I keep wondering how Kylo Ren has this misplaced idea of how he’s finishing what Vader started. If he started training with Luke and is his nephew, did the conversation of “hey, my dad, your grandpa was Darth Vader, who was turned to the dark side, but in the end I got him to turn back to the light, help kill the…

Maybe they could have picked up a few more X-wings, some more capital ships and perhaps that big assed war hammer?

“Also we might totally want to consider attacking the enemy base with more than seven X-Wings. Just a thought.”

Actually I think the Warhammer makes more sense than what transpired in the actual movie...

I can’t help but imagine the Spaceball One version where it’s a vacuum with attachments that pierce the shields.

I dunno. I’d love to have seen parts of the death star underwater. That would just be even more chilling than the skeletal remains of the stuff we saw on the surface.

I mean, they did it in RotJ. It’s exactly the pirate thing.

They were toying with ways to make the main villain less like the Emperor, and J.J. Abrams didn’t want Snoke to be old and decrepit like Palpatine. And at one point, they almost made Snoke female. They also toyed with the idea that Snoke is incredibly beautiful to look at, like a marble statue, but then you realize…

I do love that the first line of the movie is something like “this will begin to set things right”

Which he deserves.

I still really hope that Snoke is actually thirty feet tall.

I’m pretty glad none of that happened, actually...though I am rather hoping there’s some manner of Force Ghost “Not in my name, motherfucker” that happens at some point with Kylo Ren and the grandfather he’s worshipping.

Might be some nostalgia-colored glasses you’re wearing. In the Bungie days, I can’t count the number of times I made my way from set piece to set piece with no idea why I was doing what I was doing (besides killing aliens) or going where I was going (besides the fact that I was corridor-bound to go that way). It’s not…

If I have to sit through the umteen bazillionth Internet Samurai vs. Knight debate, I. Will. Burn. You. All.

Dwarves.

For the price of that one massive star base, you could probably build hundreds of regular star bases that could cover a much larger volume of space yet still be effective staging grounds for operations. The Federation being smart with its resources doesn’t mean that they couldn’t build a massive space station, just…

That was my thought, even though it limits their resupply issues being lost in another quadrant.

Deanna Troy? What about Q ?

You’ve left out sensors: Federation ships are very, very good at detecting stuff, while the Empire often doesn’t know what’s going on right around it. They had to send a droid down to the planet in Empire to see the Rebels, whereas the Federation could have scanned the power source from orbit or even further away.…

the Empire makes Star Destroyers and was able to produce two Death Stars (one in secret). It seems that Empire construction methods are superior.