“Snoke’s,” not “Snake’s.” Damn auto correct!

Snake’s throne room might be my single most favorite set in all of Star Wars. It’s simultaneously foreboding as fuck and stunning to look at.

Yeah, it’s a really cool little detail (well, that plus the feet, short hair and the lightsaber) that adds to the greatness of the scene. It seems to me like the point was the audience is essentially viewing things from Kylo Ren’s perspective and are so wrapped up in the drama of it (like he was) that they don’t…

The problem is that Kylo wasn’t really offering a break in the cycle, and Rey saw through it. He even used the same words Darth Vader had said to both Padme and Luke. He wanted to actively continue the cycle, just with them in charge.

Yeah. Seeing too Jedis fighting together for the first, and up until now only, time was one of the few good things the prequel trilogies gave us.

I’m really hopeful they’re leading toward a balance between Rey and Kylo in the form of them realizing that they’re way more badass together, each harnessing skills from both sides of the Force. I just don’t know who the antagonist would end up being without them introducing a new super powerful character. Maybe Hux…

I JUST WANT HER TO BUILD A LIGHTSABER STAFF

I think the difference is neither Ben nor Rey want to live in the past...but Ben wants to move past it (“kill it if you have to”) opposed to Rey who wants to study and learn from it’s mistakes.

Luke’s comments on the failure of the Jedi in the prequels actually made me appreciate what George Lucas was trying to do with them as well. Even though that was my takeaway from the prequel trilogy to begin with, it was great to hear basically the most important character of the original trilogy acknowledge it. It…

I also loved the jab at the Jedi Order of the prequels when Luke points out how they were over romanticized and more or less brought about the rise of Palpatine and the Empire through their own ineptitude.

I never thought Leia was an amateur force user, though. She was just more subtle about it and used it less than Luke. Her’s was more organic.

Just as an aside, I think we can all admit that sometimes the canon is stupid.

Even if the old Jedi mythology is flawed, and it is, I’m sure there is still good info/history/practical knowledge in those books.

How did Luke put them there? We see him try to go into the tree to save them but Yoda stops him by burning it down. He says “she already has all the knowledge she needs,” which could mean she has the books.

And if you are really hanging your hat on that, then no Jedi would die, ever. Snoke could have held himself together and saved himself, Qui Gon might not have died, etc. etc. etc. The practical implications of Maul not dying there are too absurd for any logical/practical movie franchise.

Plo Koon also survived in the vacuum of space, though he did have his breathing mask on (which doesn’t cover anything but his mouth and eyes).  In the former-EU, Luke was always finding himself in situations where he couldn’t breath and would go into a “jedi trance” that let him use minimal oxygen for weeks.

I’m almost certain that Luke will be back as a Force Ghost, too.

Rey is even less prepared to establish a new Order than Luke was at the end of Return of the Jedi, though.

Yeah. It was a much-needed look at how the war is effecting everyone else in the galaxy after Abrams blew up multiple planets (or a planet and some moons, not sure) and completely glossed over it.

I appreciated that Luke’s error wasn’t in trying to kill Kylo Ren, but he admits that it was his own arrogance thinking he could even train new Jedi... which ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy, because who knows if Ren would have gone full dark side if he hadn’t seen Luke standing over him with a lightsaber.