Rey was great, she isn't a Mary Sue and it isn't a ridiculous idea for her to be especially talented but people love characters because of the details, not the broadest possible strokes. Luke, Rey, and Anakin are all talented force-sensitives from a desert planet but I don't like them all equally, do you?

Amnesia is an awful plot device and I hope they don't use it.

Luke was already a good pilot and bragged about it. We didn't learn whether he was right until the end. Luke's exposition helps explain why he's able to blow up the Death Star even if it's still far-fetched.

Lots of people did but her having training that she forgot about or didn't bother to mention is cheap and lazy so why would I want that? I don't give a shit about her previous training because I've already seen the fruits of it when she went toe-to-toe with Kylo Ren.

If he plays his character from the Hateful Eight I think he'll be fantastic.

Is it surprising though?

No it means he didn't find BB-8, which means he was unsuccessful in his mission not necessarily that he gave up or abandoned it.

He isn't there before the resistance knows about BB-8. He's the one leading the resistance fighters when they arrive at Maz's castle. When BB-8 first enters Maz's a little robot contacts the resistance to tell them it found BB-8. Poe had clearly met up with the Resistance already when he arrives.

With a communicator of some kind that I'm sure exists all over the place in Jakku settlements. Once he's contacted the resistance he's picked up and given a ship. The main thing is how he contacts the resistance because as soon as he does that the other two are taken care of for him. And maybe he just steals a ship…

No he arrives after the Resistance informant radios that it's found BB-8. He arrives with the X-wings meant to collect the droid and rescue Han, Chewie and co. That doesn't leave him much time to get there from Jakku, but it wouldn't be the first example of playing fast and loose with how quickly faster-than-light…

They get captured briefly during that scene, just have Finn lose and get captured instead of finding Han and Chewie and then getting captured.

I agree with both of you really, these are what I like and don't like about each character for the most part.

The next time we see him is after the Resistance first hears about the location of BB-8 so he didn't necessarily abandon his mission. He just wasn't successful in locating BB-8 himself.

I keep seeing this but it really underestimates the audience. Any good Star Wars movie would've been enough to right the ship.

The movie only cared enough to acknowledge it was a huge coincidence but not enough to offer an explanation, which is apparently for another time [read: spinoff property]. I can't bring myself to care if the movie doesn't either.

Cowboy Bebop is one of my favourite shows! I haven't watched many that try to blend 2D and 3D. Initial D did, though the 2D and 3D animation in that was never good but I liked it in spite of that. Did Attack on Titan do it? I didn't get more than a couple episodes in before the young hero went into a long, horrible,…

Yeah, the new Ninja Turtles come to mind, and the Transformers are still absurd.

I understand why they did it but I still don't like it. I don't really care how it fits into canon either because whether the premise is explained well or not is less important than the effect on the story. And it's all meant to revert the universe back to what it was at the start of A New Hope, which isn't very…

The movie spent a lot of time explaining why it didn't introduce new ideas.

I also really appreciate restraint when using special effects. I'm not sure if I actually like practical effects more or if the restraint practical effects force filmmakers to exercise out of necessity helps make them more effective. It's something many filmmakers clearly do not do when given access to digital…