Even moreso when you realise he’s specialised in voice acting for the last few decades.

Remember at some panel or the Star Wars celebration, someone asked him to tell us who Poe Dameron was and he answered: “The best damn pilot in the galaxy?”

That wasn’t Coruscant. It was Hosnian Prime.

She did everything but waggle her eyebrows, which she didn’t have. :)

Awesome! I dig it!

You see, this is why I loved TFA so much: the camaraderie between the characters was so on point.

I think when the Force “awoke” in her the mind block thing disappeared. From the hug with Leia to meeting Luke there’s nothing to say she doesn’t think he’s her dad.

That would be stupid, han and leia never mentioned a daughter, only how important it was to get their son back, they had no reaction to rey at all.

Chewie’s reaction really got to me. I think more than anything else in this film. He absolutely loses it.

The juxtaposition of that vs. Kylo trying to become more powerful through manually producing pain by punching himself in the wound was amazing.

Finally. I’ve been waiting for this post.

What I loved:

Maybe you had the acoustically-bad seat in the house? The only times I had trouble with any of the dialogue is when people were laughing at the jokes. Sorry about your experience.

oh that was a sweet moment - and yes I like poe already.

Yeah i really liked that you could see Poe flying the whole time Finn was running around. The framing of that shot was really inventive I thought.

Poe was bad-ass. That scene flying over Finn’s head and shooting down like 10 TIE fighters in one pass was epic. Plus, I loved his emotional attachment to BB-8. We all love the droids, but no one in the movies has ever showed their love for a droid.

Trench run was sweet but that one long sequence of Poe being a bad MF over Maz Kanata’s domain is what caught my eye. Also, the way they used X-Wings over water to give us the classic movie shot of a cavalry on the horizon charging to the rescue (under a cloud of dust, usually), was brilliant.

I did feel he was holding back somewhat but I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest he deliberately wanted to become mechanized.

So ... Mara Jade, then? :)

Man what a good movie. It was really fun and really delightful on so many levels. There were some weird parts, to be sure, but they can easily be overlooked.