She trusted Obi-Wan enough to address a distress message specifically to him and seemed fond of the fact that he "served her father in the Clone Wars."

I feel the same way. It must have been tempting to try to rehash Han Solo but Harrison Ford absolutely nailed his old man characterization.

I didn't think Rey was a Mary Sue at all. She was talented, sure, but it was all logically established stuff. She's good at what she's good at because she lives a hardscrabble life in the middle of nowhere and used all those skills to survive. Aside from the Force sensitivity thing but that's just a thing that has to…

I think it's fair to say the bones in the burn pit and the car in the yard qualify as "compelling evidence." It's not, in my opinion, conviction worthy or unimpeachable evidence, but it's definitely compelling on the surface. Peel it back and it's not so compelling, of course.

*SPOILERS* Because everything is awful.

Even if there's pretty compelling evidence against Avery, there's more than enough evidence the other way for reasonable doubt. I also couldn't help but think of the West Memphis 3; it's not possible to overstate how crooked and immoral rural cops can be, especially when they think they're doing the right thing. I…