is a “fuck you,” necessarily. Blade Runner 2049 pulls off the same twist for the same reason. In both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, characters are obsessed with legends. Revealing Rey’s parents as “nobodies” only works because it was set up as a mystery, where Rey assumes her parent must have…

This reveal so perfectly encapsulated everything both these films have to say about history, legends, families, important names...it was great, and it had to be built up as a mystery to work.

Had Leia not been forced into a coma by the writers, or had her second-in-command, Vice Admiral Holdo (because Admiral Ackbar is dead, in case you somehow missed that split second, off-screen send-off, RIP) deigned to share them with the rest of the crew, Finn and Rose would have known all of this was completely…

It tells the story so well!

Unless evolution takes care of it. Apparently marine reptiles during the mesozoic gave live birth. (I think viviparous reptiles basically, like, just house what would be the egg within themselves?)

Reminds me of Dougal Dixon’s speculative future penguins in a world without whales.

Did I do it right?