lol yeah it is hard to tell in movies. I mean, I just assumed Rey was 17 because of the same reason. And Ren's age is vague, because all I could find on one of the wiki's just says he was born 'shortly after the fall of the Empire.' So if he ends up only being like 25, or if his killed the Jedi more recently, then it…

good point re: running away to avoid killing his brothers. I hope that once he wakes from his coma, there is more reflection going on. I don't think its a lost cause for developing a good character from the raw material. It would be great to see Boyega get a bit more to work with.

which begs the question of why Finn is such a likeable loveable guy with a good sense of humor and an understanding of right and wrong.

ah, well, let me rephrase: as a character he shows little to no depth independent of the necessary plot actions he facilitates in the movie. How will he develop and grow? There's little indication. What does he think/feel, other than wanting to get away from the First Order and help Rey?
I like Finn, because he's…

yeah he doesn't do much but comic relief. He's a blank slate. Hope they do something with him in VIII. Something, anything.

yeah but one of those Skywalkers nearly destroyed the Galaxy and his son failed to train yet another Skywalker descendent who is now threatening to destroy the Galaxy…so maybe the lesson will be that the Skywalkers are powerful but kind of cursed, and the bloodline can only be redeemed when Luke trains an unrelated…

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

maybe he's like the Dark Side Yoda, to be played by Andy Serkis with Frank Oz's hand up his ass.

Rey + Luke = new baby Skywalker
hubba hubba!

Man it got me too when Chewie went nuts. He was always my favorite when I was a kid, so it was cool, if sad, to see him wreck shop like that.

No, no, no, it's the Moops.

Oh man I forgot about that. It's super interesting. It must be tied up in how/why R2 wakes up when Rey shows up: did Luke know that he was waiting specifically for her, or was he just waiting for some trigger in the Force? Because if the former, perhaps she had actually been to that planet before, or had been told…

KHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!!!!

Well said. It was amazing how "tragically Luke Skywalker" he was, if that makes any sense. Abrams has said that what finally drew him to the project was the question of "Who is Luke Skywalker?" and I feel like in that final scene we kind of get where he is going with the answer. Just well done, even with the dumb…

If JJ wanted to go all-in on the callbacks, he should have had Luke eat her slim jims.

I'm really looking forward to the relationship between a tortured, regretful Luke who has lost his faith and the bright-eyed, eager, youthful Rey.

Well Han was more than happy to speculate on the fact that Luke went into hiding after the destruction of his Jedi, so if he didn't also state, "his daughter was one of the ones killed," or "his daughter went missing," and if Han and Leia, in all their conversations about Ren don't mention or acknowledge that he also…

Good point. On the subject of deleted scenes that should have been left in, I'm hoping there is one where they actually discuss that and have a conversation about why Rey is sent and not, say, Leia. I mean, it could have been a minute long and solved that problem.

I upvoted this until I realized you called the final scene boring. It was Mark Hamill's finest moment! :)

It could, but there's other reasons I think that she is not a Skywalker that I fleshed out more in a longer post. Plus, if she is Luke's kid and was at the Jedi training facility with Luke, then certainly everyone would know that she is his daughter?
Really, the only way that she being his daughter works is if Luke…