“It was a relief then that Rian Johnson did what needed to be done... I hear those criticisms, but find them easy to forgive in the face of how brave some of Rian Johnson’s choices were.”

And, I’m sorry, but for a movie to just introduce a new character out of nowhere with no prior connection to any of the main characters and then never explain where he came from or how he got to be so skilled at what he does is ludicrous. I mean, we’re just supposed to accept that this guy made the Kessel Run in LESS…

Yoda wasn’t in Star Wars in 1977.

1) Who was Snoke?
-In 1984, who was “The Emperor”? It wasn’t until the Prequel Trilogy (that is popular to hate) decided to “midichlorian” everything, we didn’t know.

2) Who’re Rey’s parents?
-It doesn’t matter. What does matter is Rey, who was nobody. The struggle in the Galaxy, those that the Force has chosen in its…

I think it’s important to remember that there are a lot of Star Wars fans who only consume the movies (and many in that strange post-OT and pre-Prequel generation). Palpatine’s history and name was mentioned in Alan Dean Foster’s New Hope novelization and James Kahn’s Return of the Jedi, but not in the movies. I had…

I do too. It did show how Kylo had at least learn how to outsmart his master, something admittedly not even Anakin / Vader had been able to accomplish. At least, not without returning to the light side of the force. Palpatine relied too much on the fact that he felt he had an unshakable lap dog in his service who…

To some extent he was. Mull over these points (and my personal beliefe)

You should feel insulted by JJ Abrams’ short-sighted “mystery box” storytelling; which set up a metric ton of grand mysteries that were going to be impossible to resolve in a satisfying way.

Johnson just ripped the band-aid off a bunch of them. Some, like Snoak’s backstory, didn’t matter and were dismissed (did the…

Actually my favorite thing in the movie was it’s absolute trashing of the idea of bloodlines, legacy, etc. Much more powerful in my opinion that heroes come from anywhere when their needed, bloodlines be damned.

I don’t *really* need to know, but I’d like a comic series about it :)

This movie was about deconstructing the biggest flaw in the Star Wars mythos: That heroics are not the way to win a war, or build a future. Hero’s are not about what they do, but what they stood for, and if you are using last ditch heroism as your strategy you are going to get a lot of people killed and eventually…

He took issue with JJ’s “mystery box” approach, which to be fair we all did and have.

The point of the movie is “Stop asking for meaning to be given to you. Make your own meaning.” A good life lesson if there ever was one.

“Who is Snoke?” and “Who are Rey’s parents?” were big questions pushed by fans online. “What will happen next” is the question this movie was more interested in answering.

This is the Lost finale all over again. People become so fixated on mythology that they can’t enjoy the story itself. They confuse the science of logic with the art of story. 

But JJ Abrams clearly didn’t care who Rey’s parents were or who Snoke was either: all he cared about was creating some mysteries and then leaving them for someone else to solve.

Here, this is for you.
Disappointment and failure were the main themes from this movie. And learning from these mistakes, like Yoda said. I absolutely love it and already got tickets for second viewing.
Also, would it really be better if we had another “I am your father/she is your sister” soap opera-style twist? The…

I would argue that Rey’s parentage is NOT irrelevant. It is *extremely* relevant that her parents were nobodies; it illustrates that your background doesn’t matter, you can still make an impact and even be a hero.

It will be a nice thing to find out, but the mystery is totally external to the film itself. The movie doesn’t set it up as something anyone needs to find out to solve anything, or anything anyone’s particularly interested in finding out.

Yeah it’s not a story’s responsibility to dole out lore, and the answer to the question of Rey’s parents isn’t “who cares, it’s irrelevant,” it’s “Rey assumed she couldn’t be important unless her parents had been important, and she was wrong. And, in fact, the futility of that kind of thinking is what this entire…