You’re missing the whole point of origin stories when you complain about Han helping this proto-rebellion. The audience is literally being shown the first time Han decides to help the little people instead of himself, and we get to see the results of that decision: the “loss” of his first love, and being forced into a…

On the other hand there’s people like me who have consumed waaaaay too much SW stuff since 1979 and absolutely loved every second of this film. Seeing young Han walk around the Falcon and shoot his way off Kessel in his trademarked stance had me cheezin heavily.

1: Fair enough! I like hearing dissenting opinions!

As someone who has desperately loved Star Wars since I was a child I completely disagree. There’s a difference between quickly referencing a Franchise moment and then just as quickly moving on, like Solo did at several points, and beating us over the head with it like the Abrams trilogy has so far. I felt like the…

I’m hoping we get to see his downfall onscreen.

This is it exactly. Imagine if you will, a world where priests or rabbis or whatever were the chief moral authority and were reputed to have the power to place curses on you - for example if you blasphemed, some misfortune would befall you and be attributed to “God’s wrath”. Imagine if the government gave them legal…

Not to get too dramatic here but in our own world things like Holocaust denial are still prevalent, despite a mountain of evidence, documentation, and eyewitnesses. And that’s without a massive campaign of disinformation and censorship (i.e. what the Empire did). Everyone being skeptical at best with regard to the…

Not for nothing, but if I was a surviving Jedi after Order 66 I might want to ditch my lightsaber and start carrying a blaster around myself. At the very least I wouldn’t be leaving my fancy laser-sword hanging off my hip where anyone could spot it and call in the Empire and/or a dozen bounty hunters.

No shit. According to Wookiepedia The Phantom Menace is 32 years before ANH, so if Anakin was 9 in that, Darth Vader is only 41 years old by the Battle of Yavin. And RotJ was 4 years after that (officially), so when Vader died he was only 45!

There was a line in “Rebels” that at the height of the Jedi there were only 10,000 in the whole galaxy. I’m guessing by what we saw in the prequels that there were less than a couple thousand by that point. And based on how people (kid Anakin, et al) talk about them, they were already taking on mythical status by that…

Shrinking the length of time between the Clone Wars and ANH didn’t do the timeline any favors. It was easier to believe when ANH took place 40 years after the Clone Wars, now that it’s more like 20 it’s a bit of a big pill to swallow.

I don’t think it’s necessary at all.

Keep in mind that there were only a few thousand Jedi around in a massive galaxy of hundreds of billions of people/beings. Even when they were at their zenith, the vast majority of people in the galaxy never saw any Jedi; especially outside of the core worlds. The Empire also…

Looking at the final image, maybe they’re just trying to explain how history became legend, and legend became myth in the span of 16 years

I appreciate your argument, you make very solid points (I’m not being sarcastic). I haven’t thought about Yoda’s words/interpretation.

Even Yoda said it was a prophecy that may have been misread. The Jedi were wrong about a lot of things, including the Force.

It actually spends quite a lot of time on “Who is Rey’s parents?” with an excellent scene that actually resolves it.

Yeah, Anakin was definitely none of those things before being trained by the Jedi Order.

god i hate being that guy, BUT

My (dark) theory? Was that Rey was a clone of Shmi who was made by the cult that Poe got the map from in Force Awakens and they were trying to condition her in the same way so that the Force might give them a new Chosen One. Thus the reason they’re just hanging out a few miles from her place.

Rey didn’t know how she could fly that well ... kind of how Anakin was an expert at pod racing as a 10 year old kid with no explanation, when no normal human could do it?