OK, but I did sprain my willing-disbelief-suspensioner at "landing at light speed", which apparently results in hitting some trees.

Should we be grateful that the concept of the speed of light was blatantly violated only twice?

"Snoke" is not the greatest of names, but it's way ahead of "Phasma", which sounds like it's short for "Princess Phasma of Phas".

My immediate thought when she turned out to be chockfull o' Force was that she must be a Kenobi.

what's with the lack of rails in the Empire anyway? No OSHA that long ago or what??

There were definitely new themes, unless I'm forgetting ones from the earlier movies, which is entirely possible. The X-wings coming over the lake were accompanied by a theme based, as so many of Williams' are, on a famous classical work, and is recalled later during the attack on the Starkiller, and is later…

What you have written turns out to be rather lengthy, and, as it turns out, I did not actually make it through its entirety.

I didn't scroll too far back, so maybe this has come up, but:

Which is just ridiculous, of course, as the New Mexico flag is yellow with a red Native American sun symbol on it. Mexico's flag, being that of an entirely different country, does not figure much in New Mexico uniforms.

Almost every single guy who's ever wanted to be an actor would do nearly anything for the chance to do a Bond movie

I hope that he's at least willing to appear in one of the Bond Christmas specials. C'mon, is a cameo going to kill you?

Or even when you don't! He just grapples, grapples, grapples, spam or no spam.

I appreciate your taking the time to share this with us. I'd think you'd just be out and about McLarening the hell out of everything, but here you are with your helpful albeit totally off topic post. I have flagged it for brilliance. Top of the McLaren to ye!

'k, thanks. That appears to be the case.

Just checking here: I can discuss via Disqus, but I can't offer my grade?

Whoa, I'd forgotten completely about Paul Reubens being on the show!

Agreed. She was terrific as the "normal", pulled Robert out of perpetual victimhood, and the rest of her family was great, too. (Chris Elliott cast as a spoiled loser man-child: what are the odds?)

The mayor's handing out glowsticks, and I'm taking one! And another campaign button!

Dangit, I know people from New Zeeland, and they sometimes come out here to the US of A. I can tell they came from north of Australia. Now you speak of this "New Zealand", from some anti-North-of-Australia?

Catching up even later than BBP, but my god, that tag. It was brilliant.