You know what else is bonkers? Not being able to tell the difference between Tim Roth and Gerard Depardieu.

Three reasons:

This way of landing is also universally applicable. You can land vertically with thrusters anywhere (moon, mars etc.) parachutes and landing “like a plane” don’t work when there is drastically less atmosphere.

I loved the new score. It was precisely as emphatic as Star Wars. Rey’s Theme is as wonderful an illustration of her character as The Force Theme is of Luke’s. There was no Imperial March analogue because there was no Imperial March in Star Wars (it debuted in TESB).

“Many people also complain about her familiarity with one particular machinery, ignoring the fact that she works for its owner and is probably very familiar with it because she fixes stuff for him.”

For fuck’s sake, there’s a line she exchanges with Han about how said ‘owner’ insisted on installing a part that…

Am I the only one that realized when Kylo Ren was in her head, she got as much from him as he did from her. She even called out his worst fear!! Is it then probable that she saw all they ways he used the force and realized she could do the same? Why is this plot-line disregarded by everyone and they just marvel she…

Damn, I was going to talk about a specific example, but that would be too big of a spoiler.

I like to think of her in the third act in full Jedi fan-girl mode. She knows the stories about Jedi mind-tricks and telekinesis and just tries it. When she reached out for the lightsaber, that’s us, as kids, doing the same.

I thought it was fairly well telegraphed in the film that she’d been aboard the Falcon multiple times while it was in the junkyard. She knew it’s history between the people who had stolen it, she was aware of specific modifications that had been made to it that she would have had no time to discover while actually…

The same way that every other object that has passed through them did. Turn on the rocket and point in the right direction.