Right, this is what annoys me about the people claiming TFA didn’t suggest Rey’s parents were important in some manner — fictional characters’ parents are basically never mentioned if they aren’t important to the story and they sure as hell don’t get flashbacks. If people want to think Rey being a “nobody” is cool,…

It fits with the Emperor being mistaken about the outcome of the battle in RotJ because he saw the outcome he wanted, not what was actually going to happen.

If Kylo is lying, the movie is lying, and that’s shitty storytelling.

If Force ability is recessive, picking up kids that manifest Force abilities would no more cause the Jedi to go extinct as a class than cystic fibrosis traditionally killing its sufferers before puberty caused cystic fibrosis sufferers to go extinct as a class.

That people were wrong about TESB doesn’t mean that other people may not yet be proven to be correct with episode IX — Johnson has already said Abrams can retcon Rey’s parentage if he wants.

Finally, as far as Rey’s parentage is concerned, they could easily retcon it and say that her parents were indeed drunkards, but her uncle/aunt or grandparents WERE powerful Jedi back during the prequel era. Keep the TLJ retcon, but make the family tree zig-zagged instead of a straight line.

The OT was not planned in advance, but Lucas had Luke’s ultimate story arc in mind (i.e., the “hero’s journey”) and you had a single narrative voice behind all three films even if there were technically three different directors. It appears that even that level of guidance doesn’t exist for the new trilogy, which I…

This is what I imagine Abrams doing in a few months when he’s told that he has to start principal photography on Ep IX and he still doesn’t even have an outline of the script completed....

If *every* book in that universe had to be about Harry or his kids people would likely get peeved.

Why are we pretending that the idea that there are other people beyond the Skywalkers using the force is some kind of revelation?

In the former case they are a person with an innate talent, but otherwise is anybody or nobody. In the latter case they are fundamentally special and unique and obviously important and significant.

I don’t see how you could conclude the Force cave lied if it turns out Kylo was lying— the cave showed Rey herself, not two random people.

You do realize that her being a “nobody” and her being an “immaculate Force baby” are absolutely identical in terms of their story consequences, right? In both instances, she has her Force powers because the universe says so. 

It makes her much more relatable

Yes, Johnson has confirmed that multiple times. I thought he was kidding or exaggerating when he first said it back in 2016, but TLJ has made it obvious he was serious.

I loved R1, but this is different in that not only was the mission to steal the first Death Star plans was a blank, but the audience had probably never really thought about it before. With Solo, you probably already have some version of the story of what making the Kessel Run looks like in your head (I certainly do),…

Now that’s how you cross the streams!

I think they’ve said that the film is going to cover a roughly ten year period of Solo’s life.

That doesn’t change my conclusion unless the particular public accommodation law has some provision that says a venue can offer a substituted service to someone or something like that.

But “sex,” of which “men” is merely a subcategory, is a protected category for purposes of public accommodation laws and civil rights laws. Laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of “sex” thus preclude discrimination against men just as much as they preclude discrimination against women, even if women are more…