An opinion is an opinion, and you’re far from alone in not liking this movie, but did we really need to know who Snoke was?

Why does Snoke’s backstory matter? We don’t know Obi-Wan’s backstory, and it makes not a whit of difference. Ditto for Yoda. Every i and t does not need to be dotted and crossed.

I loved this reveal as well, and it certainly does rebuke certain things about Abrams’ storytelling style (though I also like Abrams fine and, realtalk, this revelation would not have the same impact *without* Abrams style, even if it was clearly intended to set up more of a traditional revelation). But I have to step…

Rey is the only person that Kylo Ren is vulnerable with.

I’d hate to lose that.

Disagree that either Snoke as a character or Rey’s background were actually set up as a mystery in TFA... it’s more the internet that made them so. (Seems fair to say that JJ probably did see Snoke being more involved in 8 and 9 and not cut down early though.)

The original wasn’t about family at all, and it didn’t come into play in Empire until the very end. It mattered in Jedi and the prequels, which most people would consider the worst of the lot by some margin, and the series was most compelling when it was about a ragtag group of rebels with varied personalities that…

It’s kind of ridiculous. I’m probably in the minority but I don’t agree that Rey’s family is a “mystery box” at all in TFA — I didn’t read anything in the film as suggesting Rey was anything but abandoned.

I really, really hope not and I’m going to be pissed at Abrams if that turns out to be the case.

Yes. That’s one of my big hopes for the next movie, that Rey will build a new Jedi order that doesn’t make the same stupid mistakes as the last one. Like maybe ripping tiny children away from their families and turning them into magic space monks with no bonds to other humans is a bad idea.

I was really glad at that reveal. I don’t think it was Kylo screwing with her. I think she figured it out when she went down the sea anus on Luke’s planet. Having her just be a random person really reinforces the final scene with broom kid.  I now expect broom kid to be, like, Kenobi’s grandson or something.

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.

They didn’t work on it together, but Abrams never gave Johnson direction on who Rey’s parents were, and independently they claim they had the same answer anyways.

I loved this reveal. Of all the gripes people have about The Last Jedi, this is the one I most disagree with. Honestly, how could anything else have been satisfying?

Everyone agrees that Adam Driver is going to play young Snape in the inevitable Snape-prequel, right?

As many have said before me, Adam Driver would have been fantastic as Anakin Skywalker.

I read everything Tessa Thompson meant me to read in the scene where the other Valkyrie is falling back from her after she’s been run through. There’s intimacy in the anguish on her face that goes beyond mere sisterhood. I thought it was a brilliant bit of acting.

The person who decided to sing Hallelujah as Clinton was not the person in charge of booking Trump as a guest.

He wasn’t a “bad guy,” just a little bit of a dick. Like any good super spy.