No need; it was open-casket. I remember the shot where they showed the suit-clad body in the casket.

Your decimal point is off. It has to make $16 billion, not $1.6 billion. Oh, wait, I meant trillion, not billion.

It;s not Superman's appearances that pushes Batman off the deep end; its his inability to save his people from the Supes-Zod beatdown. It was his parents all over again for him, only now it was going to take more than fighting skills and a bat costume to fix things.

But he's Batman. Batman can't look surprised because then the mantle of World's Greatest Detective would go to someone else.

In a sequel to a film where Superman kills someone, is it really that much of a surprise?

I thought the branding was part of Batman's plan to get Superman's attention — which it did.

I find it interesting to read that Batman's motivations for the film didn't make sense, as I thought that was the most clearly defined motivation in the film. It's defined in the first and third scenes: the umpteenth recreation of the Waynes' murder, and the attack on Metropolis. In both of them we see Bruce Wayne…

That suggests the two are separate entities, but that raises some other questions. Where were the Republic's forces, especially considering that the First Order just built a weapon that could wipe out their entire existence? And does the First Order control a chunk of the galaxy, or are they more like a loose group of…

And the next generation.

Speak for yourself. I thought that scene was pretty powerful, especially considering how predictable it was.

Maybe Artoo is Force sensitive after having spent so many decades hanging around Jedi.

That's one of the things I don't get. In RotJ Anakin is a happy Force ghost having with Obi Wan and Yoda — and now he's a Dark Side salesman to his grandson? Perhaps they'll explain it in the next one (Snoak is somehow deceiving Kylo Ren into thinking he's talking to his granddad?) but currently it seems like a real…

I kind of liked it. It was like they built a Death Star that could be turned up to 11.

No I was totally surprised that they blew up the Starkiller. Did. Not. See. That. Coming.

I know what you mean about the Death Star; after all, who resorts to the same strategy time and again expecting a different result?

I was really impressed as to how the wrote Chewie. He seemed a real character for the first time, not just a one-dimensional part of Han's entourage.

I could, too, though I thought they did a good job of keeping it just uncertain enough to where I wasn't sure. Expect that to become a parenting meme, though.

Luke had the FindALightsaber app for his iPhone.

Yeah, this was the big confusion for me. I could get that the First Order would sneer at the Republic as just a "resistance," but when the Resistance was calling itself that I started to wonder what was going on.

I was thinking more Lord Voldemort. He certainly has that all "Let's fear him even though he isn't around" thing going which permeated the Potter series.