I was almost crying during that scene. It was the stand-out scene for me. Abrams doing what he does best, all to Williams’ score. It was perfect.

He was good because he was played by Oscar Isaac, who is just a good actor, plain and simple.

To me, Poe really smacked as the new Han substitute. Kind of a cocky pilot who laughs in the face of danger, but does crack under pressure when Force-tortured by Kylo.

I even anticipate he and Rey will hook up, even though Finn is established as her initial love interest, just to further pay homage to parallel the…

How the fuck do they transport a planet and its atmosphere from solar system to solar system? The Death Star was a ship. But the new planet-ship-hybrid thing with its “Germany in winter” forests really pulled me out of the story. I was sitting there going, “Do they use force fields to preserve the atmosphere? Do they…

Because it was a fan made film. A very expensive fan made film.

The death was a bit graphic. No blood (obviously, sabers cauterize) but it was like, “Whoa, yeah, he’s definitely not coming back for the sequel.”

Money has nothing to do with JJ Abrams’ ability to make a coherent film. He’s just not capable of it.

I just read your comment to my mother, who saw the first film on opening day in 1977, and now she’s all misty eyed. She said, “Why is it I had to grow into an old woman before that happened? Why didn’t you and your sister have a Jedi they could pretend to be?”

What bothers me is this little girl was left on a thuggish planet with absolutely no one to look after her. Yeah, yeah, she’s strong in the force. I would still expect someone to sell her into slavery, abuse her, rape her, kill her. Baby Luke got to grow up on a farm with his aunt and uncle, and the added protection…

Maybe they’ll go that route, but I highly doubt it. Just last week Gwendolyn Christie was talking about how Captain Phasma wasn’t even originally intended to be a female character.

God, that would help mitigate how completely useless her character was. It actually offended me. “Oh, we’re progressive, we got Brienne of Tarth to play a female baddie!” She was so plot extraneous and a total pushover.

... also, Poe Dameron.

Also, as Red Letter Media put it, making Luke a father would finally establish a case of the Not-Gays.

Constable Zuvio looks like Lying Cat.

Ugh. “It was she,” I’m sure you mean, my dear fellow. Tsk, tsk. I daresay, I expect better from the BBC.

“ButnoneforGretchenWeiners ... bye!”

Because only a woman could get so weirdly obsessed with her new semi-pro athlete spouse that her child feels he must to retreat to the cold, clammy Pacific Northwest to live with the man that same flaky-ass bitch abandoned many years before because she really didn’t like how cold and clammy everything was. And, also,…

They already did this. It was like the first of the live-action adaptations. Glenn Close was camp and weird and perfect.

I knew this was going to suck when I realized they’d cast an American in the role of Hook. Barrie states in the book AND the play that Hook went to Eton. You don’t get to retcon someone as fucking legendary as Hook like that. Nope. Sorry. NO.

She managed to snag features with photoshoots in both Vogue and Vanity Fair back in the day. So not only has she been exposed to the best, but she can certainly afford to book them with her ill-gotten gains.