It’s not that I think Leia is a fool - quite the contrary - but I’m going with (1) :)

But there’s already a Skywalker family next generation connection with Kylo Ren ...?

Yeah somebody else suggested that and to me (reluctantly) the idea has merit because otherwise it seems too coincidental that the man with the map to Skywalker was on the same planet that harboured a random powerful Force user ...

That’s how I understood that ‘She’ll always be royalty to me’ line.

OK I feel like being the descendant of anyone would diminish her - can’t she just be her own story? :)

I didn’t get the Jedi vibe from him. But you make a good point. It does strain credulity that there would be a secretive old man with a map to Luke Skywalker who just happened to be hiding out on the same planet that harbours a very powerful Force user ... (Of course it also slightly strains credulity that the…

Interesting, did you get the impression they’d ever met in person though? It seemed like she phrased it as if they’d never met (‘General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars ...’).

I get that and I wouldn’t be thinking about this if they’d named their kid ‘Obi-Wan’. It’s just that it felt like Luke was the only one who knew him as ‘Ben’ Kenobi (I know Leia calls him Ben Kenobi in IV but that’s always bothered me as I mentioned above/below, I have lost my bearings).

But she never actually met him, right? It’s not like they had a personal relationship.

OK, there are 2 reasons why I think (in addition to really, really hoping) that Rey isn’t Luke’s daughter.

This. I want to know the deal with Rey’s family, but I don’t want her to turn out to be a Skywalker. I know it’s a family saga, but the family connection is continuing with Ren, right?

That was a major question for me too. Surely droids can’t feel the Force. Could R2 somehow sense the presence of Luke’s lightsaber?

I had so many plot problems with TFA, although I may still have loved it (seeing it again tonight to be sure), but I felt it did one thing really, really well: It made me incredibly excited to see the next one & find out where they go from here now they’ve cleared a lot of the ‘old’ Star Wars plot detritus out of the…

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Punk-ass book jockeys.

OK I have to ask. In what sense is Melissa McCarthy ‘replacing’ Christopher Lee?

I am fucking delighted somebody else mentioned this!

You know it is actually possible to have different opinions on this issue ... Not Smiley being no. 1 on this list, because that's where he belongs. But I really prefer Gary Oldman's performance in the film. I was pretty much raised on the books and the BBC adaptation and while it's a fantastic, fantastic series and…

See also: John Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost.

OK, it may not be a movie, but Casablanca IN SPACE was already made.