She’s got Threepio fingers.

Wait, what?! How’s that going to work? Rogue One takes place something like 35 years before this movie.

I guarantee you do this too. Everyone does to some degree. Otherwise, no one would ever read a book, watch a TV show, or a movie.

I don’t think she did cut his hand off. It really looked like something flopped off at his side, but if it was his hand, you know we’d have gotten a big old closeup of it so that no one could miss it.

Please don’t call Han Solo rapey. Just, don’t.

Williams really phoned it in on this one.

Thanks again.

Precisely right. I think the next film is going to be a deep dive into Rey & Ren, but still, how do you make the First Order seem like a credible threat now? Phasma’s dumped in a garbage chute. Hux & Ren aren’t seen leaving the planet. So, even if you do save them, what’s the big threat? Snoke? Please. He looks as…

Yeah, it made no sense. The “answer” to your question is that, yes, it goes to a new star to power up by draining said star. The laser beams it shoots out can go through hyperspace, but the planet itself has to move to refuel. Pretty idiotic stuff, even for Star Wars.

Yeah, I don’t buy that. He seems intrigued by her, but does he really seem like he wants to stop fighting and start training her. The way that moment plays, it seems more like a taunt to me, especially Adam Driver’s line reading.

Thanks for explaining who said Luke was looking for the first temple. I honestly can’t recall when Han says that in the movie. Is it when we first see the map on the Falcon?

I wonder if you understand that 12-year old kids are the target audience for Star Wars.

Abrams’ reading habits are every bit as superficial as you might imagine. But I don’t buy the generational diagnosis, because that’s the same accusation that was leveled at Spielberg & Lucas. They were the post-war Baby Boomer generation that grew up in, as you put it, “idyllic wonder”. They never experienced the…

The film tells us that the First Order & the Resistance are both desperately seeking Luke. Throughout the film, the map is referred to as a map to Luke. That’s why everyone thinks that’s what the map is. It’s in the opening crawl:

Kids didn’t grow up watching 1950s serials in the 70s. We did watch Disney films which were always re-released in the theaters in constant rotation. Then, as now, ask any 12-year old kid what a “Princess” was, and it wouldn’t take long for the name Snow White or Cinderella to come up.

I like your Zoom theory. That’d be fun.

Leia would never mope on Jakku the way that Rey did. Leia certainly would never cry as much as Rey does in this film.

Very little of that is in the movie, though. That’s why people “don’t get this”.

A lot of people have been suggesting this tack for the new trilogy, that Poe is a secret First Order spy, or that Kylo Ren is pulling a Snape. That’s just not a Star Wars plot device. Besides, the First Order just didn’t seem like that big of a threat to warrant long-term covert ops.

Well, she really is the new Boba Fett. Cool armor, but that’s about it. Boba’s most badass move is hiding in the garbage. That’s it. Other than that, he’s just a character that looks super cool.