Let’s also remember that this entire “Mary Sue” bullshit was kicked off by one Max Landis, the walking personification of mediocre-white-guy nepotism, whose latest film script was bad enough that the lead actor spent and entire interview talking about how poorly-done his version of it was. He doesn’t exactly have his…

Gee, its almost like she was in some kind of training facility so that she could develop these skills and powers she had, then had her memory wiped after a traumatic event, and now those latent skills are re-emerging after contact with...the instigator of the trauma.

A Mary Sue isn’t the audience surrogate, its the author writing themselves into a supporting role so they can live in the universe. Who would Rey be the Mary Sue for? Lawrence Kasdan?

Ah, see my theory about that is that the saber-from-the-snow and the Force-on-the-stormtrooper thing were actually latent *memories*, not just her winging it. I think she’s Luke’s daughter, and I think he told her stories about his adventures. Both of those events were way too on-the-nose, so I think (or maybe I…

Interesting. Crimson Peak was the only movie I’ve seen this year where I wanted to run out to the lobby when it was over and buy another ticket to see it again immediately. De gustibus non disputandem est, I suppose.

I didn’t see any allusion to Han being dad. Where did you see that?

I’m not yelling about anything. I joined a comments thread that is dissecting the movie. I’m as entitled to my views as any other fan out there, although I eagerly await the “not a real fan” BS that inevitably comes. Why are people like you so threatened by a complete stranger not being 100% enamored of the thing that…

I’m doing great, thanks. I love fun. What I love, as part of that fun, are movies that make me want to buy another ticket as soon as its over and go see it again immediately. I’ve been waiting 30 years for this movie; I did not want to see it again. That’s kind of a bummer.

If there was going to be a big funeral scene, they missed their chance. The emotional impact will be completely dissipated. At this point, the *only* scene I would find appropriate is one with Chewie and Luke alone, out there on the Skelligs, with Luke standing by while Chewie does whatever mourning ritual Wookiees do…

Yeah, that first proposition is even too absurd for the absurd SW universe.

“Whaaaaah, someone doesn’t completely and uncritically worship the things that I worship! Whaaah! Whaaaah!” *stomp stomp*

I direct you to:

Word.

Every time I see Knights of Ren written out I just think of Monty Python. Its a little too ridiculous.

Yo. Accents aren’t inherited. They’re an artifact of where you live and how the people around you speak. Obi Wan’s Maida Vale accent has nothing to do with Rey’s diction 40 years later.

I’m in the “cousins” camp but I will also say that every time I think that word or type it out, I get the theme song to “The Patty Duke Show” in my head.

I mean, the “Jedi twins” were the *first* plot point of those post-Jedi books (which have since been thankfully flushed down the toilet.) Timothy Zahn came up with this like 20 years ago.

The entire arc of all the stories has been focused on a single family. I mean, that’s pretty much the entire reason for the story.

Maybe a hug because Rey is demonstrably all alone? Her best pal Fin is in dire medical condition, she just went head to head with the Big Bad *and* found out that it was Han & Leia’s psychotic son, *and* watched him kill his own dad so like he’s REALLY bad, and maybe Leia was like “you and me, baby girl, lets stick…

1) That’s not immaculate conception, that’s virgin birth. Those are two entirely different concepts.