I don’t doubt that Glover’s script may have been to overtly political for Marvel’s taste, but the politics in their movies are more than subtext. Look at Black Panther’s analysis of black liberation and isolationism. Or Captain America drawing the line between true patriotism and loyalty to the government. Or the way…

“There will be no funeral, no repast, everyone get the hell out of my church” MY. CHURCH. This strike anyone else as hugely fucked up? 

Obvious answer: bring Blade into the Netflix-verse. Vampires >>> Ninjas any day of the week.

This would make it the first and only time Goyer wrotea script for a good movie.

Like anything JJ has let dribble out of his “mystery box” machine ever rose to the level of “plot point.”

I think Rian should come in and do more movies.  The Last Jedi is great because it does something different

Oh I guaran-fucking-tee you that Abrams will find some retcon to back away from that reveal in The Last Jedi, to reveal she’s a princess or Leia’s niece or some horse shit.

For a large number of Star Wars fans, nothing is ever good enough.

People who are pissed about Rey being a “nobody” in TLJ seem to forget the scene in TFA where Maz talks to her after picking up the lightsaber. It is heavily implied there that her parents are nobodies and she knows it.

Funny. Every word of what you just said is wrong.

“Supposed to” in this case means that JJ had some ideas.

See, for example, Season 3 of Sherlock where Mary Watson went from being a pretty cool normal person to BADASS SECRET ASSASSIN. Or pretty much anything by Stephen Moffat at this point.

I still love the Rey reveal. Star Wars’ obsession with bloodlines can be a bit much, it’s refreshing to go “oh no, they were just random people, they sucked”.

Of all the gripes about TLJ, the decision to make force powers / sensitivity more egalitarian is the most peculiar one to me.

Rey’s parentage reveal in TLJ is fantastic. Exactly the kind of message SW should send in this day and age: “Doesn’t matter where you come from. That’s not who you are or the limit of your potential. You decide what to make of yourself.”

Whatever. I’m glad that’s the way it went and I hope whomever does the next films holds firm to that.

There was going to be a dramatic reveal in the third film where she finds an old preschool registration form where her name is listed as “Rey Binks.”

JJ Abrams had no intentions for anything other than creating mystery boxes.